Indeed. I respect John Stewart's style of humour, but Steven Colbert seems to belong to that particularly useless form of political discourse in which instead o

Indeed. I respect John Stewart's style of humour, but Steven Colbert seems to belong to that particularly useless form of political discourse in which instead of addressing what your opponents actually believe, you instead (a) accuse them of believing something that they don't believe and (b) then make fun of them (or in less light-hearted contexts, call them evil) for believing that thing.