Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements.
Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism. Finally, a post hoc analysis revealed that perceptions of Colbert's political opinions fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and individual-level opinion. I think a lot of conservatives are going to be pissed when they realize that Stephen Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was not , in fact, an awkward and ineffective attempt to praise President George W.
Bush, but actually a bitter and satiric criticism of his incompetence! Because why not? Also, please send tips to tv huffingtonpost. I guess not a lot of people in my business are comfortable talking about it.
But it means a lot to me, and it was a big part of my identity growing up. Thank you. Can parallels be drawn there? Everyone approaches their own faith in their own way.
There might be no difference to some people. Faith is an acceptance of reality for me, and it is an attempt to humbly perceive what your role is, and my faith, as anemic as it is, reminds me of values of fellowship, love, humility. Faith is different. Faith is not trying to change the world. Faith is not trying to change God. Faith is asking God to change you. But you asked because you were wondering whether I could give that to you? No, no. I just thought you would help me by having a thoughtful answer to my confused question.
Which you did. I would never want anybody to think I was trying to convince them of my point of view. Because, hey, more Jesus for me. The other day your monologue was about the de facto Alabama abortion ban.
Half of the people are just going to be mad at you. But Alabama was an unavoidable one. The reason we did it was because that was about, I thought, a very cynical, purposeful overreach. That seemed like a real misuse of legislation. Write the law you want, and then see whether the Supreme Court supports you. The whole thing seems so contemptible to me. But that had such a larger political perspective to it that it seemed as though not talking about it would have been an odd breaking of my own rule: We talk about what people are talking about.
Your monologue did make me wonder where you stand on the legal right to an abortion. One of her rights, presently, is to have an abortion. I am not in favor of the judges who have been appointed who might likely overturn that. I respect the women I know and their opinion on the subject. I also know and love many people who feel differently. Thank you for addressing that.
It is a march through a desert comedically, and I do not mistake myself for a political figure. So to return to the idea that people incorrectly might think that you want to be a political player.
Which is understandable, because a reality star is president. We make jokes about Elizabeth Warren. We make jokes about Andrew Yang. We make jokes about Pete Buttigieg. I care about being honest about what people talked about today. In what ways do you know about human behavior? Because of that training, I approach political satire not through politics but: Why is that person behaving that way?
What are the insecurities inside the president? Why does he need to lie? Can you apply that same actorly psychological analysis to yourself? I am late for everything. I can relate anything you say back to something from the legendarium of J.
Tolkien or his letters, to a fault. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out. Tags: political psychology stephen colbert media media psychology excerpt science of us More. Most Viewed Stories.
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