{"id":4603,"date":"2008-10-31T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2008-10-31T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:01:02","slug":"colbert-endorses-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4603","title":{"rendered":"Colbert endorses Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this transcript from Comedy Central&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8220;The Colbert Report&#8221; on WSJ&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2008\/10\/30\/obama-wins-colberts-endorsement-not-his-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington WIre<\/a> yesterday and I thought it was pretty funny.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is time for the media to stop covering these has-beens and start covering this is-be,\u201d Colbert deadpanned, as pictures of Obama-backing Republicans like <strong>Colin Powell <\/strong>appeared on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy endorsement of Obama just now took real courage, the courage to cross party lines from a party that is a staggering mass of flaming agony to the party that looks like it\u2019s got a pretty good shot at winning this thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert reasoned that it\u2019s good to be associated with the winner \u201cand if there\u2019s one thing that this campaign has taught us it\u2019s that we are defined by our associations,\u201d he said, as pictures of <strong>Bill Ayers <\/strong>and Rev. <strong>Jeremiah Wright <\/strong>appeared on screen.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert was quick to add a caveat. \u201cThat does not mean I\u2019m voting for him\u2014I am not crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are plenty of things out there you can endorse but not do anything to support.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He took some pretty good shots at the turn-coat &#8220;Republicans&#8221; and, well, I just thought it was the funniest thing I&#8217;ve read lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this transcript from Comedy Central&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8220;The Colbert Report&#8221; on WSJ&#8217;s Washington WIre yesterday and &hellip; <a title=\"Colbert endorses Obama\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4603\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colbert endorses Obama<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}