Some of you don’t understand how hard anti-gay conservatives are making Stephen Colbert’s job. With so many ridiculous presumptions — gay marriage in D.C. will force the Catholic Church to abandon the homeless; Rhode Island’s gays don’t deserve to plan their partners’ funerals — this man is charged with defending their
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It get what Colbert does, but does he have to pull out every gay stereotype to do it?
That seems intellectually lazy.
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In No 2 Name wrote, “It get what Colbert does, but does he have to pull out every gay stereotype to do it? That seems intellectually lazy.”
His audience is not “intellectual” – otherwise it wouldn’t be on
“Comedy Central”. What he’s doing is trotting out every gay stereotype to make those look ridiculous. The actual LGBT people he showed looked respectable and completely normal.
Meanwhile any bigots watching it hear the audience laughing at how stupid the stereotypes are. Subconsciously, they are learning that the audience is actually laughing at them.
dontblamemeivotedforhillary
Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow and John Stewart bring more people to our cause than Queerty. Colbert Nation is a fake right-wing pundit who points out hypocrisy of mostly Republicans by faking umbrage and undoing their fear-driven logic using highly-scripted satire of their ignorance, and obviously yours! Go back to school, Crystal Children of the Revolution!