Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | News | July 22, 2025
There has been a significant amount of capitulation from corporate, university, and law firm leaders over the last six months, and it often feels like no one has been fighting back with the appropriate level of vigor and fury. The cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show may have changed that. I’m not going to say that Paramount/Skydance has awakened sleeping giants, because those giants were never asleep. But they really pissed those giants off. Colbert has ten months remaining before his show goes off the air, and Jon Stewart has until they pull him off. And they are going to raise some hell. If last night’s The Daily Show monologue is a sign of what’s to come, Paramount is going to regret their decision.
Jon Stewart is pissed, and you can tell, because he had a gospel choir on last night to aid him in a rousing rendition of “Go f**k yourself.” He must have said it 20 times, all directed at the people who sign his paychecks.
“I understand the corporate fear,” Stewart said. “I understand the fear you and your advertisers have with $8 billion at stake. But understand this. Truly. The show that you now seek to cancel, censor, and control — a not insignificant portion of that $8 billion value came from those f**king shows. That’s what made you that money. Shows that say something. Shows that take a stand. Shows that are unafraid.”
It’s not about speaking “truth to power,” he continued. “We speak opinion to television cameras. But we try. We f**king try. Every night. And if you believe, as corporations and networks, that you can make yourselves so innocuous, that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the boy king’s radar, A) why will anyone watch you? And you are f**king wrong.”
As Stewart points out: It is impossible to stay on “Lord Farquaad’s good side” because the man is suing Rupert Murdoch, the guy behind Fox News. “Fox spends 24 hours a day blowing Trump, and it’s not enough.”
“This is not the moment to give in,” Stewart rants. “I’m not giving in. I’m not going anywhere … I think … if you still think that bending the knee to Trump will save you, I have one thing to say …”
And that’s when Jon Stewart goes into his rousing, gospel-choir backed rendition of “Go f**k yourself.”
Bill Simmons suggested yesterday that maybe Jon Stewart would quit, mid-episode, last night. He didn’t, but he sure as hell dared Paramount to fire him. And if they do, the backlash will only get worse. And Skydance will see even more of that $8 billion value lost. And if Trump thought that firing Stephen Colbert would make everyone shut up, man: He sorely miscalculated. He poked the f**king bears.
The Stewart rant begins at the 16-minute mark. Or you can watch the first 16 minutes, which is all on the Epstein files.
