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Some of you super sensitive punks may remember the article Disgusting Democracy, in which your Dominus decried the right of retarded people to vote. I stand by it. Let them pay the social dues of walking a Trail of Tears and starting a Civil Rights Movement to get the political say of any other minority group. Earning it through pity and cuteness is hollow, but if that‘s their weapon of acceptance - I do reluctantly applaud them.

I’ve recently read an online article on the study The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report that now suggests some of them maybe focused in the Conservative movement:

The researchers asked 332 undergraduate communications students for their interpretation of a clip of Colbert interviewing liberal radio host Amy Goodman. And despite Landreville’s generous interpretation, the paper suggests conservative viewers weren’t quite comprehending the “deadpan satire” Colbert employs.

Conservatives not only processed the messages as targeting liberals, but also processed the source as being conservative, Republican, and disliking liberals,” the paper says. “By contrast, liberals perceived Colbert as just kidding.”

– Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune Internet critic

Here’s the interview they saw:

Maybe I don’t have enough barbequed beef or Play-Doh in my diet, but there are two possible ways to interpret Colbert. 1. He’s deliberately not making much sense in the interview for comedic effect (the correct Liberal interpretation) or 2. You’re an idiot for believing such ridiculous points are valid in this discussion.

Colbert’s persona - personality for Republicans - does indeed seem to be very right wing just like someone playing Got Your Nose does seem to have easily and painlessly removed your scent organ. Perhaps they don’t realize the show has subtext? It’s not like the test respondents were students of human communication … oh wait, they were. This further suggests that conservative stupidity is education proof.

Authors of the report tried to duck the political ramifications of there findings and did so in a way that would satisfy the slow readers. Having some disgruntled hillbilly with a Colbert Nation button spraying the halls OSU with an AK is bad for your academic career. Johnson quotes one: “Our results aren’t that conservatives don’t get the joke. It’s that how you see the joke depends on who you are,” says Kristen Landreville, a PhD student in communications at Ohio State University and one of three co-authors. “If you’re conservative, you think the joke’s on liberals because he’s openly making fun of liberals.”

The fact that his accusations towards liberals are absurd enough to be the punch lines of the jokes that maintain a huge nightly audience IS the real comedy of Colbert - as every one else on Earth realizes. They do NOT get the joke, as the responses point out. Colbert Report isn’t an abstract impressionistic painting; translating for the remaining red states: the show is not so weird that no one can really understand it. He came from the Daily Show, with the snarky Jew host y’all hate. His points are ludicrous, taking them as fact leaves you in a world of utter confusion! The response most evolved - or created in God’s image - people have is too laugh, not bellow “Hell yes, bruther!” as you guzzle PBR with your eight kids.

These findings imply that conservatives only look at the surface of things without paying closer attention to the nuances a complexly over-determined world requires you to heed - in remedial English, they’re simple. Here at da Dominion we label such conclusions: Truth.

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