Can She Be Serious?

My roommate and I don't always agree. Abby is a conservative while I am very much a liberal. Our opinions don't always mesh. Although we get into heated debates from time to time, I have never been as fed up with her as I was last Friday. We got into an argument that lasted for what seemed like a life time. It wasn't even a conservative vs. liberal argument. It was a ridiculous topic that seemed to me like common sense.


Abby and I were discussing TV shows when the show "The Colbert Report" came up. She told me that she was able to get her boyfriend to watch it because it is a conservative show. I laughed when she said this because I thought she was joking. Moments later I came to find out she was serious. She actually believed this political satire was based on conservative beliefs and ideas. She was appalled at the notion that Stephen Colbert is actually making fun of conservatives. I could not imagine how anyone who watches this show on a regular basis could believe this. It is so obvious to me, and most other people I know who watch this show, that he is spoofing conservative talk shows. So we argued about this until we just could not argue anymore. She would not even consider that I might actually know what I was talking about.


This argument got me thinking. I wonder if there are many other conservatives that watch this show and feel the same way Abby does. I wonder how many conservatives chuckle at Colbert's sarcastic attacks on liberals not understanding the actual point of the show. I never considered this before Friday, but this show could go over the heads of many people who tune in every week. If this is a common occurrence, than these conservatives who do not grasp the point of the show are almost justifying what Colbert is saying with his show.