Posted on 01/29/2026 1:06:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Colbert suggested ICE was worse than Nazis because at least they were 'willing to show their faces'
Late-night host Stephen Colbert is facing backlash over a remark he made about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, suggesting they were worse than Nazis because Nazis were willing to show their faces.
Colbert made the comment during his show Monday and played a clip of Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino saying during a CNN interview that people were "trying to portray Border Patrol agents and ICE agents as Gestapo, Nazi and many other words."
Colbert then said, "Yes, do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That's an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces."
The remark was met with roaring applause from Colbert's audience. Critics called out the comment on X in the days that followed.
"What happened in Minnesota is horrible. But comparing ICE to NAZIS is a vile ridiculous cheap joke," actor Michael Rapaport wrote on X. "What’s more offensive, Colbert? Or the crowd laughing?"
Sohrab Ahmari called it "obscene," "ahistorical" and "illiterate."
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When Stephen Colbert finally goes off the air, it’ll be such a relief.
When you’ve lost Michael Rappaport...
Funny how the left never renounced their support for Hitler.
“The modern iteration of the militant Antifa movement draws its name, symbolism, and inspiration from Antifaschistische Aktion - a project of the German Communist Party in the 1920s and 1930s which targeted center-left parties as the true fascist enemy and aided in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.”
Do enough people watch Colbert at this point to create a “backlash” to anything that he says? Besides, like Lemon, Colbert says deliberately provocative things in the desperate hope that it will create a backlash large enough that he’ll get some publicity and stay relevant.
He has not suffered much, so far as I know.
Like when Preparation H finally worked.
I thought this guy lost his show?
Is it really a ‘backlash’ when all the Socialists in the audience agree with him?
Late night talk shows went DOA after Carson and Leno.
Networks propaganda agents failed.
Punk bitch colbert
"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" will air its final episode on Thursday, May 21, 2026...
What a DISGUSTING CLOWN !!
What a DISGUSTING CLOWN !!
Thanks. I’ve managed to miss them ALL up to this point in time. ;)
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. The heroes of the left.
It is my opinion that this “Nazi” talk had some influence on the dead nurse...
Maybe the nurse thought that he was back in Germany during WW2 ...Maybe he thought that he will be a hero fighting with federal agents...In his mind, they were like the German secret police...
This Nazi talk may encourage other people act like the dead nurse in Minnesota...
Colbert is a disgusting deep-state propagandist. Its completely obvious
He went overboard on everything Covid - from promoting the vax, to hammering anyone opposing Fauci, to clinging to the “bat soup” theory well past the time even his fellow MSM fools didn’t believe it.
He did the same on Russia-gate and the whole fake dossier.
“””I thought this guy lost his show?”””
I didn’t know he still had one.
Personally I think ICE has been doing a pretti goode job
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