Colbert's shtick is to play a parody character with his own name "Stephen Colbert," who lampoons Fox News types. But through this reverse psychology he pushes a liberal agenda.
On Wednesday, Stephen Colbert announced, "I'm disappointed by how little progress we've made on the gαy marriage issue. The gαys continue to threaten my happy marriage by threatening to have their own happy marriages."
This is said in character, and is supposed to be sarcastic -- everyone's supposed to laugh. The subliminal message is that it's reactionary to be against gαy marriage.
Colbert has made jokes against ecuмenism though and sadly many people think this means he is Catholic.
Even if he were perfectly orthodox, to base your entire life on blurring the line between your true identity and a character you are playing and to be sarcastic with every breath you take hardly seems compatible with any Catholic approach I've ever heard of. He's a master of confusion like so many out there which is why the Jєωs use him. I remember watching his show before being Catholic and I just never got it. Like I said, he's supposed to be parodying a Fox News type, but he really doesn't come off that way, so that joke falls flat. He is also playing himself at the same time as he plays the Fox News type, so what you have is a liberal left-wing psuedo-Catholic making fun of neo-con Protestants -- but in an unfunny and inexact way -- and blurring these two personae. No wonder it's confusing.
I think you're supposed to feel like you're stupid if you don't laugh, like it is going above your head somehow. The devil is pulling some kind of psychological test on people, because there are lots of people like that, who hate to be out of the loop and will go along with anything no matter how stupid to show they are hip. I wonder if in his mind Colbert thinks he is actually doing the right thing.
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