Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Tipping Point is the Colbert Nation
It is a quarter to twelve. What else is a Gen Y-er to do than watch the spokesman for our generation, one Stephen Colbert, and as fate would have it...the former rogue-Presidential candidate (only in South Carolina) had Malcom Gladwell on as a guest. Since I am supposed to be reading Gladwell's "Tipping Point" right now, but the Half.com gods have yet to deliver the book to my door, Viacom and the Internet brought me the two next best things:
1) the direct source of watching him on Colbert; and
2) the most trustest source of knowledge in the world...Wikipedia.
Irony or coincidence be told...whether it was Gladwell's theory, Colbert's explicit backing for Mike Huckabee, Colbert's leveraging of his traditional media audience to edit Wikipedia, or just Fred Thompson's own laziness (who knows) but today was the day that Mr. Law and Order dropped out of the race. I personally feel that the Huckabee & Colbert '08 ticket was too strong in South Carolina for Thompson to handle.
More to come as I actually begin reading "Tipping Point," but just by watching tonight's interview -- I have a deep sign of respect for the author's haircut.
1) the direct source of watching him on Colbert; and
2) the most trustest source of knowledge in the world...Wikipedia.
Irony or coincidence be told...whether it was Gladwell's theory, Colbert's explicit backing for Mike Huckabee, Colbert's leveraging of his traditional media audience to edit Wikipedia, or just Fred Thompson's own laziness (who knows) but today was the day that Mr. Law and Order dropped out of the race. I personally feel that the Huckabee & Colbert '08 ticket was too strong in South Carolina for Thompson to handle.
More to come as I actually begin reading "Tipping Point," but just by watching tonight's interview -- I have a deep sign of respect for the author's haircut.
// posted by Jason Langsner @ 11:43 PM 
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