Story highlights Dean Obeidallah says we can't expect late-night hosts to grill guests like reporters do

He says Jimmy Fallon could've made people laugh and inform them of Trump's history of hate

Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM's radio's daily program "The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @TheDeansreport. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.

(CNN) Samantha Bee really went after Jimmy Fallon this week for his Donald Trump interview. In truth, he treated the GOP presidential nominee like a Kardashian. It was jokes and cuteness to the max, with Fallon even begging for permission to mess up Trump's orangish hair. (After some manufactured coyness, Trump agreed.)

In general, late-night comedy hosts shouldn't be held responsible for vetting our presidential candidates. Just because a candidate appears on "The Tonight Show," it doesn't somehow morph the program into "Meet the Press." And if Fallon, whom I worked with for seven seasons at "Saturday Night Live" and is one of the nicest and most talented people you will ever meet, had been interviewing say a Mitt Romney or a John McCain, he could have given them a foot massage and most people wouldn't have cared.

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But Trump is different. And that is the very point Bee and others have raised. Trump, who literally kicked off his campaign spewing hate, has demonized Latino immigrants, demeaned an American-born federal judge for his Hispanic heritage, stoked hate against Muslims, despicably mocked a disabled reporter, made sexist remarks, led the racist birther campaign and even defended a black protester being beaten up by his white supporters.

And it's no coincidence that Trump is proudly and publicly supported by a frightening number of white supremacists and anti-Semites such as David Duke. And while Trump will tell us he doesn't want their support, just a few weeks ago leading white supremacist leaders held a press conference to "discuss their affection for Donald Trump and their hopes for a white homeland," which they demand must be free from Jews. (Trump has no problem calling people he doesn't like such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren a "fraud" and a "racist" but has yet to use such blunt and impassioned language to denounce his white supremacist fans.)

If Fallon were a person of color, a woman, a Muslim, disabled or a member of any group that Trump has demonized, you wonder if he would've given the candidate a free pass.

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