Posted on 05/05/2017 4:44:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
TV comedy cannot be too harsh when directed at President Donald Trump. There are no limits, and CBS "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert has proven it. Under the rubric of corporate loyalty after the president cut an interview short with CBS "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson and mocked his show as "Deface the Nation," Colbert called the president a "prick-tator," and then suggested the only thing the president's mouth is good for is being a holster for the sexual organ of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This was on national television, and his audience roared -- and gasped.
The notion of defending Dickerson and CBS as victims of Trump is a ruse. The network was given 33 minutes with the president on "Face the Nation" and 10 minutes on "CBS This Morning," with the president fielding an endless barrage of negative questions before he finally tired of it and calmly cut off Dickerson, saying: "That's enough. Thank you."
To put things in their proper perspective, it could be argued that Trump faced more CBS hostility in one interview than former President Barack Obama faced on CBS in eight years.
Conservative Twitter swiftly imagined the reaction had Colbert aimed this "comedic" fire at Obama -- not to mention Hillary Clinton. He would have been fired. But it was Trump, and where he's concerned, blind hatred is never having to say you're sorry.
CBS refused comment to press inquiries. Colbert was pressed into a measure of regret ... by the gay left, for disparaging same-sex activity. He bowed to them by saying on his show on Wednesday, "Anyone who expresses their love for another person, in their own way is, to me, an American hero." (Think through the criminal stupidity of that statement.) As for Trump, he said: "I have jokes; he has the launch codes; so it's a fair fight."
Does anyone wonder why Trump refused to attend the White House correspondents dinner? This is the level of "humor" he was expected to endure at the hands of industry leaders who despise him."
Liberals think comedians should lead the "resistance" because the journalists are just too damn nice. A video of Colbert's penis joke arrived on Twitter with a promotional sentence that read, "Stephen tells the President everything journalists, restrained by their dignity, wish they could say."
This year, the White House Correspondents Association president and Reuters correspondent, Jeff Mason, displayed the usual schizophrenia by proclaiming it would be "unfair" to roast President Trump in absentia, and then hired Hasan Minhaj of "The Daily Show" -- the son of Muslim Indian immigrants -- to roast Trump. This man is best known for a vicious leftist tirade at another "objective" TV news dinner, including his label for Trump as a "racist Cheeto."
Mason was surely only responding to rejected "Daily Show" host candidate Samantha Bee, who brought her TBS show to Washington, D.C., to tape a "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner" special. In her taping before the dinner, Bee attempted to outdo Minhaj by comparing Skype questioners at the White House to survivalists who drink their own urine and delighting in the smear that Trump paid for Russian prostitutes to urinate on him.
At the White House dinner, Minhaj uncorked lame jokes about "Nazi Steve Bannon" and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos "curating her collection of children's tears. He insisted: "Donald Trump is liar in chief. And remember, you guys" -- the press -- "are public enemy no. 1. You are his biggest enemy. Journalists, ISIS, normal-length ties. And somehow, you're the bad guys. That's why you gotta keep your foot on the gas."
The left is too angry and frustrated to admit that its poisonous remarks are having the effect of discrediting the liberal media in all its forms. It's congratulating itself while burning down the village in order to save it.
# 18 Phil DiBasquette wrote:
And the President tells journalists everything the normal rational public wish they could say...without fear of losing their livelihood.
Good point!
Even here on FR, the moderators will not allow anything resembling an obscenity. And we are not on national television.
Why should Colbert and CBS be held to such a low standard. Aren’t they governed by FCC rules?
If these foul-mouthed Leftists keep it up, Pres. Trump will win in 2020 in a landslide that will eclipse Ronald Reagan’s re-election. The Left is out of touch with 90% of Americans, but the slim 10% cheer each other on to new lows.
Step One: Remove ColBURT’s eyeglasses.
Step Two: Flatten ColBURT’s needle nose.
Liberal projecting again. If given half a chance, Liberals would kill all the men, rape the women and sell the children into slavery.
Bozell wastes so much of his time and talent covering these adolescent morons. Just ignore them instead of giving them the attention that they crave.
There’s not a single late-nite comedian worth a POS. . . none of them . . . No reason to look for variety show type comedians anymore . . . I loved Carson, had some use for Leno, but all we have now are vicious, bitter, unfunny, worthless so-called comedians only because they HATE Trump.
Totally agree, they are so predictable, it's sooo boring. Not at all funny.
I never watch the show... I don’t even own a TV! Lol... I just know hitting the advertising dollars is the fastest way to bring the pain
Works every time, like beating up the playground bully... works every time
Find out what products advertise on his show and tell them you will never buy their products due to supporting this A-hole
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