CBS’s Stephen Colbert continued his holy war against Speaker Mike Johnson on the Thursday edition of The Late Show when he welcomed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and wondered how he could possibly deal with the “awful” new Speaker.
After conceding that he is “a fan of Joe Biden” and his infrastructure bills, Colbert shifted to Johnson, “When we last talked Mike Johnson was not Speaker of the House. Now Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House. His record on LGBTQ issues is, what's the word, awful.”
Colbert then asked, “So how do you work with a guy who argued that same-sex relations are quote ‘the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic’?”
A very solemn Buttigieg replied:
Look, I'll work with anybody who can help us get good transportation available to the American people, but I don't know, maybe we'll just have him over because our little house isn't that far from the Capitol and if you could see what it's like when I come home from work and Chasten is bringing the kids home from daycare or vice versa, and one of us is getting the mac and cheese ready and the other one is microwaving those little freezer meatballs that are a great cheat code if you have toddlers and you got to feed them quickly and they won't take their shoes off and one needs a diaper change.
Buttigieg also implied that he is the more righteous one, “Everything about that is chaos, but nothing about that is dark. That’s-- the love of God is in that household.”
Wrapping up the Johnson portion of the interview, Colbert proclaimed that Johnson is just going to have to deal with it, “Well, too bad for Mike Johnson and great for everybody else. Same-sex marriage is legal, it's constitutional, it's thriving.”
Maybe one week, Colbert will use his platform to defend what the Bible says, but this week was not that week.
Here is a transcript for the November 2-taped show:
CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
11/3/2023
12:08 AM ET
STEPHEN COLBERT: Obviously, I'm a fan of Joe Biden and the idea of this infrastructure bill, but I think beyond that, it's very important for the -- a cynical public or a portion of the public that is cynical to understand that the government can do things. There are some projects, some things so big that you want the government to be empowered to do it.
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12:18 AM ET
COLBERT: When we last talked Mike Johnson was not Speaker of the House. Now Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House.
PETE BUTTIGIEG: Yeah.
COLBERT: His record on LGBTQ issues is, what's the word, awful. So how do you work with a guy who argued that same-sex relations are quote “the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic"?
BUTTIGIEG: Look, I'll work with anybody who can help us get good transportation available to the American people, but I don't know, maybe we'll just have him over because our little house isn't that far from the Capitol and if you could see what it's like when I come home from work and Chasten is bringing the kids home from daycare or vice versa, and one of us is getting the mac and cheese ready and the other one is microwaving those little freezer meatballs that are a great cheat code if you have toddlers and you got to feed them quickly and they won't take their shoes off and one needs a diaper change. Everything about that is chaos, but nothing about that is dark. That’s-- the love of God is in that household.
COLBERT: Well, too bad for Mike Johnson and great for everybody else. Same-sex marriage is legal, it's constitutional, it's thriving.
