Late Show host Stephen Colbert has recently come under fire from right-wingers due to some comments he made on Monday's show. As a result, #FireColbert trended on Twitter for a few hours last night. What were the comments Colbert uttered which triggered many Trumpsters? Well, after the CBS late-night show host aired a clip of Donald Trump refusing to answer a question posed by John Dickerson and asking him to leave, while Colbert said Dickerson was an extremely upright individual, he was not, and proceeded to say the following directed toward the president:
"Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine. You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c*ck holster."
That last bit is what angered Trumpsters, as many claimed Colbert's monologue was: "Hate speech" and "a homophobic slur," among other things, contending that if such a thing had been said about former President Obama, the presenter would be fired, and then attempting to compare Colbert's comment to the allegations against Bill O'Reilly.
First off, Bill O'Reilly's firing was due to him allegedly sexually harassing at least 7 women. No matter how distasteful one may find a joke, a joke about murder isn't nearly as bad as the murder itself.
Secondly, hate speech is defined as "speech which attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnic origin, religion, race, disability, or sexual orientation." How is making a joke about two anti-gay men being sexually involved an attack on them? Let's just ask Muslims the following question and see what they have to say regarding the matter: "Do you feel more under attack when someone tells a Muslim joke or when someone yells that you're terrorists, you don't belong here, and to go back to where you came from?"
Thirdly, isn't it more homophobic for Trumpsters to get offended by the thought of their hero being gay than a person making a joke that he is gay? The definition of the term homophobic is "having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people." In Colbert's monologue, he wasn't suggesting that he's in any way unsupportive of the LGBT community. He was simply showcasing his dislike for two world leaders, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
It's ironic that die-hard Trump supporters like to call progressives "snowflakes," because apparently we're too sensitive, yet while we had to deal with 8 years of racist and xenophobic comments at the expense of Barack Obama, they can't deal with this one joke. While I think Stephen Colbert might have gone over the line ever so slightly with his joke the other night, this wasn't the first Putin-and-Trump-might-be-lovers joke, won't be the last, and the comment paled in comparison to some of the lines Trump has uttered.
Stephen Colbert (host of the late-night comedy show, The Late Show): "Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine. You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c*ck holster."
Trumpsters: "Fire him!"
Donald Trump (at this point, a man running for the highest office in the land): "I moved on her like a bit*h, but I couldn't get there, and then she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. ... I'm automatically attracted to beautiful [women] - I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
Trumpsters: "Make him president!"
Yes, according to Trumpsters, it's a bigger deal to joke about two anti-gay men being gay than it is to insinuate you regularly sexually assault women. With that kind of logic, while it's perfectly fine to confess to committing a murder, joking about that murder is going too far. Yeah, if anyone's a snowflake, it's Trumpsters, and mentally-deranged ones at that.
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/late-show-stephen-colbert-homophobic-donald-trump-1202406991/
"Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine. You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c*ck holster."
That last bit is what angered Trumpsters, as many claimed Colbert's monologue was: "Hate speech" and "a homophobic slur," among other things, contending that if such a thing had been said about former President Obama, the presenter would be fired, and then attempting to compare Colbert's comment to the allegations against Bill O'Reilly.
First off, Bill O'Reilly's firing was due to him allegedly sexually harassing at least 7 women. No matter how distasteful one may find a joke, a joke about murder isn't nearly as bad as the murder itself.
Secondly, hate speech is defined as "speech which attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnic origin, religion, race, disability, or sexual orientation." How is making a joke about two anti-gay men being sexually involved an attack on them? Let's just ask Muslims the following question and see what they have to say regarding the matter: "Do you feel more under attack when someone tells a Muslim joke or when someone yells that you're terrorists, you don't belong here, and to go back to where you came from?"
Thirdly, isn't it more homophobic for Trumpsters to get offended by the thought of their hero being gay than a person making a joke that he is gay? The definition of the term homophobic is "having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people." In Colbert's monologue, he wasn't suggesting that he's in any way unsupportive of the LGBT community. He was simply showcasing his dislike for two world leaders, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
It's ironic that die-hard Trump supporters like to call progressives "snowflakes," because apparently we're too sensitive, yet while we had to deal with 8 years of racist and xenophobic comments at the expense of Barack Obama, they can't deal with this one joke. While I think Stephen Colbert might have gone over the line ever so slightly with his joke the other night, this wasn't the first Putin-and-Trump-might-be-lovers joke, won't be the last, and the comment paled in comparison to some of the lines Trump has uttered.
Stephen Colbert (host of the late-night comedy show, The Late Show): "Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine. You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c*ck holster."
Trumpsters: "Fire him!"
Donald Trump (at this point, a man running for the highest office in the land): "I moved on her like a bit*h, but I couldn't get there, and then she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. ... I'm automatically attracted to beautiful [women] - I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
Trumpsters: "Make him president!"
Yes, according to Trumpsters, it's a bigger deal to joke about two anti-gay men being gay than it is to insinuate you regularly sexually assault women. With that kind of logic, while it's perfectly fine to confess to committing a murder, joking about that murder is going too far. Yeah, if anyone's a snowflake, it's Trumpsters, and mentally-deranged ones at that.
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/late-show-stephen-colbert-homophobic-donald-trump-1202406991/
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