GetReligion asks a good question: why is it that Colbert is so often more informative about religion than the mainstream broadcast media?
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HUMor, HUMility, HUManity - three things that the mainstream journalistic media do not understand - but Colbert does. He works each of these with the dexterity of a juggler tossing mice in a room filled with kittens.
"why is it that Colbert is so often more informative about religion than the mainstream broadcast media?"
Because 'religion' (at least the Christian religions as we used to know them) got hijacked, no, make that usurped by radical, extreme rightwing religious nutjobs like Hagee, Swaggart, Falsewell, Robertson, Haggard, Dobson, Perkins, Reed, Hinn, etc. So much so that the vast majority of Americans got turned off and subsequently tuned out. They simply do not see Dobson's rantings (or the rantings of any in the far-from-complete list) as even close to a Christian message.
Nevermind the very fact that there aren't 24/7 televangelists for religions other than Christian religions, and neither is that indicative of "religion" in America.
Colbert is simply more accessible than holier-than-thou pontifications from the radical 'religious' 'right'.
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