Stephen Colbert to the Rescue
filed in Nero's Fiddle on Nov.20, 2007
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Within 24 hours of officially announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, support groups for comedian Stephen Colbert had sprung up on popular social networking groups like MySpace and Facebook, the latter of which grew to over one million members in less than a week — it is now one of the largest groups on the website.
News of the funnyman’s budding campaign had rocketed across the internet and blogosphere (Colbert’s established domain), and he abruptly took the next week off from doing his nightly talk show, The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, to appear on various hard news programs, including Tim Russert’s “Meet The Press.”
