Bruce Dowbiggin
Colbert FAFO: Money Losing Plus Smug Doesn’t Sell Anymore

To many the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night CBS show marks the end of common culture in our society. Johnny Carson, the apolitical host, is no more. Bias is King. Colbert was once a popular comedian on Comedy Central doing satires of conservatives. But as time went by he and is show forgot about comedy and became bug-eyed water carriers for Left-wing politics in the U.S.
The show was always anti-Trump, but the point of no return for half of America might have come with Covid and, specifically, the vaccine mandates being forced on Americans. Colbert’s show staged a musical number in which dancers representing hypodermics gyrated onstage while Colbert himself sashayed to something called the Vax Scene. His fanatics loved it, but the spectacle looks ridiculous now. It marked the show’s decline as a national institution. .

It also didn’t help when his mentor Jon Stewart, who’d launched Colbert on The Daily Show, came on Colbert’s show to lecture him about how wrong he was about the origins of the Covid virus. A stuttering Colbert looked like a school boy.
Which is not to say that Colbert still didn’t have his fans. Even as CBS cancelled him Colbert was drawing 2.1 million in David Letterman’s old 11:30 PM slot— many of them prominent in politics and culture. His demise was noted by @BenStiller “Sorry to hear @CBS is canceling one of the best shows they have.” And senator Elizabeth Warren, the imitation indigenous woman, thundered, “America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.”
Monday, his fellow choristers in the Woke orchestra joined his show to lament that a guy losing $40 M a year for his network should be accountable. Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Seth Meyers and Jon Stewart showed up to show solidarity after CBS cancelled the DNC’s mouthpiece. Stewart came forward to defend all his bastard children in a bizarre demonstration.
The problem was that Greg Gutfeld, their competition on FOX, was getting 3.289 M a night. But this is still a business, and Colbert’s act was getting tired with advertisers as DEI, CRT and ESG hurt the bottom line. When Colbert ripped CBS last week for settling a libel suit with Trump it was over-and-out for Colbert.

Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics had this epitaph for all the late-night liberals. “Jon Stewart unintentionally broke comedy. All of his protégés (Oliver, Colbert, Bee) kept the meanness and self righteousness without the subtlety, self-awareness, and willingness to criticize his own side (remember Stewart’s re-debut was mocking Biden’s age) that made him work.”
Telling half of America to FO every night doesn’t help, either. Clips from Carson explaining why he eschewed politics on his long-running show hammered home the destructive sepukku performed by is successors. “Why are you doing this?” he asked an inquiring 60 Minutes’ host Mike Wallace. “I’m not running a boiler-room operation. I have no phoney real estate scam. I’m not taking any kickbacks. I did steal a ring from Woolworths once when I was 12 years old.”

While Colbert’s demise has unique aspects— it’s TV, after all— it does serve as a model for the poisonous schism in American society. Even as the documents made clear the active role Barack Obama and his administration played in trying to stage a coup against incoming POTUS Donald Trump, his mynah birds were still chirping about Trump’s dictatorship and tyranny.
While America seems to be rousing from its Obama Dreams— You did not build that bridge!—Canadians seem determined to widen the gap between the ruled and the rulers. As we pointed out last month Canada had a similar cultural rift with the firing of Don Cherry and the subsequent gentrification of HNIC, the national hockey program. This past week the heel turn of his former wingman Ron MacLean cemented the split.
The recent Canadian election tore that split wide open across the country with separatist movements now ascendant in Quebec and Alberta as a result of Mark Carney reviving the Justin Trudeau mandate. While experts from the paid media claimed it was a referendum about Trump, globalism and capitalism. this election was largely about fear. Fear from the indulged urban middle class, because Trump was going to take the equity in their million-dollar shacks. Damn the young folks, what would happen to their nest eggs?
They stampeded away from salty Pierre Poilievre, because he didn’t give them “champagne wishes and caviar dreams”. Carney the banker would save them when the game went to a shootout against Trump. With their votes salted away, the new Carney solution is to now join Europe in the march of the financial zombies. The flippers on the seals are slapping with excitement.
The problem with that is that 11 EU members have no appetite for a deal with Canada because of… drum roll, please… Canada’s protected markets for dairy and more. In short, Quebec’s embrace of Carney in April will now be an assault on their precious sacred cows (literally) if he goes full Euro. And the gap between the realities in Canada grows wider.
As opposed to America, Canada would rather be clever than correct. Posturing to defy Trump is more important than coming to a tariff deal with the U.S. (only Canada and China have instituted counter tariffs against America). As opposed to its U.S. cousin, the self-contented Canadian media scene remains as placid as ever.
Yes, Travis Dhanraj, once the host of his own CBC TV news show, resigned, accusing CBC of “tokenism masquerading as diversity, problematic political coverage protocols, and the erosion of editorial independence.” (CBC VP refused to go on her own show to rebut the claim.)
But there were no fellow hosts at other networks defended Dhanraj. No dance routines. No politicians decrying censorship. With the threat gone from Poilievre to defenestrate CBC, this too shall pass, they said. In Canada it usually does. How to else to explain Justin Trudeau running free?
Final thought: Even if CBC were the greatest broadcaster in the world does Canada need a state-supported broadcaster? In a world saturated with news and opinion there is no call any longer for a pet broadcaster Let alone at these prices. If it’s so damn special let someone private monetize it.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, his new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.
Bruce Dowbiggin
Why Are Woke White Folks More Offended By Controversial Sports Names?

