He is an American political satirist and also an intellectual comedian.
He hosts a show "The Colbert Report" and has quite a lot of followers. He plays a character of a conservative and rarely breaks character. In the video below he did that at about 1:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43hlXKg5FOoHe has made a super pac to show the disturbing idea how they can easily be coordinated for the benefit of the presidential candidates (even though coordination is illegal). I have learnt this from his show, but found a short summary online. To run for the president he gave away the super pac to his friend Jon Stewart hosting a similar show "The Daily Show", therefore they cannot coordinate, but they can tell about their plans in the show itself. Both of them make comedy out of the debates, but people who watch both of those shows tend to know more about American politics than the average American.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqSELPyNSoOh yeah in one of the straw polls, Stephen Colbert got 5% (I think Huntsman got 4%) without even being a candidate (due to the write-in)
techhump wrote:Let's not be fooled by the media's deflection of Ron Paul's success. There is a great portion of the population that supports Paul, and three states' votes is hardly a reflection of the majority.
Exactly, the media tends to avoid him a lot. The daily Show clearly points this out, since they take the actual reports and puts them in a way to see the bullshit obviously
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb5aGgQXhXo&feature=relatedJust to add,I looked at some of the different presidential debates and in the South Carolina GOP Ron Paul really... really proved himself of consistency.Especially compared to the other candidates (but the video only shows highlights of him)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGrFbXgh-0