reentered the building. accounts vary as to what exactly happened next but it seems clear nicole bare s employees were let inside by an ally within the building. that would be a freshman member of congress from massachusetts jake. once on federal property colbert s employees did what they claim do which was disrupt the business of congress and apparently they were not subtle about doing it. they pounded on doors and yelled. whatever they did, it got people s attention. it takes an awful lot for a police force controlled by nancy pelosi to arrest a group of entertainment figures. but that s exactly what happened next. capitol hill police arrested seven colbert employees and brought them to jail. all seven of them were charged with unlawful entry. that s the identical charge that hundreds of january 6th defendants have been prosecuted for. but, unlike january 6th defendants colbert s employees were not sent to jail for a year and a half in solitary confinement they were release
offended as a professional practitioner of actual comedy to hear this guy say, no, i m a comedian, don t judge me. well, you know, i don t know if i qualify as a professional comedian. according to the new york times, i am a disinformation purchase rayer that does so under the guise of satire. i m not a brilliant professional comedian like colbert or seth myers or amy schumer or trevor noah. tucker: oh, come on. now you re being mean, joe berry. i think, you know, i say this with sadness because, you know, colbert has been brilliant in the past, the colbert show was brilliant and he has become a political operative and i think it s reflective of what s happened in the wider culture that the left kind of invades and infects institutions that have built up trust and good will over decades, sometimes centuries, and uses them as a platform and a mouth piece for their agenda and that s what