| | Colbert cheers the way Fox 'schooled' caller's 'hippie-speak'
 Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert expressed satisfaction on Tuesday that those radical hippie ideas of peace and love have become so thoroughly discredited that nobody even bothers to mention them.
Colbert noted in his best fake-pundit style, "This year everyone talked about hope and change, but thankfully we never took the next step to much more dangerous ideas -- I am talking about peace and love."
"We weren't always this lucky," Colbert explained, noting that in the 1960s, peace and love were thought to be "serious concepts with international implications. ... Thankfully, peace and love were discredited as ideas, because they became associated with the excesses of the time, like drug use."
"Since then, we have kept the words 'peace' and 'love' out of serious conversation," Colbert said approvingly. "And if we even get close to those ideas, they are exposed for the joke that they are."
Colbert illustrated this point with a post-election clip from Fox News Radio, where a caller suggested, "it's the dawn of a new era ... of mutual respect and cooperation and unity," and was rewarded by having the show's host play "This is the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius" over his words.
"Far out, man," the host commented mockingly, then adding a more contemporary Beavis and Butt-head style jab, "Hey, man, you said 'cooperation,' man."
"You got schooled, hippie!" proclaimed Colbert. "Everybody knows that if you say anything in hippie-speak, it's not true."
"If you start loving your enemies" Colbert warned in conclusion, "pretty soon you're going to end up in a drum circle with Mahmoud Ahma-kumbaya-jedad. ... Peace and love are powerful ideas. If we start talking about them, we might actually get the hope and change that everybody keeps talking about.
This video is from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, broadcast Nov. 18, 2008.
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