COLUMNIST: Democrats need better icons than multi-millionaire late-night talk show hosts |
Democrats should come up with better cultural icons than washed-up and aging multimillionaire former talk show hosts.
Liberal hero Stephen Colbert's long swan song into podcast oblivion showed how clueless Democrats are who worship the rich TV host who lost his job because his show lost $40 million a year for CBS.
Despite all the fanfare and attention devoted to his final show in which he rolled out ancient Paul McCartney, just 6.7 million viewers watched it, compared to 55 million who tuned in to Johnny Carson's last show. That 6.7 million was Colbert's largest audience in 10 years. He normally drew only 2.5 million viewers a night.
The 62-year-old Colbert was not banished from late-night TV because he was a fierce critic of President Donald Trump. He was ejected because he........