Stephen Colbert’s audience roars with cheers upon hearing that Comey was fired

Stephen Colbert’s audience roars with cheers upon hearing that Comey was fired​

By AllahPundit
05/10/2017


Via the Free Beacon, this is funnier when you realize that the liberals who stand in line for tickets to this show doubtless see themselves as better informed and more politically savvy than the average benighted American. How could they not be? They watch Colbert.

Tonight! Stephen reacts to the day's big surprise: the firing of James Comey by President Trump. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/axuUmFLtSd

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) May 10, 2017

He does his best to play off the reaction, joking that there must be a lot of Trump fans in the crowd. Not true. It’s just that low-information Democrats have spent the past seven months being told that Comey cost them the election and reacted accordingly upon learning of his misfortune. The point of these late-night shows is to immolate the left’s villain du jour, after all; Colbert mentioned a recurring villain du jour, so they responded in the way they’ve been trained. It’s a Two Minutes Hate with laugh lines. The problem in this case is that Comey is now suddenly a martyr to anti-Trumpers, not a villain: The president firing the guy who’s investigating whether some of his campaign staffers had ties to Russian intelligence is … problematic. Colbert understood that. The dimmer bulbs who adore him needed a minute to piece it together.
The word from the White House today about the strange timing of firing Comey is that they had to wait for deputy AG Rod Rosenstein to be confirmed. Trump couldn’t fire Comey himself or it would look like he was trying to derail the Russia probe; Jeff Sessions couldn’t do it either since he’d already kinda sorta recused himself from all Russia-related matters. Rosenstein, a longtime prosecutor with bipartisan cred who joined the DOJ just two weeks ago, would be enlisted to make the case that Comey had badly damaged the FBI’s credibility with his Hillary outbursts last year and simply had to go. The behind-the-scenes reporting, though, suggests that there were other things on Trump’s mind besides Comey’s credibility. Which makes sense, since Trump’s only problem with Comey’s handling of the Hillary matter until now was that he didn’t indict her last summer:

[Trump] had grown enraged by the Russia investigation, two advisers said, frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia. He repeatedly asked aides why the Russia investigation wouldn’t disappear and demanded they speak out for him. He would sometimes scream at television clips about the probe, one adviser said…
Trump had grown angry with the Russia investigation — particularly Comey admitting in front of the Senate that the FBI was investigating his campaign — and that the FBI director wouldn’t support his claims that President Barack Obama had tapped his phones in Trump Tower…
Trump, as one White House official noted, believed Comey was too soft on Clinton — not too unfair, as Rosenstein’s letter Tuesday indicated.​

Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2017/05/10/video-colberts-audience-roars-cheers-upon-hearing-comey-fired/

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Despite calling for Comey’s resignation and or firing since October ‘16 by the Progressive Marxist Left, now it’s horrible that Trump fired Comey. Heck, Obama should have fired him in July ‘16 but Comey was being manipulated by Holder, Lynch, Obama and Hillary. Colbert had to explain this is not a good thing since Trump did it. <Mod Edit-Rule 2>
Colbert's reaction to the audience reaction reminds me of the ending of George Orwell’s 1984. The leader on the stage in mid-sentence announces that they’re not at war with Oceania, they’re at war with \EASTASIA*, they’ve ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia.
and everybody dutifully parrots that new line without any surprise.
This should remove any doubt whatsoever that liberals are mindless robots waiting to be told what to do and how to react. This video was extremely telling. <Mod Edit-Rule 2>
Byron York's article is pretty clear on why Comey was fired now. It had all to do with Rosenstein. If he was confirmed earlier it would have been done earlier.

 

Unfortunately, most people in this country only consume the news. Few really understand it. It's political cheer leading. It's a significant reason why we ended up with the two worst liked candidates, running against each other....

 

Yay he was fired. Now who is the independent special prosecutor?

 

So they cheered before they were told that this should be the nail in the coffin of Trumps presidency? If Steven does the same joke today, his audience will probably boo.

 

That's unkind. They weren't given their talking points yet.

 

Indeed. Leftists without official talking points are like alcoholics without a bottle.

 

Baaaa Baaaaaaa Baaaaaa

 

Trump Apologists seem to be laboring under the delusion that the "left" actually liked Comey. Criticizing the very suspicious timing of Trump's abrupt firing of Comey does not equal joining the "We ♥ Comey" fanclub.

 

It must be so confusing to be a Democrat these days.

Someone once said that the modern art movement was a vehicle for ideological subversion. Most modern art is just a bunch of random crap that is meaningless to people, which is why you need an "authority" on art to explain what the piece is all about. Over time people are trained to look outside themselves to an authority figure to be told the meaning of something.

This seems to be happening to the Democrats, and Colbert's audience is an example of that. The audience they they were supposed to be happy about Comey being fired, but Colbert corrected them.

Colbert: "James Comey was fired."

Audience: "Yaaaayyyyy"

Colbert: "No, we support Comey now. "

Audience "Duhhhhhhhh, OK. Boooooooooo."

Jack asses.

 

Was comey independent?

 

Funny stuff man. The useful idiots weren't so useful for Colbert.

 

Nope

 

Then what the hell are you so upset about?

 

Then what's the difference between now and yesterday?

 

Or my mother without google maps

 

We needed a special investigator both days. Lol

 

A hint was provided in my previous post: "Criticizing the very suspicious timing of Trump's abrupt firing of Comey".

 

You don't want to go down that road

 

You wanted him to stay?

 

Of course, when there's a Russian lurking behind every object,
Waiting to interfere with our democracy, everything is suspicious.
Most conspiracy nuts are paranoid.

 

I just did. LOL

 

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Agreed, Comey was an Obama appointee...., Comey’s former membership on a Clinton Foundation corporate partner’s board, and his surprising financial relationship with his brother Peter Comey, who works at the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation’s taxes.
Comey became a board member, a director, and a Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee member of the London bank HSBC Holdings.
HSBC Holdings and its various philanthropic branches routinely partner with the Clinton Foundation.

 

Yeah. We need a special prosecutor.

 

Sure does, instant turnaround.

 

Yay where's the crime? Its been 10 months.