It’s been a while since we checked in on the Media Research Center’s hostile and biased treatment of Stephen Colbert — which continued after cheering CBS’ cancellation of his late-night show. You will not be surprised to learn that the MRC spent the remainder of 2025 exhibiting thaty same hostile, whiny and biased behavior: toward him, courtesy of comedy cop Alex Christy:
- Colbert Gushes Over Newsom For ‘Being Interesting’ As Duo Fears Rigged Elections
- Colbert And Murphy Try To Make Dallas ICE Shooting About Gun Control
- Colbert, Strong Blame George H.W. Bush For Impending Climate Doom
- Colbert Ties Hegseth’s ‘Warrior Ethos’ Speech To Debate Over Political Rhetoric
- Colbert Claims It Is ‘Stupid Fearmongering’ To Say Dems Want Benefits For Illegals
- Colbert and Kimmel Hail Gaza Deal, But Mock Idea Of Trump Winning Peace Prize
- Actress Bette Midler Sings To Colbert: ‘You’re My Frodo’
- Colbert and Wagner Gush Over No Kings, Dems’ Government Shutdown
- Colbert Suggests It Will Take Years To Rebuild Democracy After Trump
- Colbert and Gallego Seek To Align Shutdown Talking Points
- Colbert Claims Trump Wants Kids To Go Hungry To Pressure Democrats
- Colbert Celebrates DC Sandwich Thrower’s Acquittal With T-Shirt Cannon
- Colbert Continues Fuming At Schumer’s ‘Failure Of Leadership’
- New York Public Radio Honors Colbert At ‘You Can’t Defund The Truth’ Fundraiser
- Colbert Praises Sherrill For Her ‘Curb Stomping’ Win
- Prince Harry Tells Colbert ‘I Heard You Elected a King’
- Colbert Claims Admiral’s Defense Of Second Boat Strike Was Dumb
- Colbert Joke: GOP Health Care Mascot’s a Dog Saying ‘I Want You to Go Out and Kill’
- Colbert’s Christmas Cartoon Has Trump, ICE Arrest Santa
Note that many of these items involve Colbert or a guest failing to adhere to MRC-approved right-wing narratives.
Christy also channeled his rage at Colbert in a Nov. 4 post:
CBS’s Stephen Colbert had an actually funny joke on Monday. There were only two problems. One was that he told it not on The Late Show, but during an interview with GQ’s Zach Baron as the magazine put him on the cover of its “men of the year” issue. A second problem was that it was completely unintentional, as he told Baron that “I think I’m more conservative than people think.”
During a discussion on the political aspects of his show, Colbert claimed, “I share that— those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they don’t laugh, and that there’s a sense of community there, and you know the demographics of these shows are interesting too. It’s about a third, a third, a third. It’s about a third Republicans, a third Democrats, a third independents. You’d think, you know, old, you know, people perceive me as this sort of lefty figure. I think I’m more conservative than people think. I just happen to be talking about a government in extremis.”
Fact-check: 38 percent of Democrats confess to watching late night “very or somewhat often.” By contrast, 21 percent of Republicans and 22 percent of independents claim likewise.
Colbert got worse from there, “And so what I’m giving you is my reaction video to the day. And, and my reaction video is like, you know, is like the scream in a way, but with, with jokes and so that makes me—perceives me as more left necessarily than I am because I’m not sure of what other reaction would be an honest one. It’s hard to have a balanced reaction to the idea of troops on the street of a city that actually is not undergoing an invasion. Is any other reaction honest other than to?”
It would be one thing if Colbert simply didn’t like Trump or him sending the National Guard to various cities, but every time he talks policy, whether it’s abortion, LGBTQ stuff, the government shutdown, foreign policy, or whatever else you can think of, he is always taking the liberal position. Since NewsBusters started keeping track in September 2022 through June 2025, Colbert has had on 176 liberal guests and only one Republican, and that was Liz Cheney.
Yes, Christy played comedy cop for his pedantic joke counts. He huffily concluded: “Every time Colbert does one of these interviews, he ends up sounding perfectly reasonable. The only problem is that such sentiments are not in line with what actually happens on The Late Show.” If Colbert didn’t say liberal things, what would Christy do with his life?