January 21 at 4:03AM by TheInDecider
Stephen Colbert Gets Emotional Over Obama's Inauguration
Stephen is sorry he's not angry today, but his heart might burst because it's full of rainbows.
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Colbrt is actually mocking the nefarious Keith Ubderdouche from MSNBC.
For those of you thinking he's been mimicking W all these years, you've missed the point: His entire show and persona are based on Bill O'Reilly's pomposity and self-serving, righteous indignation.
True, while W and his Cronies made it easy for comics of every stripe (and terribly sad for anyone who cared about the direction of this country or the tens of thousands of Iraqi innocents euphemistically referred to as "collateral damage"), The Colber(t) Repor(t) is a parody of Mr. O'Reilly and perhaps Sean Hannity.
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OMGosh he is being SOOO Over Dramatic! Pulease!
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Sheryll you are taking this way to seriously, this is SATIRE. If you cannot sit back and take even 6 minutes of sarcasm than you in for alot of disappointment, either that or ignorance, both of which are not good.
Colbert's schtick is that he is a right-wing commentator, so ACTUALLY Colbert Report will do very well while Obama is President. You have to start worrying about SNL, John Stewarts Daily Show, Late Night, etc etc now, they are the ones without a free-ride. Bush made it so easy for comedies, now we'll see exactly how they can make light of our President and society without being accused of racism.
Cool. Where do I sign up for your free anger management seminar?
About Stephen Colbert lately: Lately he seems angry. Not in the funny way which is part of his schtick, but personally angry. I ask why. I wonder if it is because, without the Bush administration, at whom his lampoons have hit with direct targets, courageously (even in front of Bush at the journalists' dinner), he really has no one left to mimic.
I couldn't imagine his show standing up without Bush, unlike other comedians' shows who can go ahead and lampoon mistakes and hypocrisies as soon as Obama makes them and no doubt will, hopefully helping to keep him honest — as those thrust at G. Bush did not.
The false crying on his show yesterday didn't get to my funny bone. I didn't get it, at all.
Something is seeping out from the middle here. Colbert's character is based on the self-centered, bad valued, greedy, care-less Republicans we hear about all the time. There will certainly be 1) some Republicans in the news, or some people like that in the news, who one could lampoon, and 2) Obama will certainly make some missteps and be good material. Harry Belafonte a former friend of ML King and long-time activist, said at one of the Inauguration Balls yesterday that he will speak out against any action Obama takes which is [not really for the people but for large corporations, for countries which murder other people], any action which is against Obama's own promises. [See and hear Belafonte's speech on DemocracyNow.org, November 21 transcript, second hour. Also hear Dick Gregory's (was it he or someone else?) electrifying comments just after his. Hear or also read Alice Walker's poem.]
Colbert can work on these too. But whom will he emulate? Maybe he can mimic Rick Warren, a pompous, self-referential, bigoted and dangerous clod. [See Jan 6 (or 7th) TheDailyBeast.com by Max Blumenthal.] (Although Rick Warren is very good at covering up his dismaying anti-women and anti-safe sex attitudes.)
Is this why Colbert is angry? That he sees his image literally fading? I hope he can recover his integrity and find a new, substantive direction without floundering too long.
Thank you Steven for a heartfelt, funny, thoughtful, and celebratory episode! (See my comment on the Daily Show episode).
I cried in lament for George W. Bush. His father was on that helicopter!
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