{"id":30514,"date":"2015-12-31T11:22:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30514"},"modified":"2015-12-31T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T19:31:02","slug":"stephen-colbert-on-donald-trump-hes-my-old-character-with-ten-billion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30514","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert On Donald Trump: He’s My Old Character With Ten Billion Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview on Face the Nation, Stephen Colbert provided one of the reasons he couldn’t continuing doing the character on his old Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report. Blame Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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“He’s my old character with ten billion dollars. He’s completely playing on an emotional level, and so beautifully. It’s one of the reasons I can’t do that old character anymore, because he’s doing it better than I ever could; because he’s willing to drink his own Kool-Aid, and manufacture and distribute it; because he’s got all the cash.<\/p>\n

He’s this very interesting Frankenstein of the idea that facts don’t matter, only money does, because if money is speech, he’s got a ten billion dollar mouth. And he doesn’t have to spend any of it because everyone will point a camera at him.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the record, I don’t think Trump is doing the character anywhere near as good as Colbert did it. If Trump is doing the Colbert character he’s doing without the humor and compassion, and replacing it with hatred and ignorance. But Colbert is spot on that for Trump facts don’t matter (see the Trump Bullshitopedia<\/a>) and that the media has abandoned their journalistic principles in order to broadcast Trumpmania non-stop.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n