Colbert Report 2/2/06

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@Sam Stone

I think Colbert is a Democrat of about the same stripe as Jon Stewart. They’re center-left, DLC, Bill Clinton-type Democrats, the kind of people who get along just fine with moderate Republicans.

The other night, Stewart totally ripped Cindy Sheehan for being chummy with Hugo Chavez. That’s something you won’t hear from Air America or Michael Moore.

And Colbert isn’t so much parodying conservatives as he is parodying a specific conservative - Bill O’Reilly, and more general other conservatives like him who live on bombast, self-righteousness and chutzpah. Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, etc.

That sounds dead on to me. I think your right. They both show quite a bit of respect to McCain and not so much for Kerry.