Comments on: Stephen Colbert in Iraq

By: Furhead

Furhead — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:28:58 +0000

In fact, Colbert is a founding member of the Librarian Party.

LOL, they sound pretty smart, I'd like to join.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:39:10 +0000

Re troops: I was just watching a YouTube of The Guess Who's "No Time" and I found this comment:

Soldiers fighting in Vietnam, this song playing everywhere, we were in our teens. Very innocent, not aware of the bad side of life. Seeing Woodstock festival and wondering what was happening.

Vietnam. 1969. Not aware of the bad side of life. My God, all those young boys.

By: Mithras

Mithras — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:47:17 +0000

In fact, Colbert is a founding member of the Librarian Party.

By: HiItsNino

HiItsNino — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:35:48 +0000

Its funny that you assume troops are all conservatives. I don't understand where that stigma comes from. Additionally, I don't think Colbert is a liberal,more of a librarian which is more closely aligned with what real conservatism is supposed to be. Yes, he mocks so-called conservative idiot O'Reilly, but that because of the ridiculousness that is O'Reilly.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:24:05 +0000

Most troops are the demographic age of Colbert's audience, troops are not all uniform conservative automatons who have no sense of humor, BTW.

Peace or wartime, big-time celebrity or lesser known act, I've always appreciated those that came to visit the troops in the fields or the war zones. A big HOO-AH to Stephen Colbert for doing something he surely does not need to do in order to make a lot of people laugh in a place where you need to laugh, because crying is unseemly.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:16:52 +0000

I like Colbert as he is, but even I was glad he changed his act for these shows. I don't think it would have been appropriate for him to be his usual character. And it was still damn funny.

By: Matthew Stinson

Matthew Stinson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:33:58 +0000

Even though he's a liberal pinko, Colbert's a good egg.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:12:50 +0000

From what I saw, Colbert was pretty well received, as was the president, esp. when he made the joke about his ears.

That was my impression. Soldiers are pretty gracious to USO entertainers and commanders-in-chief. And for all I know Colbert's show is popular with the troops, ideology or no. (I like it, even though I'm not on his side on most issues.) But it's not the same thing as, say, putting on a show at Harvard.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:53:28 +0000

But for a liberal comic known to be opposed to the war to go to the war zone and submit himself to the brutal scrutiny of young soldiers takes a set [of cojones] as well.

From what I saw, Colbert was pretty well received, as was the president, esp. when he made the joke about his ears.