Pirate's Cove

It’s been so entertaining!

There’s a reason it was always called “mindless late night entertainment.” You used to put it on, enjoy some movie and TV stars who had new movies/TV shows coming out, authors, animals, bands who just released a record, comedians. There was barely any politics, and what little there was was light-hearted. People fell asleep in their chair or bed to it. Relaxed and enjoyed. That changed to simply be propaganda shows for Democrats, with tons of elected Democrats appearing, reporters (making themselves the news), every celeb having to talk politics. And became full Orange Man Bad in 2017. 50% of the audience immediately disappeared, and even most Democrats had no interest in hardball politics starting at 1130pm. And now

What ‘The Late Show’ meant to America, to NYC, and to the Trump resistance

A late-night TV show is more than the sum of its parts. “The Late Show” certainly was.

First with David Letterman, then with Stephen Colbert, “The Late Show” was an amusing and comforting ritual for viewers; a treasured stage for comedians; a coveted platform for politicians and authors; and a reliable marketing vehicle for CBS.

But they never used to be a platform for politicians. In the very rare occasion they were on it was kept bipartisan. I remember Al Gore being fun during an appearance when he was VP, hadn’t started running yet. There was nothing partisan. He had fun with a $500 ashtray meant for government planes, why they were necessary, trying to smash it, and subtlety showing how government was wasting money.

The interviews made news. The monologues made sense of the news. The comedy bits made the whole world feel a little less bleak.

Only to the vastly left wing news. Most Americans tuned out, as the ratings showed.

But now it’s all going away. CBS is closing the curtain on “The Late Show” on Thursday night. Citing broadcast TV’s financial woes, the network is giving up on an admittedly expensive late-night format and letting Colbert take his talents elsewhere.

Many critics see it as a form of capitulation to President Donald Trump, who has bristled at Colbert’s acerbic criticism and sought to silence him. Some “Late Show” fans believe Trump effectively canned Colbert and the show.

That theory is inescapable because Colbert was such a vocal part of the anti-Trump resistance, both in the late 2010s and again recently.

And this helped CBS lose $40 million to $50 million a year. Advertisers fled, seeing little return on their advertising dollars, and those left were treated to lower than normal advertiser rates. CBS and other networks, and streamers, will cancel shows in a heartbeat when shows are making money but less than expected.

Judging from some of the viewer comments and emails I’ve read, the fans who are mourning the end of “The Late Show” are also mourning the end of shows like it — communal spaces that have been around for as long as they can remember.

They may be mourning it, but, they weren’t watching, and, did CBS need to lose all that money to have a moonbat communal space? All Colbert had to do was go back to being “mindless late night entertainment for all” and it could have succeeded.

Colbert and his allies have noted that CBS didn’t try to salvage “The Late Show” by, say, dramatically cutting costs or changing the format.

Colbert could easily have shifted the content of the show. He didn’t. That’s on him and his people. Expect tonight’s last show to be utterly unhinged. But, it will mean nothing, because he’s preaching to the unhinged choir. The Credentialed Media will dutifully post what happened, and, then within a few days the show will be completely forgotten. No one will miss it, no one will care.

Really, though, this is when it all started going downhill. No one wanted this propaganda shit, even normal Democrats who were all in on the COVID “vaccine”