Unfunny Hack Colbert Laments ‘Authoritarian’ Trump Trying to ‘Denigrate’ CBS Journalism

[See NewsBusters for more.] Late Show host Stephen Colbert on Monday hailed the “public objectivity” of CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and derided the “authoritarian” efforts of Donald Trump to “denigrate and undermine the press.” According to the hard-left Colbert, this is simply an effort to eliminate all “umpires” in the press. As if journalists simply want to call balls and strikes. Colbert lamented just how hard it must be to function as a journalist with the current president: “It's a common playbook of authoritarians to try to denigrate and undermine the press, so there can be no umpires, let's say, in the game, calling balls and strikes about what is true and what is not true. This President is no different. Is it disheartening to you to see the increased and continuous attacks on the press by this administration and their supporters?”