Because he has nothing else on his plate president Donald Trump has decided to revisit the Woke name change of the Washington NFL club from Redskins to Commanders and the Cleveland MLB name from Indians to Guardians. “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this… Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past.
“Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!”
If that wasn’t enough, Trump decided to leverage funding for a new stadium in DC. “I may put a restriction on them that if they don’t change the name back to the original ‘Washington Redskins,’ and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, ‘Washington Commanders,’ I won’t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington. The Team would be much more valuable, and the Deal would be more exciting for everyone.”
He received support from Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner, a former NFL player in Washington. “I played in the NFL and was drafted by the Washington Redskins. Not the ‘Washington Football Team’ or the ‘Commanders,’” he wrote on X. “@POTUS is right. It’s time to bring the Redskins’ name back.”
Before you do the tomahawk chop on POTUS 45/ 47, bear in mind that in a post-Stephen Colbert America the elites are on the run. Many people revere the Redskins nickname and the Cleveland Indians name as well. To say nothing of the Edmonton Eskimos fans who loathe the politically correct change to Elks. The name cult behind the Eskimos change is the same combination of today’s Indigenous activists, furious lefty politicians and media scolds like Bob Costas and Keith Olbermann.

As we wrote in November of 2017, the entire change-the-name stunt was a fraud. “It would seem from reading media accounts that a vast movement of native Americans and Canadians is underway. Yet, what’s unique about this struggle is the almost total indifference for these virtuous pearl clutchers from the people most affected by the alleged abuse. Polling consistently demonstrates that, as tempests go, this one is predominantly hot air.
A 2004 poll showed that 90 percent of those native Americans polled did not object to the Redskins nickname. A 2016 Washington Post poll which duplicated the poll question asked in 2004, produced an identical result.
To be sure, there is a range of native symbols caught up in this debate. The Indians name, allegedly to honor native player Louis Soxalexis who played for Cleveland in the first decade of the twentieth century, might be fairly benign. The Cleveland logo, Chief Wahoo, is offensive of just about every level. ”

The general public is not gripped by the Redskins debate either. As journalist George Will reports, “A 2013 AP-GfK poll showed that 79 percent of Americans of all ethnicities opposed changing it, and just 18 percent of ‘nonwhite football fans’ favoured changing it.” National public opinion polls finds that a majority of the general public support the team’s continued use of the name, ranging from 60 to 83 percent in recent years.
Those who object to the nicknames are no doubt sincere about their feelings, but as crusades go this one is several demonstrators shy of the Selma March of 1964. (Which never stops progressives seeking to educate the “deplorables” in American culture.) Sure enough, Canadian native activist Douglas Cardinal thought it was time to get his name in the media again. But his belated complaint was briskly shut down by a judge.
The Chicago Blackhawks name and logo seem to be respectful of the culture. The name was originally to honour not the native tribe itself but a branch of the U.S. military who used the nickname during WW I. In fact, natives often wear the Blackhawks logo themselves as cultural symbols. Ditto for the Braves’ name— although the fans’ war chant owes more to Hollywood than native culture.

Because the Redskins play in the political fever swamp of Washington D.C. they have naturally received the most attention from activists and from media slavishly following the latest glittering progressive/ left object. Which allows people such as native activist Amanda Blackhorse, a Navajo, to proclaim, without facts, that “the majority of Native American people who have spoken out on this” want the name Redskins banned. And not get laughed into the Potomac.
Other zealots prefer a more hands-on approach to convincing natives how badly they’re served by these nicknames. Folks such as Costas are free to use their platforms to make their feelings known. Which is their right. But it doesn’t mean that they’re aided by the facts.
As happened when Colin Kaepernick jumped on Black Lives Matter propaganda saying that blacks were being disproportionately targeted by police, the media have leapt in feet first to promote the right to his First Amendment rights while ignoring his data. BTW: The high school football team at Miss Blackhorse’s reservation New Mexico? The Redskins.
All of which begs the question: If so many of those affected by this supposed insult don’t see it as an insult… then who is the progressive culture industry doing it for? I’ll take your answer off-air.”
Now, in Trump’s 2025, we may finally get an answer as to who calls the shots in pro sports. Using stadium financing to restore the Redskins name might be the answer.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, his new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.
Bruce Dowbiggin
How Did PEI Become A Forward Branch Plant For Xi’s China?

