This Week
George Stephanopolis
January 15, 2012

  On "This Week", George Stephanopolis interviewed Stephen Colbert about his possible campaign in the South Carolina primaries. Stephen Colbert made an announcement on his show about running, handed over his Super PACs to friend John Stewart, and has caused a good deal of questioning in the media. Polls show that Stephen Colbert has 5% interest in South Carolina, which is more than John Huntsman actually. To clarify the current situation, George wished to interview Colbert about his plans in South Carolina. Colbert expressed that he had not decided on a campaign, but rather wanted to be in an exploratory committee, where he could explore South Carolina and decide if there was a hunger for Stephen Colbert. George, with much hostility, reminded Colbert that South Carolina does not allow write-ins on the ballots, and therefore him running would be impossible. Colbert was taken aback by this restriction on freedom, and said that he hoped the Republican party would be more welcoming than the Democratic party was in 2008. George reminded the audience that Colbert ran for President as a Democrat in 2008, and says that such flip-flopping to the Republican side would not be tolerated by voters. When asked various who would be his VP, Colbert said that maybe he would be his own VP, even if according to the Constitution they must be from two different states. George then showed a hostile ad about Mitt Romney as a serial killer that was made by Colbert/Stewart's super PACs and certainly crossed the line of acceptability In the end. this entire charade of Colbert running for President is humorous, and hopefully all of the country is able to see the irony in it. Colbert's persona as a fundamentalist Republican, in actuality, is contrary to all his actual beliefs. Therefore seeing him at interviews patronizing George Stephanopolis about how corporations are people, and that he agrees with all of the Supreme Court's decisions, is very comical.