Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
For the record, Colbert is a re-affirmed Catholic who teaches Sunday School at his church in Jersey. So while his tongue may be firmly planted in his cheek when he spoofs these neocon talking heads like O'Reilly, he's not doing it to prop up the notions of the Godless Hollywood Elite but rather to bust on the whole cult of personality that is ruining the television news media.

Then he's doing a poor job of it.

Maybe instead of making fun of the media and some conservatives, he should get a real television program and stop being funny about it. We both know that his core audience thinks he's simply making fun of all those guys and they assume that everything he does is based in fact. That's why you get people that say they can't stand O'Reilly, even though they've never listened to him or watched him. I've heard plenty of people, when you actually start asking them serious questions, that come up with the same answers that O'Reilly does. The sad fact is that those people are watching Colbert instead and assuming that that's exactly what O'Reilly does and thinks when it's really the exact opposite.

If he wants to make fun, and have it not taken seriously at all, maybe he should get a show like the Soup. If he wants to be taken seriously, maybe he should start taking things seriously. It's a lot easier to bust on everyone else though.

So maybe Colbert does do it to bust on the media, like how Jon Stewart does the same thing. The problem is that their core audience doesn't see it that way.

It would be different if the younger generation didn't get their main news source from The Daily Show and The Colbert report. If they watched those shows for what they are, which is strictly comedy, and nothing more, then there probably wouldn't be a problem.