Funny, well, maybe not funny - sad is the word - how the digital revolution has empowered certain individuals to feel with the stroke of a keyboard they've accessed all the relevant facts. Hey, heatherg, I dunno who your librarian is but you need to get a new one. And N from Seattle, who couldn't quite understand the differnce between attending an Ivy School - which are arguably the best in the country - and effectuating old money patina, get your notepad. Apparently, your library techniques aren't as sharp as is your attitude.

A glance at Colbert Nation's website will enlighten you dim bulbs, or radically disappoint. But since most of you swallowed the Colbear Kool Aid I'm sure you'd have a rationale for why he would misrepresent himself. Colbert's bio claims he attended Dartmouth, right there, in black and white. Maybe somebody should notify the school to include him as an alum, or, perhaps, like much of his act, he's wearing it the way Bozo wore his orange nose.

Maybe he did go to those other schools; after all he does appear quite scholarly, though he mocks books. And, yes, that's his brilliance, to be one thing - basically conservative - and to say something else - apparently liberal - and be able to fool most of the people most of the time.

I guess people still do need librarians after all.

http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/freshman/facts/alumni.htm#entertainment

Regardless of where Stephen Colbert went, that does not change the fact that he gave the performance of a lifetime. Thanks to Colbert for saying all that we wish we could say!

Why is it that the most cutting and accurate commentary about the events of the day are for TV, on a network called comedy central?

This is more troubling to me then W and all is his man foibles.

Is the fourth estate really this dead?

Although Saturday's phenomenal, courageous performance by Colbert was definitely a quantum jump, both in content and setting, the Daily Show and now the Repor' that follow it four nights a week having been the edgiest, boldest, most politically potent satire in American tv history. Yeah, Pryor and Bruce were further "out there", but there's more truth, as opposed to truthiness, in a week of the Daily Show than in a year of AB/CB/NB/CN/Fuxxsnoose put together. I say that despite the fact I'm about thirty years north of the Daily Show demographic. Jon and Stephen are doing more for my grandchildren's future than about 90% of the purported Democratic "leadership". Of those, only Howard Dean, the late Paul Wellstone, and, sorta, Russ Feingold have had the huevos to speak truth that directly to these fascist bastards.

Colbert certainly does have big balls. That's the kind of comedy we need. People that refuse to pull punches. We're doing this on SHOUTBOY. West Wingers is a no-holds-barred look behind the Bush White House. Check it out! New material weekly.

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I believe AC/DC coined it best when they asked who had the biggest balls. They were apparently quite prophetic in their 1981 release, because the song is an obvious past reference to the future genius that is Colbert.

Perhaps even bigger balls rest upon those responsible for booking Colbert in the first place, but like one letter mentioned, it's most likely the Bushies showing just how self-effacing they are. This may be true, except for the squint-lipped Bush sitting mere feet from the podium looking like he was handed a big steaming pile of truthiness.

I wonder if Bill Maher's jealous.

Okay, I'll bite.

Bob, you ARE right. Stephen has intentionally created a shallow, vacuous right-wing nut-job-anchor persona that provides good-to-midland satire. (The interviews and "special pieces" on both shows - Colbert and Daily Show - are often the best moments.)

But...

We don't talk about Lenny Bruce because of his comic genious, we talk about him because he didn't play the polite game that stand-up comics were doing at the time. He just talked, and was coarse, and even arrested for saying certain words on stage. ("They arrested me for saying 'cocksucker' on stage in San Francisco," he tells one audience.)

George Carlin does marvelous word-play, but pushes the boundaries by saying that arbitrary boundaries are stupid. ("Caucasian? It could be a mountain range. We're going the Caucasians this year.")

Colbert (and Jon Stewart) are significant because they're saying things that are being withheld from the airwaves and media. The toughest TV interviews that will be seen by millions in the US, seem to come from Jon Stewart; the meanest comments about stupid representatives seem to come from Colbert giving the microphone and screen time to them, and letting them hang themselves.

Colbert is Eartha Kitt in the 1960's, who was at a polite socialite gathering in the White House when Lady Bird wanted to talk about her 'highway beautification project'. Miss Kitt responded that the thing that really was the issue was young people who didn't want to die in a war in Vietnam. Johnson had her blacklisted and she had to move to Europe to work, for over a decade.

I think Colbert might have a difficulty distinguishing his persona from his own life, but that's happened before; Stewart will have less problems with that.

If this keeps up, however, we might actually have a pair (Colbert/Stewart) that is as incisive as Will Rogers was, in the early 30's.

Colbert's smart bomb is the best thing I've seen, read and/or heard in decades! As Colbert himself puts it, that took, "mucho grande huevos". Two things to consider here - number one: That took BALLS !! To stand three feet away from Chimpie, look him in the eye OFTEN, all the while tearing him a new ass, as well as doing it in front of the Press Corp, while they, too, get their asses handed to them is nothing short of a miracle !! Number two: to do it in such a manner that not only comfuses Chimpie (not that it's difficult to do) but shocks the Press Corp as well as Chimpie into giving Colbert a rounding applause after so eloquently destroying them is nothing short of pure genius. Stephen Colbert, I nominate you to be our next President of the United States of America!