The New York Post reports that a Manhattan rally in support of “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert drew about 20 protesters yesterday. The NYPD police who were there to prevent violence (I can’t believe I am writing this!) quickly left when the indignant Trump-haters dispersed after just a few minutes. The leaders of the stupid “We’re With Colbert” rally outside the CBS Broadcast Center on Manhattan’s West Side had said that the protest was part of a nationwide call for “integrity.”
As we all know, late night network talk shows go with integrity like sushi goes with Turkish taffy and ketchup.
“Our country is not perfect, never has been,” said the event’s organizer, whose name isn’t worth mentioning since he is clearly, you know, a moron. “But we’ve always had the First Amendment, and now Mango Mussolini is trying to take that from us.” Right. The party this guy obviously supported actually set up a federal agency to restrict speech, conspired with the news media to embargo facts, statistics and news that it found inconvenient to its aspirations, conspired with that news media to feed partisan propaganda to the public, employed a White House spokesperson who routinely spewed disinformation, and pressured social media platforms to censor critics. Then it ran a ticket that openly promoted censorship of “hate speech,” which means, as always, “whatever the Axis of Unethical Conduct doesn’t like.” “Mango Mussolini” (Nice!) is anti-First Amendment because he correctly sought to hold CBS accountable for a brazen act of election interference as it surreptitiously tried to make Kamala Harris seem less like the babbling fool that she is and was caught red-handed.
Meanwhile, another clear example of how the President’s weaponizing of tariffs is defying the doomsayers cannot attract any positive coverage from most of the “enemies of the people”, nor, of course, the “my mind’s made up don’t confuse me with facts” Trump Deranged like whatever his name is above. The EU trade deal announced yesterday “will likely not do much for economic growth on either side,” sayeth the Times, despite confessing elsewhere that the European Union had agreed to purchase $750 billion of American energy over three years and to increase its investment in the United States by more than $600 billion above current levels. How could that possibly be a bad thing? How could critics not give the President some credit for the deal? That’s easy: whatever President Trump does or says is by definition bad.
Seems fair…
Well, no, in truth. What an astounding, self-destructive cultural phenomenon for such a large percentage of the American public to be actively rooting for its elected President to fail, while adamantly refusing to acknowledge his successes, or when they were wrong and he was right.
Another prominent story in today’s Times tells us that the deal may not be “good for Europe.” To which I respond, “Why isn’t the takeaway that it is good for the U.S.?” This is the globalist bias at work, of course.
Well, at least it makes more sense than weeping for an over-paid, smug,deluded and hateful comedian whose ridiculously long run is mercifully coming to an end.
[Sorry:just as I was starting to proof this post, I was interrupted. Typos all fixed, I think...]
Ethics Alarms 
I hope I am detecting some protest fatigue in there, too. A mere 20 people? Is it just that people are tired of protesting everything or is it that a bunch of people decided that Stephen Colbert doesn’t need their help?
Probably not protest fatigue. It is just hard to rally around a highly paid television personality who isn’t unemployed until sometime mid 2026. It’s kinda like, “oh, c’mon. Cry me a river, Steven. You’re getting paid, handsomely, I might add, and still on television where you can attack Trump as much as you want. You’re not some illegal alien getting arrested, detained, and returned to your home country because you don’t have legal immigration status or some dude on the street ODing on hard drugs while cops are (or are not . . .) standing on your neck.”
jvb
The 20 are the remaining folks who haven’t yet realized that US Aid funding of their participation has dried up.
Heh!
PWS
Zuckerburg claimed he was told he would run into SEC troubles if he didn’t play ball. I’d use the term coerced instead. Criminal acts to alter the behavior of others fits.
Someone must’ve been getting paid to protest because that’s more people than he has viewers.
Ouch.
jvb
Anyone who refers to the president as “Mango Mussolini” should suffer instant loss of credibility. If you have to resort to name calling it means that you’ve got nothing.