Comedians excel at searching out and defining reality making us aware of our hypocrisy whereas professional politicians are masters of evading and distorting reality.

But does Colbert have the guts to crack jokes about AIPAC and it’s ridiculous unethical immoral control of America once he is President?

I would vote for a comedian to the President of this Tragic-Comedy of Errors we call America - but isn’t it time to have a President who will be a little less - rather than a little more - subservient to AIPAC and Israel?

I know how to react to what Stephen Colbert is doing and have even made a point to try to lay it out in writing:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/10/who-is-stephen-colbert.html

On the other hand I have absolutely no idea how to react to this Editor & Publisher post.  If it was meant as a gag, then it sorely lacks any of the style of delivery that makes Colbert (and, for that matter, Jon Stewart) attract such a following, in which case I would advice “E&P;Staff” (whoever they may be) to go back to their day job.  However, if this article WAS a piece of “day job” work, then “E&P;Staff” should have known better than to lay on us a sentence like “If he keeps gaining over 10% a week, Colbert should be leading the field before November is out” (not to mention using Huffington Post for most of its sources)!  All campaign watchers know that this sort of momentum is a tricky phenomenon that NEVER grows linearly!

Personally, I think that Colbert is playing the same sort of postmodernist game that I previously attributed to Pete Stark’s apology:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/10/chutzpah-denied.html

If Stark’s use of the word “insignificant” represented an act of RESISTANCE (rather than opposition) “against a Congress whose normative practices undermine the democratic foundation that the Constitution tried to lay down for it” (as I wrote in the above link), then Colbert is calling on us all to resist an outmoded electoral process, which is also undermining our democratic foundation (as we saw all too well in both 2000 and 2004).  Like the protagonist in MAN OF THE YEAR, Colbert is smart enough to know that he would not do a particularly good job in the White House;  but supporting him may be the most effective way for us to voice our resistance to a hopelessly broken electoral system.  As they used to say in the Sixties, “If you’re not part of the solution, you can at least make the problem so bad that someone will have to fix it!”

it would be amusing if a comedian actually won the presidency. kind of like that robin williams movie, man of the year. he could roam around the oval office looking for WMD. he could make fun of texas death row inmates. he could smirk and snicker at helen thomas. desi could come back from the dead and say “lucy, you have a lot of “splainin” to do”. fox would surely sign him up for two terms and then cancel him after one week because nobody watched the first episode.

Yeeeeeees baby! You are going to the fucking White House! I’m signed up with Steven on his Facebook. It’s making politicos very, very nervous. Wouldn’t it be a total shocker he took this bastard like he owns it?