Posted on 09/27/2025 9:11:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
No Republican is safe from CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s wrath, not even former President and quintessential moderate George H.W. Bush. According to Colbert and actor Jeremy Strong on Thursday, “we risk losing essentially everything” to climate change, and it is Bush’s fault.
Colbert teed up Strong, “You have a documentary about our burning world.”
An appreciative Strong took the opportunity to promote the project, “Yeah, I executive produced an incredible documentary called The White House Effect that is coming out on Netflix at the end of next month. It’s coming out on Netflix on October 31, and thank you for giving me a chance to talk about it. You know, I really think it's, like, mandatory viewing for anyone who cares about our planet, and… the film is a kind of origin story of the climate crisis and how we got into the, kind of, political quagmire that we are in now that has prevented any real action.”
That led Colbert to play a clip from the documentary that featured an interview with Bush’s EPA administrator, William Reilly, who declared, “The advantage we might have had if President Bush had committed to seriously undertake the reduction of greenhouse gases is that we might have removed the partisan nature and the dialogue of the United States. A Republican president, after all, that would have made some difference, and I regret that we weren't able finally to do that.”
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Stephen Colbert... the name rings a bell, someone pays him big bucks to be a comedian or something? Jeremy Strong, isn’t he some overpaid mannequin who memorizes lines and plays make believe?
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