Reply #3: don't be too hard on him...

[pretzel4gore]

he can't like bush, or busheviks, or repukes, or any of that - but he still has a job to do, and he probably doesn't get much advice...and remember, alot of Colbert's jokes are contingent on knowing the background story (for example, does Ludicris know about scalia's obscene gentures? alek trebek would, but Ludicris lives among people who distrust the media at best, and prolly only look when it concerns them; also Plame, and the fitzgerald investigation. Would Ludicris even care about the doings of those who persecute/imprison vast numbers of his brothers etc?)