And if you think that’s a whole lotta C’s, consider all the C notes that Paramount was losing by keeping Colbert’s MSNBC version of the Late Show on the air. CBS was losing $40 million a year on The Late Show. That’s not far from Colbert’s $30 million salary.

Some of that can be blamed on Stephen Colbert’s relentless unfunniness, but late night has been dying for a while. NBC cut its late night shows back by a few nights and killed the band. Revenues are dropping sharply across late night.

So it’s not as if any of this is coming out of left field.

But Dems and I don’t just mean the social media mouthbreathers, but politicians and media outlets are crying conspiracy.

“CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a former presidential candidate, tweeted.

CBS and Colbert had been having conversations since early July. Colbert attacking Paramount was probably part of his exit strategy to pose as a martyr.

Warren knows this. She’s not dumb. She’s just a congenital liar.

“First, Trump essentially forced Paramount to pay him to get government approval for a huge merger—it reeks of corruption.   Now, Paramount fired Colbert for calling it what it is: a big, fat bribe.   This is how we slide into a strongman state—it should alarm us all!” Sen. Jeff Merkeley tweeted.

What should actually alarm us all is that politicians are trying to intimidate CBS into keeping an unfunny leftist on the air.