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Stephen Colbert: Tonight We Are All Phil Robertson

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ObserverArt12/20/2013 3:15:33 pm PST

re: #189 Political Atheist

I think timing and accident has a lot to do with the volume. Slow news moment for examples. Show just getting renewed.
The anger itself has become popular like a hit song. And BTW highly highly counter productive if you want to make those guys have less money, fewer viewers or sell less merchandise.

Are you just seeing it one way though? How about letting it play out and see if it is another building block in things changing. Stuff takes time. You’d have to admit with what happened in a state like Utah today when viewed against Phil DuckHead it is going to make people really have to think and when viewed historically is another block in the building of gay rights.

Maybe they are a dynamic reflective of the times and the reactions on both sides are of that reflection. Ducks one day, two days later Utah. Rather dramatic.

If someone could plot out the line from say something like the Stonewall Riots in 1969 to where gay rights are this very day, I’d think you’d be impressed with that plot line and a rather rapid increase in the last say, five years. Is the reaction on that same kind of a line?