It’s all about fake outrage and virtue signaling.
After a week of full-on screaming mania over Stephen Colbert’s unfunny MSNBC on CBS late night fest getting canceled, it turns out that the only thing smaller than Colbert’s audience is the turnout for a Save Colbert rally.
A Big Apple rally in support of on-his-way-out “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert drew fewer than two dozen people Sunday — with even the NYPD cops on scene quickly calling it a day since most of the demonstrators left after just a few minutes.
Big surprise.
If Colbert really had a sizable audience, CBS would not have canceled his show. And even the biggest Trump conspiracy theorists know it. The Daily Show shtick wore out its welcome in the second term of the Obama admin. By the time Biden came around, it was deader than his brain.
Colbert is a useful tool for Trump bashing, but the people complaining about Colbert being canceled didn’t watch his show and couldn’t be bothered to turn out for a rally in a city where a new coffee shop can count on two dozen people lining up on a Sunday morning.
It’s all about fake outrage and virtue signaling.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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