re: #172 Charles
The important difference between Colbert and someone like Rush Limbaugh: with Colbert you never get the feeling that he’s simply mean or vicious. His humor is basically good-natured, and very often has a real point lurking amid the sarcasm.
Limbaugh, on the other hand, is a bitter, angry, vicious man, and what he calls “humor” is really just thinly disguised hostility.
Disguised? I never noticed any disguise.