scoopercooper DEA Busts Canadian Narco Whose Chinese Supplier Promised to Ship 100 Kilos of Fentanyl Precursors per Month From Vancouver to Los Angeles
https://x.com/scoopercooper/status/1945489327892365716
The Chinese Communist Party is flooding America with dirty pesticide marijuana disguised as THCa hemp flower and hemp-derived products sold in smoke shops.
Official Silence on Medical Waste From PRC-Linked Monasteries Must Be Broken .
We were talking very recently to a Toronto friend about the threat of drug trafficking—in particular fentanyl— to the U.S. as a threat to Canada’s sovereignty. This businessman, who does considerable international trade, shrugged and said it’s no big deal. He’d heard the Yanks had only caught 59 pounds at the border between 2022-2024. To his eye, things were under control.
This statistic was, of course, the Liberals’ standard talking point in the 2025 election— part of Mark Carney’s What, Me Worry? appeal about China to anxious Boomers. My friend still repeating this twaddle is a tribute to the staying power of the Liberal’s media stranglehold in the face of evidence that has been out there courtesy of reporters such Sam Cooper and Garry Clement since 2015.
As the above stories illustrate drug trafficking and money laundering are believed to be rampant in Carney’s Canada— with the Chinese in the forefront and immigrant students-turned-truckers hauling the narcotics across the border. The fentanyl version of El Chapo and other confederates live openly in the Toronto area. As the recent bust promising 100 kilos a month to L.A. makes clear, the 59-pound fentanyl deflection insults the work of those who have been labouring under dangerous conditions to highlight the Liberals’ lassitude on crime.
As we wrote when Justin Trudeau was still swanning around as PM: “The sitting Canadian prime minister, who praised the Chinese form of governing before he reached the PM post, has been seen in photos with underground Asian gang figures. As were previous Liberal leaders like Jean Chretien who made no secret of his lust for the Chinese market. Chinese money was used to build extensively in Chretien’s Shawinigan riding.
Donations to Trudeau from all across Canada constituted up to 80 percent of the riding’s contributions that year. In May 2016, one such fundraiser saw Trudeau hosted by Benson Wong, chair of the Chinese Business Chamber of Commerce, along with 32 other wealthy guests in a pay-for-access event. The patterns exposed by Cooper finally prompted a commission by Quebec justice Marie-Josée Hogue looking into Chinese interference in Trudeau’s successful 2019 and 2021 elections.
Hogue later reported that Chinese interference in those elections did undermine the rights of Canadian voters because it “tainted the process” and eroded public trust. So petrified was Trudeau of the full Hogue Report that he prorogued parliament for three months and handed in his resignation rather than test his 22 percent approval rating in a Canadian election.”
What the rest of the world knows— but Canadian officials refused to tell their citizens during the federal election campaign— is that Canada has been corrupted by openly approving of China’s method of controlling their citizens worldwide and placing operatives within Canada’s government.

The story of how Liberal candidate Paul Chiang told a Chinese-language media news conference that people could cash in if they turned in Conservative Joe Tay in to the Chinese consulate in Toronto is illustrative. At first Carney called it a “lapse in judgment”, but then he let Chiang continue as a candidate. After pushback, Peter Yuen, was appointed the Liberal party’s nominee in the Toronto-area riding. Yuen has ties to Chinese agencies that seek to control Chinese citizens in Canada. (He lost in the April vote.)
Equally concerning is how the CCP has turned peaceful PEI into a forward operating base. On a recent trip to PEI we were told by local sources about the Buddhist monasteries being allowed under the not-so-watchful eye of various layers of government and the paid-for Media Party. Using bags full of dirty cash, the Bliss & Wisdom Buddhists have bought up large tracts of PEI farmland and replaced it with a front for the CCP to launder dirty money and infiltrate its people into the community. (The Buddhists deny this.)
Meetings have drawn hundreds of concerned Islanders (but not, until recently, many politicians or media). The latest outrage was the discovery of medical waste left behind on a rural property. It is alleged that it stems from a tuberculosis outbreak among the monks, where still-infectious monks were quietly sent home to China on public airlines wearing masks. Fires that destroyed two buildings nearby are alleged to have been to protect against health officials finding evidence of TB on site.
Media attention from outside PEI is now pushing officials to investigate the attempt to plant “police” stations to monitor expatriate Chinese and affect elections. Former RCMP officer Garry Clement has done extensive research on this file with Michel Juneau-Katsuya and Dean Baxendale. For more detailed description on the infiltration and political manipulation read Canada Under Siege: How PEI Became A Forward Operating Base of the Chinese Communist Party.

These are dramatic times as its appears that Chairman Xi might be on his way out as the leader of China. Any changes in the regime are just rumours at the moment. But Xi has overseen this massive campaign to extend Chinese outreach globally. That it would include even tiny PEI is shocking. The hope there is that with the Chinese economy under strain a new ruling elite in Beijing might pull back on the worldwide network as an expensive gamble.

That the China cheering club in the Liberal party in involved is less surprising since the outreach by Trudeau’s father Pierre in the 1970s. But with tariff issues dominating the news it would do well for Canadians to sober up to how compromised they are by the Chinese. That— not Donald Trump— is their biggest challenge.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, his new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.
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