Middle-Class Conservatives Don’t Get That The Joke Is On Them
Conservative pundits exploded on Thursday when CBS announced that Stephen Colbert would be replacing David Letterman as the host of The Late Show. And they werent just mad because a highly paid and powerful position didnt go to a member of the Bush family.
Low-Rated Hyper-Partisan Lefty to Replace David Letterman, screamed a headline from Breitbarts resident funnyman John Nolte.
Noltes colleague Ben Shapiro whose act is based on calling liberals bullies went further and accused Colbert of conservativeface, which to him is like blackface, but worse because its racism against conservatives. Shapiro says that its impossible to watch The Colbert Report, where Colbert performs as a caricature of a blustery right-wing OReilly wannabe, without coming away with a viscerally negative response to conservatives. And frankly, thats Shapiros job.
But when it comes to bluster, the godfather of monetizing right-wing outrage, Rush Limbaugh, is still the alpha of the Fox pack.
Ill give you the short version: CBS has just declared war on the heartland of America, Limbaugh said.
LOL.
As many people have pointed out, Colbert is a practicing Catholic who literally teaches Sunday School. But the right has a point in that hes a worthy target of their hate.
In 2006, Colbert performed at the White House Correspondents Dinner in character and delivered a searing indictment of both the failings of the Bush/Cheney administration and the medias complicity. Though the Washington insiders at the event mostly reacted frostily to Colberts routine, the video went viral and helped put a crack in the baffling veneer that had shielded the administration from so many of its foibles.
So the anger is real, but the bluster is so comically inflated that it points to one of the charms of Colberts conservative character. He seems to be playing with a long-held liberal suspicion that the loudest clowns on the right are putting their fans on because they know extremism sells.
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