Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said on Newsmax TV Monday that "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" was a “Federal Elections Commission crime” because it deliberately favored Democrats over Republicans and that "government infrastructure" was used to do so.

Marlow discussed CBS's cancellation of the show, which was losing money for the network, with "Finnerty" host Rob Finnerty.

Finnerty asked Marlow why the outcry was coming mainly from Washington, D.C. over Colbert's termination, rather than from Hollywood.

Marlow said Colbert was supposed to have a comedy show but that "no one’s going to watch it because it turned into a political pundit hour, a soft spot for Democrat politicians to have a softball interview."

Federal Election Commissions crime

He continued:

This is a Federal Elections Commission crime that that show was allowed to be in the air, lose that amount of money. It was CBS playing politics, trying to make sure Democrats got elected should be investigated in that spirt.  The government uses stuff like Spectrum to control our airwaves and to do things where certain voices get on the air, certain voices don’t.

In Marlow's view, the show was designed and executed with government help from the inside to "boost Democrats."

He went on:

There’s government infrastructure that went into that show that was all designed to boost Democrats. That’s why he was on the air losing all that money. It’s a total outrage. That’s why Washington is much more upset than Hollywood.”

But is there even more to Colbert's firing than executives who finally got tired of losing money?

Bribing Trump?

Some on the left are asking whether there could be an ulterior motive behind Colbert's firing and whether it might be political maneuvering on parent company Paramount's part to curry favor with President Donald Trump.

While the big three networks NBC, ABC, CBS) are generally left of center, Paramount Global is in the middle of trying to merge with Skydance, whose CEO is David Ellison, the son of billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

The elder Ellison is a longtime friend and supporter of Trump, so the move to ax Colbert could be an overture to Skydance, if the younger Ellison has similar views.

That's all speculation at this point, but it sure would be nice to see at least one of the major networks be objective for a change.

Another speculation was that Trump's settlement with CBS over "60 Minutes'" biased editing of a Kamala Harris interview had a stipulation about getting rid of Colbert.

The settlement did include other components besides the $16 million payment to Trump's library, but those were not disclosed so we don't know what they were.

Purely financial?

At any rate, CBS says the firing is purely financial, but what are they really going to say?

I'm sure they're not going to admit it if they are trying to bribe Trump or fulfill a confidential settlement.

There's no money in glitzy, high production late-night TV anymore--everyone who's still up that late is watching Netflix or some other on-demand content that is far more interesting and personalized to their tastes.

It's always nice when financial pressures and political ones can coincide, however.