Stephen Colbert Is Too Stupid To Understand He Had Other Options
Most people who get dismissed from their jobs know better than to trash their former employers in public.
Most people know this if for no other reason than future potential employers are watching and don’t want the same potential employee to do the same to them.
Stephen Colbert is too stupid to understand this…and a lot of other things.
Colbert decided to broadcast a nationally televised program that alienated half of America. He chose to do that. Of course, it was an easy choice. People who live in New York or, in the case of Jimmy Kimmel, Los Angeles share the same politics. They share the same contempt for Republican presidents and Republican politicians. Last but not least, they share the same contempt for voters in Flyover Country, ESPECIALLY rural voters and their rural values.
Under these circumstances, groupthink kicks in, and the people in that groupthink circle begin to believe that everybody else thinks just like them.
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Johnny Carson was a liberal Democrat, but, fortunately for him, he had enough sense not to appear partisan on television. Carson knew that any major television network is just as much a business as it is a place for entertainment — hence the term show BUSINESS — and cannot, as its mission statement, offend half of America.
CBS, unsurprisingly, says the show lost $40 million a year. Colbert could have done like most businesses do in similar circumstances and downsized or offered to take a reduction in pay. If the show was so important to him and to so many other liberals, Colbert could have reduced capital expenditures. He could have moved out of the Ed Sullivan Theater into a less expensive studio. But he wouldn’t.
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Instead, when his show got cancelled, he screamed censorship. No one censored him. He can create a new show on YouTube if he damn well pleases. From his garage. Granted, he might not make $15 million a year from it, but at least he’s not being censored.
Shut up sir!
This isn’t about censorship. This is about greed.
Warhammer is a journalist with more than 20 years or professional experience. Follow Warhammer on Twitter @Real_Warhammer.
