You don’t own it! “You sure as hell don’t own respect for the bravery and sacrifice of military, police and firefighters”.
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New York City doesn’t sleep, and from the looks of it neither did the staff of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” this week.
He’s back! Jon Stewart returned to TV on Thursday, July 21, to chime in on presidential nominee Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention. “Trump does seem like the kind of guy you’d like to sit down and own a fleet of airplanes with”.
Stewart went on to dissect the “contortions” conservatives will have to go through to embrace in Trump the things they’ve spent eight years complaining about in President Obama – “a thin-skinned narcissist with no government experience – yes, that sounds exactly like”.
After this truly horrifying and underwhelming week, the country needed a good does of reality, and Stewart did just that.
“Trust me. I saw a lot of people on the Convention floor in Cleveland with their “blue lives matter” rhetoric, who remained silent or actively fought against the 9/11 first responders bill reauthorisation”.
I’m not going to rehash what he said; you’re better off discovering it for yourself.
Colbert kicked off the final night of his CBS late-night show’s live RNC coverage, noting “The Trumpening” was an “historic moment uniting America’s political system, entertainment complex and self-tanner industry”. You’ve got a problem because you see them – what’s Rep. Steve King’s word for it? But Corden did more than simply deny the narrative-he also built up Colbert’s show in the process, pointing out that at the time his network-mate’s ratings were up, and that “these shows always take a while to find their feet”.
He said that the people demanding equal rights aren’t the divisive ones, the people keeping them from getting those equal rights are.
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Colbert gave Stewart his seat behind the desk, and adorning him in a jacket and clip-on tie.
