Note to DeLay: Colbert is kidding

May 25, 2006

Silly me, I always thought it was fairly obvious that [tag]Stephen Colbert[/tag] of Comedy Central’s [tag]Colbert Report[/tag] was an over-the-top parody. Apparently, [tag]Tom DeLay[/tag] isn’t in on the joke.

[Yesterday] morning, DeLay’s legal defense fund sent out a mass email criticizing the movie “[tag]The Big Buy[/tag]: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress,” by “Outfoxed” creator [tag]Robert Greenwald[/tag].

The email features a “one-pager on the truth behind Liberal Hollywood’s the Big Buy,” and the lead item is Colbert’s interview with Greenwald on Comedy Central (where Colbert plays a faux-conservative, O’Reilly-esque character). […]

DeLay thinks Colbert is so persuasive, he’s now featuring the full video of the interview at the top of the legal fund’s website. And why not? According to the email, Greenwald “crashed and burned” under the pressure of Colbert’s hard-hitting questions, like “Who hates America more, you or Michael Moore?”

In related news, DeLay’s office also announced it has endorsed [tag]Bob Roberts[/tag]’ Senate campaign in Pennsylvania, contributed to [tag]Sideshow Bob[/tag]’s mayoral campaign in Springfield, and has issued a formal refutation to rebut [tag]Al Gore[/tag]’s address to the nation on [tag]Saturday Night Live[/tag] a couple of weeks ago.

Well, you know, Colbert just isn’t funny. Isn’t that what the media said. So you have to excuse the political caricatures for not recognizing the comic ones.

  • This reminds me of the time DeLay picked a fight with the TV show, Law and Order.

    Someone needs to tell these guys the difference between fact, fiction, and parody. It’s not that hard.

  • I hear Delay also shoved some of that Indian Casino money to Mayor McCheese’s campaign, too.

    What a maroon!

  • C’mon! DeLay is clearly the victim here. Those damned Hollywood liberals tricked him!

  • Friggin hilarious. But in a way, this isn’t funny. Someone THAT stupid has been beating the Dems for the last several years?

    How the hell is that possible?

  • Isn’t DeLay supposed to be leaving Congress soon? One would think he’d be more interested in clearing out all those file-cabinets and computer hard-drives. After all, you just never know when the FBI might produce another “Saturday Night Live” episode—complete with search warrant….

  • Ahh, memories of Dan Quayle and “Murphy Brown”

    This also reminds me of when columnist Cal Thomas tried to justify the use of torture with an episode of “24”.

    And who was the Congressman who used Michael Crichton to debunk global warming?

    I guess they’re aren’t any good examples in the real world for conservatives to use to prove their agenda and theories.

  • republicans have cultivated a world based entirely on their own fantasies, which they try to give some scientific underpinning by calling “theories.” so it’s now surprise that they can’t tell fact from fiction and are so tone deaf to irony that they can’t tell satire from argument.

  • The scarier thought is how many DeLay supporters will also not get the joke. Some days the electorate frightens me.

  • If Delay and his aides were ignorant of Colbert before the White House Correspondents Dinner, I might be able to understand. But afterwards?!?! They are either complete fools or they think that their constituents are.

  • Holy crap … I just about had Pepsi come out my nose.

    Like Racerx pointed out, it’s truly sad that someone this mind-blowingly clueless led the Congressional GOP machine and helped defeat Dems so often.

    Sadly, it also shows how inept the Dems are that they lost. I mean, seriously … are progressives so amazingly flacid that they can’t stand up to people this fucking stupid?

  • This has already been commented on for over a day, and they still have the link up. I guess they’re encouraged by the vast increase in hit number, not by the reason behind it. I hope they have to pay extra for the bandwidth.

  • To be fair, it’s quite likely that DeLay had nothing to do with it, and that this was just some stupid staffer who writes these things and puts them up on the site. After all, being the Top Crook in Congress is a 24-7 job, especially with prosecutors always hounding you; so these political and policy decisions are usually delegated to others.

  • I think this points out a more basic fact about the Delay, his cronies and their supporters. Consider:

    We “progressives” know that the Colbert Report is deadly sendup of Faux news and especially Bill O’Lielly. We enjoy it for that fact.

    I think the folks at DelayCorp know this as well, but really don’t care because they know if they label Colbert as “one of us” and try to pass off his “interview” with Greenwald as real news a vast majority of their target audience…their base….won’t know the difference and will swallow the new batch of koolaid.

    Once a true believer starts believing it is amazing what they will believe.

  • Or maybe – once a true believer starts believing it’s hard for he or she to stop.

  • Someone must have clued him in-the clip isn’t at his website anymore. Or rather, I assume it isn’t. I’m not going to run a search on deLay’s website for anything, lest AOL or someone else send out the informatin that I was interested in such a thing.

    Personally, I liked that the last piece of Good News for Tom on the site is from last December.

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