Finding the liberal Joe Rogan became high-dollar Democrats’ white whale after losing the 2024 presidential election, but this week, the party suffered setbacks with two reliable media mouthpieces.
Colbert symbolized the leftward lurch of late-night television better than any other host, though others such as ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel followed suit. PBS and especially NPR boasted heavily liberal audiences, and their political programming accordingly skewed left despite receiving taxpayer funding. Congressional Republicans have been trying to defund public broadcasting for decades.
Democratic elected officials lamented Colbert’s cancellation almost as much as the public broadcasting cuts, suspecting the host was a casualty of President Donald Trump‘s feud with CBS and Paramount’s proposed merger with Skydance.
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Before the Democrats’ search for a liberal answer to Rogan, they looked
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