Tim Miller: Obama Accidentally Made the Case for Why Colbert SHOULD Run (Maybe)
5/7/202613 min
Tim Miller reacts to Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert joking about Trump, “Colbert 2028,” Democratic messaging failures, and the corruption Americans have somehow normalized in modern politics.
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Tim Miller· Host1:00
Hey, everybody. Tim Albert from The Bulwark. Uh, I was watching some clips of Stephen Colbert and Barack Obama this morning and, and I got a laugh out of them, so I wanted to share that with you. We all need a little giggle these days, and I think there's also, um, underneath the jokes, uh, some interesting observations about the direction of our politics, uh, that's worth meditating on. So, uh, let's watch a couple of the clips together, and I will give you my thoughts on the other side. First up, the one that really tickled my pickle was, uh, Colbert