From a 202er:
Katy,
I urge you in the strongest possible terms to put this article on the course blog -
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14dowd.html?_r=1&n=Top/Opinion/Editorials%20and%20Op-Ed/Op-Ed/Columnists/Maureen%20Dowd&oref=slogin
If you haven't read it, it's Colbert's guest column (for Maureen Dowd) from Sunday's NYTimes. It's brilliant - especially if you read the op-ed columns enough to understand his Frank Rich joke, for example.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Colbert a la Dowd
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7 comments:
Nice.
While this article is funny, it's very sarcastic. Colbert doesn't even take a real stance. He just makes fun of the candidates, and doesn't offer any real solution, only to go back in time--NOT helpful, Stephen.
I'm with smalls. Although I'm personally a fan of Colbert, I think this piece serves as entertainment value more than anything. Not only does it not help differentiate any of the current candidates with real facts or issues, but it doesn't even suggest a medium for readers to seek out to get the information. He had a legitimate chance to take a step in the right direction and he chose to entertain--once again, right along with the rest of the media.
I thought it was funny. So he hasn't saved the world. Neither has anyone else. I don't expect entertainers to offer real solutions.
oh my goodness, I read this in the silent computer lab and started laughing out loud!
Also, on the previous posts, I don't go to Colbert for serious political or moral guidance, rather the mockery of...everything. He's an entertainer, that's what entertainers do!
i think his not having a point was the point. though, i do think he should stick with his day job. while i could imagine him saying all these things on his show, reading them just didn't have the same effect.
wtf are you guys talking about? I clearly noticed a stance.
"Our nation is at a Fork in the Road. Some say we should go Left; some say go Right. I say, “Doesn’t this thing have a reverse gear?” Let’s back this country up to a time before there were forks in the road — or even roads. Or forks, for that matter. I want to return to a simpler America where we ate our meat off the end of a sharpened stick."
Just because he's not overtly supporting the left or the right, don't think he's not making a statement. The quote speaks for itself: both sides are nutty and are working their asses off to consolidate America.
I don't think pundits make this sort of statement enough, and I'm happy to see that John Stewart wasn't the only to do so when he went on crossfire.
Up until this point, I've thought Colbert was an ass. All I ever saw him make were cliche jokes about truthiness, liberty, America, etc. Now I give him mad props.
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