High Times at "The Report"
"Congressman 'Admits' Using Cocaine and Prostitutes on Colbert Show -- Really?"
7/21/06
NEW YORK By now, members of Congress ought to know that appearing on Stephen Colbert's "Better Know a District" segment on his nightly Comedy Central program is like walking across a minefield. Some survive with their dignity intact, many don't -- like the fellow who let Colbert comb his moustache.
Rep. Robert Wexler [Florida], a Democrat, skated through the first part of the interview segment with good humor. Colbert usually poses offbeat or absurd questions and traps his guests into making revealing or just embarrassing statements.
His approach on Thursday was to point out to Wexler that since he was basically unopposed for re-election this year he could probably say anything and it would not hurt him. Colbert suggested: Now this is "just kidding," but why don't you say something that would normally cost you the election, even if not true-- for example, that you enjoy cocaine because "it is a fun thing to do"?
Wexler laughed and amiably repeated: "Because it's a fun thing to do." Presumably he does not use cocaine, but he went along with the gag. Colbert, trying to get him clearly on the record, then said, no, say the whole thing, and Wexler dutifully replied: "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do."
[Editor and Publisher]
7/21/06
NEW YORK By now, members of Congress ought to know that appearing on Stephen Colbert's "Better Know a District" segment on his nightly Comedy Central program is like walking across a minefield. Some survive with their dignity intact, many don't -- like the fellow who let Colbert comb his moustache.
Rep. Robert Wexler [Florida], a Democrat, skated through the first part of the interview segment with good humor. Colbert usually poses offbeat or absurd questions and traps his guests into making revealing or just embarrassing statements.
His approach on Thursday was to point out to Wexler that since he was basically unopposed for re-election this year he could probably say anything and it would not hurt him. Colbert suggested: Now this is "just kidding," but why don't you say something that would normally cost you the election, even if not true-- for example, that you enjoy cocaine because "it is a fun thing to do"?
Wexler laughed and amiably repeated: "Because it's a fun thing to do." Presumably he does not use cocaine, but he went along with the gag. Colbert, trying to get him clearly on the record, then said, no, say the whole thing, and Wexler dutifully replied: "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do."
[Editor and Publisher]
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