I just commented on Extreme Mortman.
I just couldn’t stay out of the fracas that is the reaction Extreme Mortman readers had to Ludacris Performance At Correspondents Dinner
My comment on Ludacris Performance At Correspondents Dinner on Extreme Mortman:
See, the Right is confused. Colbert is all about nuance and subtlety. So subtle is he, in fact, that very few conservatives realize that Colbert is a tree-hugging pinko radical liberal.
And so, what Colbert is doing — passing — is just poor form. Passing? Yes, passing for a self-obsessed, narcissistic, short-sighted, flag-waving, heart-thumping, God-fearing, arch-conservative.
The thing is, he has yet to be “made??? because the right isn’t very flexible. They’re still dazed. Still a lot confused. On their knees searching blindly around as though their glasses had been knocked off.
Here, finally, is a man you can trust: Stephen Colbert! Loves America, loves Jesus, loved Family, and love his little Eagle, Steve, Jr.
The truth is, Stephen Colbert does unknown damage to the left through his comedy and very little damage to the right. The Right is not only oblivious to the too too subtle slings because the net gain is that the Colbert Report essentially conveys the conservative message.
The conservative message is only in the pomp and circumstance and like a meniscus, it is only on the surface. But the surface is enough.
don’t forget, these are folks who are literalists in all things: the Bible, the Constitution, the Ten Commandments.
People who have not an interpretational bone in their body are surely never going to figure out that Stephen Colbert is in fact a comedian making acerbic commentary on the ghoulish, absurd caricature that is the American Neocon Right.
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No interpretation necessary – you’d have to have less cognitive ability than a gnat to fail to understand that Colbert is making fun of the right wing.
Jennifer, how well educated are you?