“These fossil-fuel companies are creating the conditions for mass planetary extinction and then funding a political force to stall action on it. Our grandchildren will look at Chevron and Exxon ads the way you and I look at swastikas.” Colbert began objecting to that, but Kate talked over him, practically snatching the entire show for herself. “No, no—see, this is why you should go back to the Comedy Central days and forget this ‘reasonable shill for the center-left’ persona.”
