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[mindmetoo]

BTW, the woman in my avatar used to hang out with Colbert in New York (this was when he was still on the daily show).

[Ya-ta Boy]

I was just looking up last night's show when the following showed up at the top of the list (from last year):

These "journalists" thrive on being divisively critical of any part of an open-minded, liberal way of thinking. Their tactics are to inflame their audience by portraying anyone who fails to follow the conservative doctrine as a dangerous enemy to all that is good and decent in the world. They intentionally use extreme language to criticize and condemn, keeping their audience at a fever pitch of paranoia and indignation.

Moreover, they are very successful, very powerful and very, very rich. And the most extreme media personality in America, the man with the most inflamed ego and the most self-righteous attitude, the man who feels that he alone can deliver the American people to righteousness, is Mr. Stephen Colbert, the host and self-exalted deity of his television program The Colbert Report. But wait, there�s more.

Stephen Colbert (actually the character he so deftly portrays) is a clown, a buffoon, a parody of those other neo-conservative celebrities. And, believe me, Colbert�s audience "gets" the joke.

And that is why The Colbert (pronounced, like the French "Col-bear") Report (pronounced, for no good reason "re-pour"),



The writer failed to make his point very clearly by burying in an aside the fact that Colbert is a parody.

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=70367

[RobbJK9]

[bangbayed]

From the forementioned article: "Regarding a recent episode of the American comedy show The Colbert Report and the reaction that Koreans have had to it,..."

Does anyone have any evidence of this supposed uproar from the Korean media or populace over Colbert? Or is this just a straw man argument for the sake of an Op-Ed?

[Ya-ta Boy]

[browneyedgirl]

[RokofKangnam]