God knows I never sacrificed my bedtime to watch "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert whom CBS is silencing tonight after nearly eleven years.
No, what makes Colbert's departure significant from my perspective was the occasional online reminder that a straight, conservative (by his own admission) Catholic man raised in South Carolina could make a gay atheist both laugh and respect him. Corporate cowardice, in a perfect storm, has buried an oasis of common decency, leaving the media landscape more befouled than ever by ignorant loudmouths governed only by their preening self-interest.
Telling that CBS couldn't even be bothered to keep the letters of his name lit through the end.
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