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  • It’s funny to see the professional Left rail against the new “Daily Show” host from South Africa, given that they are the ones who created him

Well, that didn’t take long. The new (South African) host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” who, in December, compared modern-day America to the Apartheid era of his native country has, since taking over for Jon Stewart, offended Jews, fat women, African-Americans, Asians and, of course, conservatives.

The insensitive jokester, who inherited perhaps the most plumb entertainment gig in the country, as far as the Left is concerned, might just become the kind of cultural icon that few have ever dreamed of.

Not everyone, however, thinks so yet. But they will.

Writing at FoxNews.com, media critic Howard Kurtz thinks that Noah’s America-bashing could actually backfire on him:

It’s one thing when Stewart mocks American values (or administrations, or politicians, or business leaders, or those of us in the media) because, ultimately, he’s seen as one of us. If Noah is viewed as an outsider slamming the US of A, the audience may not like it so well — just as, say, many Americans resented being lectured on gun control by Piers Morgan.

Others have chimed in, too.

Reliably left-wing Salon is blaming the network for hiring him:

If Noah looks bad now, Comedy Central looks worse. How could it miss these tweets? Did it really think through the Noah hire? All signs point to the real possibility that it did not. …

In order for Noah to be able to productively satirize us, we need to feel like we are on his side and not the object of his derision. But it isn’t clear that he can create a sense of community that can make his cracks about the United States work the same way that Jon Stewart’s did.

And the Washington Post’s Wendy Todd, a black writer, lamented:

Noah might look like an enlightened choice, but his routines show he isn’t — his jokes often hinge on insulting African Americans.

Back in 2012, Noah made his first American appearance, on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” The bulk of his routine was composed of jokes about black Americans. The United States, he said, was not “the America he was promised,” and “America has the credit of a black man.”

Because he continues to separate himself from African Americans by his repeated use of ‘they’ when making fun of us, Noah should go walk around St. Louis or Cleveland. He’d find out quickly that he’s not viewed any differently than us… It’s all too acceptable to disrespect people of color in this country, especially African Americans, even when you’re also a person of color. Not only did Noah get away with these routines, now he’s being rewarded for them.

Add’s Bloomberg’s Will Leitch:

The similarities between Obama and Noah are undeniable, particularly in cultural upbringing. Like Obama, Noah was raised by mixed-race parents, his mother a black South African and his father is a white German of Swiss decent. (His parents briefly lived together—his mother was jailed for a short time for the relationship, which took place during apartheid…)

Now he has perhaps the most coveted job in American comedy. It’s too soon to tell how he’ll handle the trickier parts of the job, the non-comedy stuff you have to do, the sparring with Fox News, the interviewing of celebrities, being the public face of an American comedy institution. It may take a while to fully catch up on all the American comedy vocabulary it takes to host a nightly television comedy show. (He speaks six languages already, so it shouldn’t take that long.) It is a risky choice for Comedy Central, to pick someone who not only has little familiarity to American audiences but, in fact, has little actual performing experience in the United States.

There are other complaints as well. Vox believes Noah is oppressing the oppressed. Slate just doesn’t find him funny.

The interesting thing about the professional Left objecting to Noah is that the rank-and-file Left is likely going to find him not only entertaining but ingeniously so, and for that, well, the professional Left can take all the credit.

Left-wing commentators, media types, politicians, performers and academics who have long dominated our pop culture have taught a couple generations’ worth of American youth how to do one thing and do it well – how to hate. We see this in the uproar over the Indiana religious freedom restoration law that was just signed by Republican Gov. Mike Pence; in gay rights activists’ protest over Chick Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s defense of traditional marriage; in speech codes on American college campuses; in calls to punish people who have legitimate differences of opinion regarding public policy; in the self-loathing diatribes of America-haters.

So, Trevor Noah seems to be just what the American Left ordered: A mirror-image of their brand of intolerant bigotry, their rejection of competing ideals, and their revulsion of anyone and anything that isn’t like them.

They’ll love him. Eventually.

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