Posted on 05/05/2017 10:34:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The US Federal Communications Commission will look into complaints made against talk show host Stephen Colbert for what some have labelled a homophobic joke about President Donald Trump.
Colbert faced a backlash following the Monday night airing of The Late Show, during which he made numerous jokes about Trump during his opening monologue.
Among them, he said: "The only thing [Trump's] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c**k holster."
Viewers took to social media to declare Colbert's joke homophobic.
The hashtag #FireColbert began spreading around Twitter, along with calls for people to boycott sponsors of the late-night show.
"I have had a chance to see the clip now and so, as we get complaints, and we've gotten a number of them, we are going to take the facts that we find and we are going to apply the law as it's been set out by the Supreme Court and other courts and we'll take the appropriate action," FCC chairman Ajit Pai told Philadelphia's Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.
Colbert responded to the controversy during his opening monologue on Wednesday, saying he regretted his choice of words but stopped short of an apology.
"So while I would do it again, I would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be," he said.
"I'm not going to repeat the phrase, but I just want to say for the record, life is short, and anyone who expresses their love for another person, in their own way, is to me, an American hero," he said.
"I think we can all agree on that. I hope even the president and I can agree on that. Nothing else. But, that."
Not govt. business. Let the marketplace do its job.
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.
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.
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.
I believe it is “homophobic” in that it was using a popular homosexual act as the coup de gras in his litany of insults.
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.
The ruling will be: you can’t be homophobic if you yourself are gay (or liberal).
I don’t know much about it. Never have, never will.
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!
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.
You know where I’ve been - on the Catholic forums. Memory lapse, perhaps?
His show needs to be replaced with reruns of William F. Buckley shows just maybe his followers may learn something.
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.
PETITION: 100,000 Signatures To Fire Stephen Colbert!
http://conservativefighters.com/stephen-colbert-petition/
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