CBS’s Colbert Screeches Lies About ‘Anti-Knowledge’ Youngkin Banning ‘History Class’

Before his Tonga-bath with three segments to Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), CBS’s Late Show and host Stephen Colbert lied repeatedly about Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), claiming he’s implementing an “anti-knowledge agenda” Banning is the basis of this ban “history class” by addressing racism and slavery. Instead, they claimed he’d replace history statewide with “American history that doesn’t make you feel bad.”

The show led with a cold open in the form of a soundbite from Saturday’s American Voices on MSNBC with host Alicia Menendez insisting Youngkin’s anti-critical race theory views are part of movement that’s called for “the banning of books, fiction and nonfiction, that delve into issues of race and so much more.”

Of course, nowhere in that clip or on Colbert’s show was the inclusion of material parents have deemed Sexually explicitIt is also arguably sexually explicit.

From there, a voice-over announcer was used: “Looking to learn about American history that doesn’t make you feel bad? Time Life Books presents The Glenn Younkin Collection.”

Ah, yes. The Joy Reid strawmanConservatives would like to ban books which portray white people as poor.

The ad promised, by buying into this fake collection, you’d “receive a new Youngkin-approved text which avoids addressing racial inequality.”

Halfway through the listing of eight renamed novels (includingYou can rock a rocking bird!Instead of To Kill a MockingbirdBefore adding a strawman, the announcer threw in another fake title: “You and your children will love learning that racism is over, and there’s no reason to think about it anymore.”

This snarky comment was the end of the ad. “So start avoiding addressing racism today, with he Time Life Glenn Youngkin Collection. Remember, those who don’t know history are doomed to be governor of Virginia.”

Skip ahead to partway through Colbert’s monologue as he denounced the newly-minted governor as having been “sworn in as The Penguin,” which was an intriguing thing to say given the fact that Youngkin’s attire was identical to those worn by predecessors, including Democrats of Colbert’s party, like Tim Kaine, Terry McAuliffe, Ralph NorthamAnd Mark Warner.

Colbert turned his attention to CRT, lamenting that Youngkin banned something that’s “not taught in Virginia schools” even though banning said thing that doesn’t exist would mean “history class”This would result in the ban of all advertising.

Colbert started to explain how, after the inauguration, Youngkin went back to the governor’s mansion, but he was promptly cut off by a cartoon graphic with Youngkin pulling out power cords for a screen accompanied by a graphic reading, “Censored By Order of Glenn Youngkin.”

Colbert lamented Youngkin to cheers and applause. “headed over to Fox News Sunday”A day later “and used Martin LuTher King to defend his anti-knowledge agenda.”

Youngkin merely talked about the importance of judging others based on their character and not solely race, but the race-obsessed Colbert wasn’t having it and pulled out an MLK quote of his own that painted white people as uninterested in racial harmony.

The hyenas in the audience ate it up, cheering as he wrapped by saying MLK’s supposed views of white people will be Youngkin will try to “stop” the “teaching” MLK is taught in schools

Let’s go to the text from Saturday’s inaugural address for an example of what Youngkin’s actually said about race (click “expand”):

Today we stand together on behalf of Virginians who’ve never lost faith, even when they have suffered loss. There are many Virginians that dream of better lives, even through trials and tribulations.

(….)

It is important to keep going because there are better days ahead. We are Virginians, whose leaders created the greatest nation that the world has seen. A country that has suffered from great injustice. However, it is also a nation founded on freedom. That we’re all endowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

This nation has been remembered for its ideals and ideas over the past 250 years. And Virginians have led boldly from our founding — Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and our very first governor, Patrick Henry, who insisted on adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to protect our individual liberties. It is the lineage. This was passed on to the next generation, who carried it forward and served as Virginians have been called.

(….)

A commonwealth cannot be run by one person, and especially not by one governor. We can only make Virginia stronger, and more welcoming for all those who love it. One Virginian at the time.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we celebrate today and whose great life we celebrate Monday with a national holiday once said, “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” For us that boat is named Virginia, and today we set sail to a new and better day. 

