The Left's Nervous Breakdown Over Colbert Is Kinda Hilarious

Another NSFW post, courtesy of the Democrats. It seems that dropping the F-bomb is "in" right now for leftists, so be warned. There are likely more NSFW warnings to come. 

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Over the past few days, I have been enduring, and now am sorta enjoying, the liberal meltdown over CBS's upcoming cancellation of Steven Colbert's deeply unfunny Late Show. 

The cancellation could only have one reason, we are told: Donald Trump. As we know, every celebrity who has ever crossed Donald Trump was summarily fired soon afterwards, which is why they have all fallen into line. 

All, that is, except for every damn one of them, who won't shut up about how much they hate Donald Trump. It has become so common--like dropping the F-bomb, I suppose--that it has become something of a mantra.

Hi, Steve, how are you doing? "I'm terrible, I hate that f-ing Donald Trump because he is a racistsexisthomophobiccisgender colonialist. How are you?"

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John Stewart--who manages to be funny about once every few weeks--seems to be worried about his own job and is giving the finger to everybody involved. 

You'd never know it given the quality of the content, but Colbert needs two hundred--yes, TWO HUNDRED--employees to put on a nightly talk show. That's a modest number, given that reports indicate that Jimmy Kimmel needs three hundred to be even less funny than Colbert. 

I know it is hard to imagine that a show that features such luminaries as Steven Breyer and Adam Schiff might be losing money, but apparently Colbert somehow managed to do so--to the tune of about $50 million a year, which, when you add it up over a few years, turns out to be quite a lot of money. 

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Still, everybody is convinced that Colbert was fired because Donald Trump is a tyrant. Brian Stelter has spent days talking about it, and warning that we are sliding toward tyranny. 

What got me past my disgust with all this whining about freedom being at stake because CBS is no longer making a $50 million a year donation to the Democratic Party by airing this drivel is the realization that all the people whining are celebrities who are just worried about their own growing irrelevance. 

Almost everybody who cares about this and is whining is a celebrity themselves. Of course, they are worried. Stelter, for instance, has a job at CNN again, but he was fired not so long ago. The other late-night hosts are part of a dying breed--the audiences for these shows cannot sustain such high staff counts, and the only people left in their audience are aging MSNBC viewers who think it is hip to hate anybody who voted for Donald Trump. 

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Fox News' Gutfeld! is outperforming all these shows, and why not? It's more interesting and more funny. While it doesn't have the slick production values--it's just people sitting down shooting the bull--it engages the mind a lot more and, ironically, showcases more diversity than any of the other late-night shows. 

Podcasters are beating them all, though, and on a shoestring. Late-night talk shows are dying off, both because there is a dearth of talent and because people have a lot of options other than watching unfunny people rant about how awful most Americans are. 

Chances are good that most of the people who are appalled that Colbert's show is getting cancelled don't even watch it unless a friend of theirs is on it--or themselves. 

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The people who care about Colbert are the same ones who compared Joe Biden to George Washington, and in one case--Jeff Daniels--thinks that Kamala Harris could have been a 21st-century Lincoln. 

They are scared little people. Big egos, little talent, and growing in irrelevance. 

Seen in that light, their whining doesn't bother me anymore. I just wish they wouldn't swear so much. 

  • Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.

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