They Laughed… Then This Happened | Media Hypocrisy Exposed

They laughed it off… then the next night changed everything.

That’s when the excuses started, the narratives shifted, and the same people who said “calm down” suddenly wanted everyone outraged. If you’re tired of rules that only apply when it helps one side, this episode is for you.

Today on The MiddleGround Mic, we break down the latest media hypocrisy, political double standards, and why more Americans are walking away from team politics altogether.

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Back to the bigger issue: why does outrage only matter when the “right people” are offended? Why do the standards always move?

If you’re an independent thinker tired of fake outrage, scripted talking points, and both parties treating voters like fools — hit play.

No Left. No Right. Forward.

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Transcript

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Jimmy Kimball joked about assassinating Trump. The next night, real shots were fired. Yeah, let that sink in. So here's what I need you to understand right now. There are two sets of rules in this country, one for them and one for the rest of us. When their guy makes a joke about killing the president's comedy, it's satire. It's a late night, relax. When the other side does it, it's dangerous. It's incitement. It's proof that democracy is gonna end. You know, I have watched this play out over and over and over and over and over again, no matter which side it is, and they get everybody all played up and they get people to do crazy things and people are getting hurt. Let me ask you something, and I want you to actually think about this before you answer in the comments. If a conservative host, Fox News, doesn't matter who, stood on a stage and joked about assassinating a Democratic president, what happens the next morning? You know exactly what's happened. Wall-to-wall coverage, congressional statements, advertisers pull it out, calls the network to be shut down, and you know what? They'd be right. That would be dangerous. That language would be dangerous. I would say so myself. So why is this different? Why is there a version of the country where that clip gets defended? Where people who spent four years telling us, you know, words have consequences and want to talk about the history of political satire. You know, I'll tell you why, because it was never about the principle, it was never about protecting people from violent rhetoric. It was giving justification for their side and why they're mad. And I'm not letting either side off this hook today, me, not one side, but both. Because the right has done this too. Don't even come in my comments with, but what about? Like, there should not be a competition to which side's done more political violence. Like, how is that even like a competition in reality? Like, get out of here with that. You know, both sides have used this playbook, both sides cheered when the joke was pointed in the other direction. You know, both sides have suddenly discovered nuance when their guy was holding the mic. I see you, I see all of you extremists. And yes, I'm calling out the extremists. And what are you gonna do about it besides sit there and go blah blah blah? You know, I want to lean and talk directly to the people who are exhausted right now. Because I know you're out there, you're not left, you're not right, just like me. Certain things sometimes make you feel a certain way. You're just someone who woke up one more morning and saw one more thing that made you think, what is happening to us? This one's for you. Zero tolerance means zero tolerance. That is not a complicated sentence, does not have an asterisk on it. It does not have a footnote that says, unless the joke is really funny, or unless the guy deserved it, nobody deserves this, or unless our team is behind in the polls, zero tolerance every single time, no matter who is holding the microphone. That right there, these comments. That's what I'm talking about. That that comment exists on every single one of my videos when they get messages sent to me on my podcast. You know, every topic. It's always stupid stuff like this, you know. And the people who type some of the stuff genuinely believe they've made a point. No, all you've done is repeat outrage. But you know, here's what moderates, or at least a lot of them that I know, actually believe. And I know this because I'm one of them and I talk to them every single day, and I talk to them off camera too. We believe that political violence is wrong no matter who it is. Full stop. We believe that rhetoric that normalizes political violence is wrong. Stop. We do not need a scoreboard, we do not need to check who the target is before we decide how to feel. Wrong is wrong, and it does not change color depending on what jersey you're wearing. And you know, and here comes, I can already see it. The comments already writing themselves. It was just a joke, Joe. You're being dramatic. Comedy has always pushed boundaries. What about when the other side said, no, just stop? You know, I have heard a lot of these excuses, and not one of them lands because here is the thing about it: it was just a joke. Jokes have targets. It's not saying comedy can't exist. We need comedy. You can even roast the president, but you shouldn't be joking about somebody dying or killing someone. That is common sense, especially when you know the mental crisis going on in our country. And and the what about the other side crowd? I've already addressed you. The other side did it too. Yes, I called them out, and I'm calling this out now. That is what zero tolerance actually looks like. The gaslighting is the part that gets me. The media pivot to, well, technically and historically speaking, and in the context of political satire, just like when they like to use which parties done the violence, they have to go, well, if you do the political divide and you factor that in, good lord, just stop. You know, this is a real country and real people have to live in it. It's no different than when people mocked people when they were dying of COVID. Whether you agree with something or not, you don't do things like that. That's not political, that's just called having some common freaking sense. The elites make these jokes go home to gain communities and private security. The rest of us, we all have to live here. And I need you to hear me on this because I mean every single word. This is not abstract, this is not a debate exercise. People have died because political rhetoric told someone that their enemy wasn't fully human. People have been shot, people have been attacked. Jimmy Kimball did not pull a trigger, and I'm not saying that he did or trying to imply it. But words create culture, culture creates permission, permission creates reaction. And when you stand on a stage in front of millions of people and the punchline is a bullet, you're adding something to that culture, whether you mean to or not. Intent does not equal cancel impact. The people that make these jokes are surrounded by security, so they can they're not as stressed. It's like private, they live behind walls, they will never be in a crowd the way we will be when something goes wrong. You will I will. So, no, this is not a game, it has never been a game. I don't care which side you're on when you talk when you walked into this conversation today. I care which side you're on when you walk out. And the side I'm asking you to be on is simple. If political violence is wrong, and it is, then it is wrong every single time. Not sometimes, not when it's convenient, not when your team is losing, every single time. That's not a left position, that's not a right position, that's a human position and a common sense one.