“Admits” is a big word. The media wouldn’t admit it was lying if it had claimed that there was an ice age and it was on fire. It didn’t admit to lying about Russiagate. It won’t admit to lying about Gaza. And it certainly won’t admit to its blizzard of insane lies about Paramount canceling Colbert’s show because of some secret deal with Trump.
There was always a massive problem with the Colbert conspiracy.
If CBS canceled Stephen Colbert’s sinking show, shouldn’t it have also reoriented the anti-Trump reporting on CBS News?
And there’s an even bigger problem. CBS brought Colbert over from its sister channel, Comedy Central, where Jon Stewart is back to sadly helming The Daily Show. Shouldn’t CBS have also canceled The Daily Show? Or South Park?
Wednesday’s 22-minute “South Park” episode also included withering criticisms of the president. In one scene, Mr. Trump becomes enraged with a painter after checking on the progress of a nude portrait of himself. Later, he is shown in bed with Satan discussing Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced former financier.
Making the episode more remarkable was that it aired just hours after Paramount and Comedy Central announced a new deal with Park County, the production studio run by the creators of “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The deal will pay Park County at least $1.25 billion over five years, two people with knowledge of the arrangement said.
Earlier this week, Mr. Stewart, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, also went on the attack. He said Paramount had “lost the benefit of the doubt” about the motivations for canceling Mr. Colbert’s show after “they sold out their flagship news program to pay an extortion fee to said president.”
If Stewart really thought so, shouldn’t he be worried about getting fired? Obviously not. Nor are Parker and Stone worried. They’re making jokes about the idea instead of doing what people actually worried about their next career move actually do.
The whole thing was a conspiracy theory transformed into a media frenzy and pounced on by Senate Dems and other politicians. It was a dumb lie told by people who no longer have any kind of regard for lies or truth, and told to people so deranged that they no longer have any concept of the truth.
It was so obviously fake that it could have been disproven by just looking at the evening news or the lineup of other Paramount properties. Yet instead of conceding that it was wrong, the New York Times reports on the attacks on Trump without ever admitting its lies. Because the media will never admit it was lying. Congenital liars never do.