Colbert

[Winehole23]

...or at least, did his best Stephen Colbert impersonation.

[JoeChalupa]

Nothing to see here

[Yonivore]

So WC can't provide proof of his BS?

So, how'd you enjoy all the C-SPAN coverage of the Health Care debates?

[LnGrrrR]

Is he? If he is, he's not a very good one.

Jon Stewart is funny. This guy? Not so much.

I can't say I'm surprised that DarrinS doesn't get Colbert's humor. It would take an ability to understand nuance.

[Wild Cobra]

So WC can't provide proof of his BS?

C-Span does get the "gabble to gabble" of public sessions. It's the other functions they now get shut out on, that they used to get access to.

Like Yoni says:

So, how'd you enjoy all the C-SPAN coverage of the Health Care debates?

[Avitus1]

Colbert is great... I wonder if they expected him to testify in character.

[Winehole23]

The confusion on both sides seemed genuine to me.

[Winehole23]

Colbert was not totally in control of the proceeding. In fact he was not in control of it at all.

Except insofar as Congress argumentatively consented to him.

So perhaps there was an intended joke on the part of the committee, though admittedly no detectable sense of humor. Awkwardness prevailed.