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Late Show host Stephen Colbert to be investigated over Trump joke
SBS ^ | May 6, 2017 | AAP

Posted on 05/05/2017 10:34:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not govt. business. Let the marketplace do its job.


41 posted on 05/06/2017 5:34:02 AM PDT by HChampagne (Cruz supporter but I will support and vote for Trump.)
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To: reg45
That’s why the current crop of talk show hosts are mediocre.

There's not one that is worth a pile of $hit. I've never seen a more worthless crop of SNL "graduates" with absolutely no sense of humor or comic timing. Nothing but anti-American, pro-homosexual, hate-Trump humor that any jerk with a third grade sense of humor could write.

42 posted on 05/06/2017 5:48:52 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: equaviator
"That’s not as homophobic..."

Today, if someone, anyone, is offended somehow, and it relates to gays, it is homophobic.
43 posted on 05/06/2017 6:00:48 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This sort of thing doesn’t make me happy.

Are we for free speech or against it ? his comments already sealed his failing career (The joke is getting really old, and viewers are disappearing)

But to “investigate” ? no, I’m not a fan of this.


44 posted on 05/06/2017 6:06:27 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I said it first. He would apologize to faggots for using a “homophobic slur” but not apologize for his comments about Trump. Someone should meet him in the parking lot to sort this out.


45 posted on 05/06/2017 6:18:56 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: equaviator

I believe it is “homophobic” in that it was using a popular homosexual act as the coup de gras in his litany of insults.


46 posted on 05/06/2017 6:23:59 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cease using the word “gay” when referring to homosexuals. I have never known a queer that was happy. They took the word “gay” and polluted it to the point that it has no other purpose but to serve their need. Now 98 percent can no longer say “ I had a gay time” without raising suspensions.


47 posted on 05/06/2017 7:09:25 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ruling will be: you can’t be homophobic if you yourself are gay (or liberal).


48 posted on 05/06/2017 8:30:31 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: ReaganGeneration2

I don’t know much about it. Never have, never will.


49 posted on 05/06/2017 9:35:24 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What on earth is a c**k holster? More to the point, what is a c**k?

He didn’t say “see, asterisk, asterisk, kay”.

He said “cock holster”. Now I know it was bleeped, but it was a “live” audience. He actually said it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=355-LlH3IMU (news report actually using the words cock holster)

The biggest OUTRAGE is to suggest that President Trump is “gay”. That’s RIDICULOUS! Trump is famous for his appreciation of beautiful women.

This was never said by Colbert about Obama, who we know had MANY types of male “holsters”

I know “cock holster” is vulgar, but c**k holster just doesn’t have the same impact. If we are to be OUTRAGED at what Colbert said about the President of the United States, then we need to hear/read what he “actually” said.

We can’t continue to whitewash these cretins’ vulgarities. It makes it like they didn’t say what they said or didn’t mean what they said.

To say this on national television and to a live audience about the President of these United States is way beyond “comedy”. Way beyond decency. Way beyond acceptable behavior.

Colbert broke no statute that I am aware of. He probably didn’t break FCC guidelines in that they bleeped out the word “cock”. He has the Constitutional right to free speech. (As we all do)

But he broke the laws of decency, propriety, decorum, good taste, respectability, dignity, correctness, good form, etiquette; morality, virtue, modesty, delicacy, standards of taste and decency, courtesy, politeness, good manners, civility, respect, consideration, thoughtfulness, tact, and diplomacy.

He INSULTED our president, our nation, the president of Russia and the Russian people.

While on solid “legal” grounds, Colbert should be ostracized from our society.

He should be FIRED! He should be SHUNNED! He should be rejected in every way possible.

I hereby call for a boycott of CBS. A boycott of all sponsors of “ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” until he is FIRED.

NO APOLOGY WILL SUFFICE. (I don’t even want to hear one). HE MUST GO! NOW!


50 posted on 05/06/2017 9:57:34 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: miss marmelstein

Where have you been vacationing? Neptune?

The leftist, schismatic katholyk church—now headed by Bergoglio, and dozens of pro-abortion, pro-sodomy bishops (Cupich. McElroy, Joseph Tobin, Gomez, Cordileone, Dolan, O’Malley, etc.), is the church I was talking about.

Nothing I said was insulting to Catholics.


51 posted on 05/06/2017 10:06:03 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Arthur McGowan

You know where I’ve been - on the Catholic forums. Memory lapse, perhaps?


52 posted on 05/06/2017 10:09:35 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

His show needs to be replaced with reruns of William F. Buckley shows just maybe his followers may learn something.


53 posted on 05/06/2017 10:54:14 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have decided to not watch Colbert or any other late night show because of those remarks. Enough with the complaining about Trump! It is every day and getting extremely old.


54 posted on 05/06/2017 3:08:38 PM PDT by tob2 (So much to do; so little desire to do it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PETITION: 100,000 Signatures To Fire Stephen Colbert!

http://conservativefighters.com/stephen-colbert-petition/


55 posted on 05/06/2017 4:46:35 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Winning is not getting old.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don't think Colbert will be "fired," but the threat of FCC investigation could make CBS President/CEO Les Moonves--who is almost as influential in the Establishment Media as Disney CEO Robert Iger--have a LONG talk with Colbert about toning down the language of what he says on The Late Show. Remember, Colbert better remember this is NOT The Colbert Report on the Comedy Central cable channel, which has a lot more leeway in terms of language allowed.
56 posted on 05/07/2017 10:22:49 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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