After late-night host Stephen Colbert blasted Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy Tuesday night, calling him “a ridiculous man” and implying it may be OK to slap him because of a question he posed to President Joe Biden, social media users took notice and weren’t impressed.
“When faced with a journalist doing ACTUAL JOURNALISM, asking the President of the United States to clarify what he meant when he said the U.S. would meet a chemical attack ‘in kind,’ Colbert’s response is to mock the reporter for not being cool and advocate violence against him,” Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, tweeted Tuesday.
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