With the recent formation of the Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Super Pac, Montclair’s resident political satirist has taken a step away from simply being funny towards actually being political. New York Times media columnist and documentary film subject David Carr — who also lives in Montclair — says that Colbert’s “Super PAC riff is a real-world exercise, engaging in a kind of modeling by just doing what Super PACs do.”
On August 21, Carr reported that Colbert applied for status as a Super PAC last May with the Federal Elections Commission and was approved in June. “This is 100 percent legal and at least 10 percent ethical,” Colbert explained.
Read Carr’s take on Colbert’s latest venture here, and tell us what you think. Is it “More than a Gag,” like Carr says?