Comment

Stephen Colbert's Complete Interview With a Completely Humorless John Bolton

235
Belafon6/24/2020 3:05:23 pm PDT

re: #234 Mattand

Going off of memory here, but when Colbert had then-candidate Cheetolini on his show, he started needling Trump about the birther horseshit. Trump was smiling politely, but was clearly uncomfortable and said he doesn’t talk about it anymore.

And, then for God know what reason, Colbert dropped it.

I’m a fan of Colbert and what not, but for all of the righteous anger he’s been displaying for the last 3.5 years, I will never understand why the fuck he let up on that racist piece of shit on that subject.

I used to give Colbert a pass and say “Well, it’s not fair to expect a comedian to act like a journalist”, but then I started watching John Oliver.

You know Oliver would have never let that shit slide until he got either an apology or forced Trump to storm off.

The difference being Oliver is on HBO. And pursuing the birther stuff in 2016 would have changed zero minds.