Letters to the Editor
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the truthiness does indeed hurt
I never imagined I'd live in an America where comedy was perceived on party lines.
That being said, the harsh response to Colbert's burlesque performance on Saturday comes as no surprise: no one thinks its funny when their uglier personas are parroted in front of them in the exact same way they mock their ideological opponents. Think O'Reilly and Limbaugh, and the nasty way they ridicule those on the left.
But Colbert elevated these dirty tactics to high art this last weekend in ways that Al Franken and even Jon Stewart had failed to (or not had the will to) do in the past.
Of course the joke isn't funny when you're the brunt of it. That right leaning blogs are working themselves into a lather to point out how unfunny enough is evidence enough of the piece's sublime effectiveness.