Join us as we dissect the aftermath of CBS’s recent move concerning Stephen Colbert’s late night show. We walk through the heated debate over political bias and profitability that surfaces when a show pushes a political agenda. Our discussion highlights the shift from classic humor-driven programming to segments intensely focused on political commentary, posing questions about how this affects viewer loyalty and market performance. With comparisons to past television giants, we reflect on how CBS’s decision might signal broader industry trends. We also examine responses from key figures like Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren, who have publicly speculated on
It’s the Stephen Colbert theme. Don’t gloat. Don’t gloat. I actually… This is very tongue-in-cheek because as I said on Twitter last night, and as I will tell you now, even when someone is a poisonous, poisonous political bigot as Colbert is, I don’t ever root for people to lose shows, cheer when people lose gigs. I mean, the Marketplace is what it is, but here’s what’s weird. I don’t know what Marketplace got rid of him because of the Colbert, Kimmel… Fallon trash heap of late night talk shows that used to be so beautifully done by people like Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett. His ratings are pretty good.
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Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. No, no, no, they’re not.
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Not compared to the universe versus each other versus the competition.
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Well, perhaps that’s the lowest. That’s the lowest hanging fruit. Those are that’s a that’s a that’s a competition of little people. So he’s the tallest little person because there are nights when Gutfeld beats all of them. And Gutfeld’s on cable news. And here was with Brian Stelter. Here was the giveaway. Brian… I don’t mean to laugh because I’m like you. I don’t like seeing the misfortune of others. But on the other hand, if anybody deserves it, it’s this guy because he’s rotten. He is such a nasty. And, you know, he started out kind of funny. He played a Bill O’Reilly kind of blowhard. Yep. It was a feature on The Daily Show on Comedy Central, wasn’t it? Right. And he was a character. I mean, his name is Colbert, you know, but he turned into Stephen Colbert and did this Bill O’Reilly. Back when Bill was real big, it was kind of a spoof on him. Then he got The Late Show. He inherited it from David Letterman. They gave him the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown Manhattan. And he started out doing a variety show. Well, he’s not funny enough or good enough to do that on his own. So then he went full-blown radical activist Democrat. Now, here’s the giveaway, what you just said about profitability. Brian Stelter, the media guy over at CNN, said, well, you know, I have to admit that technically the show isn’t profitable for CBS, right? Oh, technically, that’s why you’re there. If the Mark Davis show isn’t profitable for 660 AM The Answer, wonder how long you’ll be around. If the Mike Gallagher show isn’t profitable for Salem Media Group, wonder how long I’ll be around. But this is how crazy they’ve become. They’re like the profitability of a massive show like that is sort of incidental. That’s just a technicality. We’ve got to get him every night to blast Trump and attack conservatives and rip into the Republican Party because that’s real entertainment. Here’s the headline for the ages. And look, I know we’ve got like 19 things to cover today. We’ve got time. We’re good. Okay, good. Here’s the headline of the ages. It’s been reported that the Democrat Party is now at the absolute rock bottom lowest level of improvement they’ve ever had since polling began. OK, there’s no there’s no entity any less popular than today’s Democrat Party. Here’s a here’s here’s example. One thousand nine hundred and seventy five of why headline Fox News dot com. Prominent Democrats Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren demand to know if CBS is ending Stephen Colbert’s late show for political reasons. That’s what they’re worried about.
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What might that even be? The network continues to hate him. They particularly hate him now. And the reason and I listen, I got to go back and read. I watched a little bit of it. I’ll play it later on Colbert on the occasion of CBS settling with Trump for 16 million because they had to. They had to. CBS totally interfered with the election by doctoring the Kamala interview to make her look coherent for five minutes. And so Trump was going to absolutely own them in that trial, a trial that would have involved a discovery process that would have made clear and made public all kinds of internal memos, internal voicemails, internal hatred, internal TDS. It would have been destructive to what’s left of CBS’s reputation. So CBS very smartly said, let’s let’s write a check and make this go away. Colbert torched them. on the air, on their own network.
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His employer.
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His employer. Meanwhile, some former CBS News guy said, oh, we all have, we have like PTSD. We have PTSD because we can’t believe that the network settled with Trump. Unbelievable, the arrogance and the denial of these people.
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Well, the narcissism and what’s fascinating is, like Eric just said to me when I walked into the studio this morning, who gets a year’s notice when you’re going to cancel a show? This will be a dirge for a year now, all these insufferable leftist dimwits. Because speaking of Adam Schiff, he was the headliner last night. Yeah. Imagine in the spirit of, think about Johnny Carson or Jay Leno or any of the greats, that the headliner on the Stephen Colbert CBS Late Show is that guy, Adam Schiff.
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If Carson were to invite big-time political people, which he sometimes did. It was to have fun with them. It was to lampoon them in a good-natured way. It was to talk about things that were uniting rather than divisive. You know, Carson was never going to have Abby Hoffman on to torch Nixon. But that’s what these shows have turned into.
