that's how stephen colbert described east vancouver on last night's show.
it's never really clear whether he's just pretending to represent the stereotypical usa citizen - bloated, arrogant, self-congratulating (with apologies to my awesome usa friends) - or whether that's his true persona. but after watching him broadcast from vancouver all last week, blocks away from the historic and very courageous indigenous reclamation of a small piece of land for the construction of a tent village, never bothering to do more than a drive-by to extract a statement of judgement, it seems clear. he's just another ignorant middle-american, confusing a successful socialist endeavour (the tent village) with the failed capitalist state (and its evil northward creeping ideology) that continues to reward the ultra-greedy who exploit this earth and all her resources --- including the indigenous people who never surrendered this land, and just don't fit their agenda.
no more colbert rapport for me.
don't
don't
