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  • This raises suspicion, as CBS’s parent company Paramount made a settlement with Trump before this. CBS said in a statement that “this is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night”, and running a late night show can be of course challenging. It also appears that due to declining ad revenue the show is no longer profitable. If CBS wants to end “The Late Show” altogether, not just Colbert’s tenure, what are they going to have instead?

    I’m not however 100 % buying the idea that this was due to Paramount’s settlement. Comedy Central is also owned by Paramount, and if the parent company wanted to bend the knee again, wouldn’t this also mean suddenly canceling “The Daily Show” that similarly has heavy-handed political satire aimed at Trump?





















  • This reminds me of a straight pride event titled “Hetero Pride” that was organized in Finland way back in 2013. One of the organizers was a deputy regional councillor and Finns Party member. He claimed how society and the media over-emphasized homosexuality, calling it “homozation”. He also claimed how it was hard to defend the traditional family model without being labelled homophobic and racist.

    The event was held near the Parliament House in Helsinki. There were whole a lot more counter-protesters and some came to the event mainly because it was more like “popcorn pride”. One of the speakers at the event literally said in his speech how “we don’t have anything against homosexuals, but…” and another said something about how “the Bible states that marriage is only between a man and a woman”. One speaker was later asked about “what privileges do gays have these days”, and he just replied “I have to be honest, I can’t say anything about that”.

    “The tiger can’t change its stripes.” The organizer mentioned later posed in a picture with five other men who made a Nazi salute – one of them was Seppo Lehto, an infamous Neo-Nazi. He also made a Nazi salute himself in another picture, this time wearing a Hitler mask. When called out, he said “I’m not in that picture. I wasn’t there. I don’t know where these kinds of clips came from.” He later admitted being in the picture, claiming how he hadn’t made a Nazi salute: “It’s just a normal salute with the left hand. The official Nazi salute is with the right hand at a 45 degree angle.”

    The explanation wasn’t enough for the Finns Party, and as a consequence he was fired from the party’s regional council because of homophobia. Later he also resigned from the party.