Also this one: "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home"

It seems like every time I tire of Stephen Colbert's faux-right-wing schtick, he pulls one out of his ass and blows me away.

Last year, it was his amazing bit at the White House Correspondents Dinner, which bombed in the room (sometimes, the satire, she cuts a leeeetle too close to home) but was a huge hit on the internets. (On a side note, it was announced that this year's comedy guest at the WHCD is Rich Little. I'm not kidding. Apparently he's the only comedian in the "still alive" category who can squeeze under that very low "things that insult the president" bar.) Last night, Colbert sliced far-right uber-idiot Dinish D'Souza into teeny tiny little bite-size pieces, and then pushed the plate away and said “I’m done, thanks,”and all the while agreeing with everything he said. It was a thing of beauty, I tell you. It's not on YouTube yet, but you can see it on the official show site.

D'Souza was hawking his new book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. His arguments were pretty much what you expect from someone whose most brilliant idea ever was to become a brown-skinned pet for the war-mongering elite in the Republican party. Seriously, you'd think that someone from an Indian background would understand that when Bin Laden refers to "infidels," he's not referring to the Hollywood/homosexual/atheist/ liberals that D'Souza is attempting to scapegoat for his own personal profit, but to anyone who doesn't subscribe to Bin Laden's own brand of radical Islam, the end. I mean, how fucking hard is that?

Never mind the irony of us poor liberals being blamed for 9/11 and the downfall of our great nation by exercising those same personal freedoms that supposedly define our worthiness in the annals of nationhood.

What's a poor homosexual liberal Hollywood atheist to do? Perhaps the right could come up with a list of behaviors that they find acceptable, and us liberals could conform to them voluntarily, so as not to upset that whole delicate "freedom" idea that we're so found of espousing.

I just hope, when they come up with that list, that they remember that old "do as I say, and not as I do” axiom.