The Real Reason Bill O’Reilly Won’t STFU About Stephen Colbert Hosting ‘The Late Show’
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The real reason conservative media is flipping out is that CBS hired Colbert clearly uncaring about any potential Republican and conservative backlash. I am positive that they discussed it in their meetings. After all, O’Reilly is right to point out that uber-conservatives probably really hate Colbert, so it stands to reason that any conservatives in Letterman’s current audience might be turned off by the new host. However, let’s be real, shall we? Letterman himself is a pretty progressive guy, and he has had his own run-ins with the conservative outrage machine when he had the gall to make fun of Sarah Palin and her family. So how many conservatives do you think really watch Letterman to begin with?
In point of fact, CBS’ hiring of Stephen Colbert proves just how completely irrelevant Fox News is to mainstream America, and that is the central issue driving the gargantuan levels of outrage and ire aimed at Colbert as soon-to-be new bosses. I don’t know what they think CBS should have done — hire someone from among their ranks? I hate to break it to them but there’s a reason you don’t see a lot of conservative “comedians” breaking into the big time: jokes need to be rooted in a fundamental truth in order to be funny. Not just fundamental, but universal. The entire conservative/Republican movement of the last 30 years has been an effort in walling themselves off from objective truth — because you know, “librul meediuhh biass” — and indeed from the rest of us Americans who don’t agree with their ideologies.
You know, it’s funny when Fox News crows about having the highest ratings of any cable news outlet. First of all, there are really only three of them, and CNN is so chock-full of derp these days that the only time you watch it is if you’re in an airport and you don’t have to shit so you’re stuck at the bar watching it. MSNBC is Fox’s ideological counterpart, but they don’t seem to have the same ability to toss out every scrap of unbiased journalistic credibility they have to just pound away at an entrenched, fringe philosophy. It’s funny to me that no one ever calls out Fox News’ ratings for what I’d call the “Howard Stern Effect,” meaning that when the radio and comedic icon was rising to the top, he was pulling in huge ratings, due in large part to people who actually hated him.
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CBS didn’t care about any conservative fallout because they knew that the people who watch Fox News simply wouldn’t be watching their network once the late local news came on anyway. Bill O’Reilly and his fellow conservatives are terrified because between Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien, there’s nary a conservative among them. They’re all true comedians and therefore will have no problem lambasting the left when necessary, but represented within the current stable of late night hosts (hey TV execs, on a side note: Can we get a female on one of the big late night shows, please?) is the unflinching reality that conservatism in America is not the mainstream, and the mainstream doesn’t really care how much the right freaks out about anything — from Benghazi to blowjobs to late night hosts — because that’s all the right does now: Freak out about stuff.
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