WATCH: Stephen Colbert Destroys Kellyanne Conway Over Fake ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Story
On Monday night, Stephen Colbert on the Late Show began by talking about Donald Trump’s assertion that the “very dishonest media” doesn’t want to report major terror attacks. “They have their reasons, and you understand that,” he said.
“The president is accusing the media of refusing to cover major terror attacks,” Colbert said. “Why? ‘Reasons.’ It makes perfect sense. You know the old news adage, ‘If it bleeds, don’t talk about it.’”
Then Colbert transitioned to Kellyanne Conway’s ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ lies, saying he didn’t think he’d get to cover it because of all the other news that came up since then. Colbert joked, “The crazy train had gone way down the track since then and I figured this tired hobo just missed his chance to jump in the boxcar.”
Colbert went on to joke about Conway, saying Kellyanne Conway was Trump’s “White House spokeswoman and person who has not slept since the Carter administration.” Colbert then repeated her outrage that the attack “didn’t get covered, on the flimsy excuse that there was no Bowling Green Massacre.”
He continued, “But I think we all remember where we weren’t were when we didn’t hear that nothing had happened.” Colbert called on the “biased” media to present “both sides of the story: the things that did happen and the things that didn’t happen.”
“Then let the victims of the Bowling Green massacre decide if they were killed,” Colbert added. “So far, not one of them has come forward.” But “just because it didn’t happen,” he continued, “doesn’t mean it wasn’t an inside job.”
Then Colbert went all in saying, “Think about it: If America isn’t going to be attacked, who’s most likely not to do it? Us.” Colbert demanded the media “not release the reports they did not do on the attacks that did not occur,” he said, “I will not rest until they don’t.”
