CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s habit of inviting guests to The Late Show to tell him what he wants to hear continued apace on Thursday as he welcomed author, former Biden speechwriter, and frequent cable news talking head Jon Meacham to the show to promote his new book and do his usual shtick where he attempts to wax poetic about the dire state of Trump’s America. According to Meacham, the country is at risk of losing “the ethos that sent men to Omaha Beach” and other places that Americans associate with the fight for freedom.
Hyping Meacham’s new book that comes out next month, Colbert wondered, “Well, in this book, as I said, this is a collection of many Americans from many points of view addressing their moment in the American story. Are there one or two in here that especially feel instructive for today?”
Trying to tie himself to Frederick Douglass, Meacham began, “See, Frederick Douglass is always instructive. I think the most important American of the 19th century in many ways. Imagine what it takes for a person born into enslavement in 1852 to stand up and say ‘I, for one, do not despair of this republic. The fiat of the Almighty, 'Let there be light,' has not yet spent its force.’"
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
