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Watching grown-ups on the left giggle about someone’s private life while pretending it’s high comedy should make every decent American uneasy. Comedian Tim Dillon dressed up as Bryon Noem and the clip of Megyn Kelly and Emily Jashinsky laughing at the sketch has been circulating widely after Kelly’s show discussed the episode, sparking furious debate about taste and respect.
The whole kerfuffle traces back to a Daily Mail report about Bryon Noem’s alleged involvement in an online “bimbofication” scene, which sent the media into a feeding frenzy and even drew mockery from late-night shows and SNL. Conservatives should not be surprised that the left uses every opportunity to humiliate private citizens associated with political opponents, but that doesn’t make the spectacle right.
Let’s be clear: there is a big difference between reporting verified wrongdoing and turning someone’s bedroom choices into a national circus. I’m a staunch defender of family values, but I’m also a realist — conservatives must not allow the mob to set the rules of decency. Public shaming dressed up as comedy is a weaponized form of cruelty, and we shouldn’t applaud it just because the target is a political figure’s spouse.
If there are real questions about judgment or hypocrisy that matter for public office, those belong in sober reporting and legitimate inquiry — not in late-night slapstick that reduces people to caricatures. The media’s appetite for scandal has long been bipartisan, but it has metastasized into a left-wing cultural industry that delights in destroying reputations for clicks and laughs. The same outlets that sanctimoniously lecture about privacy and civility vanish when their side is the one mocking.
Saturday Night Live and cable comedians have made a career out of cheap, mean-spirited takes, and this episode is no exception; mocking pictures and fetish allegations on national TV serves the warm, smug partisan satisfaction of the coastal elites. Americans who believe in decency and the rule of law should call out that behavior — conserve our norms and defend ordinary dignity even when politics gets ugly.
At the end of the day, hardworking patriots want a politics that focuses on policy, safety, and economic freedom, not lurid gossip paraded as humor. If conservatives want to win hearts and minds, we must be better than the mob: firm in our principles, unapologetic for our values, and unwilling to trade dignity for a cheap laugh.
