What Part of “Satire” Don’t You Understand?
This has to be seen to be believed. On Comedy Central’s Colbert Report a while back, Stephen Colbert interviewed the creator of the upcoming film “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress,” Robert Greenwald. Apparently when Colbert asked him questions like “who hates America more, you or Michael Moore?,” Tom DeLay’s supporters didn’t realize that Colbert’s shtick is that he’s pretending to be like Bill O’Reilly, and the whole thing is satire. And since they didn’t realize it was satire, they put a clip of the interview on Tom DeLay’s legal defense fund raising web site. Think Progress has the story.
It could be my analysis is wrong though. Maybe the folks running DeLay’s site do know it’s satire, and maybe they’re just betting that most Tom DeLay’s supporters don’t watch Comedy Central, and don’t know humor when they see it, so they won’t realize it’s satire.
This isn’t surprising. These guys are so used to getting their way that they are fundamentally clueless about how out of control things look to normal Americans.
They just don’t get it. At all.