Posted By Tom, Texas, USA

Colbutt's??? Oh I get it, you're from Texas.

Let's turn off Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly. Let's boycott Ann Coulter and Bill Press.
Let's ingore all of these preaching to the choir people who think political discoure means ridiculing those who disagree with you.
Let's tune out this vicious humor based partisanship.

Let's find commentators and analysts from the left, right, and center that offer solutions, not just criticisms and humorous attacks.

Let's realize that people who hold different social and political views are not as Limbaugh, Stewart, Franken, Coulter et al are evil and/or ignorant.

Let's study ALL of the candidates, not just those who raise the most money. Let's study the platforms of the GOP, Democrats, Greens, and Libertarians, and see what ideas we like and why.

Let's do all of this through the November '08 elections and bring civility and discourse back to politics!

Or maybe the company that published Colbert's new book is behind it.

Or maybe the aliens traveling on the UFO that Kuccinich saw set the whole thing up.

Regardless of the intention, I think it's funny.

He hope he plans on taking a 101 Running a Super Nation Course before he hits the White House. He'll need it! Funny isn't the werd for it. The werd is Ridiculous.

p.s. subliminal message to libs- VOTE COLBERT !

The Colbert Nation will rise!!!

You're hiding in generalizations when we're talking specifics. Just because some satire (black face minstrel shows, as you bring up) can be hateful, doesn't mean ALL satire is hateful.

Please provide some specific examples of hateful comments Colbert has made.

Some examples of Coulter's hate: -Calling John Edwards a f*g
-Saying how she wants jews to be perfected is neither satire or comedy.
-Calling 9/11 widows "self-obsessed"

Those comments, and countless others, are neither comedy nor satire.

Comparing those two people is beyond idiotic.

Stephen Colbert would slice and dice Reagan in any type of political debate. Who debased politics by pimping entertainers? The GOP started it.

So Evan (and other libs), I guess all those old 1940's blackface [i]comedies[/i] were not hateful either, I mean they were just satire, right?

Posted By Mark, Shreveport, La : October 31, 2007 3:50 pm

You might need to speak to more of these young people that you're concerned about if you really think they think that believe "Colbert and John Stewart are unbiased political analysts." No one thinks that, but sadly, they do a better job of conveying the real news on their fake news shows than the people who are supposed to be conveying real news. What's sad is the number of people like Doug right below you who don't get it. Jersey must be a tough place for someone with such limited logic skills considering the rest of the population.

Oh, and by the way, they're New York liberal elitists. I don't think either of them has even lived in California (though I could be wrong). Colbert's a southerner for Pete's sake.

And to Tom + others who chastise people who watch Colbert/Stewart- check out the Pew Study on whose audience is most knowledgable on current events. http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319
Kind of embarassing that most "in-tune" audience is the one that watches "fake news" (the show that admits to being fake – not the ones on FoxNews that lie + misrepresent facts)

And I suppose all his donations that he's bringing in and are going to S.C. schools are a bad thing as well, just like the ones that went to Veteran's Health Care over the summer.

Take your hate somewhere else.

THAT will be a debate... not a loopsided, we-are-not-interested-in-the-rest "debate" like last night!!!

The electorate is in a mood that a whimsical vote for Colbert might be used to teach our politicians a lesson.

The pro's know this, and will work to block his candidacy as a joke. Democrats did the same thing to Nader, even though he was a very serious candidate.

Of course Colbert is "acting like a conservative." It's a character. But I still don't see how he's "hateful."

And I couldn't help but notice that you haven't provided any examples of Colbert's "hate."

Figures.

No one who is not a lib ever thought Colbert was anything but a hateful lib acting like a conservative that only exists in the minds of hateful libs and not found anywhere in the real world. Maybe there is a Colbert type conservative on the planet of Dennis K's extraterrestrial friends, but not on this planet, at this point it just invokes a yawn to point out another lib liar, seems they all are.

Since the libs cannot debate real conservatives, they need to create a fake one, Colbert is just like Dan Rather’s 1973 Microsoft font documents.

It is true that Colbert takes more liberal positions, mostly from his Christian upbringing, but he role is satire and not advancing any particular agenda.

I do not completely understand his motivation for running, but it is very entertaining to watch.

Coulter is not a comedian. She just uses humor as her after-the-fact excuse for her offensive, attention-starved commennts.

Please list some examples of mean or hateful things Stephen Colbert has said.

Actually, if you think they ARE then you're brain damaged beyond repair.

Look at the CNN Political Ticker. The top stories on it: "Bush: Cheney's Darth Vader for Halloween," "Kucinich: I saw a UFO," "Will the real Joe Biden please stand up?" "Candidates who bust a move," and so on. Colbert is demonstrating that the media, and a lot of Americans, could care less about the issues behind every single one of the candidates. Sure, we see a lot about Romney, Rudy, Hillary and Obama now that the media has narrowed the field a lot, but the media doesn't cover the raw issues behind Dodd's, Biden's, Richardson's, Paul's, or Huckabee's candidacies. Instead, we only hear about Kucinich seeing UFOs and a Comedy Central anchor making a joke out of the political process.

Comedian Colbert Reaches Double Digits As Third-Party Candidate "For what it’s worth, the overall numbers show Hillary Clinton at 45%, Rudy Giuliani at 35%, and Colbert at 13%."

Seriously, how can you guys be so hatetful, partisan and dishonest? To support people like Coulter or Colbert is idiotic, I mean they do say funny things from time to time but to take them serious shows that YOU have a serious problem.

BTW, if you discount that Coulter and Colbert are not the exact equals on the left and right, then you are too partisan for individual thought and should go back to getting your marching orders from Micheal Moore-on.org. Oh and listen to Air America, they need your support to keep going, they recently gave the ultimate sign of being true liberal democrats by trying to create a fake hate crime story about their host Rhodes being attacked by conservatives when she fell down from being too drunk.

It's sad how many young people think Colbert and John Stewart are unbiased political analysts and not just hollywood elitist liberals using humor to further the left's agenda. They're just liberal versions of Limbaugh and Hannity, albeit funnier.