Colbert didn’t invent or coin the word. According to a 1989 Los Angeles Times article, “Democrazy…was used in 1946 at the Japanese War Trials by Shumei Okawa, a former propaganda minister of Japan.”

Spinoza750
“dishonest and disgusting and racist some liberals are”

Examples please, then if you have any, compare them to Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly and countless others who fill the airwaves and the press

>>>You do realize that The Colbert Report is a *parody* of right-wing pundit shows, yes?

Certainly,—-so I could be wrong, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

There is a tendency for “liberals” to be right wing on some foreign policy issues and that was the “tone” that I detected in this case. 

Comedy and ideology are sometimes in the eye of the beholder.

Uh, Spinoza…You do realize that The Colbert Report is a *parody* of right-wing pundit shows, yes?

It is truly amazing how dishonest and disgusting and racist some liberals are. Colbert just gave a full court press. Arabs don’t think like right wing (liberal) Americans so they must be crazy and democracy is a bad thing. It is truly hard to understand how this lack of empathy developed on the part of so called educated people.

May I suggest a history lesson?

The anti-colonial liberation movement was based on Arab Socialism and Pan Arabism. (1950 – 1970’s) The socialism represented all sorts of views but the USA in anti-Communist mode used the CIA to attack all left modernizing movements and with their friends in Saudi Arabia supported and very well funded, Islamist movements. The CIA was literally killing leftists and paying for the printing of Korans. Communism in the anti Colonial struggle was a form of Nationalism. Islamism today has been turned into a form of Nationalism.

I would have much preferred Communism to Islamism as the zeitgist of the region. It should be also mentioned in passing that the Israeli government as it moved to the right and became a neo fascist militarist state also tended to support Islamists against the leftists such as the PLO.  History has turned a “cruel” joke on the Jews. They wanted tho control a Greater Israel and it doesn’t look like it is working. The Islamists have turned into a form of Nationalism which Israelimerikkka calls terrorists.

Be that as it may, the nationalist movement is cast in somewhat fundamentalist tones. DEAL WITH IT!  It was Israelimerikkka that created this ideology.  Hamas and Hezbollah are people, reasonable people as much as any other, negotiate with them.  Stop acting like racist fools.

Oh, I misread the headline to read “Midwest goes democrazy.”  That might be closer to the clinical reality: voters, fearing an onslaught of Ay-rabs, elect a government that sends troops to Iraq to avenge 9/11, follows a “borrow and spend” fiscal policy, promotes reliance on foreign oil, and sends real wages to the cellar with imports of Chinese goods and Mexican labor.

You totally followed one of the rules in Stephen Colbert’s article for “Wired” called “Be an expert in everything”.  He said:

USE THE WORD ZEITGEIST AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don’t really know their definitions: zeitgeist, bildungsroman, doppelgänger – better yet, anything Latin. But avoid paradigm. It’s so 1994. If you say the word paradigm, everybody knows you’re a poser.

Here’s a link to that article, which is amazingly funny and features some really bizarre pics of Stephen Colbert looking very Max Headroom-esque:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/colbert.html