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Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:00 AM

I'm just a Bill

Colbert interviews New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell
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  • Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:11 AM

    Maybe I'm not really an "it" getter

    Ordinarily, I love Colbert and his witty, insightful, off-handed, back-handed, and slight-of-handed humor, but I just didn't find his treatment of Pascrell funny, and for that matter, any of his other interviews with Democratic Congresspeople. I mean, why put Dems into that mock-interview-- cleverly edited towards maximum humiliation as it is? Isn't his whole show a great big ironic answer against right-wing idealogues and cable circus clowns who do this in earnest in the first place?

    Now, I hope I don't get slammed for this but if there's some crucial element I'm missing, then elighten me.

    —Brunswick Read Brunswick's other letters

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