Clinton Plays Dirty; Is Obama Anti-Colbert?
There has been muy muy speculation recently that South Carolina Democrats’ decision to keep Colbert off the Democratic ballot was somewhat influenced by the demands of certain high-profile Barack Obama supporters. The LA Times lays the story out with a bit more context than one is used to reading in campaign coverage, causing us to overlook the paper’s status as a liberal fishwrap from a should-be-annexed state of total disregard for the American way. Anyway:
Well, during the last day or so behind the scenes, the Clinton folks, who play hardball, have been shopping around to some writers (not this one) a story idea that a couple of prominent Obama supporters had lobbied the South Carolina Democratic Party’s executive council last week to keep Stephen Colbert off the state’s primary ballot, which they succeeded in doing.
When you think about it, that’s probably a good idea. Colbert, a funny fellow who plays a political talk show host on his Comedy Central show, got Doritos to sponsor his candidacy and claimed to be showing the fundamental hypocrisy of the political system by trying to run in both parties’ primaries.
He’s good for a laugh, and normally serious Tim Russert even had him on the normally respectable “Meet the Press,” for a faux serious candidate interview. The “truthiness,” as usual these days, is that Colbert’s “campaign” provided priceless free publicity for his TV program and new book.
And here we are, Nation, with no one to blame but the political process itself. Did Obama’s people actually push to keep Stephen off the ballot? Did Hillary’s people spin harmless political canvassing into a desperate plot to destabilize Obama’s support among one of his target demographics: The Colbert Nation (provided Stephen is not on the ballot and orders us not to include him as a write-in for staggeringly noble purposes)? Is it wrong to insert elaborate parentheticals into absurd hypotheticals in any context? These are questions for the ages, my friends. By which I mean I have no earthly idea.
All I know is I’m going to continue to go through a carton of Americone Dream a day until the truthiness is revealed and this crisis is over. By which I mean, I hope I wake up soon.