The comedy of Colbert (and Letterman, among many others) requires the listener to THINK and that just isn’t what most knee-jerk reich wingers want to, or can, do. Now gas passing gags they get straight away; they are familiar with it, what with listening to reich wing media gas bags all day and night.
So the thrice-divorced shock jock is crying about the decay of “traditional American values?”
Rectums are heavily enervated. After all they need to be able to discriminated between gas, liquids and solids. As opposed to Limbaugh who passes purely gas.
Q.E.D.
I doubt if Limbaugh ever watched Letterman or any late night show. He was too busy snorting nose drops or knocking back those sleeping pills or pain pills or whatever it was to stay up that late. I am surprise he even knows who Letterman is. LOL.
The right NEVER misses an opportunity to work the refs. That’s all this BS is about.
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Being a geezer for me it’s lights out by 10:00 PM so I’ll likely be missing current episodes of this insanely liberal comedian. Wait…He isn’t ruining the core values of America?..
…LIMBAUGH WAS WRONG???…
Bourbon…Bourbon pleeeze!
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Is there anything that doesn’t “spark outrage on the right”?
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What Rush misses is the Late Show isn’t political comedy like The Colbert Report was/is.
Colbert is funny though, BillO. (as opposed to most all strictly conservative comedians) And I would think Americans decide what to watch on what’s entertaining as opposed to being politically correct like FOX viewers.
Kowtowing to what they want might qualify.
I’m not worried that Colbert is going to “sell out.” He’s already done much to move the conversation “elsewhere.”
He doesn’t need CBS. CBS needs him.
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Don’t remember any network executives worrying Leno was too conservative. We cater too much to their views anyway.
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What difference could it possibly make to ‘conservatives’? By the time 11:30 rolls around, they’re already drooling into their afghans.
The Stephen Colbert of the Comedy Channel is an act. It isn’t the real Mr Colbert. Sorry to burst your bubble. As was said by another poster here, CBS needs him mire than he needs CBS, and as demonstrated by video of Colbert when he is himself, …he is not the character he portrays on the Colbert Report. He’s a funny, intelligent far more mainstream kind of guy. He isn’t ragingly conservative or insanely liberal.
That’s right…
and this has to be addressed exactly why?
Letterman was funny when he was young and a thorn in the side of the establishment. Then, he made fun of his guests. When he went mainstream, he lost his appeal. Hopefully Colbert will test limits.
Is there anything that doesn't "spark outrage on the right"?
Armed roadblocks by Bundymentalists; assault weapons in public schools; social commentary from Donald Sterling; epic blunders by Anton Scalia; civil engineering by Chris Christie; journalistic advice from Michael Grimm; illiterate Palins; offshore Romney deposits…
(Mainstream reaction to those things, however, sparks plenty of outrage.)
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The reason The Fat Junkie hates Colbert so much can be explained right here:
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It’s not.
<thanks, minimum, for attenuating the impact>