anthonyqkiernan
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Edited Nov 01, 2007, 13:38
Colbert For President! - beyond satire?
Nov 01, 2007, 13:36
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I've posted in praise of The Colbert Report a few times before.
On October 16th he announced that hewill be running in the 2008 presidential race.
Today, CNN are reporting that he is filing to put his name on South Carolina's Democratic primary ballot. Why the Dems and not the, more obvious, Republicans?
The South Carolina native will not file papers as a Republican because the $35,000 required to get on the GOP ballot is apparently too high a threshold.
"They priced us out of range," the source told CNN.
I have a (bad?) feeling that once this ball gets rolling he's not going to be able to stop it.
I'm reminded of Jello Biafra running for mayor of San Francisco where one of his supporters carried a banner reading: What if he wins?
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embryonomore
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Re: Colbert For President! - beyond satire?
Nov 01, 2007, 14:32
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Colbert is a genius. I'd love to see him win.
His Whitehouse Correspondants Dinner speech was the stuff of legend. I don't know how he didn't get shot afterwards.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Colbert For President! - beyond satire?
Nov 01, 2007, 14:42
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He's got a book out called I Am America (And, So Can You) which is top of my Xmas list.
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embryonomore
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Re: Colbert For President! - beyond satire?
Nov 01, 2007, 16:11
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Just added it to mine :)
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zphage
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Re: Colbert For President! - beyond satire?
Nov 03, 2007, 18:39
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South Carolina is nice, but irrelevant. I am sure everyone is being very polite to him. Let's up the ante do TX, FL, PA, NY, CA, OH, IL, even Iowa or New Hampshire.
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zphage
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Edited Nov 10, 2007, 23:29
Re: Colbert For President! - beyond satire?
Nov 04, 2007, 20:53
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Midnight Oil's Peter Garett seems to be the real deal, so much so the Australian Prime Minister has him in his sights, trying to brand him a "radical"
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