CBS’s Stephen Colbert tried to have it both ways on Thursday’s taping of The Late Show. On one hand he mocked Republicans for wanting to defund PBS out of concerns its documentaries were sexualizing children because what child watches PBS? On the other hand, he defended PBS against calls to defund it by citing all the children’s programming it does. Later in the show, Colbert would welcome Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and press him from the left on his recent decision not to shut down the government and argue that October 7 was not the start of a dangerous uptick in anti-Semitism
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Later, a frustrated Colbert explained to Schumer that he wasn’t buying his argument that shutting down the government would have been worse from a liberal perspective than fighting Republicans on the continuing resolution, “I can understand what you're saying. I would understand it more if it'd been what people call a clean CR, meaning let's just continue things the status quo. But it wasn't that.”
After going through a list of cuts, he wondered, “So, why can't they just do this again in September when the next CR has to be passed?”
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