On a recent episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert apologized to the residents of Canton, Georgia (Comedy Central video link) for saying their their town was the “Crappy Canton” when compared to Canton, Ohio. Instead, he argued that he meant to say that Canton, Kansas was the “Crappy Canton”.
Are the people of Canton, Kansas so dumb as to the irony behind his response? Clearly the first Canton-alternative (being Canton, Georgia) was chosen at random, and his response in choosing Canton, Kansas was surely chosen similarly at random.
Since when did CNN start reporting on the uproars that The Colbert Report produces? Combining this with The Daily Show… dude, that’s so meta! (/ze)
Looks to me like CNN manufacturing a story. I doubt anyone interviewed for that piece had actually seen the Colbert segment, and the correspondent simply showed each of them an expurgated version which contained only the insults and not the context. How would you feel if you were shown, with no context, a clip of an unfamiliar man from an unfamiliar program hurling undeserved nasty insults at your beloved home on national television? The interview with the mayor also looked highly decontextualized (read: edited to make him look stupid).
Some people are a bit thick. Looks like the reporter went out of her way to find the thickest. I’d imagine there are quite a few people there who laughed their asses off.
It’s always hard to tell what, if anything, the people at CNN are thinking. But it looks like they picked the story up from Fox. So that explains a lot. The NBC affiliate’s story is a lot less dimwitted.
If that (hilarious) letter from the governor of Kansas shown in the NBC story is any indication, I’d say at least some people in Kansas are in on the joke.
Now that I think about it, this reminds me of the way the media is taking a lightly mocking video of Miley Cyrus from four months ago and passing it off as newly-made evidence she hates her rival TV stars. Much like politicians, news outlets will do anything to create controversy where there is none.
I need to have a girlfriending session with that CNN reporter about her wardrobe malfunctions. Us voluptuous gals have to be a bit more careful in our selections, did no one tell her that her shirt was gapping open over the girls?!
Dr. Colbert corrected himself tonight in a typical fashion- how could you not love a city that has a stop sign, hot and cold water towers, and 1 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander? Now Canton, South Dakota, on the other hand…
(Fun fact: Canton, SD was the home of America’s only Indian insane asylum. Colbert should love that one for his next apology.)
Slow news state, I guess. CNN says the video has expired, so I can’t see it. But I think it’s funny that this is basically the kind of thing The Daily Show used to do: interviews with small-town people that make them look stupid.
Of course, The Daily Show mostly stopped doing that stuff when Jon Stewart took over and the show got good.
Really? Man, I think The Daily Show has really gone stale. They do the exact same shtick over and over with a “reporter” doing a story while Stewart pretends he doesn’t get it, then Stewart giggling through an interview with some lame movie star. I’ve all but stopped watching it.
They have good nights and not so good nights. But it really was a completely different show when they were sending correspondents to Centerville USA to mock the members of the Bigfoot Sighters Club.
And that tourist video was awesome.