{"id":7507,"date":"2006-05-25T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2006-05-25T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T14:41:01","slug":"note-to-delay-colbert-is-kidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/note-to-delay-colbert-is-kidding\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to DeLay: Colbert is kidding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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). […]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. And why not? According to the email, Greenwald “crashed and burned<\/a>” under the pressure of Colbert’s hard-hitting questions, like “Who hates America more, you or Michael Moore?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In related news, DeLay’s office also announced it has endorsed [tag]Bob Roberts[\/tag]’ Senate campaign<\/a> in Pennsylvania, contributed to [tag]Sideshow Bob[\/tag]’s mayoral campaign<\/a> in Springfield, and has issued a formal refutation to rebut [tag]Al Gore[\/tag]’s address<\/a> to the nation on [tag]Saturday Night Live[\/tag] a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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]. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}