Re: "Go Fuck Yourself": Colbert Unleashes Anti-Trump Tirade Amid Report His Show Loses $40M Annually

Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
> Late-night host Stephen Colbert went on a lengthy tirade against President 
> Donald Trump during Monday night’s episode of “The Late Show,” addressing a 
> report that his program loses $40 million per season.
> 
> Several comedians and fellow hosts showed up for the latest episode to 
> support Colbert and bash Trump. 
> 
> At one point, Colbert responded to Trump’s celebratory social media post 
> about the show being canceled, in which the president taunted Colbert, 
> saying, “His talent was even less than his ratings.”
> 
> “How dare you, sir,” Colbert said. “Would an untalented man be able to 
> compose the following satirical witticism? Go f*** yourself!”
> 
> “Cancel culture has gone too far,” Colbert said during his monologue. “Last 
> week, we learned that ‘The Late Show’ will be ending in May. I want to thank 
> everybody who reached out to me over the weekend, including one text from an 
> unknown number, offering a high-paying IT work-from-home job for only two to 
> three hours a day. Yes, I am very interested and I will be sending you my 
> routing number in May. Daddy needs a job.”
> 
> The host mentioned how it’s now sunk in that CBS is “killing” his show. 
> 
> “But they made one mistake. They left me alive. Now, for the next 10 months, 
> the gloves are off. I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say 
> what I really think about Donald Trump. I don’t care for him. Doesn’t have 
> the skillset to be president,” Colbert continued.
> 

I hope CBS if not the FCC fines him a six figure penalty every time he
pulls this crap.


> [Gee, weren't you claiming that people bad-mouthing Trump were disappearing?]
> 
> https://youtu.be/VIZegLAvK8o
> 
> Earlier this month, Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, agreed 
> to a $16 million settlement in a lawsuit Trump had brought accusing the media 
> outlet of election interference. The lawsuit stemmed from an interview CBS 
> News’s “60 Minutes” conducted with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala 
> Harris one month before the 2024 election. The lawsuit alleged that the 
> interview was edited to make it seem more coherent than it really was.
> 
> “People have been speculating about the timing of this decision from 
> Paramount, and they’re pointing out that last Monday, just two days before my 
> cancellation, I delivered a blistering monologue in which I showed the 
> courage to have a mustache,” said Colbert. “When obviously CBS saw my upper 
> lip and boom, canceled. Coincidence? Oh, I think not. This is worse than 
> fascism. This is stashism.”
> 
> “They clarified that the cancellation was purely a financial decision. But 
> how could it purely be a financial decision if ‘The Late Show’ is number one 
> in ratings? A lot of folks are asking that question, mainly my staff’s 
> parents and spouses,” Colbert went on. 
> 
> Next, he accused CBS insiders of leaking financial details to justify the 
> cancellation.
> 
> “Over the weekend, somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release 
> with a gracious anonymous leak saying they pulled the plug on our show 
> because of losses pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year. $40 
> million is a big number. I could see us losing $24 million, but where would 
> Paramount have possibly spent the other $16 million? Oh, yeah,” he said, 
> seemingly referencing the amount of the settlement.
> 

Or his annual salary.



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