{"id":7840,"date":"2006-07-03T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T18:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7840.html"},"modified":"2006-07-03T14:38:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T18:38:58","slug":"the-colbert-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-colbert-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colbert gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times, of all papers, ran a fun story<\/a> today on lawmakers who appear on [tag]The Colbert Report[\/tag]’s “[tag]Better Know a District[\/tag]” segment. Apparently, members are consistently surprised at how much positive feedback they get from people in their district who watch the show, no matter how [tag]foolish[\/tag] the show makes them appear.<\/p>\n

As for the party’s leaders, at least one side knows who Colbert is.<\/p>\n

House Minority Leader [tag]Nancy Pelosi[\/tag], who has been a guest on “The Daily Show,” said the Colbert segment is “humorous,” but wouldn’t recommend members make an appearance.<\/p>\n

“I would think it would be OK to go on if you were live to tape, but don’t subject yourself to a comic’s edit unless you want to be made a fool of,” the California Democrat said. “I think: Why would anybody go on there? Not that I don’t think they have all done very well.”<\/p>\n

Mrs. Pelosi added that she watches the show “all the time.”<\/p>\n

House Majority Leader John A. [tag]Boehner[\/tag] of Ohio, by contrast, said he had never heard of the show. “I’m culturally illiterate,” he told The Washington Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think Pelosi is justified in wondering why anyone would subject themselves to the inevitable humiliation that comes with the territory — I wonder that myself all the time — but I hope she doesn’t discourage Dems from appearing. After all, as Rep. [tag]Earl Blumenauer[\/tag] (D), from Oregon’s “Fightin’ Third,” who appeared on the program several weeks ago, said, “We tend to take ourselves too seriously in this business.”<\/p>\n

No better way than to show humility than to let Colbert make you look [tag]ridiculous[\/tag].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times, of all papers, ran a fun story today on lawmakers who appear on [tag]The Colbert Report[\/tag]’s “[tag]Better Know a District[\/tag]” segment. Apparently, members are consistently surprised at how much positive feedback they get from people in their district who watch the show, no matter how [tag]foolish[\/tag] the show makes them appear. As […]<\/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-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","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=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}