# Stephen Colbert's sister running for Congress in SC **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 20, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815 "2013-01-20T17:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/21 "2013-02-15T02:50:57Z")
I’d go if someone else picked up my tab. Perhaps Stephen has a charity for those who can’t afford to have dinner with him? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/22 "2013-04-04T03:43:50Z")
And now it turns out her Pub opponent will be comeback (or, in some direction or other) kid Mark Sanford. Boy, did Stephen have some fun with **that** just five minutes ago! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/23 "2013-04-04T03:56:56Z")
I say, does anyone else get the impression that the little Frenchy just gave Mr. Scarborough a jolly good rogering? Pip, pip, good show, that! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/24 "2013-04-04T03:59:41Z")
Wait, the Appalachian Trail guy? ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/25 "2013-04-04T04:00:05Z")
Ah, but the bigger question is where, and who, is Sanford coming back from? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/26 "2013-04-04T04:01:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wait, the Appalachian Trail guy? Is that what the kids are calling it now? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/27 "2013-04-04T13:52:26Z")
I think I lost all respect I might have had for Mike Barnacle after watching that clip. I remember reading his column in the Boston Globe when I was a kid, a long long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/28 "2013-04-04T16:23:37Z")
Here is a [Post story](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/04/stephen-colbert-touts-sister-takes-on-morning-joe-coverage-of-sanford-video/?wprss=rss_politics) about Colbert’s segment last night, and it includes the video from it. I predict a whole lot more coverage of the race by him, and you’ll know why after seeing the clip. He has “officially” endorsed his sister. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/29 "2013-04-04T16:43:31Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Here is a [Post story](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/04/stephen-colbert-touts-sister-takes-on-morning-joe-coverage-of-sanford-video/?wprss=rss_politics) about Colbert’s segment last night, and it includes the video from it. I predict a whole lot more coverage of the race by him, and you’ll know why after seeing the clip. He has “officially” endorsed his sister. Colbert Bump! ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/30 "2013-04-04T17:08:57Z")
I’d like to see her as a guest on his show. One of his brothers was a guest one time (I think he was an expert on intellectual property law). Memorable exchange: Stephen: Final question - Col-BEAR or Col-BERT? Brother: Col-bert. Stephen: I’ll see you in Hell. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/31 "2013-04-04T18:16:47Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I’d like to see her as a guest on his show. One of his brothers was a guest one time (I think he was an expert on intellectual property law). Memorable exchange: > > Stephen: Final question - Col-BEAR or Col-BERT? > Brother: Col-bert. > Stephen: I’ll see you in Hell. But I noticed on last night’s show that Stephen (like the news media) refers to his sister as “Elizabeth COL-bert Busch.” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/32 "2013-04-04T18:55:52Z")
If I’m not mistaken, Col-BEAR is how his character pronounces his last name and Col-bert is how his family (and Stephen in his private life) pronounce the name. I remember he once mentioned the charity established in his father’s name and it was pronounced Col-bert. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/33 "2013-04-04T20:21:07Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > If I’m not mistaken, Col-BEAR is how his character pronounces his last name and Col-bert is how his family (and Stephen in his private life) pronounce the name. Wikipedia says he started pronouncing it Col-BEAR in college. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/34 "2013-04-05T08:31:45Z")
Whenever he talks to himself (e.g. “Get it together, Colbert!”) however, he pronounces it “COL-bert”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/35 "2013-04-06T14:39:27Z")
This may be one of those “grasp defeat from the jaws of victory” races for the GOP, reminiscent of the several defeats the Tea Party had in 2010 in the northeast, some of them in supposedly safe red districts. Anyone but a nutjob could have won them for the GOP, but they still lost. So while victory isn’t assured for Colbert, if she wins, it will be because of Sanford. I imagine that while some regular people in SC may have had some sympathy for Sanford in the middle of the scandal, now that it has died down, people won’t remember him getting picked on, they’ll remember his affair and his dereliction of duty. The only people who don’t care and/or think the media was picking on him wouldn’t vote for the Dems anyway. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/36 "2013-04-07T00:22:41Z")
[The election is May 7.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina%27s_1st_congressional_district_special_election,_2013) Rather a short campaign-season, by American standards, from now to then. OTOH, this is going to get even more national attention than it would otherwise because it’s an off-year election. I wonder if that means a lot of out-of-state money will get poured into it. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/37 "2013-04-17T00:53:09Z")
[Sanford](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ex-wife-accuses-ex-gov-sanford-of-trespassing.php?ref=fpblg) doesn’t appear to be helping himself. His ex-wife claims to have caught him trespassing in her home this February and is taking him to court over it. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/38 "2013-04-17T01:50:53Z")
OK, now’s he’s just _trying_ to lose. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/39 "2013-04-17T02:01:21Z")
Yeah, he was sort of counting on people forgetting his previous idiocy. Not much chance of that now. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815/40 "2013-04-17T15:10:36Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > [Sanford](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ex-wife-accuses-ex-gov-sanford-of-trespassing.php?ref=fpblg) doesn’t appear to be helping himself. His ex-wife claims to have caught him trespassing in her home this February and is taking him to court over it. Weird. Maybe he thought her house was on the Appalachian Trail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-colberts-sister-running-for-congress-in-sc/647815.md?page=3)