It’s beyond obvious that the late night hosts have no interest in appealing to any part of the country outside the rabidly liberal Democratic base. But Late Show host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night proved that his obsession with Ron DeSantis has ruined any possibility of “comedy” on the show. In a rant about the Florida Governor sending illegals to liberal enclaves like Martha’s Vineyard, Colbert abandoned jokes for cheap partisan gibes.
Colbert attacked the possible 2024 contender: “You'll recall that Governor DeSantis tried to score cheap political points in Florida by dragooning people off the streets in Texas and smuggling them to Massachusetts.” Cheering Democratic stunts, the host continued, “Well, good news we found out that a Texas sheriff is investigating DeSantis' role in flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard. Hell yeah! Get him!”
“Hell yeah”? “Get him”? Can you imagine Johnny Carson even or Jay Leno even trying anything so nakedly partisan? After all that build-up, here’s Colbert’s lame “joke.”
You can catch it all on the new TV show Walker Texas Florida Martha's Vineyard!”
Colbert even admitted that he couldn’t think of any laws Colbert broke:
The investigator in question is Bear county sheriff... Javier Salazar. Salazar, investigating the case, which he calls an abuse of human rights even though he could not specific laws that may have been broken. Yeah. But it is just like pornography, you know it when you see it and you don't want it to involve Ron DeSantis.
On Monday, the host sneered, “How big of an a-hole is Ron DeSantis?”
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A transcript of the segment is below. Click “expand” to read more.
Late Show With Stephen Colbert
9/20/2022
11:38STEPHEN COLBERT: I suspect you are now. You know that I like wrestling with life's big questions like why do bad things happen to good people or better still why don't more bad things happen to terrible people. People — people like Florida Governor and body builder— Florida Governor and body builder who always gets head day, Ron DeSantis. You'll recall that Governor DeSantis tried to score cheap political points in Florida by dragooning people off the streets in Texas and smuggling them to Massachusetts. Well, good news we found out that a Texas sheriff is investigating DeSantis' role in flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard. Hell yeah! Get him! You can catch it all on the new TV show Walker Texas Florida Martha's Vineyard!
The investigator in question is bear county sheriff and character cut from Peewee’s Playhouse half Javier Salazar. Salazar, investigating the case, which he calls an abuse of human rights even though he could not specific laws that may have been broken. Yeah. But it is just like pornography, you know it when you see it and you don't want it to involve Ron DeSantis
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COLBERT: It ain't just DeSantis, this weekend Texas governor Greg Abbott sent at least nine bus loads to the port authority in New York City. Oh no, governor Abbott, now workers will have deal with crowds of confused and sad people at the Port Authority. What will we do? Oh no.
