Hendrik Hertzberg
Mourning Their Idiot: Liberals Are Seriously Exaggerating the Loss of
April 15th, 2014 7:12 AM
One of the tender mercies of Stephen Colbert's ascension to the "Late Show" set at CBS is his shedding of the faux-conservative "high-status idiot" character. To conservatives, this "Colbert" has never seemed authentic or sustained cleverness -- how many times can you say you don't read or even like books? It mostly marks the deep ruts of liberal arrogance in their own mental superiority.…