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Schiff, Warren demand to know if CBS is ending Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' for 'political reasons'
Fox News ^ | 7/18/2025 | Lindsay Kornick

Posted on 07/18/2025 4:52:50 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said the public "deserves to know" whether CBS’s decision to cancel "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Thursday was politically motivated.

"Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled. If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better," Schiff wrote.

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To: Vermont Lt

And when the product is “difficult”, it is much easier to cut it than improve it.

I am certain your correct, the money didn’t make sense. Politically it creates problems either way, but why embroil yourself and company in a political hot potato for poor returns.


41 posted on 07/18/2025 6:13:18 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Pete Dovgan

Name a late night show that is thriving and profitable.


42 posted on 07/18/2025 6:13:43 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Maskot

They can do whatever they want ….. for whatever reason they want. Who the fuck are these people….


43 posted on 07/18/2025 6:33:16 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Pete Dovgan

It’s a business decision made by an entity not funded by tax dollars. Pound sand Shifty....


44 posted on 07/18/2025 6:36:55 AM PDT by freebilly
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To: StAnDeliver
So, if Schiff had the power to tell CBS to keep Colbert’s show on the air, that would be government control over private industry.

THAT, my friend, is one of the cores of Fascism.

That totally defines liberals.

45 posted on 07/18/2025 6:37:48 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Pete Dovgan
Awww, c'mon, you Demonrats, he can go right over to PBS to spread his hateful lies ... ... ... oh, wait. ... ... ... Never mind.
46 posted on 07/18/2025 6:38:40 AM PDT by budj (Combat Vet, second of three generations.)
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To: Pete Dovgan

CBS needs to ask Schiff, Warren who the hell do you are to ask that question the FCC?.


47 posted on 07/18/2025 7:05:48 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Pete Dovgan

It is clearly a business decision and is not subject to public disclosure on why it made that decision.


48 posted on 07/18/2025 7:17:06 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Pete Dovgan

Well, I’d argue that he got to host a show for 12 years for political reasons.

That’s the thing with the left, everything they do is political, so then every time you try to counter something they do, they accuse you of being political.


49 posted on 07/18/2025 7:21:50 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Truthsearcher
That's the thing with the left, everything they do is political, so then every time you try to counter something they do, they accuse you of being political.

If the Left didn't have hypocrisy, they'd have nothing.

50 posted on 07/18/2025 7:24:11 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Pete Dovgan

The show was started for political reasons.
They can cancel for political reasons.


51 posted on 07/18/2025 7:27:18 AM PDT by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: Col Frank Slade
Lousy ratings perhaps ?

Gutfeld has a nice lead over Colbert's numbers. Colbert has been leading the pack over Kimmel and Fallon. Even though Colbert has some nice viewership numbers, it has to translate into advertising revenue for CBS. He may have the same problem Joy Reid had, a big audience but mostly older folks with a bad case of TDS that don't buy anything...

52 posted on 07/18/2025 7:48:35 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: Pete Dovgan
The Colbert show is unwatchable. It's not funny and usually just cringe worthy propaganda. So it's not surprising that the network is making a “financial” decision to cancel it. I don't know what the ratings are, but I truly don't know anyone who watches it.
53 posted on 07/18/2025 7:56:44 AM PDT by Bearshouse (Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Bearshouse

I don’t know what the ratings are, but I truly don’t know anyone who watches it.

I tried watching it, it was horrible. He isn’t funny, the politics were terrible, but that was my viewpoint. Somewhere, liberals will miss the late night Colbert show.


54 posted on 07/18/2025 8:04:47 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: griswold3

200 staff for an idiot?

I know worse people than can be that way all alone


55 posted on 07/18/2025 8:42:04 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Michael.SF.; All
I recall Johnny doing a bit where he was Reagan, it was a take off on the Abbott and Costello ‘Who’s on First’ bit. It was hilarious. But it was also good natured humor, not ridicule. Today’s ‘comedians’ don’t understand the difference.

Johnny Carson to Mike Wallace: Comedians and 'serious issues' (YouTube short)

56 posted on 07/18/2025 9:15:32 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Michael.SF.; All

Opps...bad clip. In the full clip Carson actually says it is DANGEROUS for comedians to cross that line into politics.


57 posted on 07/18/2025 9:16:37 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Pete Dovgan

Kiss of death Schiff was on Colberts last night. Apparently taped before the announcement. I would never watch it, but reading about his comments it was “Trump is creating hate here and hate there....I would be surprised if the good little commie Colbert would ask Schiff for brains about his Mortgage fraud issue.


58 posted on 07/18/2025 9:28:09 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Pete Dovgan

He was only on the air for “political reasons.”


59 posted on 07/18/2025 9:33:37 AM PDT by x
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To: Pete Dovgan

bttt


60 posted on 07/18/2025 9:35:38 AM PDT by timestax
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