Webster definition of Sycophant:: a servile self-seeking flatterer = MSM

[oc2002]

Yes, that is the real issue that Colbert has exposed not just the President as a incompetant fool, but the main stream media that continues to prop this administration up before the Americna people as a strong leader. It is no wonder that they are shocked when someone exposes them in public, in front of the entire nation as frauds and betrayers of the public trust, to whom they say that they serve in the media.

[William Seger]

1. Easy to tell the sycophants

Satire is "not funny" to the target or the target's sycophants.