A few years ago, CNN parted ways with anchor Brian Stelter when network executives realized their company had become a punchline in the eyes of the public.
The seemingly affable Stelter, and his trusty companion - the far less likable Oliver Darcy - had been handed the keys to CNN's "media analysis" department and drove it straight off the credibility cliff.
Though Darcy remains a has-been, somehow Stelter returned to CNN and picked up where he left off. In one breath, hand-wringing over the persistence of conspiracy theories:
... and in the next breath, spreading a little radioactive conspiracy himself:
It's a conspiracy! It's a tribute of fealty to Donald Trump!
This has been the frantic hysteria of so many anti-Trump leftists in recent days:
Good heavens, silenced?
Her ideological preferences dominate the airwaves of every broadcast news network, the majority of cable news networks, the editorial boards of all the country's major newspaper conglomerates, and most of the leadership of social media operations. Note that her lament casually admits that "public broadcasting" was yet another channel through which her preferred viewpoints were espoused as truth.
That is the actual issue here (though I don't assume too many progressive commentators will acknowledge it). Replace the word "Democrats" in this Rob Province social media post with the word "media," and it perfectly explains what we are witnessing right now:
Sane people know what the Colbert termination was all about. It is very simple:
The monoculture Johnny Carson/David Letterman/Jay Leno era of late-night is over. You can't generate enough ad revenue for their kind of program anymore. CBS is realizing that and adapting - something the other networks will soon do as well.
It isn't a conspiracy, unless you consider it a dastardly conspiracy on the part of a television network to make money. Or at least not to lose money. That's what's going on at CBS.
It's also, by the way, what is going on in the WNBA. League officials aren't keen on dumping money on players who are not producing something to generate sustained profit, but that common-sense business approach is castigated by the progressive base as a conspiracy against women (black lesbian women, specifically).
Going back to Province's point, progressives' objections to both Colbert's canning and WNBA struggles are nothing if they aren't a clear indication that the base of this movement has become so enamored with their own ideology, so fanatical about their own religious dogma that it has completely consumed any morsel common sense remaining on the Left.
America would sure be a better place if that nonsense changed.
Something that will likely only happen when people they see as obediently and dutifully in their corner (I'm looking at you, Brian Stelter) have the courage to call out the craziness.
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