Thank You Stephen Colbert, for speaking "truthiness" to power
Let's give thanks to Stephen Colbert for letting us in on the fact that there is a "Fact Free Zone."
He compares himself to W. -- a simple man, with simple ideas, who thinks and acts from his gut. I was cringing while watching this -- because I realized that I am not as brave as Colbert, even though I think I am pretty cheeky. My Chinese good girl training would have paralyzed me with guilt if not something worse if I were given a chance to speak 'truthiness' to power -- it was something I remember being told every day of my life about saving face for paternal authorities regardless of whether they deserved any kind of merit or respect and the order wasn't given in such abstract terms -- thank goodness Colbert was free from such conditioning!
He compares himself to W. -- a simple man, with simple ideas, who thinks and acts from his gut. I was cringing while watching this -- because I realized that I am not as brave as Colbert, even though I think I am pretty cheeky. My Chinese good girl training would have paralyzed me with guilt if not something worse if I were given a chance to speak 'truthiness' to power -- it was something I remember being told every day of my life about saving face for paternal authorities regardless of whether they deserved any kind of merit or respect and the order wasn't given in such abstract terms -- thank goodness Colbert was free from such conditioning!
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That must have taken a lot of courage. Why on Earth would they have hired Colbert to speak in the first place?!
Either the White House correspondents are really really subversive, or they never watched Colbert Repor(t).
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