[WikiEN-l] Colbert Report heads-up

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 8/2/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 8/1/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 01/08/06, mboverload <mboverload at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What?  He asked people to vandalise the page.
> >
> >
> > No, I'm saying that Colbert has no sense of good faith. Why would he
> > just ask people to vandalise a page? Seems senseless.
>
> Colbert's entire show is based on tongue-in-cheek parody.  In fact,
> you could say the whole thing is intelligent "trolling".  It's usually
> fairly funny, as the Wikipedia segment probably was.

That's the first time I ever heard intelligent satire referred to as
intelligent trolling. Jonathan Swift is turning over in his grave
somewhere :P