David Letterman joins leftist parade, blasts ‘gutless’ CBS over Colbert’s cancellation

Late-night television legend David Letterman unloaded on “gutless” CBS over the network’s cancellation of rabidly partisan host Stephen Colbert, cutting its losses on a show that was losing tens of millions of dollars.

Last Thursday, the unfunny host broke the bad news to “The Late Show” audience at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City that he’d been informed of his being jettisoned, with the final broadcast coming next May, six months before the critical midterm elections with the Democrats, whom he’s spent years shilling for, needing all the help that they can get.

“I want to let you know something I found out just last night,” he said. “Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending ‘The Late Show’ in May.”

Furious Democrats have been shrieking for over a week after the plug was pulled on their favorite, and in a video posted to his YouTube channel, the bearded 78-year-old added his voice to the choir as he inveighed against his former employer’s “pure cowardice”  and hailed the fired host as a courageous martyr figure.

(Video: YouTube/Letterman)

“The fact that they killed the franchise and told Stephen to go, ”he said. “Now, for Stephen, I love this. He is a martyr. Good for him.”

“Ten years ago, I quit and left,” Letterman added of his 2015 retirement. “Then Stephen Colbert comes along, and pretty quickly established himself as a precise, crisp, witty political satirist, and often his target has been the current administration.

“I think one day, if not today, the people at CBS who have manipulated and handled this, they’re going to be embarrassed, because this is gutless,” he said during his conversation with former “Late Show” producers Mary Barclay and Barbara Gaines.

Letterman should have directed his anger at Colbert himself instead of the CBS bosses because he is the one who single-handedly destroyed the show that the iconic host established, which was reportedly losing between $40-50 million a year, sources told the New York Post.

Instead, the legendary host seemed to believe that CBS wasn’t being honest about the reason for jettisoning his friend being all about the money.

“You’re telling me losing this kind of money happened yesterday? I bet they were losing this kind of money a month ago, six weeks ago, or they have never been losing money,” he said.

Letterman also suggested that CBS’s move to dump Colbert was a favor to the bosses at Paramount and Skydance by removing a highly visible Trump hater from the airwaves after the companies’ merger.

“Hey boys, here’s what we’re gonna do: not only are we gonna get rid of that guy, we’re gonna get rid of the entire franchise so you don’t have to worry about another guy. It’s gone,” he said.

But Colbert may have cut his own throat when he bit the hand that fed him with an on-air rant about the recent settlement with Trump in the lawsuit he brought over a pre-election “60 Minutes” interview with Democrat candidate Kamala Harris that was allegedly doctored to make her look better.

The agreement looked like a “big fat bribe,” Colbert said.

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, celebrating the good news. “His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!”

“I only wish this could’ve happened to me. This would’ve been so great for me. Now we’ve all gotta kiss Stephen Colbert’s ring now,” Letterman said.