Stephen Colbert: Not Funny, Not Smart

CLAY: Remember when comedians used to make jokes, Buck? Remember when they used to be kind of entertaining and everybody could sit around and have a good laugh when you watched David Letterman or Johnny Carson or Jay Leno back in the day?

So Stephen Colbert has basically turned his entire “comedy,” in quotation marks, show on CBS into a constant screed, advertising left-wing politics. There’s very little humor, because humor that doesn’t take aim at both sides is just kind of propaganda in the comedic setting. It’s what Saturday Night Live has effectively began.

So, of course he had to weigh in on Kyle Rittenhouse. And Stephen Colbert, as part of his monologue now, is talking about what the law should be as it pertains to Kyle Rittenhouse, self-defense in this country. Listen to Colbert here saying if he didn’t break the law we should change the law.

COLBERT: Big news on Friday was that after being accused of crossing state lines, killing two people and wounding another, last year during a Black Lives Matter protest, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all counts. Okay. [Booing]. Cards on the table. I’m not a legal expert, so I can’t tell you whether he broke the law. I can tell you this: If he didn’t break the law, we should change the law.

BUCK: There’s two points that jump out right away, Clay. One is, some clarity here on crossing state lines.

CLAY: It’s a lie.

BUCK: Well, he crossed state lines, which people do all the time in this country called America. They’re referring to taking a firearm across state lines, which he did not do.

CLAY: Let’s be clear here. He didn’t even cross state lines. He was already in Kenosha the night before he went to — like he was already there.

BUCK: Right. I just mean — started to think.

CLAY: It’s also a border community. How else do you go to New York or New Jersey or Connecticut.

BUCK: Our New Jersey audience, hey, you’re in New York. I don’t know if you’re allowed to cross those state lines.

CLAY: People cross state lines all the time. It’s one of the dumbest parts of the story. It’s not remotely a crime. The gun was in Wisconsin the entire time.

BUCK: The state lines is idiotic, untrue, but they say it. They say it all the time.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Let’s get to the meat of this for the moment, the heart of it. The center of it. So they want to change the law such that you can be somewhere lawfully. You can be engaged in no criminal activity, and a mob can decide that it does not like you and does not want you there. And you have an obligation as an American to let that mob beat you senseless and possibly to death because they’re Joe Biden voters.

That would be what the change in the law here would indicate. There’s no other option. Either he’s allowed to use his rifle when the mob, on video — and Kyle agreed with what I said a week ago which is that without video he probably goes to prison, without actual video.

Folks, Clay and I aren’t sitting here saying we think this is what went down, there’s video; you can see it, we’ve seen it. Without that he probably goes to prison because of the lies. But because there’s video he doesn’t — notice what they’re saying, though. Remember when the prosecutor said, “sometimes you’ve got to take a beating.” That’s what the left actually thinks. When BLM comes to your neighborhood or Antifa comes to your neighborhood pretending to care about BLM or whatever it is.

CLAY: Or someone tries to take your car or rob your house or anything, you’ve got to let them do it.

BUCK: You see it, Clay, now in San Francisco — we’ll talk about this more in the next hour — where people are being told it’s just property crime. If someone breaks into your home, don’t do anything about it. Don’t even expect the police to show up. It’s just property crime. Let them go into the store and steal everything they want. Let them come into your home and take your bicycle or your laptop or whatever. It’s just property. What’s the alternative? Are you going to harm people when they do this to you? That is now the mentality of the left. It’s what’s the big deal? Why is this such an issue? You’re going to hurt me? Because I’m stealing your stuff? Maybe I should hurt you. This is the way they think.

CLAY: The only thing Stephen Colbert said, and I just want to reiterate again, this is his opening to a comedy show. The only thing he said in that entire statement that was remotely accurate or honest was, “I’m not a legal expert.”

Because let’s just follow him, to your point, Buck, let’s follow him down the primrose path of changing the law. What law does he want changed? You’re not allowed to legally own a weapon? You aren’t allowed to legally use that weapon when violent felons who have already been convicted of violent felonies attack you? What is his standard? If this was legal, we have to change the law. Well, what law are you changing? Like, that’s where you need to really press idiots like this. He’s got a huge platform. He’s on CBS. He’s talking. He’s got idiot people in his audience clapping along with him because they’re not paying attention to any of the details.

BUCK: Low-information. If you think Colbert is funny, you’re low-information, let’s start with that.

CLAY: But what is he actually saying? Of course, I’d have Stephen Colbert on the show. What laws would you want changed? He would never come on the show.

BUCK: I think we should start to tell any of these leftists with big platforms —

CLAY: Come on and make your argument to our audience.

BUCK: Come on, have them on the show — and people be ready for it. They’ll say things that you don’t like.

CLAY: We’ll eviscerate them.

BUCK: We’ll address the issues on air.

CLAY: We’ll eviscerate them. And to your point, Buck, and I think it’s a really good one, when I did a sports show, every now and then a left loon sportswriter would come on and get absolutely disemboweled verbally on the show because they’re not used to anybody pushing back against the stupid arguments that they make. So when Stephen Colbert says if this is legal we have to change the law.

Okay, what law do you want to change? You want no weapons allowed in private possession. That’s a pretty big deal. Second Amendment, kind of a significant part of the constitution. You want no self-defense when violent felons attack. Stephen Colbert, you have a family. If your wife is out jogging and she gets attacked in Central Park, which is happening far too often, do you want her to be able to be assaulted? Do you want her to be able to be murdered and not be able to defend herself? What are you trying to argue in this context?

BUCK: There was another incident that got far less attention where an Asian-American, you might have seen this — in Philadelphia, which has an all-time high of murder rate now. You don’t hear about it a lot — oh, wait do they have a Soros, by the way, the Soros-backed prosecutor? That’s not a conspiracy theory.

I’ve seen people say this. George Soros and his minions and his foundation and his funds goes, he has backed people like Larry Krasner. George Soros backed the prosecutor in Louden County, Virginia.

CLAY: The dad who got upset about his daughter getting sexually assaulted and got prosecuted.

BUCK: Went after the dad and showed up at that arraignment, but the kid who raped the girl, keep that quiet, in the school. George Soros-backed prosecutor.

Philadelphia just had an incident, one that’s becoming much more commonplace across the country, where a follow-home robbery. This is the thing that’s happening now. T trained us at the agency — when are you the most — when are you vulnerable? You’ve got to think about your routes and patterns. Gotta think about where you go. People returning home, the moment they see home tend to think, “Oh, I’m home, I’m close. Nothing bad’s going to happen here.”

The bad guys will follow you, usually if you live in a house, you’re off on your own, then they rob you at your own door. They’ll even make you go inside and give them more of your stuff, hold a gun to your head while they’re doing this.

They tried it against an Asian-American food delivery driver, for one of those services, Uber Eats, or whatever. He happened to be a concealed carry permit holder, and he shot them both. One of them died. One is in critical condition.

I just want to know, does Stephen Colbert want the law to change? They were holding a gun to his head, and saying give me everything you got. This guy just finished a long day, working hard. He’s Asian-American. He’s struggling to put food on the table for his family and do his best in our society. And he’s got two guys, who I’m sure have long criminal records, but just a guess, who hold a gun up to his head and say, “Give us everything or we’ll kill you,” and he draws down and shoots them both.

Does Colbert want the law changed? Should that food delivery driver go to prison for the rest of his life because of social justice?

CLAY: Should he have to get murdered so he’s not got a gun and able to protect himself? Again, the stupidity of, leaving aside the fact that he’s a comedian, the stupidity of Stephen Colbert’s argument needs to be called out by all rational people in a big way.