>>>>>“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>
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>>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 :).
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>I think it would be fun to see Bill Mahr, Colbert, P.J.O'Rourke and Dennis Miller mix it up (though intellectually Bill Maher would kind of be punching above his weight)
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>The latter three are all invited to my fantasy dinner party, however - seated near Tom Wolfe and Krauthammer.

I don't think I could stand listening to Dennis Miller for more than 5 minutes. What a pompous windbag.