{"id":72080,"date":"2017-05-03T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72080"},"modified":"2017-05-03T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:43:09","slug":"twitter-lights-up-with-firecolbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72080","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Lights Up With: <b>#FireColbert<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>#FireColbert Twitter campaign gains steam after Stephen Colbert&#8217;s profane Donald Trump takedown<\/h1>\n<h3>#FireColbert is on fire.<\/h3>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5419400263001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>FOX News<\/p>\n<p>Talk show host Stephen Colbert is taking serious heat on social media for a vulgar joke he made about President Donald Trump that many fans are calling &#8220;homophobic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2017\/05\/02\/trump-skewered-by-stephen-colbert-during-late-show-monologue.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Late Show&#8221; star sounded off on Trump<\/a> during his opening monologue Monday night, criticizing Trump for abruptly ending an interview with CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; host John Dickerson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine,&#8221; Colbert said during his profranity-laced rant, which was bleeped during the telecast. &#8220;You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin&#8217;s c&#8211;k holster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans immediately took issue with Colbert&#8217;s final joke, with some calling the comedian homophobic, and demanding CBS fire him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-1.41.23-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-1.41.23-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"841\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-1.41.23-PM.png 507w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-1.41.23-PM-181x300.png 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-1.41.46-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-1.41.46-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"559\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-1.41.46-PM.png 507w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-1.41.46-PM-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rep for CBS and &#8220;Late Show&#8221; did not immediately return Fox News&#8217; request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fox411\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time viewers have gone on social media demanding Colbert&#8217;s ouster. In 2014, a #CancelColbert hashtag was started after the host (on Comedy Central with &#8220;The Colbert Report&#8221; at that point) joked &#8220;I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever,&#8221; in a sketch about\u00a0Washington Redskins&#8217; owner Daniel Snyder&#8217;s pro-Native American charity.<\/p>\n<p>The hashtag campaign began when the show&#8217;s Twitter account posted the joke without the context.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert has seen a ratings resurgence since he started regularly roasting the president. After languishing in second place since he took over &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; for David Letterman, his show has been the No. 1 talk show on late night TV for 13 weeks running.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2017\/05\/03\/firecolbert-twitter-campaign-gains-steam-after-stephen-colberts-profane-donald-trump-takedown.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2017\/05\/03\/firecolbert-twitter-campaign-gains-steam-after-stephen-colberts-profane-donald-trump-takedown.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#FireColbert Twitter campaign gains steam after Stephen Colbert&#8217;s profane Donald Trump takedown #FireColbert is on fire. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com FOX News Talk show host Stephen Colbert is taking serious heat on social media for a vulgar joke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72080\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}