Let me begin by saying that I'm a huge fan of comedian and his show, The Colbert Report. It's a show on Comedy Central where he satirizes popular right-wing pundits, like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Joe Scarborough. It's hilarious, and the satire disguises the fact that there is some really biting commentary on the Bush administration and the major media.
However, every now and then he seems to foray into some sort of attack on, for lack of a better word, web institutions. He's gone after Wikipedia (through satirical praise of it's practice of consensus editing), encouraged his users to rig a Hungarian online election (to vote for a celebrity to name a bridge after) and a similar online vote for a high school mascot. The message seems to be that online collaborative efforts are flawed, and subject to sabotage. I don't get where he's going with this. Wikipedia and other recent web developments are a large part of why a growing number of voices critical of the administration are being heard. The rise in power of the blogosphere is due in a large part to the fact that your average blogger doesn't have some corporate sponsor to appease, and can really let out their point of view. The blogosphere even carried the story of his speech at the White House Correspondent's dinner after the major media by and large snubbed the story. I just don't see why he would bite the hand that feeds him...
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Those who do, are those who say, and those who say, are those who know Rabbert is thy name. Foreclosure on the american dream is not the ideal of the conscious, yet we still have ice cream trucks....this is why I must remain anonymous....
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