Stephen Colbert Talks Gay, Larry Craig
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Comedian Stephen Colbert appeared on Meet The Press yesterday to discuss his hilarious presidential campaign. Russert, unfortunately, doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humor and gives Colbert a thorough thrashing on social security, mothers and gay marriage. Of the latter subject, Colbert jokes:
Marriage is the basic building block of society. And if gay men get married, that threatens my marriage immediately because I only got married as a taunt toward gay men because they couldn’t… I just don’t know else—why I got married other than to rub it in gay people’s faces.
Russert's not amused. The venerable journalist then asks Colbert if he'd take Larry Craig on as his running mate. "I would," dead-panned Colbert. Russert, too, remained emotionless, albeit for an entirely different reason.
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I've said it before: Conservatives have no sense of humour.
And there you have it.
Russert should have had some fun with Colbert - the whole thing is SUPPOSED to be a joke! Doesn't Russert have people to tell him these little tidbits BEFORE he interviews someone!??
I think he was in on the joke. I'm pretty sure he doesn't keep Ernie and Bert on the set with him every day.
Couldn't bear to watch this. Luv Colbert but too many find enough excuses not to vote without him making politics more of a joke. Remember: only 537 votes changed History in 2000.
I did catch Russert earlier referring, yet AGAIN, to Giuliani as "pro gay." Yep, I guess that's why Rudy supports DADT and calls New Hampshire's domestic partnerships "too much like marriage." This proves, yet again, that mainstream media do NOT take us seriously. They would never make such a mistake about the positions of a candidate on race or the economy or Iraq.
WHERE's our media watch pussy GLAAD? Where's HRC? Where's NGLTF? Oops, I forgot: NGLTF's Matt "Jim Jones" Foreman sent a media valentine to Rudy a few months ago.
Uh, kids. As Jono has pointed out, Russert is on the joke and mostly did what any "straight" man is supposed to do — let the funny man do the punch lines. If Russert had tried to be funny, it wouldn't have been funny at all.
"Russert is on the joke"
Perhaps. However, Russert presented himself during that interview the way he presents himself every week. Clearly, he felt above Colbert's satire and tried to play "hardball" and Colbert, being a brilliant comedian and a rapid fire off-the-cuff wit, hammered Russert.
Sorta like when Chris Matthews went on the Daily Show and tried to get tough with John Stewart and it backfired.
Let's not forget, Russert's wife wrote the wholly anti-gay and homophobic book about the Gianni Versace murder, Vulgar Favors and Russert spent months pimping the book on his show.
But it's ok, Russert is a Democrat.
Of course Russert was in on the joke. He's been on the show and he keeps his "straight man" purrrr-fect.
Yes, Tim is in on the joke as Larry Craig's wife is in on the joke. Just because they're fat doesn't mean they're stupid.