Washington Post reports on the Big Presidential Bid announcement

As you can imagine, the Stephen Colbert presidential nomination story is going to be white hot this week, and we’re going to do our best to cover it as thoroughly as we can.

Here’s an article from this morning’s Washington Post:

Primary-Time TV With Colbert the Candidate
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 17, 2007; Page C01

It has become something of a television cliche: politicians launching their electoral campaigns on late-night talk shows, in a calculated attempt at hipness.

But a late-night comic announcing his presidential candidacy on a late-night talk show–now that is a hall-of-mirrors maneuver worthy of Stephen Colbert. The man known to viewers for his portrayal of a fulminating right-wing blowhard said on Comedy Central last night that he will be a favorite-son candidate in his native South Carolina.

Asked in a world-exclusive interview if he plans to give up his show, Colbert said: “Do you think I’m a fool? Now that I’m a candidate, you people are going to be gunning for me, like you do for everybody.” Not only will the program enable him to bite back at the press, he pointed out, but “you know what it pays to be a presidential candidate? Not well.”

As for the inconvenient truth that he hasn’t lived in the Palmetto State for years, the host of “The Colbert Report” went negative, daring the other candidates to match his appeal back home: “John Edwards left South Carolina when he was 1 year old. He had his chance. Saying his parents moved him — that’s the easy answer.”

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Thanks to Besty for the tip!