[lbo-talk] Colbert on Daily Show yesterday, post-Bush bashing

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 2 11:54:54 PDT 2006


Sean Johnson Andrews wrote:


>I think O'Reilly a pretty big wuss himself when he's off his own
>plantation. He's only tough when he can tell people to shut up and
>if they don't listen he can cut their mike. He's tough in the same
>way that the president is tough--lots of institutional instruments
>at his disposal which mean that he never really has to defend
>himself--physically or rhetorically.

Of course, but he comes across on TV as bubbling over with aggression. Style meshes well with content. With Colbert, the words say swagger but the body language says pussy.

Doug



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