The Colbert Report
“I don’t trust books. They’re all fact and no heart.” –Stephen Colbert
“The Colbert Report” (pronounced with silent final consonants) debuted last night, and it looks like it will be worth watching, if not quite as much as its parent show, “The Daily Show“. Steven Colbert is hilarious, and some of the digs at various cable news/punditry shows are fabulous. In particular, one clear dig at Lou Dobbs’s “Outsourcing of America” segment noted that Hurricane Wilma (yes, that’s “Hurricane” Wilma, as of about 15 minutes ago) will be the last Atlantic hurricane of the season to carry a designation based on “American” letters. Any future hurricanes, Colbert noted, will be named after Greek letters. This prompted a tirade against the outsourcing of American spelling to low-wage Greek letters, one that involved a Dr. Seuss book and the declaration that Colbert’s alphabet begins with “yuzz”.