When news of Stephen Colbert being fired from CBS first broke, the collective gasp of indignant media watchers was predictable. Those of more sober reckoning became suspicious when the left-wing media's most earnest political puppets, Elizabeth Warren, Adam Schiff, and Bernie Sanders came out in chorus to announce the Late Night Show with Colbert was being cancelled as the result of a bribe by the Trump Administration. This slur ignores the fact that Colbert's show had been losing tens of millions of dollars for the past three years, this according to the New York Times.
The "bribe" referred to was the announcement of a 16 million dollar court settlement with Donald Trump as the result of a defamation lawsuit.
And what would such a 'bribe' pay for according to this line of thinking? Well, it seems there's a big financial deal involving the proposed merger of a movie production company called SkyDance with Paramount. (Paramount being the parent company of CBS) So according to this canard, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will approve the merger in exchange for the bespoke Trump defamation settlement money.
All this b.s. about bribes is one last joke by the departing Stephen Colbert. The difference though is that instead of laughing with the talk show host, many people are now laughing at him.
