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Everybody loves Nate Bargatze. Hell, I love Nate Bargatze. The clean-cut comic has built an empire on his dumb, everyman persona. He\u2019s currently the #1 highest-grossing touring comedian. He\u2019s hosted SNL<\/i>. <\/i>He just released his first movie (which, admittedly, tanked), and is a favorite of stand-up fans on both sides of the political aisle. <\/p>\n

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Bargatze himself had shied away from discussing his politics, or any politics, in public, telling Vanity Fair in 2021 that, \u201cpolitics have got into everything. Comedians, movies, television. So why do you need me to do it? I don\u2019t have a college education. I almost didn\u2019t graduate high school\u2026 You should never vote for something I tell you to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hey, fair enough. Bargatze understands that his fans don\u2019t need him to try to weigh in on policy. We\u2019ve got funnier people to do that\u2014like JD Vance. So it was a surprise to many fans when he showed up at last week\u2019s White House UFC lameapalooza. He\u2019s now facing criticism for attending the event and appearing to buddy up with members of the administration, even posing for pictures with Secretary of Roadkill Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And look, one can certainly make the argument that sporting events are for everybody. Spike Lee and Donald Trump both showed up at the Knicks game and nobody said boo. Rather, they yelled it, at the President. <\/p>\n

But this wasn\u2019t that. This was, essentially, another tiresome Trump rally\u2014plus ring girls. Fairly or not, one\u2019s presence at President Diaper Baby\u2019s bouncy house pyrotechnic birthday jam signified support for the man and his minions. (He also appeared to gamely pose for photos with Trump administration figures, and even Don Jr\u2019s new wife Bettina.) Bargatze has never endorsed Trump, or any other politician, but allowing the regime to co-opt his image is the next best thing.<\/p>\n

During previous administrations, it was possible for entertainers to remain apart from the fray. Bob Hope, for example, entertained presidents of both parties over the decades. Even as recently as the Obama years, it would have been perfectly acceptable to have, say, Jeff Foxworthy perform at the White House.<\/p>\n

Not so with this <\/i>administration, whose callousness, corruption, and cruelty deliberately pits American against American, the same Americans Bargatze has spent his entire career trying to bring together. <\/p>\n

Some of his fans are, predictably, upset. There are the inevitable calls to boycott his shows, with fans lamenting that Bargatze has \u201ctorpedoed\u201d his reputation, and over on the Site-Formerly-Known-As-Twitter, some have taken to calling him \u201cMAGAnate,\u201d which is maybe a play on the word \u201cmagnet\u201d or \u201cmagnate\u201d? It doesn\u2019t make sense, but it doesn\u2019t have to. People be mad!<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got his share of defenders, too, with many pointing out that Nate promotes his stuff on diverse networks and media platforms. He\u2019s a guy equally at ease on Fox News and MS NOW. But this is qualitatively different than telling a few jokes for Brian Kilmeade on the morning show. <\/p>\n

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Yes, he was there for the fight not the politics. But that\u2019s like saying you went to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s house to play Scrabble. It might be true, but don\u2019t be surprised if your reputation takes a hit. Alan Dershowitz can\u2019t even buy pierogis on Martha\u2019s Vineyard anymore, for God\u2019s sake! <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same with Epstein\u2019s former best friend. When you lend your likeness to him, which is exactly what Bargatze did, you are, at the very least, implicitly sympathizing with his agenda.<\/p>\n

I get that it\u2019s fun to watch men in short-shorts beat the shit out of each other. (Indeed, Bargatze\u2019s first attempt at damage control was to deploy \u201csources\u201d clarifying he\u2019s just a big fan of cage matches, OK? He and his team have subsequently gone to ground entirely.) I once attended a UFC night and it was fun as hell. Senseless violence is as American as lack of health insurance. But there has to be a line. And it feels like Nate crossed it. <\/p>\n

Of course, Nate wasn\u2019t the only celeb there. Fellow comedians Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe\u2014last seen at a Trump rally calling Puerto Rico \u201ca floating island of garbage\u201d\u2014were there, apparently after being peer-pressured into attending by Joe Rogan. So were several sports figures and business moguls. None of them are receiving the same scrutiny as Bargatze because none of the others have made the same point of staying out of politics. Nobody\u2019s mad at Mark Zuckerberg for being there because everybody already understands he\u2019s a dickhead. <\/p>\n

So now Bargatze is in the unenviable position of being in a quasi-scandal despite the fact that he didn\u2019t do anything technically<\/i> wrong. It\u2019s not a sex scandal. It\u2019s not even a wardrobe malfunction. Just plain old bad judgment. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how Nate Bargatze votes. I don\u2019t know what he believes about anything more substantive than picnics (he likes them). And maybe that\u2019s the problem. There are moments in history when actively refusing to take sides is no different from taking one. This is such a moment. It sucks, but it\u2019s the truth. <\/p>\n

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Bargatze could have stayed home in Nashville with his family and watched the damned thing on TV. He didn\u2019t do that. Again, in ordinary times, there would be nothing at all wrong with a lil\u2019 D.C. shindig. Of course, in ordinary times, there wouldn\u2019t be a tacky-ass blood carnival on the White House lawn. Bargatze should have known better. I know he claims to be a dumb guy, but you\u2019d think he\u2019d be at least as savvy as Milli Vanilli. <\/p>\n

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