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ABC's Karl Admits He Wrote Anti-Trump Book to Influence 2024 Election

November 17th, 2023 10:00 AM

ABC chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl took his book tour to CBS and Thursday’s edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert because if you are a liberal media personality with an anti-Trump book to sell that is simply what you do. During the interview, Karl told Colbert that he wrote the book to preempt arguments from the Trump Campaign that a second Trump term is…

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Maddow, Colbert Insist Only They Be Able To Call People 'Fascist'

November 15th, 2023 10:11 AM

There are echo chambers and then there is whatever you call it when MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joins CBS’s Stephen Colbert on The Late Show as that duo came together on Tuesday to promote the former’s book about America, fascism, and the 1930s and mourn that there are people—mainly former President Donald Trump—who also insist on calling other people fascists.

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Colbert Continues To Smear 'Awful' Johnson In Buttigieg Interview

November 3rd, 2023 10:00 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert continued his holy war against Speaker Mike Johnson on the Thursday edition of The Late Show when he welcomed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and wondered how he could possibly deal with the “awful” new Speaker.

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On Colbert Show, Kinzinger Compares Mike Johnson To The Taliban

November 2nd, 2023 9:50 AM

Former GOP congressman turned CNN political analyst Adam Kinzinger likes to say that his move away from the party is because of Donald Trump, January 6, and election denial, but on Wednesday, he took his book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he compared Speaker Mike Johnson’s statements that his worldview is found in the Bible to the Taliban.

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Dickerson Hypes CBS's Standards on Hamas War Despite Errors

November 1st, 2023 10:15 AM

CBS, like most of the rest of the media, initially uncritically repeated Hamas claims that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital that turned out to be false. Nevertheless, chief political analyst John Dickerson defended the network’s coverage on Tuesday’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, using the hospital as an example of why careful reporting is necessary.

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Colbert, Daily Show: Johnson's a Hypocrite For Not Banning Seafood

October 31st, 2023 10:23 AM

CBS The Late Show Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central The Daily Show temp host Charlamagne Tha God and correspondent Michael Kosta accused Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday of being a bad a hypocritical Christian because he doesn’t want to ban seafood or ostracize women during their menstrual cycles.

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'What a D*ck!': Late Show Attacks New Speaker Johnson

October 27th, 2023 10:04 AM

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert will frequently tout how Catholicism has impacted his life and can be very knowledgeable of its teachings. However, getting Colbert to defend all of those teachings on his CBS platform is a different story as evidence by Thursday’s show where he attacked new Speaker Mike Johnson as “extremely anti-LGBTQ” and a “dick.”

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Late Night Smears Johnson An 'Anti-Gay, Anti-Choice' 'D*ck'

October 26th, 2023 10:30 AM

The late night comedians welcomed Mike Johnson to the Speakership on their Wednesday shows by not just by noting his generic name, but also labeling him “anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-conspiracy” “dick” who Republicans selected to “bore everyone into forgetting how extreme he is.”

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Late Night Loves Trump and Santos Jokes, But Not Biden and Menendez

October 26th, 2023 10:00 AM

In the first three weeks after the writers’ strike, the late night joke tellers picked right back up where they left off: telling Trump jokes at the expense of almost everything else, including comedy gold mines in Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption scandal and Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulling a Congressional fire alarm, a NewsBusters study has found. At the same time, jokes about Republican…

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Colbert Claims GOP Couldn't Vote For Jesus: 'He Was a Christian'

October 17th, 2023 2:10 PM

A COVID-ridden Stephen Colbert hosted Monday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS from home and claimed that the GOP could not vote for Jesus in the quest to find a Speaker of the House because “He was worse than a socialist, he was a Christian.”

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Colbert Fawns Over Fetterman's 'Excellent Meme Game'

October 12th, 2023 10:00 AM

For the second night in a row, Stephen Colbert welcomed a Democratic member of Congress to CBS’s The Late Show. On Wednesday, it was Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s turn as Colbert pretended that Fetterman is the first question to ever be questioned about his health, gifted him a tuxedo T-shirt, and fawned over this “excellent meme game.”

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Colbert, Frost Accuse GOP of Being 'Okay With Kids Being Mowed Down'

October 11th, 2023 10:14 AM

Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost travelled to CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday where he teamed up with the eponymous host to accuse Republicans of being “okay with kids being mowed down at their schools” and instituting poll taxes.

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Cooper Declares Journalists Need To 'Call Them Out On What Is True'

October 5th, 2023 10:03 AM

CNN’s Anderson Cooper tied himself into a pretzel on Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS as he tried to explain that journalists need to “point out what is true and what is not true,” but also to “let viewers make up their mind.” Cooper also laughably implied that this fact-checking genre of journalist is done equally to both parties.

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'Almost Crossed The Picket Line,' Comedy Hosts Cheer Trump Indictments

October 3rd, 2023 10:35 AM

The men of late night returned from the writers’ strike on Monday and other than CBS’s Stephen Colbert no longer censoring Donald Trump’s name, not much changed as the hosts were eager to get back to their Trump jokes.