We won't have Stephen Colbert to kick around for much longer.
Both Colbert and his "Late Show" exit stage far-Left come May 21. He'll likely find work elsewhere, either with a video podcast or a streaming service eager for his unctuous brand of comedy.
Remember when he mocked ordinary Americans who rightfully protested those unnecessary COVID-19 lockdowns?
Colbert is doing a farewell media tour, and he sat down with The New York Times to share his journey from "The Colbert Report" to bringing "The Late Show" to its creative knees.
That conversation offered a telling exchange that neither Colbert nor the interviewer even realized. Their ideological bubbles must be equally thick and impenetrable.
Here, Colbert shares how some Legacy Media voices have reacted to his far-Left commentary over the years.
Comedians are anti-authoritarian by nature. And authoritarians are never going to like anybody to laugh at them. The number of newspeople who have said to me or Jon Stewart or any of the guys who do this, ‘God, I wish I could say what you say on air.’ And we can. I think that upsets them. I think it might be upsetting that we really do not live in their world of principalities and powers.
Legacy Media outlets would love nothing more than to drop all pretense and deliver hard-Left commentary like Colbert, Stewart and their late-night chums do. They can't, so they turn to the next best option.
How many media outlets routinely regurgitate what Colbert and co. say on a nightly basis, framed as "news" stories? It happens almost every day, be it via The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline.com, or even the Associated Press.
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
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For the Legacy Media, sharing these late-night gags is the best they can offer without being able to say them directly themselves. And, since every late-night show (except "Gutfeld!") is on the Left, it's no longer news when, say, Kimmel rages against President Donald Trump for the 679th time.
Reporters treat it as such anyway. It's akin to journalists sharing the latest anti-Trump screed from actor Robert De Niro. It's the ultimate dog-bites-man story, but journos can't help themselves.
It's hardly the only proof we have of extreme Legacy Media bias. Consider how many ex-journalists who, after losing their mainstream media gigs, switched to YouTube and/or Substack and reinvented themselves as far-Left pundits.
Think Don Lemon, Chuck Todd, Dan Rather, Katie Couric, and Jim Acosta, just to name a few.
For years, we were told these were hard-boiled journalists who never take a side beyond The Truth. Now, freed of their corporate shackles, they all sing from the same progressive hymnal.
Weird.
So Colbert is doing us a favor on the way out the CBS door, confirming what we've all suspected for some time. But let's share some sympathy for Legacy Media reporters who spend years repackaging Colbert's monologues into legitimate news stories.
They'll have to find other ways to say what they really want to say moving forward.
