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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephen Colbert monologue that cost him his job... speaking truth to power
July 14, 2025
Key segment @2 minutes - 4 minutes
BannonsLiver
(20,313 posts)Have seen that point made in other threads.
mdbl
(8,197 posts)They want Dump's FCC's cooperation in their corporate greed shit.
GiqueCee
(3,540 posts)... MORE than suspicious. Any and every dealing with the Gangrenous Boil on the Ass of Humanity is transactional, and even as dirt stupid as Trump so obviously is, he still has a simian sense of when it's safe to punch down from his seemingly unassailable position of power. But that 3-legged stool is getting wobbly, and it's gonna drop him in a putrid puddle of his own bullshit much sooner than he might think. We can but hope.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,282 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(7,115 posts)and their reasoning is based solely on it happening next May. But there are numerous financial and contractual issues that are probably more likely to be the reason.
Bayard
(28,887 posts)Kid Berwyn
(23,470 posts)Colbert may have lost his job, but he keeps his integrity.
mdbl
(8,197 posts)After all, he was the number one show in his time slot. I would love to see NBC replace Jimmy Fallon with Stephen.
Auggie
(32,950 posts)Different format of course, and maybe twice a week instead of once.
Kid Berwyn
(23,470 posts)The corporation gave in to Trump's shakedown.
They tossed Colbert to appease Trump.
They don't know there'll be more demands. It's what mobsters do.
Hey! Has anyone seen the Constitution lately?
Auggie
(32,950 posts)but with a banal host like Jay Leno or Jimmy Fallon. It's easy money, which is why there are so many of them.
mdbl
(8,197 posts)Just like I don't watch them now. Besides Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel is my other late night favorite.
live love laugh
(16,232 posts)aggiesal
(10,614 posts)Team Captain: I thought he was going to exit the stage, but he wanted to stay.
Cobert: Yeah, we all thought that once.
Cha
(317,481 posts)Fired Stephen Colbert.
MrChuck
(315 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 18, 2025, 03:01 PM - Edit history (1)
Decisions are going to be made to placate the emperor, there is no doubt.
Decisions will also be made in order to protect people FROM the emperor.
I'm not saying that's what this is. In fact it probably isn't.
What we must acknowledge is that the best victory we can hope to enjoy in a time like this is to survive and see a time when this trend is rebuked and evildoers are brought to justice.
twodogsbarking
(17,762 posts)I am behind him all the way and think the guy is great. His wife is a princess. She was great during his home shows.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,482 posts)wife, Evie, and I'm sure she's a lovely person, but neither my partner nor I ever found her her nearly entertaining enough to be on the show, neither during the COVID/home nor the Ed Sullivan Theater epidodes.
And speaking of shitting (which I generally choose to avoid), his bold speaking-truth-to-power, both anti-Trump & anti-corporate whoring by CBS/Paramount, was what made him so very popular and his corporate overlords a shitload of money. They ought to have appreciated that more.
LetMyPeopleVote
(176,080 posts)