First Things: Stephen Colbert and the Value of Truthiness
By Nathaniel Peters
Thursday, November 8, 2007

In the November issue of First Things, Joseph Bottum wrote, “The weakest set of candidates in living memory has taken the field, and we still have more than a year left of watching these people, lumbering and blumbering toward the goal line.”

I thought it wrong at the time, for the dark horizon had a new blazing star: Stephen T. Colbert. But last Monday, a dolorous day in America’s history, the Democratic party of South Carolina burst my hopes and denied Colbert a spot on their ballot. Bottum’s pessimism was right after all. Back to the blumber for the lot of us. the rest