Colbert Support Growing on Facebook
EmailABC News’ Bradley Lautenbach Reports: While comedian Stephen Colbert’s run for the presidency is hardly serious business, he is attracting support on the popular social networking site Facebook.
While Facebook has not given him an official presidential candidate profile, Colbert has amassed quite a following among the site’s users since "announcing" on Comedy Central that he would run in South Carolina as a presidential candidate.
Today the group, "1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert," actually passed its tally-goal of 1,000,000 members.
By comparison, Sen. Barack Obama’s Facebook profile has 157,201 supporters, and the group "Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)" has 384,781 members.
Republican candidate Rep Ron Paul, R-Tex., the candidate who seems to have mobilized the most vocal if not the most numerous set of online supporters, has 33,582 supporters on his politician profile.
Colbert — who has said he would only campaign in his native South Carolina — will be honored "Favorite Son" in South Carolina this Sunday and handed a key to the city by Charleston, South Carolina Mayor Bob Coble.
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This stunt is nothing new. My generation remembers Pat Paulson running for president. Anyone who votes for this person would be just wasting their vote.
Posted by: LIBBY | October 26, 2007, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm
Wasting a presidential vote on Steven Colbert?
I would at least be entertained rather than endure the lies and deceptions of the Bush Cheny carnival.
Robert
Posted by: Robert J. Lanier San Luis Obispo, CA | October 26, 2007, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
Colbert is fine as long as you are not voting for very contested state.
Posted by: SHARY111 | October 26, 2007, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm
It is both humorous and tragic that so many people consider what Steven Colbert and John Stewart do to be “news.”
Why, they even both proudly proclaim to be leaders in “fake news.”
And the wonderful thing about “fake news” is that you don’t have to be objective, or fair, or thorough, or even truthful….you just have to be entertaining.
Posted by: carl | October 26, 2007, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
Stewart/Colbert may be “Fake News”, but it takes an intelligent, well-informed audience to understand the jokes.
You aren’t going to laugh at a joke about Bush being an idiot if you didn’t already know he is an idiot.
Case in point, Fox News’ attempt at a Daily Show format fell flat on its face because their audience comes up short in the IQ race.
Colbert’s run is bad news for the GOP. It increases political awareness among young people, creating armies of future Liberals. All ready and willing to wipe out any hopes some may have of a conservative USA.
Posted by: Chris | October 26, 2007, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm
Colbert is just not funny chris. Amazing how the left is on the wrong side of history over and over, yet still cling to the illusion that they are intelectually superior, or well informed. No other group so stubornly refuses to learn one damned thing from history, clinging instead to pure ideology, naming it ‘enlightenment’ and ‘progression’. The left should be damned glad the right has been here to save the world. Intellegent and well informed indeed.
Posted by: whatthe? | October 28, 2007, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm
Colbert needs to go back to being a stand up comic. I would not vote for him for President that is a more serious job than he is use to.
Posted by: Dianna | October 29, 2007, 7:57 am 7:57 am