What the Left Believes

[ProSense]

From the RW WSJ

BY JAMES TARANTO
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 4:38 p.m. EDT

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What the Left Believes

We have often suggested that the left in America doesn't really stand for anything. Well, we stand corrected. Evidently the left in America stands for one thing: the proposition that Stephen Colbert is funny, or at least that he was at the White House Correspondents Association dinner over the weekend.

The Puffington Host has been a hotbed of pro-Colbert crusaders, but there have been a couple of dissenters: Nathan Gardels and Robert George. Gardels compares the number of reader comments to his earlier posts with that for his criticism of Colbert, in which he also said he found President Bush's act funny:

When I write a serious blog I can almost count the responses on my hands, like "Globalization's New Left," (4) about the planet of slums or "Dim Hopes for a Secular Iraqi Constitution" (14).

Insulting the Prophet is one thing, but insulting Stephen Colbert, the patron saint of the piously correct left! That's really blasphemy. Doesn't this blog mobbery alarm anyone else? It can't be such a good thing if this is where the heralded evolution of the new media is leading.

As we write, Gardels's original post has 321 responses, and his response to the responses has another 102 responses. George's criticism of Colbert has 371 responses. That's 794 in all, and the number is no doubt higher as you read. Maybe someone should run a third-party campaign for president on a Colbert-is-funny platform.


http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008326

This is part of a RW collection of articles in an op-ed titled "Best of the Web."

[Mythsaje]

1. I didn't see it, but it sounds as though Bush's act WAS funny...

Of course, I'm not sure I want a comedian for a President.

[ginnyinWI]

3. Well, his impersonator was funny.

Bush was just acting the straight man for that bit, just reading a speech with appropriate pauses for the comedian impersonating him to do his schtick. The double was good--better than the guy who does * on Saturday Night Live.

[beingthere]

2. No way around it, everyone needs laughs. n/t

[walldude]

4. Woo hoo, another clueless asshole comes around to

tell me what I believe and don't believe... :eyes:

[incapsulated]

5. "The Puffington Host"

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Now THAT is funny, kids!

:eyes: