Back in 1973, the liberal journalist Nicholas von Hoffman, the first Point-Counterpoint commentator on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” was fired by producer Don Hewitt for an on-air comment that Hewitt deemed offensive and inappropriate. Hoffman referred to President Nixon, then well into the agonies of Watergate, as “the dead mouse on the kitchen floor of America, and the only question now is who’s going to pick him up by his tail and throw him in the garbage.”
Flash forward to CBS’s current “Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” where one of his senior writers, John Thibodeaux, dismissed Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton because of their slave ownership, and advocated for Harriett Tubman on the $20 bill. He put it this way: “She repeatedly risked her life for other people’s freedom, and now we’re asking her to hang out with those douche nozzles?” Real class, that. Funny, too. (Not.)
Little chance CBS will even reprimand Thibodeaux. Amazing that we’d get to the point of missing Don Hewitt, who was no friend of conservatives.
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My Take - I really get a kick out of this. Apparently Don Hewitt didn't mind that he was a far left loon who "worked as a community organizer for Saul Alinsky in Chicago for ten years from 1953 to 1963." It didn't bother Don Hewitt his reporters would lie like dogs as they did with The Alar Story, and then refuse to refute it when it became obvious (and he knew it) the story was all lies, and they were a party to those lies. But Hoffman said an unkind thing and that was more than Don Hewitt could bear. The media has always been a sewer, filled with sewer trout just like Hewitt. They just hid it better, and that's why this guy was fired. He crude remarks exposed them for the sewer trout they were.
