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Who Is The Real Stephen Colbert

My man-crush on Colbert is no secret. But this study comes as a huge surprise. (H/t: Benen). First, a request: anyone with lexis willing to e-mail me the full article? If you're too lazy to read the abstract, the nickel version is that conservatives don't realize that Colbert's a satire. They think he's pretending to joke but is offering serious political commentary. [insert puzzled look here].

Second, my immediate thought on the matter: this would certainly explain why someone at the White House thought it wise to ask Colbert to deliver the keynote address at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2006 (Benen quotes someone with a related observation). I still think that speech will go down in history as the beginning of the end of the modern GOP. Today's big news about Sen. Specter crystallizes this.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).