>>>“It’s a lot like the spirit of what Stephen Colbert does — by exaggerating and mocking something, he shows its absurdity, and that is what satire is all about,” Mr. Remnick continued.
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>>I often wonder whether the folks Colbert is lampooning understand that he's playing a character.
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>>Tamar
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>And also interesting that their failure to understand that kind of underlines and exemplifies the stuff he's making fun of <g>

And at times, when he gets one of them grilled using a naive & sincere conservative stand, and with proper faith asks all the wrong questions... and they can't, for any hell they may believe in, understand what was it that hit them :).