Stephen Colbert: staffers guilty of ‘first-degree puppetry’ in DC incident

Stephen Colbert says that anyone attempting to draw equivalence between Jan. 6 and last week’s incident with his show staff is shamefully insulting the memory of those who died at the Capitol. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

NEW YORK — Stephen Colbert pronounced his staff members arrested at a congressional office building last week as guilty of “first-degree puppetry,” and lashed out at those comparing the incident to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

That includes Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson, who in a tongue-in-cheek monologue about “Insurrection 2.0” on Monday called Colbert a “white extremist.”