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And Kimmel, I hope maybe Kimmel will be next because Kimmel does the same thing. He’s taking it very well. His reaction was, F you, CBS. F you. How dare you? How dare you? They’re all melting down.
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Now, if you’re Kimmel, though, doesn’t this give you a larger slice of the talk show pie? Because right after I tweeted, listen, dance, if you will, at the Colbert departure, but his successor is not going to be any better than other people. Yeah, there’s no successor. CBS said they’re not going to replace it. As in with what? With another talk show in that vein? I guess I understand. Well, what are they going to replace it with?
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They’re not replacing it at all.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, no, what do you mean? There’s no such thing as a test pattern anymore. Well, they’ll do something.
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They’re going to do programming, but they’re not going to do the late show anymore. They’re not going to do a talk show, evidently. According to Colbert in his tearful announcement last night, he’s not being replaced at all. They’re going to get rid of the whole franchise, which, you know, our buddy Chris DeGaulle.
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It seems weird.
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Our buddy Chris DeGaulle this morning did a monologue that I may play it on my show today. I didn’t know this until Chris said it on air. He once interned for David Letterman. So Chris said, this late night talk show stuff is in my wheelhouse. He said, I study it. I’ve watched it. And it is pretty fascinating. The story about Leno secretly calling all the station owners because there was a battle for who was going to inherit the Johnny Carson show. It’s all fascinating to me. And look, back in the day when I was a kid, I used to watch all those shows at night. I wouldn’t watch these shows now at gunpoint. What am I going to do, sit there and watch a political monologue? Rachel Maddow on steroids by Stephen Colbert. But here’s what Chris pointed out, and I think this was – Stephen Colbert took a franchise that was decades and decades long Letterman just did such a great job. Whatever you think of Letterman and his politics, and he’s a lefty too, but it was a really compelling movie.
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He didn’t wear it on his sleeve. Being funny and being entertaining was always way more important to him.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s right. And he’s a funny guy and talented guy. Colbert took a little bit of time. and ran it into the ground. He ran it into the ground, Mark, and Chris said it’s just sad and kind of tragic that because the left, and this is what was so brilliant about Chris’s monologue this morning, everything the left, they…
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SPEAKER 03 :
touch they have to politicize they’re they’re doing it to movies it’s their life it is they they they are it’s their obsession they politicize talk shows they politicize movies they politicize sports they politicize everything they touch they think they’re going to shove their ideology down everybody’s throat why don’t you want the most people possible to watch and enjoy your talk show i know How welcome do you feel?
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Why do a show that repels half of America? Correct.
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Why even do that? Why would you set it? Because the ideology is more important than the business model. And in broadcasting, look, it gets back to the defunding of PBS and NPR. Why in the world should one penny of taxpayer money go? Do you know how many affiliates they have at NPR? I mean, there’s thousands and thousands. And they need taxpayer billions? No, they don’t.
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No excuse.
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No excuse whatsoever. And once again, for decades, the Republicans have promised to defund public broadcasting. And it finally happened. Trump got it done.
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Now, speaking of laws— On the 30 final seconds of the late night world, because we’re sitting here talking about these liberal shows that repel half of America. I can hear people in my earphone ear and your earphone ear saying, Well, wouldn’t a conservative show do the same? I guess if Ted Nugent had a show, it would be the flip side of the coin. Half of America would be pretty freaked out by that as well. But you use the perfect example of Gutfeld. Gutfeld’s a conservative-flavored show, but it’s fun and funny and humorous and lighthearted and satirical first. It is entertaining first. Rush Limbaugh was not huge because he was conservative. He was huge because he was a radio guy first. an entertainer, a communicator, and the message happened to be conservative. Gutfeld is a master entertainer, a satirist. He’s funny. He’s likable. And so the politics and the policy stuff isn’t the locomotive dragging the train at Gutfeld for these leftist goons.
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I won’t push back. You could argue that point, because I was going to say the Gutfeld show arguably is a political show, but you’re right, it’s done with humor. It is, but they’re having fun first.
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What makes it palatable, I bet there are people who watch Gutfeld who are not that conservative, and they’re not repelled by it.
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But you’re missing the point, because to the left, they think Colbert is funny, too. They think he’s entertaining, and they’re funny.
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But they’re the only people who think he’s funny.
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Yeah, but you can’t make the argument just because it’s our side and we think we’re right. No, I’m not.
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That’s why I used the Nugent example in Ted’s A Friend of Mine for a quarter century.
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Yeah, that’s a better example.
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That’s a better example. A Ted Nugent show, I would love it, but half of America would go, ah, Gutfeld is the one.
SPEAKER 03 :
But they hate Gutfeld the way we hate Colbert. You’re not being fair on this. You’re being very one-sided.
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You’re being tribalist, and that’s okay. Stop it. Gutfeld has more viewers that disagree with him than Colbert has viewers that disagree with him.
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Oh, I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I’ll take your word for it. Speaking of lawsuits, the Wall Street Journal is getting sued.
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What is this, Mike? What is that stupid story? Is there any universe in which people say, I know what I’m going to do. We’re going to have typewritten language. It’s going to be like a saucy conversation between me and Jeffrey.
