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Did you happen to catch Stephen Colbert announce his candidacy for President of the United States of America? The NY Times reports he's planning to run in South Carolina primaries, and that he's "serious enough about the stunt that his staff reached out to the state’s Democratic and Republican committees in advance of his declaration." The S.C. Democratic committee says they'd have no problems with him running.
Colbert already has his own tv show, a comic book, an ice cream, a minor league hockey team's mascot named after him...even infiltrated Maureen Dowd's NY Times column! Perhaps this was the only way he could outdo himself. Raising the bar even still, he said "he said he hoped to run as both a Democrat and a Republican."
No one seems to understand the motivation behind his announcement, but it couldn't hurt in the promotion of his book I Am America (and So Can You!). Check out how it went down on Tuesday:
The South Carolina primary is expected to be held on Jan. 26. Would you vote Colbert? And tonight, his guest is Craig Newmark of craigslist.
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I wonder if registered Republicans or Democrats would actually vote for Colbert. I mean, I can only imagine that his supporters would register in order to vote for him, versus the party-affiliated who might think of it as a wasted vote.
Hillary Clinton just called me about Steven Colbert's candidacy. She said that once she suspended disbelief about the seriousness of his candidacy she just had one question: Don't you think he'd be a better president than Bush?
"We're sorry, this video is no longer available" :(
I guess Viacom did a smackdown.
Here's the video on Comedy Central's simple media player: LINK
You must have missed his appearance on the Daily Show the day before announcing his consideration to announce his contemplation of candidacy.......in South Carolina.