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Friday, April 7, 2006
Posted
8:32 AM
by freelance radical
. FASCIST BIGOTS I remember saying long ago, that I'd rather have a conversation with a fascist bigot, than with a wishy-washy turncoat. And I still feel the same way now. When you watch The Daily Show, you know where you're at, and there's never any doubt about Jon Stewart being a fascist bigot. You may disagree with him and even feel disgusted by his often childish approach to authority figures, but he is what he is, and there's no cowardly waffling. When you watch The Colbert Report, however, you've got no idea where this guy's head is at. He seems to want to be all things to all people: a trustworthy friend and a total traitor a supporter of reason and an irrational crazy a political ally and a political foe proud to be male, yet contemptuous of his own gender an informed intellectual and a self-created fool solid as a rock, while built on sand seemingly straightforward, yet manipulative of the truth IT'S DISCONCERTING! If it's true, that he's the youngest of 9 siblings, his personality may have had to constantly re-adjust itself to remain on friendly footing with all of them, resulting in the kind of person he is now. I still like Colbert, and I still think his show is funny, brilliant, and interesting, but his is a kind of duplicity that reminds me of F. Scott Peck's book: +++++++
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