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BROADCAST BIAS: Networks lament end of Colbert show. They love his anti-Trump antics

Democrats treat the end of 'The Late Show' like losing a 'national treasure' instead of leftist therapy

By Tim Graham Fox News

Published May 23, 2026 8:00am EDT

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Stephen Colbert addresses audience in 'The Late Show' finale

Stephen Colbert offered an emotional address to his audience in the series finale of "The Late Show."

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The leftist bubble could easily be defined as people who think late-night comedians are the best Americans ever. The demise of Stephen Colbert's CBS show was greeted by Democrats like a funeral for a "national treasure." That's what they called Colbert.

Outside the bubble, "The Late Show" sounded more like a leftist therapy session, combined with a Democratic Party precinct meeting. Colbert could not imagine why anyone would support President Donald Trump. It's inconceivable to them, and they can't imagine anyone who thinks Colbert is insufferably smug and vicious, not the spin as "kind and generous."

NBC’s "Today" broke out the eulogies on the morning of Colbert’s last show. Entertainment reporter Chloe Melas gushed, "this farewell tour, it has been full of big moments, even bigger laughs as these lights get ready to dim." Melas added Colbert would love to have the pope as a guest on his final show, spurring co-anchor Savannah Guthrie to claim: "Well, Stephen is a devout Catholic."

That hasn’t been true at all. Even at Comedy Central, Colbert mocked the Holy Eucharist, and featured a close-up photo of a priest distributing condoms instead of the consecrated Host. In his last week of shows, when Catholic comedian........

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