Letterman defends Colbert—poorly

Don Surber   

"Don’t blame management. Blame the, um, comic for not being funny. In a world with thousands of entertainment choices, people don’t watch Colbert to be insulted. They go elsewhere."

"MAGA Disposed of Stephen Colbert—with help of course from podcasts, Twitter and reruns of Friends, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, and Modern Family because if you are looking for late-night humor, you will not find it on the broadcast networks.

"But on cable, the Antenna channel shows reruns of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. So if you are looking for political humor from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, there’s that.

"Stephen Colbert’s show will end this month due to his B-2 ratings. They are nearly invisible. David Letterman whined to the New York Times that the new owners at CBS are just closing the show just to suck up to President Trump.

"Letterman said:

They don’t share the books with me. All of television seems to have been nicked by digital communication and streaming platforms and on and on. TV may be not the money machine it once was. On the other hand, what about the humanity for Stephen and the humanity of people who love him and the humanity for people who still enjoyed that 11:30 respite?

He was dumped because the people selling the network to Skydance said, “Oh no, there’s not going to be any trouble with that guy. We’re going to take care of the show. We’re just going to throw that into the deal. When will the ink on the check dry?” I’m just going to go on record as saying: They’re lying. Let me just add one other thing, Jason. They’re lying weasels.

"NYT community-noted him: “Asked to comment, a spokesman for CBS said, ‘Unequivocally a financial decision.’”

"But Letterman’s libel against Skydance makes the MAGA case that Colbert is a talentless mutt who offers anti-Trump propaganda poorly disguised as a comedy routine." . . . More...

Barack Obama Admits There Is ‘Genuine Tension’ in His Marriage Over Trump and Politics

Megyn Kelly   

 "The former president is also in the news this week for a sit-down he did with Stephen Colbert in which he had the audacity to accuse the Trump administration of weaponizing the justice system when the entire Russia collusion hoax (i.e. OG ‘lawfare’) originated on his watch." 

"Megyn Kelly is joined by Sohrab Ahmari, U.S. editor at Unherd, and Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, to discuss President Barack Obama admitting Michelle’s thoughts on Trump and politics have hurt his marriage, how little Obama actually did during his presidency, Obama having the nerve to complain about politicizing criminal justice, and more."

 

Reader comment: "The Democrat party has become the party of gaslighting and hypocrisy.

Is it any surprise that Jill B., H. Clinton, and M. Obama despise their husbands?

And, their weak husbands let themselves be led around, and insulted by their wives? Karma."

The Federalist’s Sean Davis said the interviews are an unpleasant reminder of what was. “I agree with him, yes, lawfare is awful. It is a cancer on the American republic, and I don’t know if it’s something we can come back from,” Davis said. “[But] he is the one who started it! He gave it its origin story. For this guy to go out there and pretend he had nothing to do with it.”

“I will tell you, between that [Colbert] interview, between The New Yorker article, he had kind of faded away and I had forgotten about how mendacious and unlikable and dishonest he was,” Davis added. “So thank you, Barack, for coming back and reminding all of us why we couldn’t wait to get rid of you.”   More...

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

Excerpts from Jewish World Review

• Coach Bill Belichick, 74, and much younger girlfriend Jordan Hudson, 25, were photographed on the celebrity red carpet at Churchill Downs at the Kentucky Derby Saturday. They were also seen at the betting window. I haven't heard which horse Bill picked but Jordan bet everything on Beneficiary.
•  The Washington, D.C., judge presiding over the attempted assassination of President Trump case apologized to the shooter in court Monday. We're probably closer to the next attempt than the last one. Trump has been shot at so many times you'd think he was the President of Death Row Record
• The Secret Service engaged in a shootout with an armed gunman Monday who was spotted about a mile from the White House by cameras. It prompted a fist pump from the president. Trump feels that if his life isn't put in mortal danger every 10 days, he's losing ground to the next James Bond movie.
• Somali pirates hijacked a United Arab Emirates oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Saturday and then demanded a king's ransom for its release. It was ever thus. Back during the 2024 Summer Olympic sailing competition, Australia took the gold, England took the silver and Somalia took the boat.