Jeb Bush to Appear on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert"

[PoliticAverse]

(NEW YORK) — Stephen Colbert will begin his reign on The Late Show in September and one of his first guests will be a White House hopeful.

Colbert tweeted on Tuesday that former Florida. Gov. Jeb Bush would make an appearance, saying he’d barely be able to squeeze in all the GOP candidates to his 200-show schedule.

“.@JebBush will be on #LSSC Sept. 8! My first GOP candidate! Luckily I do 200 shows a year, so I think I can fit them all,” Colbert tweeted.

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[merrily]

1. God forbid he should have had someone who could use more name recognition on first.

O'Malley or Sanders on the Democratic side or, if he needed to make it a Republican, almost anyone on the Republican side other than Bush, Trump or Huckabee.

To be fair, maybe he figures he needs to have a Republican on first, to make his bones as a more impartial host than his Colbert Report persona was. And, he doesn't want to help any of them, so he chose the one who will not necessarily get a Colbert bump in name recognition?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. Good grief. I used to love Colbert, but this makes me think he's going to go all middle of the road

now. We've lost him and Jon Stewart as two of the best at showing the RW BS for what it was, the only two who could make me laugh and cry and think about the issues with some degree of hope remaining. Bummer.

[merrily]

3. IMO, Colbert and Stewart are centrists and always have been.

I watched both faithfully. When 85% of your schtick is bashing Republicans, looking liberal is easy. It's something like DU when Bush was in office.

The network got a lot of flak when Colbert was announced as Letterman's replacement. Part of the network's response was that Colbert considers himself a moderate. I believe he was being honest, not simply saying it to placate the right. To the right, though, anything not Republican or rightist Libertarian is communist or socialist.

The network cannot have a blatant Republican or a blatant Democrat in that slot. If you watched Leno regularly, you knew he was a conservative and I heard him say it once (not a regular watcher of Leno). However, he did not flaunt it and neither can Colbert. At his sports job, after leaving MSNBC, Olberman had to promise not to talk politics on air. You can't lose about half of a potential audience from the jump. Given that, I think hiring Colbert was a pretty bold move, for a network. And, you can see from the tweet that he engaged in a bit of snark.

But I am not looking for Colbert to help Sanders over Hillary. (Stewart sure didn't.)

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. I know what you mean. That Rally for Sanity or whatever it was called, was so annoying in its

centrist slant. Especially with Kid Rock singing that insipid “Care.”

“I can’t stop the war, shelter homeless, feed the poor… I can’t change the world and make things fair. The least that I can do is care.”

As my husband likes to joke, "Never let it be said that I didn't do the least I could do."

And Jon with his saccharine, "You go, then I go," parable. Admittedly, it got me choked up for a minute, but then I thought, "No Jon, that is not analogous to how the Republicans behave. More like, you go, then me and ten of my rich buddies go and you pay for our gas, too."

Knowing that Colbert is a devout Catholic fits in, in my mind anyway, with him being kind of centrist, too. But he, even more so than Jon, seemed to really skewer the overall idiocy of the RW. I mean, Stewart exposed their BS as well (even more so in the last couple of years, I thought) and gave me lots of laughs, too. But, for some reason, Colbert usually had me pretty much ROTFLMAO. I'm not a fan of potty humor, but I am a sucker for silly. Smart silly, though. Same with physical humor. I'm no fan of the Three Stooges, but Colbert wearing a horse head and dancing around outside a fancy stable--that I found hilarious.

I'm sure you're right that he was a smart hire for the network. He'll Give Jimmy Fallon and the others a run for their money in the silly smart category.

Sorry. I have really rambled on here. It's waaaaaay past my bedtime and I'm a little delerious, so good night!

[merrily]

5. No apologies. I enjoyed your post!

Colbert took a pot shot at Kucinich and Daily Show did an interview with him right after he was forced out of Congress which made me think he might be having a breakdown. That seemed gratuitously cruel to me. So did the riff Jon did on Sanders after Sander's informal announcement. But, of course, they are both brilliant and both funny and I've been a huge and loyal fan because I am a sucker for funny. (Speak of which, I liked your husband's line.).

No one is letting liberals get too much visibility anyway. Sanders is running for President and they've barely been covering him.

[PoliticAverse]

6. "Never let it be said that I didn't do the least I could do." - good one. n/t

[bullwinkle428]

10. John Fugelsang and Frank Conniff called it the "Rally to Restore False Equivalence"

on their show yesterday - spot on!

[Princess Turandot]

7. The person who Colbert et al are most concerned about promoting initially is Colbert himself...

and that's completely appropriate in the first weeks/months as the new host of what is primarily an entertainment vehicle. He's replacing a legend in late night/comedy work. They have predictions (I assume) of the crossover audience from his cable show, and whether Letterman's old audience will warm to him, but they won't know until he gets underway.

So it makes perfect sense for them early on to book guests whom they think will help bring in/hold the most viewers.

[n2doc]

8. I'm fine with that

The more people see of John Ellis Bush, the less they like him. If he is too swarmy, I'll bet Colbert won't be able to resist going into mock mode.

[truebluegreen]

9. ^this^

Jeb! has benefited from expectations of competency and moderation (hah), name recognition, the "smart" Bush...but when he actually starts talking, it all falls apart. More exposure is better, imo.

[bullwinkle428]

11. Hopefully, this will make him look as jerky as his brother when he made his

infamous appearance on David Letterman's show, and was shown using the sweater of one of Dave's production assistants to clean his glasses (as she was wearing it).