Another Schiff show -- with Stephen Colbert
Earlier this month, Congressman Adam Schiff, (D-Calif.) appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to promote his latest TV show, i.e., the January 6 Committee hearings. Schiff seemed at ease for he had an absolut...
'Most individuals reveal their true colors in relaxed settings.
Schiff began by conceding that his previous efforts -- the Mueller hearing and the Ukraine hearing -- were flops because they were monotonous and marred by partisan disagreements. Schiff then claimed that the January investigation is ‘non-partisan’ which meant there will be no bickering.
The nonchalant reference to the partisan bickering of the previous probes is quite telling.
Schiff probably forgot that partisan squabbling is how democracy functions. Only totalitarian regimes are devoid of partisan divide because dissent is crushed using draconian methods.
This reference to 'non-partisan' is similar to the ‘diversity’ claim that liberals make. The differences are superficial, but there is consensus on key issues.
All the Committee members, especially the ‘Republicans,’ share a consensus that Trump is guilty. They are merely working their way backward, hoping to entrap Trump or his allies. The goal of the hearings is not to find facts, but to push a narrative. These kinds of biased ‘probes’ occur only in third-world dictatorships.
This probe and the hearing is a prolonged Democrat campaign event for the mid-terms and for 2024.
Colbert asked Schiff about the ‘fancy TV producer’ hired for the broadcast of the hearings.
Schiff complained that, unlike the Watergate hearings during the '70s, TV channels no longer broadcast such hearings live and audiences don’t watch hearings for prolonged periods of time.
He is wrong. Some 20 million people, which is a sizable audience in today’s times, tuned in to watch the Schiff show. But they rapidly gave up, perhaps upon deducing the partisan motives of the committee and the fact they had nothing new to reveal.
Schiff was actually lamenting that the Democrats no longer have a monopoly over narratives. People have myriad outlets to discover facts. No longer are the words of the NYT or a partisan committee treated like God’s truth.
Schiff then said that he wanted to tell 'the story of the insurrection in a clear and compelling way' to engage the viewers. It was an admission that a made-for-TV spectacle, where style triumphs because of the lack of substance.
Next, both Colbert and Schiff accused their opponents of what they are guilty of. They claimed that the occurrences on January 6 were the culmination of a slow-moving coup that involved months of conspiring and electoral malpractice to overturn the 2020 presidential elections.
We all know that Schiff was among the leading proponents of the Russia collusion hoax that was aimed at overturning the 2016 election. We also know that Colbert used his show as a platform to push these lies. But the sanctimonious rarely have self-awareness.
Colbert asked Schiff if there would be any startling new revelations during the hearings.
Schiff claimed that the public is desensitized due to the relentless barrage of news of the ‘tragic and incredible breakdown' of the 'American democratic system’ under Trump. Schiff added that the committee had an uphill task to break through the numbness and ‘grab people by the lapel’ to tell them that they "came close to losing our democracy."
Beneath these polite words, both Colbert and Schiff are furious that citizens don’t believe their narrative. They wish they had obedient subjects rather than questioning citizens.
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