CBS’s Stephen Colbert kicked off Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show by applauding federal employees who responded with porn to Elon Musk’s email where he demanded to know five things they accomplished the previous week.
Colbert began by trying to cheer his liberal audience up, “Today marks the fifth week of Trump’s second presidency, and it is clear, even at this point, and even at this early stage, it is clear that he is hell-bent on dismantling our federal government and ending our 80-year-long Western alliance. But on the bright side, these people clearly don't have a clue what the [bleep] they're doing.”
As an example, Colbert recalled, “Now, case in [bleep], this recent Elon Musk email he sent out on Saturday demanding that federal employees tell him five things they did last week or they'd be fired.”
As the audience began to boo, Colbert read from a Rolling Stone article, “Employees were— [Audience Boos] That's what they said. Employees were not thrilled, leading some to respond with ‘very rude’ emails listing fake, vulgar ‘accomplishments,’ even sending links to graphic images of sex and scatological content.’ Now, yes! Good for them. If there's anyone out there who don't know what scatological means: Boodily beep bop bop bap beep badoopbap—that's poop!
Obviously, if one of Colbert’s subordinates or anyone at CBS sent their boss such a reply, Colbert would not be saying “good for them.” If you want to make the argument that federal workers really are a collection of patriotic, non-partisan civil servants who are being unfairly railroaded by Musk, sending him porn emails is the worst way to do that. This will just confirm to him that a chainsaw approach to reforming the bureaucracy is required.
Here is a transcript for the February 25 show:
CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2/25/2024
11:36 PM ET
STEPHEN COLBERT: Today marks the fifth week of Trump’s second presidency, and it is clear, even at this point, and even at this early stage, it is clear that he is hell-bent on dismantling our federal government and ending our 80-year-long Western alliance. But on the bright side, these people clearly don't have a clue what the [bleep] they're doing. Now, case in [bleep], this recent Elon Musk email he sent out on Saturday demanding that federal employees tell him five things they did last week or they'd be fired.
Employees were— [Audience Boos] That's what they said. Employees were not thrilled, leading some to respond with “‘very rude’ emails listing fake, vulgar ‘accomplishments,’” “even sending links to graphic images of sex and scatological content.” Now, yes! Good for them. If there's anyone out there who don't know what scatological means: Boodily beep bop bop bap beep badoopbap — that's poop!
