“I am here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke, and because Larry and David Ellison [the owners of CBS parent company, Paramount] feel they need to kiss his as* to get what they want. Stephen, these are small-minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about.” Bruce Springsteen said those words before singing the song Streets of Minneapolis on the last 2 episodes of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and this will be the last moment Bruce Springsteen with Stephen Colbert on the talk show.
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