There's an inescapable conclusion that casual observers can't help but draw when watching the Colbert conniption fit being thrown by progressive entertainers.
Under the impression that they are simply circling the wagons around one of their own proud, defiant voices martyred in his courageous battle against the tyrant in the White House, they seemingly have no concept of the fact that they've exposed themselves as a pack of megalomaniacs even more insufferable than the one they claim to oppose.
Consider the numbers everyone now knows - Colbert's program was hemorrhaging cash, costing CBS nearly $40 million a year. The host contributed to half of that shortfall alone, greedily taking a $20 million a year salary. Remember that even as he was announcing his firing, Colbert boasted his show employed 200 people.
His unwillingness to lead the way by humbly renegotiating his own contract, or enacting difficult cost-cutting measures by eliminating staff or consolidating roles, is the direct result of his own hubris. Only a self-admiring egotist could confidently believe that he was important enough to defy the basic laws of economics. In fact, it almost sounds like the kind of brash, arrogant narcissism Colbert and company regularly mock about Trump.
It's the same kind of vain conceit that plays out routinely across the breadth of progressivism. Whether its NPR and PBS executives feeling entitled to taxpayer subsidies, so-called WNBA "stars" wanting a league they have never made profitable to pay them "what they're worth," there's a common thread of odious pride running through the tapestry of leftism.
Fair minds cannot help but watch the childish protests of Colbert's late-night comedian brigades, all making fools of themselves in ways that are anything but comedic, and see the logical out-workings of their cultural elitism. These are the men who have built entire professions around mocking those outside their ideological circle, implying all dissent to their position is ignorance.
Is part of that simply showmanship for the cameras? Probably, but one could also say the same for their presidential foil. Besides, nightly monologues that lecture audiences rather than entertain them have become a sad staple of late-night television - with hosts assuming a throne of moral authority from which they dispense pellets of wisdom, truth, and decency. Only backwards bigots could disagree.
To be clear, I am not excusing or defending President Trump's stadium-sized ego. But if any group of people have lost credibility to attack it, surely it would be the polished and moralizing stand-up saviors who forgot the joke but remembered the spotlight. Somewhere along the line these court jesters unilaterally crowned themselves kings, and lost the plot entirely by falling deeper in love with their own applause than their audience's laughter.
And while I'm sure he wouldn't mind taking the credit for it, none of that is Donald Trump's fault.
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