Since the founding of Jamestown a little more than 400 years ago we’ve been an imperfect people on the course to a more perfect union. At times we’ve failed to live up to our ideals. Even when things don’t go according to plan, we still want to be right and do the morally right thing. The love and compassion of an almighty creator is what is engraved in our hearts. It isn’t a need for power, conquest or self-improvement. Rather it’s a belief that life is worth living when we serve a greater cause than self when we love without expecting favor in return and when we set aside ego for the greater good. One Virginia is all of us. All of us are sailing together in one boat.

Sure doesn’t sound like a racist to us!

CBS’s erroneous claims about conservatives wanting to ban history was made possible thanks to the endorsement and support of advertisers such as Amazon, Apple, Liberty Mutual, Nissan, and Starbucks. Follow the links to see their contact information at the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page.

To see the relevant CBS transcript form January 17, click “expand”):

CBS’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert
January 17, 2022
Eastern Time: 11:35

ALICIA MENENDEZ [on MSNBC’s American Voices, 01/15/22]Virginia elected a new governor: Glenn Youngkin. This Republican, a Republican, has taken action on his campaign promises by signing an executive directive to prevent what he refers to as CRT, or critical race theory from being taught in Virginia schools. [SCREEN WIPE]The country is seeing the attack on CRT as a wave of violence, with the ban of fiction, nonfiction and books that explore issues of race, and many other things. 

ANNOUNCER Time Life Books Presents The Glenn Younkin Collect. [LAUGHTER]Every week you’ll receive a Youngkin-approved new text that doesn’t address racial inequalities, such as The Fun of Raisins,You can rock a rocking bird!, Twelve Beers for a DaveAnd You Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Karaoke. [LAUGHTER]It will be a joy for you and your family to learn that racism is gone and that there are no excuses. These titles are also availableThe Color Urkel, Malcolm X’s Autobiography, Roots, Turnips and Beats as well as Other Root VegetablesYou can even get it! Tony Morrisoni: The Complete Works.

TONY MORRISONI: Hi, I’m Tony Morrisoni, and you will get all my stuff — like Beloved, that’s about my ex-girlfriend Gina. Gina, I want you to take me back. I don’t have the words to express my sorrow for Angela’s kiss. 

ANNOUNCER Remember that those who do not know the history of Virginia are unfit to run for governor. 

(….)

Eastern at 11:41

COLBERT: Another person who has a strange way of celebrating Martin Luther King Day is incoming Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, seen here — [BOOS] — after being sworn in as The Penguin. [LAUGHTER] On his first day in office, Youngkin signed 11 executive actions, including one ending critical race theory in schools, which, for the record, is not taught in Virginia schools — [LAUGHTER] — but that Youngkin categorizes as any “school lessons that define racism as an institutional problem deeply embedded in American society.” So, history class. After signing it, Youngkin returned to the executive mansion in Richmond that was built in 1813 by —

[ON-SCREEN GRAPHIC: Censored By Order of Glenn Youngkin] 

[LAUGHTER] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 

COLBERT: — okay. Youngkin went over to the next day.Fox News SundayHe used Martin Luther King for his anti-knowledge agenda 

GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN, R-VA [on Fox News Sunday, 01/16/22]: Dr. Martin Luther King’s immortal words ring true in our ears. We must evaluate each other by our character, not our skin color. This will become the foundation principle for our executive order and what we do in Virginia’s schools. 

COLBERT: You think Martin Luther King’s message to America is, “don’t teach children about racism?” Well, let’s see if he agrees. King said, “whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to re-educate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.” [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] Wow. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]That sounds familiar? That sounds familiar. This sounds very much like critical race theory. Glenn Youngkin should tell them to stop teaching about this guy in Virginia schools. But it’s more than just their votes Republicans don’t want to be counted. This includes you. We just found out that census officials wrote a memo in 2020, complaining of “‘unprecedented’ meddling by the [former President’s] administration in the 2020 census.”