July 18, 2025

HOW DO YOU SAY ‘STUPID HUMAN TRICK’ IN FRENCH?

Posted at 12:41 pm by Charlie Martin

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision?’ CBS no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Building an empire takes decades. Destroying it can take only a few years, and sometimes the vandals are in the palace, not outside the gates.

For much of the 20th century, American broadcast television revolved around three networks: NBC, ABC, and CBS. William S. Paley, CBS’s longtime CEO, made sure that his company—the Columbia Broadcasting Service—was a leader among them. The network was home to Edward R. Murrow, who brought World War II in Europe home to Americans on CBS Radio; after the war, Murrow’s reporting played a pivotal role in bringing down Senator Joseph McCarthy. Walter Cronkite dominated American evenings from his perch at the Evening News. And from the days of Mike Wallace to the more recent era of Lesley Stahl and Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes set the standard for long-form television reporting.

Yet CBS’s current ownership seems determined to demolish this legacy. This evening, the network announced plans to end The Late Show With Stephen Colbert when the host’s contract ends next May. Late-night personalities come and go, but usually that happens when their ratings sag. Colbert, however, has consistently led competitors in his time slot. CBS said this was “purely a financial decision,” made as traditional linear television fades.

Perhaps this is true, but the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt.

Why does Cronkite get the benefit of the doubt, given biases his lefty biographer could spot them? Why does CTRL-F “Dan Rather” bring up zero results in the above Atlantic article?

But yes, while Colbert may have sped up his demise by railing against CBS and Trump, ultimately, the late night model is doomed, Jim Geraghty writes:

Someone out there is likely arguing, “CBS should hire Greg Gutfeld!” Indeed, Gutfeld gets about 3 million viewers per night on average, compared to Colbert’s 1.9 million. Alienating, ridiculing, and repelling the entire right-of-center audience, night after night, has not done The Late Show any favors.

But there are signs that the problem is more than just boring left-wing politics infusing the previously relatively apolitical form of entertainment. The old audience for late night just isn’t watching anymore, and younger Americans are turning elsewhere for their entertainment. (Joe Rogan has more than 20 million subscribers on YouTube. That doesn’t mean that every subscriber is listening to or watching every episode, but it does give a sense of the expanse of Rogan’s potential audience for each show.)

If CBS has concluded The Late Show doesn’t make financial sense with any host, you have to wonder what the long-term outlook is for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, or Jimmy Kimmel Live.

As Christian Toto wrote last night, “Last year, Jimmy Kimmel predicted the late-night TV format might have only 10 years left. Today’s shocking announcement suggests that the timeframe could be cut in half. Maybe two-thirds.”

No doubt, the Federation will be calling in the President of United Earth to investigate what went wrong:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THIS IS CNN: CNN Guest Seems To Suggest Trump Might Not Have Been Shot.

The entire situation was caught on video, and everyone with a brain can clearly see what happened. Well, CNN guest Toure seems to think the official story and events captured on film might not be so clear.

“He supposedly got shot in the ear. We never heard from his doctors on that…When did we hear from his doctors,” Toure said Thursday night on CNN.

When asked again if Trump was shot in Butler, he refused to acknowledge a basic fact.

“I wasn’t there. I don’t know. I don’t know,” Toure further said.

Complete stupidity.

Watch the mind-boggling moment unfold below…:

For the record, a common conspiracy theory pushed at the time was that Trump was struck by glass from a teleprompter.

That, of course, is complete nonsense for one very simple reason. The teleprompters remained intact during the event.

They would have shattered if a bullet had hit either of the two on the stage. You can see the teleprompters in the photo below.

It’s Toure Neblett. No wonder CNN is so deeply underwater these days:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE ART OF THE MEGA-DEAL: Trump discussing drone ‘mega deal’ with Ukraine — as US tech lags behind adversaries: ‘The people of America need this technology.’

Speaking exclusively with The Post on Wednesday, Zelensky revealed that his latest talks with Trump focused on a breakthrough deal that would see the US and Ukraine prop up each other’s aerial technology — with Kyiv offering to share everything it’s learned about modern warfare in the three-year conflict with Russia.

The deal could be transformative for the US military and national security, with officials and drone experts warning that America’s technology lags far behind Russia and China, and American soldiers are ill-equipped to use the UAVs or defend against the types of devices being produced by adversaries.

“The people of America need this technology, and you need to have it in your arsenal,” Zelensky told The Post of Ukraine’s latest drones, which have been able to penetrate Russia’s defenses to take out heavy bombers and strike as deep as 800 miles over the border.

I haven’t seen any confirmation from the White House on this yet, so maybe take Zelensky’s claim with a grain of salt.

But Trump hasn’t shied away from economic deals with Ukraine this year, signing a minerals agreement with Kyiv in May. Ironic, given that Putin feared Ukraine aligning with the EU three years ago, while the country moves increasingly into the US orbit, instead.

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green

THE BULLY WILL CONTINUE BULLYING UNTIL PUNCHED IN THE FACE:

Posted at 9:28 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Colbert’s Tedious Reign as the Anti-Carson Is Coming to an End. “Contrary to the myth that has grown about Carson over the years, he actually did used to do political jokes. A lot of them, actually. He just spread them around both sides, and he never let on which party he preferred. He wanted to appeal to the entire country. Colbert wants to make sure that conservatives know that he hates us. He’s very good at that, by the way.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green