truthiness personified

I've been watching The Colbert Report on Comedy Central since the day that it premiered. It's very funny. I realize that it is a parody of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. I've never really watched O'Reilly. I am pretty conservative (for an academic), but O'Reilly never really appealed to me. Tonight, I watched O'Reilly. It struck me that Colbert is BARELY a parody. The two shows are nearly identical! The only real difference is that Colbert seems to be joking and also that Colbert seems likeable.... Does anyone take O'Reilly serious since his phone message debacle?