Want to hear something that’ll make your jaw drop? Stephen Colbert — yes, that leftist late-night talk show host who just got the boot from CBS — now says he’s “more conservative” than people realize. You can’t make this stuff up.
Maybe people see Colbert as a far-left shill because, for over two decades, that’s exactly how he’s acted. From The Daily Show to The Colbert Report and then The Late Show, he’s spent his career turning his platform into a nonstop infomercial for the Democratic Party. Candidates, causes, officials — you name it, Colbert carried their water and called it comedy.
Now, after CBS showed him the door, he’s suddenly trying to rebrand himself as some kind of middle-ground moderate. Colbert recently sat down with GQ and actually tried to sell the idea that he’s not the liberal firebrand everyone thinks he is. Right. And CNN’s totally fair and balanced, too.
“People perceive me as this sort of lefty figure,” the CBS late-night host told the magazine. “I think I’m more conservative than people think. I just happen to be talking about a government in extremis.”
Translation: Colbert’s basically saying that President Trump and the MAGA movement are so “far-right” and “extreme” that he suddenly looks like a centrist — even a “moderate with conservative leanings.” Give me a break. That’s the con he’s trying to run here.
Personally, I find that downright insulting. Colbert seems to think we’re all too dumb to see through his act — the whole “I’m only this way because I’m fighting the real radicals in the White House” routine. Please. We’ve seen this movie before, and it’s not convincing the second time around.
If Colbert wants to play the part of Hollywood’s moral crusader, fine — but he should at least have the guts to own where he stands on the political spectrum instead of pretending he’s some misunderstood moderate.
“And so, what I’m giving you is my reaction video to the day. And my reaction video is like ‘The Scream,’ in a way, but with jokes,” he said during the interview. “It’s hard to have a balanced reaction to the idea of troops on streets of a city that actually is not undergoing an invasion.”
If that city had simply followed federal immigration law and cooperated with enforcement officials, we wouldn’t even be talking about troops on the streets right now. The only reason it’s come to this is because local leaders chose politics over public safety.
And let’s be clear — the federal government absolutely has the authority to deploy troops when national security is on the line. This isn’t some gray area or constitutional overreach; it’s basic law enforcement at scale. Illegal immigration has reached such insane, unsustainable levels that it’s now a full-blown national security crisis.
Later in the interview, Colbert turned his fire on his own network, whining that CBS is—wait for it—“pandering” to Donald Trump. The same network that spent years treating Trump like public enemy number one is suddenly, in Colbert’s mind, bending over backward to keep him happy.
“My reaction as a professional in show business is to go: That is the network’s decision,” Colbert said about CBS booting his program. Then he attacked: saying, “It is self-evident that that is damaging to the reputation of the network, the corporation, and the news division. So, it is unclear to me why anyone would do that other than to curry favor with a single individual.”
Another inconvenient truth that blows up Colbert’s little “I’m actually conservative” fantasy came just last month, when he proudly bragged about helping raise $25 million for Joe Biden. Yeah — that Joe Biden. The same failed president his show spent years defending like it was a taxpayer-funded PR firm.
Sorry, Stephen, but you don’t get to funnel millions to Democrats and then pretend you’re some closet conservative. The American people might tune out once in a while, but we’re not stupid. Our brains aren’t that smooth.