Meanwhile, on its Web site, the trade journal Editor & Publisher posted more than a dozen letters from readers under a headline that reflected the broad range of electronic opinion: "Colbert Offensive, Colbert Mediocre, Colbert a Hero, Colbert Vicious, Colbert Brave." Mr. Colbert's employer, Comedy Central, said it had received nearly 2,000 e-mail messages by Monday morning — a response, it said, rivaled only by the contentious appearance nearly two years ago of Jon Stewart, Mr. Colbert's comedy patron, on the now-defunct CNN shout-fest "Crossfire."
Taken from NY Times who was forced to, after the stir Mr.Colbert caused on the internet, address the speech instead of how funny Mr. President may or may not be with his 'twin'.
This is what they get for making a type of media that is actually in contact with people. P D N T S P A--see? I learned something last year. Must be interesting though, to have a media that's not 100% under governmental control.
We covered Markovnikov's rule in o-chem recently and I kept thinking of Raskolnikov though the idea of Rodya as a chemist is very, very strange. Still, watch me. I may accidentally put down Raskolnikov instead of Markovnikov on the test and the TA would wonder whether or not I've gone mad.
I hear that I will have to dissect a worm soon. O the thrills.
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