Hello, everyone! I hope you all had lovely Christmases and other holiday celebrations. I had a nice trip home, myself; it’s always good to see family at this time of year.

Catching up on my Colbert news now …

I still await audio and/or video from this terribly awesome-sounding panel (especially since it obviously exists!), but here’s another wonderful recap from the Second City panel with Stephen and the Colbert Report writers; I’ll excerpt just a bit of what they said about Beck. From The Atlantic:

Colbert Dishes On Bush, Glenn Beck, and MSNBC
Dec 23 2009, 9:23AM
James Warren

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As for Glenn Beck, the panel discussed the challenge of maintaining a separation between reality and satire when so many TV pundits are simply, premeditatedly over-the-top.

“I said, ‘Let’s start doing some Glenn Beck stuff but in praise of Glenn Beck,’” said Colbert. “But every time we do one, he will have done something dumber. He raised the stupid bar and now it’s nearly inapproachable.”

“I worry that if we use that as a model….if somebody doesn’t believe what they’re saying, it’s very hard to out-stupid them,” said a decidedly analytical Colbert. “Because then there’s no place to sink our hook into, there’s no mountain to climb there. I can’t climb Glenn Beck since there’s nothing there.”

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Read the full article here

There’s much, much more in the full article (on the WHCD, Olbermann and Maddow, etc.), so get reading, everyone!

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