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  • Stephen Colbert declares ‘gloves are off’ as cancelled Late Show host takes aim at Trump

    07/22/2025 9:13:47 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 110 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Tue 22 Jul 2025 | Sian Cain, Chris Michael
    Stephen Colbert declared to Donald Trump that “the gloves are off” in his first broadcast since his Late Show was cancelled amid a political firestorm, as his fellow hosts lined up to defend him with Jon Stewart scathingly denouncing Paramount for trying to “censor and control” its hosts. Colbert, the top-rated late-night talk show host in the US, said last week on his CBS show Late Night – which he took over from David Letterman in 2015 – that Paramount’s decision to pay a $16m settlement to Trump over another flagship CBS show, 60 Minutes, amounted to a “big fat...
  • Stephen Colbert declares himself a 'martyr' and warns the 'gloves are off' in searing response to Trump

    07/22/2025 4:46:44 AM PDT · by C19fan · 93 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | Juily 22, 2025 | Stephen M. Lepore
    Stephen Colbert called himself a 'martyr' before firing off a crude message to Donald Trump, warning 'the gloves are off' after the president gloated over The Late Show’s cancellation. The comedian's decade-long run as the host of CBS' late night flagship will end next May, with network insiders suggesting the top-rated show was canceled because it was losing anywhere from $40 to $100million per year.
  • Jimmy Fallon Addresses Colbert Cancellation: “I Don’t Like What’s Going on One Bit”

    07/22/2025 5:15:54 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 84 replies
    Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo ^ | 7/21/25 | Nicole Fell
    “I am your host,” The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon kicked off, telling his Monday broadcast crowd. “Well, at least for tonight,” the comedian added, obviously referencing the recent cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Fallon quickly told the crowd he didn’t like it.
  • Cash on Hand Per Politico

    07/22/2025 5:23:06 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 27 replies
    X ^ | 07/22/2025 | OSZ
    Cash on Hand Per Politico 🔴 RNC - $81M 🔵 DNC - $15M
  • Dems Question Cancellation of Colbert's Late Show [semi-satire]

    07/22/2025 6:01:38 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 15 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 20 July 2025 | John Semmens
    Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) both called the sudden cancellation of Stephen Colbert's Late Show "suspicious." Schiff said "I was on the show when Stephen told the everyone that his contract wasn't going to be renewed. The outburst of dismay and caterwauling from the studio audience was heartbreaking. That this brilliant voice will be removed from the battle for our democracy is tragic." Warren pointed out that "CBS canceled Colbert's show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America...
  • FASCISM ALERT: Show That Wasn't Making Money Canceled

    07/20/2025 10:48:39 AM PDT · by DFG · 13 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 07/19/2025 | Babylon Bee
    NEW YORK CITY — In a stunning example of rampant fascism, a TV network cancelled a show that wasn't making any money and had terrible ratings. "The Colbert Show spoke truth to power and its cancelation is a chilling example of the fascism that's growing every day here in the U.S.A.," online culture blogger Danielle Swanson wrote this week. "With Colbert off the air, there will not be one single late-night host left who will criticize Trump. Fascism has won." CBS announced this week it was cancelling The Late Show starring Steven Colbert, stating it was purely a business decision...
  • The CA train to nowhere runs out of taxpayer money

    07/20/2025 5:01:11 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 42 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 20 Jul, 2025 | Mike McDaniel
    I last wrote about California’s high-speed rail to nowhere in Democrat’s dying and dead mass people movers in June: Approved by California voters in 2008, it was supposed to have run from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2030 at a cost of a mere $33 billion. Eventually, it was downscaled to a very short route in the Central Valley, and the costs are over $100 billion and still rising [it’s now around $130 billion]. All that and not a single foot of rail—for a railroad!—has been laid. A variety of bridges and other concrete and steel monoliths have been...
  • LOL: Ex-NPR CEO Says Stephen Colbert Spoke Truth to Power In a 'Very Bipartisan Way'!

    07/20/2025 12:26:27 PM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 38 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, former NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller, commenting on the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show, said: "Stephen Colbert is unafraid to speak truth to power. He does it in a very bipartisan way over the years. And comedy and parody is [sic] an important part of a democratic ecosystem. " Yes, so bipartisan that, as NewsBuster Alex Christy has reported, in the first half of 2025, Colbert hosted 14 partisan officials, more than any of the other daily late-night comedy shows. All 14 were Democrats, none were Republicans. When it came to journalists...
  • Old Media Dying: Waning CBS Cancels Colbert. Is Kimmel Next?

    07/19/2025 6:38:35 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 38 replies
    The New American ^ | July 19, 2025 | Selwyn Duke
    “So, for the first time in history, Americans have stopped watching NBC, CBS TV, and ABC,” reported commentator Bill O’Reilly Thursday. “Their viewing level has fallen below 20 percent — unheard of.”“And it’s because they’re boring and they’re far left,” O’Reilly elaborated. “That’s the two reasons.”The latest casualty of this legacy-media collapse is notable, too.CBS is canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, effective after the 2025-’26 season.The move will end what will have been a 33-year run that began with host David Letterman in 1993. Colbert took the show’s helm in 2015, shortly after Letterman’s retirement.The news-making announcement has...
  • House Gives Final Approval to Trump's $9 Billion Cut to Public Broadcasting and Foreign Aid

    07/19/2025 4:12:40 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 13 replies
    Newsmax ^ | July 18, 2025 | AP
    The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday. The vote marked the first time in decades that a president has successfully submitted such a rescissions request to Congress, and the White House suggested it won't be the last. Some Republicans who indicated they were uncomfortable with the cuts,yet supported them anyway. “The money that we're clawing back in this rescissions package is the people's money. We ought not to forget that,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Rules Committee....
  • It’s not just Colbert - network late-night TV is dead

