Conservative commentator and hapless Chicago Cubs fan George Will swung by “The Colbert Report” Tuesday to plug his new book, “A Nice Little Place on the North Side,” but naturally, the conversation didn’t stick to baseball.
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(“We just went from the Chicago Cubs to the Kennedy Assassination,” Colbert observed at one point.)
One of the discussion’s tangents involved Colbert mocking his own faux conservatism.
“I’m a conservative, you’re a conservative — I don’t think anything should ever change.”
“That makes you a liberal,” Will fired back.
“That nothing should ever change? I didn’t realize that. … So why do liberals want things to stay the same?”
“Because whatever exists should continue. In 1935, Social Security — do you drive a 1935 car?” he asked Colbert, to which he replied that he actually drove a Tesla. “Do you a watch a 1935 television set? But Social Security, liberals believe should go on just as it always has.”
Colbert then tried to get Will to say that Social Security should be eliminated altogether — Will said he doesn’t believe it should be — thereby leading him “into a field where old people would shoot you in the head.”
Sounds like a pretty standard Colbert interview.
Watch further to see how Will argues that the Chicago Cubs should be credited for winning the Cold War:
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