Colbert and the Cancellers Cry Censorship!

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Can you imagine the nerve—or narcissism—required to demand an investigation into a late-night show being cancelled? Not into government overreach. Not media suppression. Just… a TV show. One that was hemorrhaging $40 million in ad revenue, despite paying its host a cool $15 million salary.

That’s not censorship. That’s math.

Colbert’s defenders are quick to point out he was #2 in late-night. True. But there was nearly a million-viewer gap between first and second. In network terms, that’s a death sentence. Especially in an era where people don’t even watch TV the same way anymore. Gutfeld—yes, that Gutfeld—is consistently winning late-night. Who knew?

The real kicker?

This same show host publicly accused his own employer of bribing the sitting president.

Just casually dropped that in the middle of a monologue. Never mind that the network was already being sued for deceptive practices in another defamation case they were trying to settle. Bold move, Cotton.

And yet we’re supposed to believe this is all some orchestrated silencing of dissent? Colbert having 10 months on air, then moving to another channel, isn’t the end of free speech. I’m sorry the end of the liberal monopoly on media is so painful.

But did y’all sleep through the last decade?

Where was this righteous fury when:

• Douglas Mackey went to jail for posting a meme?

• The Biden administration worked with Big Tech to suppress COVID dissent and squash the Hunter Biden laptop story before an election?

• Obama’s NSA was spying on Americans and journalists—and nobody in legacy media blinked?

Y’all cheered censorship when it served your side.

But now that your favorite snark machine got unplugged, suddenly we need congressional hearings? There will be just one voice, you say? There was one voice from one source allowed until Rush, with “talent on loan from God” made AM radio a viable platform for conservatives.

Let’s be honest: populist outrage has a short shelf life. It burns hot and fast. It needs a villain, a platform, and a cause. But it collapses under its own contradictions—especially when you spend every night mocking half the country and then act shocked when they stop watching.

That’s not suppression. That’s rejection.

Equilibrium is returning to the market.

The populist left loves to play the underdog card while holding the mic, the camera, the checkbook, and the censorship keys. But media credibility doesn’t come from how loudly you cry foul—it comes from consistency. And for a decade, conservative voices have been the ones shadow-banned, demonetized, and deplatformed for opinions that are now—miraculously—safe to say out loud again.

Let that be a lesson to us all: You can’t call yourself the resistance while you’re writing the rules.

There are no “prime networks” anymore.

The audience is wide awake, fed up, and moving on. They’re not tuning out. They’re tuning in—just not to you.

And if your entire identity was built on being the smartest guy in the room, the funniest guy on air, and the most progressive guy on set… well, maybe try being the last guy with a job. Make that a goal.