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What? Well, here’s what I don’t understand. We don’t have any idea if it’s accurate or not. Nobody has a clue. I always love the conclusion people. There’s no way he doesn’t talk that way. Look, I’m not defending the Wall Street Journal here. Let Trump sue the pants off him. There’ll be all kinds of discovery. We’re going to find out. But here’s a couple of things worth noting. The letter was supposedly written three years before Jeffrey Epstein faced any charges whatsoever. It was written four years before Trump himself banned Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because he’s a degenerate. I mean, so what? There is nothing to this story. I’ll tell you what it is. They can’t stand all the victories that Trump is having.
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It’s a smear attempt because the Wall Street Journal is not much happier than the New York Times.
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I mean, it’s such a stupid—what, the picture with the woman with the breasts? I mean, a stick figure with breasts, and it’s typewritten, and it’s like, what? This is the Wall Street Journal bombshell?
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Oh, the mighty have fallen.
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Gosh, it’s kind of pathetic. I mean, but look, Trump says, I’m going to sue the pants off him. Every other legal action he’s taken against media entities that have wronged him— He’s won.
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CBS, as we just mentioned, ABC and Stephanopoulos. You bet.
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Absolutely. I mean, so Rupert Murdoch, they better have their ducks in a row. But again, we’ll find out. But again, who cares? So in, what was it, 2003? Before anything even, okay, all right, it’s unpleasant. What’s going to happen? Oh, what’s going to, is Trump going to get fired over it? Is this the impeachment material? Is he not going to run now? I mean, what, so…
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give me a break i hate to i hate to be in there i hate to be i hate to be edgy here but compared to the excess hollywood tape this is a walk in the park that is that is correct the guy’s a body the guy’s a body new yorker so i have no also and somebody pointed out to me this this was this was 2003 was trump in sort of billionaire playboy mode so it’s not like he was a choir boy and I totally understand that. But stylistically, it’s not him. He would never do something this high school goofy. Final 60 seconds. Health check. How are your lower extremities? Anything pooling down there? Everything good?
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Not yet. But don’t you love the conspiracy theories? Oh, they knew about this forever.
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Chronic venous insufficiency.
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the venous insufficiency that takes a while to… I mean, Scott Jennings, who’s our now colleague here at Salem, on CNN last night, he sat next to a butler denier. Do you know there’s a whole… What?
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That Trump wasn’t really shot?
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It was totally staged. And there’s a video. Have you not seen the video circulating? Oh, by the way, 30 seconds. Butler, real quick. There’s a video circulating that says the American flag was lowered by people and it was staged. And look, there were actors. Oh, yeah, I’m not kidding you, Mark. That’s how nuts these people are. Speaking of video, tell me you saw the guy caught on the kiss cam. I did. Oh, the CEO with the girlfriend.
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Called out by Chris Martin of Coldplay himself. They’re either having an affair or they’re very camera shy. Well, it was A.
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Oh, gosh. But the guy is doubling down. Did you see? He went to social media and he mocked the whole thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mike, I think it’s fake. Oh, that wasn’t him? There were some fake, because within hours, supposedly from the, what’s the company name? Astronomer?
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Astronomer, yeah.
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The CEO said, I apologize to my family. I have to come clean. I am indeed a Coldplay fan. Right, that was earlier work. No, no, dude, that’s not him. Oh, I think it is. No, no, no, no, no.
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Oh, okay. Well, maybe.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s a meme.
SPEAKER 03 :
I thought it was him just saying, trying to minimize it and downplay it. The wife evidently has already taken her legal married name off of her Facebook page.
SPEAKER 04 :
There is a meme about it that I did respect. It said, you know what? Coldplay hasn’t had a single in years. Last night they made two.
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Yeah. You know, and I saw one guy post, though, all kidding us. Oh, and I got to close with this. You told me that Joyce in North Carolina, there’s a listener named Joyce who’s going to be 100 years old on November 26th. She wrote me. She said, Mike, it’s Joyce from North Carolina. Plans are underway for my 100th birthday party, which will be on November 22nd. Please tell Mark Davis. And because she’s so honored. Well, you know why? Because you said we should do something for her birthday. Well, let’s do something. Well, let’s go. I want to go to North Carolina. Go. Wow. Look at the time. Come on, Mark. Let’s you and me go. An M&M experience in Joyce’s living room.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think I had a nice card in mind.
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No, let’s go. Let’s do the show. But it’s pretty exciting. And you know what she said? Here’s this sweet lady. urgently have to go. Go ahead. Okay, goodbye. See you Monday. No, no, no. Don’t tease me. 30 seconds. Go, go ahead. She just said, I was so privileged to support your campaigns. I bought pillows from Mike Lindell. I’ve done all the financial aid I’ve been able to do in my lifetime. I love Joyce.
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God bless you, Joyce.
SPEAKER 03 :
Joyce, Mark and I are coming. I want the king-size bed. I want the guest room. I’ll sleep on the couch.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mike Gallagher, everybody. He’s here all week.
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