Blah blah wha?

[trinityofone]

Do all these people really not get that Stephen Colbert often gives statements in character, or am I missing something?

I'm going to be stuck at work forever. Sigh.

Comments

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

Well, that third one, from Bookslut, is really a quotation of the first, so I wouldn't count whichever of the Bookslut bloggers wrote that. They pretend to take The Onion seriously, after all.

But yeah, I'd wondered the same thing about that first guy. I suppose it's possible they don't even know who he is.

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

Quotation of the second one, not the first.

[lilac-way.livejournal.com]

Librarians from Downers Grove are notoriously unhip and dull. The kindergarten teachers are much more with it. (cringes from throngs of west-suburbanites on your flist coming after me with a pitchfork)

[suzy_queue]

Sigh. I'm sad to say he's actually the head ref librarian in my hometown, Western Springs. As a librarian myself, I'm disappointed in him! Get a sense of humor, man.

[lilac-way.livejournal.com]

Ha! I knew someone would know him! My great aunt was a librarian in Downer's Grove for years and she had NO sense of humor.

[suzy_queue]

LOL! This is why I work in Oak Park. Hip, mod and senses full of humor. *g*

[hypothalamus.livejournal.com]

I sort of got the vibe that they were kidding, too.

That's just sad.

[amy13.livejournal.com]

Clearly they did not see his show the night after the november elections when he had a "congratulations terrorists" cake made...

It's SATIRE. The word of the year is truthiness, so clearly Merriam-Webster gets the humor.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I kept looking at it, hoping they were kidding (especially #2). But if they are, it's not very funny or I'm much too stupid to get the joke. (Which the Bookslut lady seems to think is hilarious, if you read her comment.) Hence my posting here with a big old "HUH?"

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

It's a small world after all!

[stungunbilly.livejournal.com]

It's a sad day when the wordinistas have more finely tuned senses of irony than the people who shepherd books and their slutty ways.

[ferret-kitty.livejournal.com]

*sighs and shakes head* People are so dumb sometimes. Not that I don't agree that Colbert occasionally takes it over the top, but I'm never so silly as to think that he's not kidding the entire time.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Some people just think he really is an ultra Conservative Republican, not that he's just playing one on TV. It's kind of sad...

I'm joking, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I think my post has been misunderstood (though I can now see how it could be taken that way). I love Stephen Colbert and understand that he is in character. I just wanted to point out the funny quote to my friends. I should have stopped at that point and not added the closing statement.

Re: I'm joking, too.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Ooops. Sorry! I thought that you must be joking, but then I didn't get the last statement, and I've been stuck at work late all week and just wanted to know if I was going nuts. Which is still possible, but either way, my apologies for misjudging your with-it-ness. *g*