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lol @ conservatives (they don't know colbert is joking)
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Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's Joking
by Jason Linkins
04/27/09 08:49 PM
Last week, Stephen Colbert revisited a segment he had done on Florida Representative Bill Posey, who sponsored a bill that "would require future presidential candidates to provide a copy of their original birth certificate," in order to put insane rumors of President Barack Obama's birthplace to bed.
Colbert thought a similar measure should be taken to end the whisperings that Posey was a human-alligator hybrid. Posey, in response to Colbert, said, "I expected there would be some civil debate about it, but it wasn't civil...There is no reason to say that I'm the illegitimate grandson of an alligator." And one wondered, "Does Posey not realize that Colbert is not speaking in earnest? His reaction seems uniquely stupid!"
Stupid, yes. But apparently it's not unique at all, according to a study from The Ohio State University, which proves, with math and stuff, that lots of conservatives seem to not understand the intrinsic, underlying joke of The Colbert Report:
This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert's political ideology. Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism. Finally, a post hoc analysis revealed that perceptions of Colbert's political opinions fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and individual-level opinion.
I think a lot of conservatives are going to pissed when they realize that Stephen Colbert's performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner was not, in fact, an awkward and ineffective attempt to praise President George W. Bush, but actually a bitter and satiric criticism of his incompetence!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/...1899.html?tsp=1
apparently they still don't understand that stephen colbert has been making fun of them all these years. lol. |
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| Waterproofpaper |
| Lol i was reading about this not too long ago.. its hilarious because Colbert is a parody of Bill O'Reily and that fool acknowledges him and wants royalties lol. He was joking of course. |
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| R!CH |
other reasons to lol @ conservatives... al franken victory, arlen specter defection, senate supermajority on the horizon :toocool:
bravo republican party, a well-deserved political implosion! keep pandering to religious wackjobs, party that represents 20% of america. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by R!CH
other reasons to lol @ conservatives... al franken victory, arlen specter defection, senate supermajority on the horizon :toocool:
bravo republican party, a well-deserved political implosion! keep pandering to religious wackjobs, party that represents 20% of america. |
LOL, They really are scoring so many own goals at the moment. |
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| starboy |
I love it.
The democratic party moves to the left and wins the senate, house, and presidency.
The republican party moves to the right and suffers deeeevastating losses and shrinks to 21% of the electorate.
At this point I would be embarrassed to call myself a republican, their failure and innability to lead is spreading like cancer. Really all thats left are the tea baggers, palins, and loons at fox nutwork. |
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