Digital Journal.com has release an article dubbing Stephen Colbert one of the “10 Rebels With a Cause”. He joins fellow awardees such as Anderson Cooper, Johnny Depp and the creators of South Park. Here’s an excerpt from the article:
Digital Journal Presents: 10 Rebels With a Cause — Stephen Colbert
By Digital Journal Staff
July 27, 2006Digital Journal — Maybe it’s the easily arching eyebrow or the deadpan delivery. It could be terms like “truthiness,” which he coined and was later canonized by the American Dialect Society as its 2005 Word of the Year. Stephen Colbert deserves the applause — he broke away from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to star in his own self-titled show, acting as a Bill O’Reilly-esque anchor who is apt to ask his liberal guests: “Why do you enjoy hurting America?”
For a fake anchor, Colbert has been luring some high-profile politicos to endure his rapid-fire grilling, like Michael Brown, former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and chief bungler of the New Orleans debacle. Brown played patsy to Colbert’s faux sympathy, which raises an interesting idea: Colbert’s right-wing extremism mocks those guests who might agree with him, so The Colbert Show is emerging as the true voice of the political centre.
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