Stephen Colbert Takes a Break From Sneering at Half of America to Lament How Divided We Are
9th November 2016
Read it. And watch the video.
Colbert’s low-rated CBS show was preempted last night by the Trump Train, so for some reason he did his show, live, on Showtime. I guess so he could cuss on live TV? I dunno. But Showtime has put up a 10-minute clip from the end of the broadcast, when it was becoming clear to Colbert that Trump was winning.
I’ve never watched Colbert, just as I’ve never watched Maher, for the simple reason that everything I’ve ever heard about him (including occasional video clips I tripped over here and there) struck me as appealing to the sort of humor that, were it aimed at something on his side of the fence, he would denounce as ‘hate speech’.
One of the chief tragedies about the Left is their asymmetrical sense of entitlement: They are free to treat people who disagree with them with the studied contempt that they are the first to complain about if they suspect it’s directed at them (and they’ll make it up if they have to).