Marist actually conducted a poll on Stephen Colbert's chances in South Carolina. Here's my favorite question asked in the poll:
"More than four in ten members of South Carolina’s potential Republican electorate — 41% — report this is the most serious poll they have ever participated in. 58% say it is not, and 2% are unsure."
The New York Times article about it has more details but I posted the related videos below. You can also go to the website for the Colbert Super Pac to sign up for the mailing list.
And you thought bipartisanship was dead, right? Jennifer Steinhauer of The New York Times profiles the interesting friendship between New York Democrat Anthony Weiner and Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz that started with their mutual dislike of mohair. Weiner is known for his raucous TV appearances:
In spite of their political differences, one thing they do have in common is neither seems to take himself too seriously, much like another Utah Republican, Orrin Hatch, and his description of his relationship with Ted Kennedy.
"Disagreements over policy, however, were never personal with Ted. I recall a debate over increasing the minimum wage. Ted had launched into one of his patented histrionic speeches, the kind where he flailed his arms and got red in the face, spewing all sorts of red meat liberal rhetoric. When he finished, he stepped over to the minority side of the Senate chamber, put his arm around my shoulder, and said with a laugh and a grin, “How was that, Orrin?”"
If laughter is the best medicine, perhaps levity is the best route to bipartisanship?
Oh no he didn't!?! Oh yes he did! On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert compared last Thursday's Health Care Summit to a marriage counseling session for Democrats and Republicans. ENJOY!!!
Here is the clip from last night's Colbert Report, where his Sport Report (pronounced SPORruh-POR) talks about a scandal involving the Indian Cricket team, and its coach's unusual instructions, as well as some good old-fashioned American trash talking with the Canadians over speedskating.
Just a quick blurb to follow up my recent blog post about Stephen Colbert in Iraq. He had a great signoff at the end of his last show from Iraq that's worth seeing if you didn't catch it then:
Looks like this week is Stephen Colbert week in politics. He is recording his shows from Baghdad all week and is the guest editor of Newsweek for the week. Here are his "editorial" in this week's Newsweek and a few video posts from Colbertnation.com and Morning Joe.
By the way, I know I haven't blogged in a while about sports (actually, I haven't blogged much, period) but I do have an opinion about interleague play in Major League Baseball that I've been kicking around for some time that I will share when I get a chance.
The Morning Joe gang (minus Morning Joe himself, Joe Scarborough, who must have been off getting his umpteenth Starbucks before 7:00AM) discussing the head shaving video (shorter version of previous video):
A funny interview with Kanishk Tharoor, the son of former UN Under-Secretary General Shashi Tharoor, who is currently running for the Indian Parliament from the state of Kerala.
