I Googled my last appearance on the Colbert Report because I was worried that I brought the same shirt with me to NYC. Luckily my boyfriend packed my other teevee shirt. Stephen is going to be talking with me about—can you guess?—Prop 8. And, yes, I am going on Colbert in my official capacity as spokesperson for all gay people everywhere.
This should be fun. 😀
Gross!
Well if we gotta have a spokes person… your the one I’d choose. Break a leg!
Nate Silver’s comments, and the stats he links to, state that NEW VOTERS opposed Prop 8. So if Dan wants to point out that Blacks and Hispanic voters gave Prop 8 its win (a mathematically correct point), he should feel free to.
@4
You are amazing. You’re better than Colbert tonight.
@49. By your deifinition of “race baiting” there are very few AA journalists and civil rights leaders who don’t fit the bill. Do you think that’s fair??? Rob Jamison from the Seattle PI wrote a while back that when the topic of Israel came up Jews seemed to be overly defensive and not really open to criticism. Does that make him a race baiting black man??? Under the defintion of “race baiting” should be a photo of Jerimiah Wright. He can criticize everyone, makes crude racial stereotypes and is willing to condone hate speech from Louis FaraKKKahan, . but when anyone says a word about him he rings the bell “THEY ARE ATTACKING THE BLACK CHUUUUUCH!!!!”
Dan gives criticism but he can take it too. Which is more than you are up for apparently.
omg Dan like… make Colbert speechless four times! I didn’t think that was possible!
Dan,
You totally rocked Colbert!
Thanks and love,
wiseblood
The shirt looks very new.
“It’s what we do after saddlebagging.” HAR!
That was amazing… I’ve never seen Colbert cover his face with cue cards in delight like that before.
Colbert is no match for you Dan!
Everybody already said what I was going to say. You flummoxed Colbert. Good job. That was some entertaining television…
You can be my spokesman anytime, Dan.
Just watched you on Colbert… I know it’s his style to interrupt and misconstrue, but I wish you would have had more of an opportunity to talk.
Good work today, Dan! You’re “rantcast” was spot on and you killed on Colbert! I loved your dog whistle analogy. I think the opportunity is there to change the frequency now… the energy feels different, right? (too bad it wasn’t there BEFORE the vote, though =/)
shit, “your” (sorry, grammar queen)
So, do we NOW have to sign on to an assisted suicide prop… you know, to help the old folks along?
I’ll sign onto that!
I “spokesfaggot” a term in use? Because if it’s not, it should be.
@54- What version of Silver did you read? The one I read said that new voters voted against Prop 8:
“Exit polls suggest that first-time voters — the vast majority of whom were driven to turn out by Obama (he won 83 percent [!] of their votes) — voted against Prop 8 by a 62-38 margin.”
Voting ‘against’ = voting on our side.
You were wonderful, Dan – just wish you could have been on longer!
My boyfriend didn’t understand why I thought you were so funny and good for the gay community. He does now!
You were great tonight. I enjoyed watching you out insult Colbert. You both are sexy.
@57
I’ll reserve opinion on whether I think Jamison’s calling Jews defensive is race baiting until I read him. It might well be. But I’m certainly not going to take your word for it. It would depend on how he framed the accusation. It might indeed have been needlessly antagonistic, mean spirited, inaccurate, misleading, an assertion stitched together with faulty data, or an overly generalized statement (kind of like what Savage has done over the last few days)!
Dan is a race baiter because — and I’m quoting myself because its faster — His initial and continued framing of this discussion casts blacks as the primary villain in the passage of prop 8 — whether you are anyone else acknowledges that or not — when race is only one of a huge range of ways of looking at what happened and when the polling data he cites is suspect. He is so totally clueless about homophobia in black communities (note the plural) that he can’t help but be needlessly antagonistic.
He is a race baiter because he doesn’t seriously entertain the idea that there are other ways of defining the constituencies that put prop 8 over the top that are not as obvious and easy to target as black ethnicity; he doesn’t attempt to understand important shortcomings in comparing the black civil rights struggle with the struggle of gays for civil rights, He doesn’t question the use and misuse of polling data or its sources, and he doesn’t say anything about how he decided at what threshold homophobia gets a color and becomes especially threatening.
He just starts with a headline that screams “Black Homophobia!!!” and asserts baldly that it is more of a problem for gay black people than the racism from “the handful” of white gay people that we encounter. Says who?!
Also, again repeating myself, the reason we are all talking past each other on this blog is because we are starting from the presumption that there is a gay community. There isn’t. The idea of a community based on sexual orientation is dubious and will disappear entirely once major civil rights hurdles for gays are out of the way. That is ultimately why many black gay people don’t trust Savage ( to put not to fine a point on it) and is one of the sources of their lack of full participation in the gay rights struggle.
AHH! YOU TOTALLY FRIKKEN ROCKED THE REPORT!!! that is definately my most favorite clip of the colbert report ever. and that’s saying something.
good job!!! way to represent us!!
Fantastic job, Dan. You’re damn good.
Now, way back up there @ 9 and 16 there was some discussion of wardrobe. My humble opinion is that a jacket wouldn’t kill you — it’s always nice to look like you made a bit of effort!
I was following my morning routine, watching The Daily Show and the Colbert Report on Hulu at work, and got very giddy when you were introduced.
You did a great job, one of the funniest segments I’ve seen! My favorite… ‘But old people are the real villain of the piece, but they’re dying, which is of some comfort.’ HAHA
Dan Savage, you’re my hero!
very, very well done, dan. i knew you had it in you, man. smart, funny, and engaging. some of your best work, easily.
how many people get colbert to (nearly) break character? i didn’t think he would make it! *snorting*
i saw your first interview on the report also, and you certainly held you own then too. this one was better than the last, and – at the risk of being jinxy! – your next appearance will outshine this one. very, very well done.
wow u’re kind of a sick fellow. Ur comments about Morman boys was scary, disturbing and rather pedaphelic. Great way to make the rest of America warm up to gays. “black men pinning” you down, “sopping up”? you are a seriosuly disturbed individual. Keep that kind of perversion for the bed room withh individuals 18 and older.
This is now one of my favorite Report moments ever. I thought nothing could top the gay polygamy line… then you came out with “after saddlebacking” and I did a spit take. Genius! Just genius! Thank you, Dan!
Fantastic job. Your last line about the divorce rate among straights was fucking spot on and loaded with irony and meaning.
This is why so many of us love and respect you.
Well done.