So Jon Stewart sent out an email last night announcing that The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC would be airing a 60-second commercial in South Carolina attacking Mitt Romney. Stewart did not include any details on the actual size of the buy, or if there really is one, but here is how Stewarrt did describe it in his email:
Hilarious. The ad itself is also pretty unremarkable. The ad opens with that clip of Romney from the Iowa State Fair saying that corporations are people and then it accuses him of being a “serial killer” when he was at Bain Capital. Get it? Bain killed corporations. Corporations are people. Hilarious.
Perhaps I am not the target audience, but what exactly is Colbert trying to prove here? Before Citizens United, Colbert could have run this exact same ad with just his own money. I hear he is wealthy enough to have done it. But now, after Citizens United, he can also pool his resources with his liberal viewers, and run the exact same ad.
So now we have more opportunities for liberal entertainers, who already have their own TV shows, to further influence politics. How exactly is this some great threat to democracy?
And Colbert needn’t have even bothered switching control of his PAC to Stewart. He is not even on the ballot in South Carolina and the state has no write-in provision for presidential primaries.
