Can somebody explain his political views?
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Elfharpist — 17 years ago(December 05, 2008 02:11 PM)
From 2004:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,677356,00.html
QUOTE:
Are you a Democrat?
Listen, it's a secret ballot. Yeah, I'm a Democrat. I'm not asking anybody to vote for Democrats or Republicans. I say everyone should vote for both candidates except me. Just let me vote for Kerry. Then we'll be fine.
About 2008 election night:
'In a brief interview after the broadcast backstage, Colbert was still rattled.
"I've never had this feeling before, which is: Things went well on Election Night," said Colbert, whose political views are not his character's. "I'm a little stunned. I don't kn5b4ow what to do with my happiness. I'm still afraid someone's going to take it away."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwVfAOIN1AMkfENTSrmdmy9qk40QD948JQD80
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Elfharpist — 17 years ago(December 05, 2008 03:58 PM)
It's satire. He's mocking the highly opinionated pundits.
This is a rather interesting interview with Colbert at Harvard Law:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5550134133036374310
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gfgbabycakes232 — 17 years ago(December 06, 2008 11:08 PM)
Wow, that is an interesting interview. He still doesn't really elaborate on his political views though. Thanks for the link!
Fate .. protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise." -Riker
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Elfharpist — 17 years ago(December 07, 2008 12:34 AM)
I don't think he really goes into much detail over his political views. I think they sometimes leak out through his character in different ways.
He talks about it a little in this recent interview:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-11-20-colbert-christmas_N.htm
"My show is about emotions. It's about feelings, not thoughts. It has a philosophical bent to it. But it has to be the character's feelings, not your feelings," he says. "I'm conservative in some ways, and it doesn't matter to me if the audience knows if I ever mean it, as long as they keep laughing. And sometimes I mean what I say. It doesn't matter to me if the audience knows if I might agree with my character sometimes. I won't tell you what I agree with him on, but sometimes I do agree with him."
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MrAleisterCrowley — 16 years ago(November 05, 2009 01:25 AM)
Very true. His hatred of bears runs very deep. He won't less those furry brown bazztards get away with anything. I am proud of his willingness to take them on and call them out. Nobody else did before him (except O'Reilly)
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bamboopandacat — 16 years ago(September 25, 2009 11:06 AM)
Ya know on the show the day of Obama's innaugeration (how ever that's spelled) he said he was sad, because he's a republican. Then he showed footage of Bush crying at the speech (the shocked look) then he did the same shocked look.
He flashes the red light when his politcal views are stated.
His character sticks up for the right side.
I just assumed he was Republican, but maybe he changed because he also tried to claim he was black. Maybe he's now a black..lol..democrat. ha.
I bet he did that on purpose just because he forsaw this very conversation happen. Like "Hahaha one day people will admit to each other that I really am a black democrat, easily related to the President". -
col_rutherford — 17 years ago(December 14, 2008 10:27 AM)
It's funny that there are so many people who think that Colbert is actually a conservative Republican. I wonder if these same people also think that Spinal Tap is a real band or that Jonathan Swift was seriously proposing that Irish children be sold as food.
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bootnuts — 16 years ago(April 27, 2009 10:35 AM)
Exactly, His whole show is a Bill O'Reilly Parody, if not making fun of all conservative pundits. (not that Im a liberal by any means, it's just that his program is set up strikingly similar to O'Reilly's show)
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lisagirl117 — 16 years ago(September 24, 2009 04:43 PM)
It surely is so amazing that so many conservatives don't get this, but then again, as Stephanie Miller put it, many of them are chronically "irony deficient". I would think, as pointed out, just with " The Word" segments, you would have to also have serious vocabulary problems not to notice which way the dagger is pointed.
And yes, I would bet more than a few think Spinal Tap is no different than Led Zeppelin.
