Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 2
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broken link
[Read the article: "The greatest gift"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]can you please fix the link?
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Baby-Eating Man With Balls of Steel
[Read the article: Making Colbert go away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am truly apalled by the way Colbert's performance has been received by the media in general and by some politicians.
First of all, he was funny. The only way you could view his performance as unfunny is if you were made uncomfortable by it because it's truthiness hurt. That's the beauty of deep Swiftian satire - it illuminates points of view in ways that are immediately understandable and devoid of nuance (because, of course, they come from the gut).
Secondly, Colbert displayed that most cherised of all American of qualities - courage. Yes the phrase has been overused, but he did in fact speak truth to power. I won't back down from that position. And the fact that some in the press and/or the Democratic party feel threatened by that only tells us more of what we already know: they are beholden not to truth, but to power.