Who won this one? Clearly, the big winner was Colbert.
For those not in the US, and for those who are, but who don't watch Stephen Colbert's show every night: he has a late night comedy-talk show, parodying, at least to a certain extent, right wing political talkshows.
Last night he had been expected to showcase Hillary Clinton. And he did: she showed up and was tech-y about fixing his superbig monitor at the back of his tv set. All of a minute, and she was gone.
A few minutes later, he had Edwards on, talking about how he wasn't going to endorse unless he believed in the candidates (oh, and he'd like a jet ski please). Funny as hell, but he's not running any more.
Finally, at the very end of the show, Obama shows up on the huge monitor (yes, the one that Clinton had "fixed"). And was okay.
I think that the big loser in all this was Clinton -- word had been out for days she was going to be on the show, and everyone was expecting a Colbert-bounce for her: but then Edwards and Obama got in the way.
I thought that Edwards was good -- great, even, but I'm biased --- but it didn't matter. What mattered was Obama muted Clinton's thunder.
But above all, I'm blogging about Colbert's effect, and have even mentioned the bounce...
Yours, proclaiming a winner,
N.
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