The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

While I often times criticize conservative media outlets for appearing to have amnesia with regard to facts and the more nonpartisan media outlets for fearing to be perceived as biased by simply telling the truth void of the opposite (and inaccurate) viewpoint, I also find myself coming after liberal media outlets for their tendency to sometimes overreact. Last week, I wrote a blog with regard to some liberal media outlets overreacting to Stephen Colbert's interview with Donald Trump on The Late Show . No, Colbert's questions weren't quite as hard-hitting as they had been with Ted Cruz the previous night, but they weren't softballs either. In fact, the slowest softball Colbert threw at Trump was a question pertaining to whether or not the GOP front-runner thought President Obama was born in this country, to which Trump refused to respond. Also, let's keep in mind how difficult it would be for an interviewer to bait Donald Trump into saying something most rational-...

Having been a long-time viewer of both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report , it was incredibly tough seeing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert leave their respective shows this past year. Larry Wilmore's The Nightly Show  has improved in recent weeks, but it still lacks the biting satire and goofy charm of The Colbert Report , and it's unknown at this time just how well Trevor Noah will be able to fill in for Jon Stewart on The Daily Show . Fortunately, Stephen Colbert returned last night as host of CBS' The Late Show , taking over the reins from David Letterman. Supposedly the show lasted two hours and had to be condensed to slightly over an hour, so there were some bumps and bruises along the way, but that's to be expected in a show's debut. It featured guests George Clooney, Jeb Bush, and around fifty musicians performing their rendition of Sly & the Family Stone's classic tune, "Everyday People." Colbert's introduction and monologue were d...