You aren't a TV show. Your in real life.
People say he is anti. I say he is a for-profit entertainer. He is someone who listens to his audience. He understands his audience wasn't laughing at his skit. They were cheering. Of course there was dramatization and characterization, it was a SKIT. That doesn't mean it was negative.
You are missing the point...
Colbert isn't JUST an entertainer. He is engaged in a VERY subtle and insidious form of "predictive programming" wherein he uses satire to play a buffoon in order to make the "left" think the "right" are ALL like him. Most people don't really grok the sophistication of Colbert's milieu.
Most folks on the "right" think he's a mean-spirited wanker leftie making fun of them, and most folks on the left think he is oh-so-clever and only see as far as his mean-spirited right-bashing.
Few realize what he is
actually doing, which is programming BOTH sides to believe that the OTHER side is composed of complete idiots. Colbert CAN be funny, but at the root of it, he's just another tool of his evil puppet masters. The complex levels of subtlety in his delivery is the ONLY thing that separates him from the heavy-handed, ham-fisted partisanship of MSNBC and Fox.
At the heart of it all, he's just another propaganda minister, placed on the screen to stratify, spread disinformation, and foment divisiveness. Sure, he's funny sometimes. Sure he makes some GOOD points occasionally. Sure his social commentary is astute. The true danger of his forked tongue is that it is coated in a thin veneer of truth.
"the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." --Hermann Goering
Propaganda is propaganda. Sometimes it wears brass knuckles, and sometimes it wears a Brooks Bothers Suit.
But the hand inside is ALWAYS a fist...