Sat 31 Mar 2007
Last Wednesday as I was heading home from work, I saw a “Colbert 08″ bumper sticker. Keep in mind, this is in a small rural town in North Carolina. That is when I knew Colbert has really reached out to the masses.
I am beginning to have a sneaking suspicion that more people than I realized, or hoped, are now becoming political active… maybe. Colbert Nation, Daily Show, and Bill Maher all have growing audiences. In traditional media, Keith Olbermann, Anderson Cooper are getting more traction. Lou Dobbs has been trashing the Bush administration for the past three years and it gets worse every night (well, so does Bush). Even Joe Scarborough is cutting Bush no slack as he continuously goes for Bush’s throat.
Then there is social media. On Technorati, “Bush,” and “war” have been on the top tags list for years and YouTube is now the defacto place to go for candidate announcements, ads and user created mash-ups. (Bash-ups?)
Either way, we now may be living in a true Colbert Nation.
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April 1st, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Call it cynicism, call it being disenchanted with the government in general…but unless you know of a place that makes customized bumper stickers I am not able to support who I think should be on Capitol Hill (this goes for presidency, vice-presidency, congress, the whole lot).
Untrained Monkeys for [Insert Office here].
Seriously…I really think Untrained Monkeys would do a better job. Trained Monkeys would be better still, but, just like evolution, it takes baby steps.