The Guardian: Stephen Colbert and Herman Cain, together at last (and Cain didn't get the joke)

[highplainsdem]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/jan/20/stephen-colbert-herman-cain-together?newsfeed=true

He then moved swiftly on to introducing the man whose bus he had arrived on. "A Her Man is not the same as a She Male – I don't want to frighten any Santorum supporters … I have believed in the message of Herman Cain for several days now … I want you to vote for Herman Cain because Herman Cain is me and he posseses the one thing I don't think I will ever have: a place on the South Carolina ballot".

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Apparently the only person who missed the joke, Cain segued into a version of his stump speech, itself rehashed on Thursday for the South Carolina Republican leadership convention. The crowd shuffled awkwardly and wondered if it would be OK to leave before the encore. Satire threatened to fall apart in the face of grim reality as a candidate not famed for self-awareness appeared to be under the impression the crowd was there to hear about cainconnections.com

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Though the event itself sometimes conspired to miss the point, Colbert came good at the end. "The pundits have asked, is this all some joke? If they are saying this is a joke, then they are saying the whole system of campaign financing is a joke."

Perhaps the ludicrous pinnacle was Cain, to popular demand, again quoting his favourite Pokemon anthem, The Power of One, before warbling his way through Believe In Yourself, from The Wiz. To which a sanguine Colbert responded: "All I can add to Herman's eloquent quotation of Pokemon is: 'Gotta Catch Them All'."

[spanone]

1. herman thinks it's about him when it's really about him.

[immoderate]

2. Stephen Colbert is being humorous.

--imm

[annabanana]

3. If SC gets a bunch of votes as Herman Cain, I'll bet Herman will actually think

that they're HIS.

There is nothing funnier than a "not an it-getter".