{"id":433,"date":"2006-07-28T08:24:49","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/28\/stephen-colbert-is-the-news\/"},"modified":"2006-07-28T08:24:49","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T08:24:49","slug":"stephen-colbert-is-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/28\/stephen-colbert-is-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Is the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually post YouTube links and that sort of thing, because I figure everybody else in the world has watched them before I get there, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UANi2TApmuY\">this clip of the <cite>Colbert Report<\/cite><\/a> is too good not to link. He gets right in the metaphorical face of a couple of morning shows that have done pieces about how he makes politiicans look silly, and absolutely blows them out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s sad is that he could probably do something similar with <cite>Meet the Press<\/cite>, with about the same results. The clip of the one representative struggling to name all Ten Commandments is absolutely priceless, and the fact that it could only appear on a comedy show tells you everything you need to know about what&#8217;s wrong with our political media culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually post YouTube links and that sort of thing, because I figure everybody else in the world has watched them before I get there, but this clip of the Colbert Report is too good not to link. He gets right in the metaphorical face of a couple of morning shows that have done&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/28\/stephen-colbert-is-the-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stephen Colbert Is the News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}