Stephanie Coontz was a guest on the colbert report several times. She says there is something ambiguous about Colbert's satire. The show has been studied by social scientists who study how humor operates in popular culture. Colbert made fun of people like ruchlamba and bill riley as left wing journalists, but his liberal friends love him to death,. she writes.

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