Late-Night Hosts Go Silent on Massive Minnesota Fraud

Speaking Truth to Power™ is what we’re told today’s late-night comics do best.

Heck, losing a Kimmel or Colbert from the public arena is akin to saying, “adios” to Democracy. Or so we were told earlier this year by Legacy Media outlets after each faced professional termination.

Without them, the country may be lost to our current president. That’s despite Colbert and co. doing all they could to stop Donald Trump from becoming president.

Except he did just that. Twice. Some bulwark against doom, no?

Now, we’re seeing even more evidence that late-night clowns won’t go near corruption if it has a “D” attached to it.

The fraud scandal engulfing Minnesota keeps getting worse. 

CBS News has some, not all, of the sordid details:

The latest indictments add fuel to a scandal that has now led to charges against more than 90 people who have been accused, and in many cases convicted, of bilking hundreds of millions of dollars from the Midwestern state… Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said Minnesota faces a particularly large problem, pointing to 14 different Medicaid programs that the state has flagged for “significant fraud problems.” He suggested total losses could reach into the billions. 

That’s billions with a “B.”

The scandal matters for all the obvious reasons, and even The New York Times has deemed it worthy of coverage. It’s that bad.

Even worse? A man who came close to becoming the country’s Vice President allegedly whistled while his state’s financial coffers burned. Gov. Tim Walz.

A good faith Google search of the various hard-Left late-night hosts found nothing connecting Walz to show monologues.

Sure, Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” is doing the right thing and teeing off on Walz and co., but the rest can’t seem to mention the scandal.

The recent “Saturday Night Live” episode, the last of 2025, also ignored it. The show did give a rousing send-off to Bowen Yang, another “SNL” veteran who failed to become a major movie star in recent years.

Hmmm. Guess there’s a limit to speaking Truth to Power™.

Now, we have some facts to back up late-night TV’s obscene bias. Buckle in, courtesy of NewsBusters.

Jokes targeting conservatives rose 10 percent in 2025 from the year before, according to media watchdog NewsBusters, who went through 818 episodes this year.

The final tally? A whopping 92 percent of jokes targeted the Right in the last 12 months. Even the number of Trump gags ballooned in 2025 by more than a thousand – from 5,980 to 7,045. 

Who was the worst of the worst? The comedian who infamously lied about Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer and never apologized for it.

Kimmel was the most radical late-night host, according to the data – railing against the right 3,046 times last year, representing 97 percent of his jokes. Kimmel made fun of Trump 1,668 times over the course of his 155 episodes this year – or 11 jokes a show.

It’s no wonder ABC gave Kimmel such a brief contract extension earlier this month.

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The extreme bias extended to guest selection. Shows hosted by Kimmel, Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and “The Daily Show” invited 197 liberal guests onto their couches compared to just two conservative souls.

Late-night propagandists didn’t just weaponize monologues to diminish anything GOP-related. They also rallied behind avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani during his successful bid to become New York City’s next mayor.

The report says late-nights targeted Mamdani’s rivals 95 percent of the time when the mayoral race come up. Just 3 of 63 mayoral-themed jokes hit the ex-rapper.

So it’s not a surprise that late-night hosts would ignore the massive Minnesota scandal. They also looked the other way for nearly four years while a dementia-addled president called the White House home.