I generally enjoy(ed) the Colbert Report, even though he is a leftie masquerading as a hard-Right buffoon, because he usually does it well enough that even left-leaning political figures are afraid to come on his show for fear of him winning an argument with them.
The trouble arises whenever he does a piece related to guns...
Interviewing Mike Huckabee a couple months ago, Huck being a pro-gun figure who kissed Colbert's butt in order to get cheap publicity, Colbert starts "advocating" making it legal to buy guns in other states and ship them to New York City, etc. etc., basically parroting typical anti beliefs about guns and gun-related crimes. Irritating, but not too damaging.
Then a couple days ago he does a piece on Tennessee and the push to allow CHL holders to carry in bars. He finds a couple yahoos who say dumb things like rednecks, guns, and alcohol don't mix so the law is stupid, one guy shoots pool using a pump shotgun for a cue, you get the idea. He takes the dregs of society and makes them "gun experts", quoting their uninformed opinions as representative of gun owners and gun rights advocates, which sickens me. After this second piece I'm pretty well done with his show, clever as it occasionally is, because I can't stand to sit through another smirking rendition of "gun owners are backward, toothless morons who just want to shoot people".
There was a time when I felt he was somewhat respectable, perhaps even close to middle-of-the-road, as he gave both sides a hard time and made his fellow liberals nervous. Now I see his beliefs on this issue, and how arrogant and unreasonable he is about it, and conclude that he has lost another viewer who used to think he was funny. I had given up on his pal Jon Stewart years ago after he started taking himself seriously as a pundit and started pushing an agenda, now Colbert is doing the same thing. Like I said, it's irritating... Anyone else noticed this, either with these guys or another show where it was all fun and games until they did a piece on guns?
gp911
The trouble arises whenever he does a piece related to guns...
Interviewing Mike Huckabee a couple months ago, Huck being a pro-gun figure who kissed Colbert's butt in order to get cheap publicity, Colbert starts "advocating" making it legal to buy guns in other states and ship them to New York City, etc. etc., basically parroting typical anti beliefs about guns and gun-related crimes. Irritating, but not too damaging.
Then a couple days ago he does a piece on Tennessee and the push to allow CHL holders to carry in bars. He finds a couple yahoos who say dumb things like rednecks, guns, and alcohol don't mix so the law is stupid, one guy shoots pool using a pump shotgun for a cue, you get the idea. He takes the dregs of society and makes them "gun experts", quoting their uninformed opinions as representative of gun owners and gun rights advocates, which sickens me. After this second piece I'm pretty well done with his show, clever as it occasionally is, because I can't stand to sit through another smirking rendition of "gun owners are backward, toothless morons who just want to shoot people".
There was a time when I felt he was somewhat respectable, perhaps even close to middle-of-the-road, as he gave both sides a hard time and made his fellow liberals nervous. Now I see his beliefs on this issue, and how arrogant and unreasonable he is about it, and conclude that he has lost another viewer who used to think he was funny. I had given up on his pal Jon Stewart years ago after he started taking himself seriously as a pundit and started pushing an agenda, now Colbert is doing the same thing. Like I said, it's irritating... Anyone else noticed this, either with these guys or another show where it was all fun and games until they did a piece on guns?
gp911