Political Views,
As a liberal who laughed all the way through Steven Colbert's performance, I would just like to end this stupid argument once and for all.
Yes, I laughed, and laughed, and my jaw dropped with the brazenness and stamina of his much lauded act. Sometimes I would remember he was within feet of those he was attacking with comic snark, and my laughter would get quieter and nervous for him. I suddenly felt like a true American again as he hilariously threw all of it directly into the face of a horrific president. I laughed, I giggled, I gasped in sheer joy, then shock.
And then it ended and a silence ensued, only broken now and then by the MSM to declare, completely without context, that Steven Colbert, the man with the biggest balls on earth, was just not funny.
To be honest, my first reaction to this being said was outrage, but something inside me stirred, choking the expression of it off in my throat. Steven Colbert 'not funny'? I wanted to point out the obvious, and then I realized, the obvious was not being pointed out by anyone.
Both sides are 100% correct. Steven Colbert, the comic genius that amazed us that fateful night, was in no way shape or form, 'Funny'. We had every right to laugh at his perfect form and timing, yet it was never once meant to be 'funny'. I realized every time he made me snicker, it was hilarity without any amusement what so ever.
No, Steven Colbert was technically not 'funny'. But he was as charming and entertaining as any single person could be while simultaneously eviscerating a war criminal to his face, and completely surrounded by the ones that cover up his crimes. He stood in all of their faces and force fed to them all of their hypocrisy, willful blindness, and propaganda. To them it is an absolute fact that he was just 'not funny'. With humor, he damned and implicated almost all of those within reach. To admit he was anything more/less than 'not funny', would be to admit he was dead serious, and they have yet to figure out how to deal with a quagmire of their own making.
He stood in all of their faces and force fed to them all of their hypocrisy, willful blindness, and propaganda. To them it is an absolute fact that he was just 'not funny'. 
The next time the president mocks the search of WMD while our sons die, laughter will no longer be an acceptable response. And the entire main stream media that did laugh with him knows their time has come, and no longer will they be able to laugh off the ones that know and understand their crimes against We the People. Their crimes against our own nation can no longer be laughed off.
George W. Bush killed droves of the innocent. Steven Colbert killed the laughter that followed. In my heart I will be forever grateful to him. I know that he did it for me, and for my children. Never has a greater or bolder patriot been born. He took my sorrow and drew it out, and showed me how easy it was to laugh at the fear. He taught me I could still laugh in the face of monsters.
The silence that followed, has been decidedly 'not funny'. But it was never meant to be. The silence was the whole point, after all. Every show, funny or not, must come to and end. Steven Colbert was not trying to keep the laughter going, he was trying to stop it. And he did so single handedly in a hilarious moment of gravity that we are still staggering under the weight of.
Yes, I found him amazing that night. But, I agree, it just was 'not funny'. Accusing people of serious crimes to their faces rarely is.
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Christy Cole is an associated editor in MWC. She can be reached at Christy@mwcnews.net
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