Posted
3/15/2007 10:29:00 PM
by Douglas
Hey Rahm Emanuel: you know by doing this, it only makes you look like you're scared to match wits with a basic-cable guy that's making fun of other basic-cable
idiots.Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), the Democratic Caucus chairman, has told new Democratic members of Congress to steer clear of Stephen Colbert, or at least his satirical Comedy Central program, “The Colbert Report.”
“He said don’t do it … it’s a risk and it’s probably safer not to do it,” said Rep. Steve Cohen. But the freshman lawmaker from Tennessee taped a segment that last week was featured in the 32nd installment of the “Better Know a District” series. Colbert asked Cohen whether he was a black woman. He isn’t.
If only the White House had listened to Emanuel's sage advice before Colbert
tore them a new one.