Release the ‘Colbert Nine’ Records
Matthew Graves may get away with refusing to bring criminal accountability to Stephen Colbert’s crew, but House Republicans can bring some measure of public accountability. Roll the tape.
By Julie Kelly
July 21, 2022
Stephen Colbert arguably is one of the loudest celebrity boosters of the January 6 select committee. For months, Colbert, a longtime lover of Democrats and hater of Donald Trump, has covered the events of January 6 on a nightly basis, often using the latest news out of the committee as grist for his opening monologue.
The CBS “Late Night” host recently told his audience that the January 6 hearings are a “must watch” event; in a preview interview on June 8, Colbert asked U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) what Americans could expect to learn from his latest anti-Trump operation, to which Schiff solemnly promised the public would find out “how close we came from losing our democracy.”
The day after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s televised daytime performance, testimony Colbert claimed “shocked the world,” the once funny-man interviewed Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who also sits on the committee. “When you try to overthrow the will of the people, and you try a coup in the United States government, you have to pay for that, period,” Kinzinger told Colbert’s cheering audience on June 30. He also accused his Republican colleagues of committing unspecified crimes. “They need to be shamed for it in the very least,” Kinzinger threatened.
Which was precisely what a team of Colbert’s employees had attempted to do a few weeks earlier. Nine members of Colbert’s production crew were arrested for unlawful entry on the evening of June 16 after Capitol Police received an emergency call about a disturbance at the Longworth House Office Building. Officers found the group lurking outside the office of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a Republican House member the Colbert show mocked in a lengthy skit the very next day, at around 8:30 p.m.
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