Stephen Colbert, ‘arch conservative’
Here’s a great read submitted to us:
To use a word coined by Stephen Colbert, the writer and actor, there’s a certain “truthiness” about Stephen Colbert, the character and host of Comedy Central’s ” The Colbert Report.” Indeed, Colbert the character, a right-wing blowhard on a one-man mission to reeducate the ignorant, is convincing enough that a recent Ohio State University study found that a majority of conservatives polled believed Colbert the man was one of them.
The irony couldn’t please him more. “I’m thrilled by it!” he says, sitting in his New York office, a pack rat’s homage to the show crammed with pictures and props and a “Lord of the Rings” pinball machine. “From the very beginning, I wanted to jump back and forth over the line of meaning what I say, and the truth of the matter is I’m not on anyone’s side, I’m on my side,” he says. “The important thing is that the audience laughs.”
