{"id":89790,"date":"2025-07-18T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89790"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:43:40","slug":"ask-not-why-steven-colbert-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89790","title":{"rendered":"Ask Not Why Steven Colbert Is Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Merely rejoice that he\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>gone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Colbert &#8211; the unctuous and desperately un-funny little man who replaced David Letterman and became the standard-bearer for the collapse of late-night TV &#8211; is leaving the air after this season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh no.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pass the beer nuts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Never watched the guy for more than a couple minutes live, and maybe a few clips &#8211; and when I did, I almost couldn&#8217;t tell if it was Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon or Seth Meyers or pretty much anyone on late night but Craig Ferguson &#8211; who was funny &#8211; and Greg Gutfeld, who is flensing the Big Three in late night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My interest is lessin the departure of&#8230;oh, look, I\/ve already forgotten his name, and more in the way Big Left is trying to spin this.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Warren:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CBS canceled Colbert\u2019s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump \u2013 a deal that looks like bribery.<br><br>America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.<br><br>Watch and share his message. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rz7HcWFLYM\">pic.twitter.com\/Rz7HcWFLYM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\/status\/1946003619821580369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And for a <em>completely different<\/em> perspective, here&#8217;s Pramila Jayapal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stephen Colbert\u2019s show was canceled three days after he called out Paramount, CBS\u2019s parent company, for folding to Trump with a $16M settlement for a lawsuit that even they called \u201cwithout merit.&quot;<br><br>People deserve to know if this is a politically motivated attack on free speech.<\/p>&mdash; Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJayapal\/status\/1946037531948073145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And now for something <em>completely <\/em>different; Adam Schiff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJasonNelson\/status\/1945993822573396018\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway &#8211; I&#8217;m not so much going to ask why he&#8217;s gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/jenreneeX\/status\/1945992931799638154\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m merely going to celebrate the fact that he\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adios, un-funny man.  You shall live forever in Dog Gone&#8217;s heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJamesWoods\/status\/1946079680085295539\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merely rejoice that he\u00a0is\u00a0gone.\u00a0\u00a0 Colbert &#8211; the unctuous and desperately un-funny little man who replaced David Letterman and became the standard-bearer for the collapse of late-night TV &#8211; is leaving the air after this season.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh no.\u00a0\u00a0 Pass the beer nuts.\u00a0 Never watched the guy for more than a couple minutes live, and maybe a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89791,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89790\/revisions\/89791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}