Stephen Colbert Under Siege For Homophobic Trump Joke

SO, PEOPLE ARE CALLING FOR STEPHEN COLBERT TO BE FIRED, AND
TO HAVE A BOYCOTT OF HIS SHOW AFTER HE MADE A HOMOPHOBIC JOKE
ABOUT TRUMP AND PUTIN.
DURING HIS MONOLOGUE, COLBERT LAUNCHED INTO A SERIES OF TRUMP
INSULTS THAT HE HIMSELF ADMITTED TO HAVING A LACK OF DIGNITY, AND
HE SAID, "THE ONLY THING YOUR MOUTH IS GOOD FOR IS AS PUTIN'S
COCK HOLSTER."
HE ALSO POSTED THIS PICTURE ON INSTAGRAM.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE VERY UPSET.
THIS MAN SAYS, "COLBERT'S HOMOPHOBIC RANT WAS DISGUSTING,
AND WE WON'T TOLERATE THIS ANTI-LGBTQ BEHAVIOR."
GLENN GREENWALD SAYS, "HOMOPHOBIA FOR THE RIGHT CAUSE,
WITH THE RIGHT TARGETS, IS GOOD HOMOPHOBIA, APPARENTLY."
THIS MAN SAYS, " I WORKED AT CBS FOR 14
YEARS, THIS IS NOT KEEPING WITH THEIR IMAGE."
" WHOLE SEGMENT WAS AIMED DIRECTLY AT DONALD TRUMP TO PISS
HIM OFF."
"CONSERVATIVES TODAY: WE DON'T LIKE THAT JOKE."
I THINK THAT IS REALLY INTERESTING, BECAUSE A LOT OF
THE COMPLAINTS WERE FROM CONSERVATIVES.
EXCEPT FOR GLENN GREENWALD.
I THINK THERE ñ
I'M CURIOUS TO HEAR WHAT YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THIS.
I MEAN, YES, WHEN I HEARD THE JOKE I WAS LIKE, THAT'S NOT VERY
COLBERT - Y, AND I DO THINK THAT HE HAS GONE FROM A VERY SET,
SPECIFIC SATIRICAL FOOTING IN THE COLBERT AS CONSERVATIVE
PUNGENT MOCKERY, WHERE HE COULD GET AWAY WITH MORE STUFF
LIKE THAT.
I THINK THAT IN HIS CURRENT STATE, WHEN IT IS JUST STEPHEN
COLBERT ñ
AND HIS TEAM OF WRITERS.
AND HIS TEAM OF WRITERS, OBVIOUSLY, AND THIS SEEMS LIKE
THE VOICE OF ONE WRITER KIND OF WON OUT.
IT SEEMS AS THOUGH HE HAS GOTTEN MORE POPULAR THAN FALLON BY
GOING AFTER DONALD TRUMP, SO THEY ARE CONTINUING TO GO AFTER
TRUMP.
DID YOU GUYS WATCH THE FULL 12 MINUTE CLIP OF HIS MONOLOGUE?
YES.
I WAS WATCHING IT, I WAS LAUGHING AND I THOUGHT IT WAS
FUNNY, AND THIS WAS THE LAST MINUTE OF THE MONOLOGUE, AND I
THOUGHT IT WAS THE LEAST FUNNY PART OF THE MONOLOGUE, WHEN HE
DID THESE SORT OF LIKE, SHORT INSULTS THAT ARE JUST LIKE, BANG
BANG BANG AT TRUMP.
SO I DON'T THINK IT WAS TOTALLY NECESSARY ñ YEAH ñ
JUST TO BUILD ON WHETHER IT WAS NECESSARY, THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF
THE JOKE WAS THAT THE CBS EVENING NEWS, VERY STRAIGHTLACED
REPORTER, WAS INTERVIEWING TRUMP, AND WAS VERY POLITE WHEN
TRUMP SHUT DOWN THE INTERVIEW AND WENT TO LIKE, READING
PAPERS.
AND HE SAID IT'S DEFACE THE NATION OR SOMETHING, HE GOT A
JAB IN, AND THE INTERVIEWER TOOK IT KINDLY, AND COLBERT IS
LIKE, I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT KINDLY, I'M GOING TO GIVE
YOU WHAT YOU DESERVE.
SO I THINK THAT'S EVEN MORE SATIRICAL FOOTING, I'M
GIVING YOU BACK TO YOU, WHETHER THAT'S OKAY.
I THINK THAT PART IS OKAY, I THINK DOING LITTLE INSULTS OR
WHATEVER, HE'S A COMEDIAN, I THINK IT'S FINE, BUT I THINK
THIS IS ONE OF THE INSTANCES WHERE YOU LOOK AT SOMEBODY WHO
IS A RELATIVELY LIBERAL LATE-NIGHT TALKSHOW HOST, WHO
WAS VERY ANTI-TRUMP, OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE, WHO WILL
SOMETIMES STILL SINK TO THE LEVEL OF MAKING GAY JOKES.
IS IT A GAY JOKE?
THE FACT THAT THAT'S EVEN A MATTER OF DEBATE MEANS THAT THIS
IS NOT AS OFFENSIVE AS PEOPLE ARE TAKING IT, BUT THEN
AGAIN, WHO AM I TO SIT HERE AND TELL YOU THAT YOU SHOULD OR
SHOULD IT BE OFFENDED BY THIS?
AND HONESTLY, I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING, BEFORE I CAME IN HERE I
WAS LIKE, THIS IS A LITTLE BIT CRAZY THAT THE LEFT IS SO QUICK
TO CANNIBALIZE THEIR OWN MEDIA FIGURES FOR VERY MINOR
INSTANCES, BUT THEN I SAW GLENN GREENWALD'S TWEET AND I WAS
LIKE, WELL IF GLENN GREENWALD IS UPSET ABOUT IT THEN I'M A
LITTLE BIT MORE UPSET ABOUT IT NOW AS WELL.
I TALKED TO ALL OF MY GAY FRIENDS BEFORE I CAME ON
THE SHOW, ASKING WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF IT AND THEY WERE
LIKE, EVERYONE NEEDS TO TAKE A CHILL PILL, IT IS STEPHEN
COLBERT, WE KNOW WHERE HE STANDS.
YES AND NO, BUT WE SHOULD HOLD OUR MEDIA TO THE SAME
STANDARDS THAT WE HOLD THE OTHER SIDE.
IF SOMEBODY SAID THIS ON FOX ABOUT WHOMEVER, WE WOULD BE
UP IN ARMS.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO HOLD ñ
WHETHER THEY ARE LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE, WHOEVER ñ SINKING
TO THE LEVEL OF GAY JOKES IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO MOVE PAST.
I DON'T THINK IT'S FUNNY.
IT'S AMBIGUOUS AS TO WHETHER THE THING IS THAT THEY ARE GAY,
OR THAT THEY ARE BLOWING EACH OTHER.
YOU CAN BLOW SOMEONE AT NOT BE GAY, IS WHAT I'M SAYING.
HE'S RIGHT.
IN A VERY ESOTERIC WAY.
WHAT I'M STARING IS ñ WHAT I'M SAYING IS, IF THIS WAS A
MAN AND A WOMAN, THAT JOKE WOULD STILL HOLD.

Stephen Colbert Under Siege For Homophobic Trump Joke

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