How the Left Misunderstands and misunderestimates Steven Colbert

The Left wing "factinista" thinks Steven Colbert is one of them. They think his speech at the Correspondents Dinner was a mockery of Bush and his stellar and (extremely) dynamic administration. But as usual, these lefties are too bloated on sushi, too hopped up on caffeine from their soy lattes, too blind from reading books, that they can't see the truth that's right in front of their four-eyes: Steven Colbert isn't making fun of the administration, he is the administration's speechwriter.

Apparently the White House was so impressed by Steven Colbert's pro-Bush anti-Helen "Dowdy" Thomas video, they decided to keep Tony Snow, but hire Steven Colbert for his great rhetorical skills. One of Colbert's most poignant points at the Correspondents Dinner was: I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states. This Colbertesque turn of phrase is found in Condoleeza Rice's response to a wily Greek reporter who asked Condy weather the U.S. would use Greek facilities to intervene in Iran. The always eloquent Rice, emboldened no doubt, by the bullet proof rhetorical shield provided by Colbert, saw right through the reporter's facade and down and dirty: "Let me go right to the crux of the question," Rice said in Greece. "The United States of America understands and believes that Iran is not Iraq.


If only the left had the courage to believe and understand that Iraq and Iran are different countries and that America exists.