Jeb Bush Breezes Through “The Late Show” With Stephen Colbert

After all the build-up for Jeb Bush’s appearance on Stephen Colbert’s first show as the host of “The Late Show,” on CBS, I tuned in half expecting the excitement of Dan Rather’s 1998 interview of George H. W. Bush or Bill Clinton’s 1992 appearance on “The Arsenio Hall Show.” But no. Colbert’s taped interview had all the tension of two distant cousins meeting at a wedding, and all the specificity of a typical Jeb stump speech, which is to say not very much. It wasn’t even particularly funny.

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