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Originally Posted by Blaster86
This is the thing: It is an important topic, but it's an important topic that wasn't getting a lot of attention in main stream media.
Guess what, now it is and I think that was Colbert's goal all along.
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Thats actually my point. They've screwed this up to the point where they need a celebrity just so they get noticed.
Then they got it. But they spent the entire 5 minutes ignoring him. You dont think that sends a message? Yeah, they got some publicity, but in regards to them it was negative.
This was not a 'stunt.' Watch the clip, he actually makes some pretty astute observations, and makes a couple of good recommendations. Yes, it was bookended with humour and thus mostly ignored by the holier-than-thou decision makers. Colbert isnt an idiot. He just has a schtick, but he included intelligence into it.
He could have wasted their 5 minutes and just cracked jokes, and you could tell they were expecting it, and wrote him off before he even started talking. They needed the publicity and they got it, but they really looked the gift horse in the mouth on this one.