DNC Late Night: Colbert Abandons Comedy, Endorses ‘Decent,’ Honest’ Biden

[See NewsBusters for more.] Stephen Colbert has given up even trying. The Late Night host is, theoretically, supposed to be focused on making a wide swath of the country laugh. But more and more, he seems to view his job as offering impassioned endorsements of Joe Biden. Colbert on Thursday shifted from jokes to a TV op-ed: “This evening, Joe Biden showed himself to be a man who is decent, compassionate, flawed but honest. And that is water in the desert.” Don’t expect a lot of mockery for Biden’s verbal miscues in the next 74 days to the election. Colbert declared, “And when he gaffes —  which he does, often —  it's because his heart gets ahead of his words.” Yet the host famously made fun of George W. Bush for his gaffes? Bush’s heart must not have been in the right place.