Stephen
was doing a segment about how one reporter at a time is allowed to follow Mitt
Romney around as he pretends to shop at a home improvement warehouse store and
a supermarket. Stephen said the “hard-nosed Will McAvoy types will say this is
just mindless campaign fluff to run out the clock until the conventions.”
(And
Stephen is right—it is mindless campaign fluff. Is anyone is going to believe
that anyone as rich as Mitt actually does his own shopping? And that he has time for such mundane tasks
while running for president?)
It
is an interesting crossover—the fictional commentator talking about the
fictional news anchor. Stephen was
referring to McAvoy’s vow to only cover “real news” and not the made-for-TV photo
ops and the sensationalist stories. It
is especially pertinent reference because Sunday’s show (8/12/12) is scheduled
to deal with this very subject. Will
refuses to cover what he calls” tragedy porn.”
Now that Will has been on The Stephen Colbert
show, will he get the famous “Colbert bump”?
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