    07/19/2025 4:25:20 PM PDT · by Libloather · 80 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/19/25 | Johnny Oleksinski
    Everybody was shocked — shocked! — when Stephen Colbert announced this week that CBS canceled “The Late Show.” The despondent media reacted like a meteor was about to smash into Earth. But how surprising was Colbert’s kibosh really? Did peoples’ jaws also hit the floor when Blockbuster Video called it quits in 2014? Were they muffling their screams when blimps were phased out for air travel in 1937? “What do you mean ‘no more silent films’?!” The end of “The Late Show” was every bit as writ-in-stone as any of those predictable downfalls. And it’s not only Colbert. The Grim...
  • Instead of defunding NPR, we should ask them to please explain why their editorial board consists of 87 registered Democrats and 0 registered Republicans, and why they suspended senior editor Uri Berliner after he mentioned that information...

    07/19/2025 11:57:41 AM PDT · by grundle · 36 replies
    Wordpress ^ | July 19, 2025 | Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
    https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/instead-of-4/Instead of defunding NPR, we should ask them to please explain why their editorial board consists of 87 registered Democrats and 0 registered Republicans, and why they suspended senior editor Uri Berliner after he mentioned that information in an essay that was published by The Free Press.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)July 19, 2025According to the political ideology that I subscribe to (libertarian), I’m supposed to be in favor of ending government funding of NPR. And from a theoretical point of view, I agree with that position.But for me, the real world always supersedes any theory. NPR, along...
  • After 17 Years, California ‘High-Speed-Rail’ “Fast Approaching Track Laying Phase”

    07/19/2025 1:20:39 PM PDT · by DFG · 71 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 07/18/2025 | Daniel Greenfield
    California’s high-speed rail had a $9.95 billion bond measure back in 2008 that was supposed to link up LA, San Francisco and the Central Coast by 2020. It’s 2025 and the budget has shot up to $128 billion. Sorry, let me correct that, it has shot up to $135 billion. By the time you read this, it’ll probably be up another few billion. The Trump administration is pulling funding from the ‘train to nowhere’ because well, just look at the Gov. Newsom press release. “The Authority has met every obligation, as confirmed by repeated federal reviews, as recently as February...
  • Schiff, Warren demand to know if CBS is ending Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' for 'political reasons'

    07/18/2025 7:26:57 AM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 89 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 17, 2025 | Lindsay Kornick
    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.
  • CBS Cancels The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Show to End in May 2026

    07/17/2025 5:27:31 PM PDT · by StAnDeliver · 39 replies
    LateNighter.com ^ | July 17, 2025 | Jed Rosenzweig
    "CBS has announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, bringing the show’s historic run—and the Late Show franchise itself—to a close."Colbert addressed the show’s cancellation himself while taping tonight’s show."
  • CBS cancels 'The Late Show,' Stephen Colbert to end program in May 2026

    07/17/2025 5:25:09 PM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 49 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 17, 2025 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
    CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" will be ending in 2026, the network announced Thursday. "'THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT' will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season," CBS said in a statement. "We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire 'THE LATE SHOW' franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television." CBS said it was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night," adding, "It is...
  • Time’s Up for Stephen Colbert and The Late Show

    07/18/2025 9:54:55 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 32 replies
    NRO ^ | 18 July 2025 | Jim Geraghty
    Back in June 2022, I joined the ranks of the many conservatives who looked at late-night network television, with its tired “clap-ter” and heavy-handed cheerleading for Democratic politicians, and asked just how many people actually enjoyed watching it. Never mind the now-regular softball interviews with Democratic elected officials or the exhausted “aren’t Republicans so dumb and evil” monologue jokes, the whole thing felt stale, rote, and joyless. Viewership has plummeted across the board for network television in the streaming era, and you figure the market for the likes of Stephen Colbert offering variations of the same jokes night after night...
  • Lawmakers Question Whether CBS Canceled Colbert’s Show for Political Reasons

    07/18/2025 1:33:41 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 18, 2025, 2:12 p.m. ET | Ashley Ahn
    Paramount, the network’s parent, recently agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”Democratic lawmakers are questioning the timing of CBS’s announcement to cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” which came days after Mr. Colbert criticized the network’s parent company for paying President Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit.Hours after CBS executives characterized the move as “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night,” lawmakers began suggesting that the cancellation was linked to Paramount’s recent settlement with Mr. Trump. Senator...
  • Embarrassing REAL reason Stephen Colbert's show was canceled after bosses hatched plot while star vacationed

    07/18/2025 4:43:06 PM PDT · by Dahoser · 58 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | July 18, 2025 | Alex Hammer
    CBS canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert because it was losing $40 million a year, it was claimed. Puck journalist Matthew Belloni revealed Colbert's astonishing lack of profitability Friday, hours after CNN first broke the news that the show was canceled because it was in the red. Belloni outlined how The Late Show - whose cancelation was announced Thursday - costs $100m a year to produce, with Colbert, 61, getting paid between $15 million and $20 million a year to host.
  • CBS Canceling Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Is an End of an Era for Television — and a Chilling Sign of What’s to Come (delusion alert)

    07/18/2025 6:08:11 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 87 replies
    Variety ^ | July 18, 2025 | Daniel D'Addario
    The news of “The Late Show’s” cancellation by CBS doesn’t just end a franchise that had, to this point, lasted more than 30 years. It looks like the beginning of the end of an entire category of television. With one network now opting out of late-night talk entirely, how long will it be before the genre just goes away? CBS announced the cancellation nearly a full year before it is to take effect, making current host Stephen Colbert a lame duck of sorts; he will continue hosting the show through May 2026, at which point it will simply disappear. Observers...