Aug
11
2006

quote of the day: itty bitty nixons

Stephen Colbert made a surprise appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight, where the two argued about Geraldo Rivera’s recent criticism of their programs.

What are you implying, Jon? That O’Reilly and Geraldo are narcissists enthralled of their own overblown egos? Projecting their own petty insecurities onto the world around them? Inventing false enemies for the sole purpose of bolstering their sense of self-importance? Itty bitty Nixons minus the relevance or a hint of vision? How dare you!

Colbert’s delivery of that tirade is what really makes it memorable. He ended the “conversation” by putting Stewart on notice.

Incidentally, ittybittynixons.com is still up for grabs. And a fan with a whole lot of time on their hands has put together a rather impressive little script that lets people create their own “On Notice” board. (It really is well-done, from the tilted text to the varied-width fonts used.)

Colbert himself has been on a roll lately, between his recent interview with D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton to the whole Wikipedia affair (video).

Edited Aug. 11, 12:45 p.m.: YouTube has has the video of Colbert’s appearance on The Daily Show.

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Comments

I actually saw that! And I thoroughly enjoyed it. I must say, the Geraldo Daily Show-bashing clip was startling in its venom. Especially coming from someone with no real credibility of his own. How amusing that a fake news show has more going for it than Geraldo and O’Reilly’s “real” news shows combined.

How I adored the sand drawing diagram of the location of Geraldo’s head - I’d never seen that before. Utter genius.

I hope this little spat escalates into something more sinister, then maybe Colbert/Stewart can do to them what Stewart did to Crossfire; or at the very least, there could be a greased-down bare-knuckled donnybrook in the Octagon.

Posted by Dari on August 11, 2006 8:30 AM

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