To Understand The GOP Mind, You Have To Channel You Some Stephen Colbert

I am a huge Stephen Colbert fan, and not only because a few years ago he picked me out of the audience during the pre-show warmup in his show's New York City studio to join him in a little skit where he played Pres. George W. Bush and I played Stephen Colbert!

It's because Colbert puts on a brilliant deadpan to mock his 'fellow' right-wingers who don't believe in facts or science - - from climate change to evolution - - and prefer to trust their evidence-free feelings about  issues, instead.

Hence the leap from truth to "truthiness," a word Colbert put into the vernacular and the dictionaries, too.

This rejection of facts by the right that Colbert plumbs for laughs is exactly why Republicans who are claiming a conspiracy by Obamaites on call in bureaucratic cubicles to cook the monthly job data look so ridiculous.

Just how big would that plot have to be?

About as big as the conspiracy to get a fake Obama birth certificate planted in Hawaii 50 years ago, I suppose.

And by the way, Republicans lauded official job numbers as right on the money when those data made Scott Walker into a job creator, after all.

The right's disdain for science and facts, as opposed to gut feelings and, what - - intuition? - - is turning a prescient Colbert into a political prophet this campaign season.

Do Republicans and the far-right know the joke's on them?

Cross-posted at Purple Wisconsin