Colbert Ribs ‘Party of Death’ Author
Stephen Colbert trains his mock-Bill O'Reilly act on Ramesh Ponnuru, the conservative author of "Party of Death." Colbert: "You've got a blurb on your cover from Ann Coulter. That's some credibility right there."Stephen Colbert trains his mock-Bill O’Reilly act on Ramesh Ponnuru, the conservative author of “Party of Death.” Colbert: “You’ve got a blurb on your cover from Ann Coulter. That’s some credibility right there.”
Ponnuru’s book is about the Democratic Party and abortion rights, but Colbert does a great job of pointing out the silliness in describing the entire Democratic Party with such an absurdly broad term as “Party of Death.”
Colbert: [speaking in delicious mock earnestness] “Please explain to my audience how raising the minimum wage, universal health care and pulling out of Iraq makes them the ‘Party of Death.’ Because I’ve shouted myself hoarse to them on that.”
Watch it:
Rock Solid JournalismIn 2026, amid chaos and the nonstop flurry of headlines, Truthdig remains independent, fact-based and focused on exposing what power tries to hide.
Support Independent Journalism.
Editorial Cartoons
Immigration
Jean Wilson Brutus, an asylum seeker from Haiti, was detained Dec. 11 and died less than 24 hours later at privately run Delaney Hall in Newark.
TD Original
The language is always evolving, but will mainstreaming evermore hypersensitive euphemisms for “death” really keep the Grim Reaper at bay?
Film
An octogenarian filmmaker turns his camera down life’s homestretch.
TD Original
Can the “death positive” movement help fix our dysfunctional relationship with the inevitability of human demise?
Belief & Religion
Beginning as a response to environmental trauma, proponents of the trend seek to bring ritual back to a culture that has growingly become "grief-illiterate."
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.