Remember Johnny Carson? Can you imagine one of the candidates for the governor of one of America's 50 states (winner or loser) appearing on Johnny's Tonight Show? Well, a couple of decades after King of Late Night TV's retirement, Stacey Abrams appeared on one of his successors' evening shows: and the (repeatedly failed) Georgia candidate did so no less than four times!
Do you remember any politician who turned up as a guest on the shows of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, or David Letterman? I didn't think so. There were a few, I'm sure, and I learned later (only thanks to YouTube) that governor Reagan did show up on Carson — back in the 1970s — while I remember Barack Obama making an appearance chez David Letterman.
But besides a small handful, not many come to mind… By contrast, politicians are just about the only people that do come to mind with regards to Stephen Colbert, with the possible exception of Jon Stewart who famously went head-on — to Colbert's utter bemusement — against the left's narrative on the Covid virus.
Instapundit's bloggers, not least among them Ed Driscoll, have been the ones to follow on this story, showing off a dozen Democrats, one politician after another, giving support to the embattled Colbert, many if not all of whom were guests (along with… the husband of Kamala Harris) of the latter over the years.
In fact, the statistics given were truly mind-boggling — some 180 politicians appeared on Colbert, all of them Democrats, with the single solitary Republican among them turning out to be a RINO as well as a fellow TDS sufferer, to wit Dick Cheney's daughter Liz.
No wonder that when he finally went off the air, Instapundit's Sarah Hoyt linked to a story saying, tongue-in-cheek (no, not really), that the Democratic Party Gives Stephen Colbert Heartfelt Thanks for His Service.
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