Rep. Adam Smith will appear tonight on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, as the latest victim in the show’s “Better Know A District” segment. Why? According to Rep. Smith’s press release: “A lapse in judgment on the part of Smith’s communications director.”
No truer words were ever spoken. Or, um… written.
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You just know that Colbert will have a copy of The Wealth of Nations for him to autograph …
Why do people care what Colbert does? He’s just a comic seeking cheap laughs and ratings. “South Park” is funnier.
What is the problem? I love Colbert and as long as you have a sense of humor while you are on it turns out just fine.
The Fightin’ Ninth!
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Ha, probably. Although, every Democrat he interviewed before 11/06 either won re-election or defeated the incumbent. Darcy needs to get on there next year.
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Didn’t he interview that long run challenger from Central Jersey who had no chance in hell? That was comic.
Anyways I really don’t get why people thing this is such a huge mistake. For all the hype he really comes off as look far more like an ass than his interviewees do.
And he’s 5 times funnier than South Park has been for years, with the possible exception of the Scientology episode.
Windowdog @ 7: I don’t know anyone who thinks it’s a mistake. If a Republican doesn’t have a card full of Rove’s talking points, his brain freezes; that’s why Democrats do better on the show. Even after editing, the common sense shows through.
I don’t think appearances like this could be further from political suicide. For practiced politicians, anything that enables them to show some personality is a great thing.
Charlie Smith@8: I guess it was Karl Rove’s fault Dollar Bill Jefferson took those $500K in bribes too!
Smith did better on this segment than either of the other two Washington reps who have tried. Smith understood what Baird and Larsen did not: Colbert is the funny one, don’t try to to be funnier than he is. I have to give props to all three though because they each recognized the Colbert is playing a character on the show. Colbert’s funniest segments come when the guest is some right winger who thinks Colbert is one of them.
I thought he held his own pretty well. Especially with the whole NAMBLA thing :-)
Mr. Smith did great, not just on NAMBLA but on the shrink rays too.