In a sign of just how bad John Edwards' campaign has gotten (and how serious Colbert's has), his campaign has now attacked Stephen Colbert.
Colbert over the weekend recieved a "Key to the City" in Columbia, SC and proclaimed himself South Carolina's Native Son, and it elicited a response from the Edwards camp:
RHETORIC VS REALITY: STEPHEN COLBERT - PLAYING LOOSE WITH THE FACTS
CLAIM: Edwards abandoned South Carolina when he was one year old.
FACT: Edwards was born in South Carolina, learned to walk in South Carolina, learned to talk to in South Carolina, and will kick Stephen Colbert's New York City butt in South Carolina.
"Stephen Colbert claims to represent a new kind of politics, but today we see he's participating in the slash and burn politics that has no place in American discourse. The truthiness is, as the candidate of Doritos, Colbert's hands are stained by corporate corruption and nacho cheese. John Edwards has never taken a dime from salty food lobbyists and America deserves a President who isn't in the pocket of the snack food special interests."
Edwards is going to have ammo to use against Colbert if the news item below proves true:
Only days after announcing his intention to run for president of the United States, Stephen Colbert seems to be in hot water. According to staffers working inside the fledgling campaign who spoke with Bob McCarty Writes™ on condition of anonymity, the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report is being investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Colbert is alleged to have secretly hired hundreds of illegal immigrants from Mexico to make so-called "get out the vote" phone calls to likely voters in South Carolina -- the only state where he plans to campaign as both a Democrat and Republican candidate. In exchange for working up to 20 hours a day in the sweatshop-like conditions of a suburban Charleston call center, sources said the White House wannabe is paying his "south of the border" staffers with bags of Doritos® Brand Tortilla Chips, the corporate sponsor of his presidential campaign effort.
Attempts to reach Colbert or a representative of his campaign through a post on his web site's message board have, to this point, been unsuccessful.
Posted by: Bob | October 31, 2007 7:59 AM | Permalink to Comment