Colbert is a character actor. Not a Letterman host.
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— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 10, 2014
CBS just hired a guy who is already on Late Night and regularly beaten by Adult Swim in viewers. This is about culture, not ratings.
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) April 10, 2014
Low-Rated Hyper-Partisan Lefty to Replace David Letterman http://t.co/Dd5N8j4LkF via @BreitbartNews
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) April 10, 2014
Leftist elites love Colbert. He gets fewer than a million viewers. #juggernaut
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) April 10, 2014
Can't wait for more Colbert "Ching Chong ding dong" jokes. Haha, just kidding! Or was I? Psych! I was totes being ironic. LOL. Not. /sarc
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 10, 2014
So, is it true that some anti-Asian racist is going to take over the late night show that everyone forgot was on the air?
— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) April 10, 2014
I shouldn’t say this out loud but I kind of judge people older than 23 or so who think Colbert/Stewart are funny/insightful
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 10, 2014
Will #Colbert's schtick of condescending fake news anchor work for an hour each night on network TV? He'll have to change, right? #Letterman
— RJ Moeller (@rjmoeller) April 10, 2014
Also find it weird that Jon Stewart wasn’t the more obvious pick. Unlike Colbert, Jon is not a character & does actual intvws. #LateShow
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) April 10, 2014
Bad to worse. Complete lameness. RT @dsilverman: Re: Colbert replacing Letterman. Welp, that was fast.
— Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) April 10, 2014
What's funny is that Colbert's schtick is only funny when he can act a part to mock conservatives. Good luck, bro
— JustinGreen∞ (@JGreenDC) April 10, 2014
Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro was especially upset, rattling off three anti-Colbert tweets:
Colbert? Really? Why not just wait until President Obama is out of office and hire him to replace Letterman directly?
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 10, 2014
So late night is now "Slow Jam With Obama" Fallon and "Reality Has A Well-Known Liberal Bias" Colbert. Spectacular. http://t.co/uiry895UM6
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 10, 2014
In search of an even more niche audience, CBS has now hired a Comedy Central host doing an impersonation of a Fox News personality.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 10, 2014