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This is why so many of us love and respect you.

Well done.
Posted by Tracy]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:19:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Nine of Cups]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:29:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by innocentAnnieApples]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:13:52 -0800 The Stranger
how many people get colbert to (nearly) break character? i didn't think he would make it! *snorting*

i saw your first interview on the report also, and you certainly held you own then too. this one was better than the last, and - at the risk of being jinxy! - your next appearance will outshine this one. very, very well done.
Posted by happyhedonist]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:15:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Jake Arakelian]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:28:36 -0800 The Stranger
You did a great job, one of the funniest segments I've seen! My favorite... 'But old people are the real villain of the piece, but they're dying, which is of some comfort.' HAHA
Posted by erly]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:51:47 -0800 The Stranger
Now, way back up there @ 9 and 16 there was some discussion of wardrobe. My humble opinion is that a jacket wouldn't kill you -- it's always nice to look like you made a bit of effort!
Posted by itsmarkmitchell]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:36:23 -0800 The Stranger good job!!! way to represent us!!
Posted by UROCKDAN]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:06:00 -0800 The Stranger
I'll reserve opinion on whether I think Jamison's calling Jews defensive is race baiting until I read him. It might well be. But I'm certainly not going to take your word for it. It would depend on how he framed the accusation. It might indeed have been needlessly antagonistic, mean spirited, inaccurate, misleading, an assertion stitched together with faulty data, or an overly generalized statement (kind of like what Savage has done over the last few days)!

Dan is a race baiter because -- and I'm quoting myself because its faster -- His initial and continued framing of this discussion casts blacks as the primary villain in the passage of prop 8 -- whether you are anyone else acknowledges that or not -- when race is only one of a huge range of ways of looking at what happened and when the polling data he cites is suspect. He is so totally clueless about homophobia in black communities (note the plural) that he can't help but be needlessly antagonistic.

He is a race baiter because he doesn't seriously entertain the idea that there are other ways of defining the constituencies that put prop 8 over the top that are not as obvious and easy to target as black ethnicity; he doesn't attempt to understand important shortcomings in comparing the black civil rights struggle with the struggle of gays for civil rights, He doesn't question the use and misuse of polling data or its sources, and he doesn't say anything about how he decided at what threshold homophobia gets a color and becomes especially threatening.

He just starts with a headline that screams "Black Homophobia!!!" and asserts baldly that it is more of a problem for gay black people than the racism from "the handful" of white gay people that we encounter. Says who?!

Also, again repeating myself, the reason we are all talking past each other on this blog is because we are starting from the presumption that there is a gay community. There isn't. The idea of a community based on sexual orientation is dubious and will disappear entirely once major civil rights hurdles for gays are out of the way. That is ultimately why many black gay people don't trust Savage ( to put not to fine a point on it) and is one of the sources of their lack of full participation in the gay rights struggle.
Posted by HDS]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:45:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by K.]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:25:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by jonB]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:01:32 -0800 The Stranger


Posted by Ayden/VA]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:56:12 -0800 The Stranger "Exit polls suggest that first-time voters -- the vast majority of whom were driven to turn out by Obama (he won 83 percent [!] of their votes) -- voted against Prop 8 by a 62-38 margin."
Voting 'against' = voting on our side.
Posted by BeenThere]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Judah]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:25:42 -0800 The Stranger
I'll sign onto that!
Posted by Dan]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:51:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by lorinyc]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:23:59 -0800 The Stranger Posted by lorinyc]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:22:15 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Katie]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:49:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sfdj]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:49:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Julie in Chicago]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:48:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by idaho]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:46:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mifflin & Bassett]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:44:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Superfrankenstein]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:42:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by VDD]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:41:59 -0800 The Stranger
You totally rocked Colbert!

Thanks and love,

wiseblood
Posted by wiseblood]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:41:27 -0800 The Stranger