So I searched some old Colbert diss threads on here and that cheered me up, thanks comradesrat-salute-2

    • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I don’t think I’ve ever personally witnessed someone get so washed so fast as Colbert did. Like yes, he and Stewart were and are libs, and I’ve moved pretty far left since I was watching them during the Bush/Obama years, but I still watch a lot of lib comedians and he hasn’t been one of them for a long time because he’s just sucked.

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      Colbert was better as a satirical character of the right than as his own self. Much like Stan kelly The actual artist is a typical lib but the cartoon is who we love.

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      it was pretty easy to stick it to bush, and with most of the media running cover for the wars for a few years before the Report premiered, it didn’t take much to seem better. An actual radical would’ve blown our minds.

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        We didn’t have podcasts back in the day. If punk vocalists hadn’t released spoken word albums leftism could have completely skipped a generation.

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      My belief is that his career was carried by underpaid writers on Comedy Central. They didn’t follow him to CBS, so he was exposed for being unfunny