Truthiness Personified

Okay, so it took me a little longer to get to the sidebar of the Stephen Colbert story I talked about yesterday. The premise is that The Daily Show is becoming a launching pad for bigger and better things, but the lead is that Colbert actually started his tenure under Craig Kilborn.

What strikes me as odd about the article is that it touts this great pipeline, but there's not a single word about the relative obscurity of the first generation of Daily correspondents after they left the show. I know Brian Unger shows up with Stewart-era reporter Mo Rocca on those interminable VH1 retrospectives, but A. Whitney Brown seems to have disappeared without a trace, and after a couple of appearances here and there, I haven't seen much from Beth Littleford in god knows how long. Although a quick IMDb lookup shows she's become VH1 cannon fodder as well as of late.

I guess I just think it's a more interesting story that the show has become a more effective stepping stone since Stewart took over, which is something the article doesn't mention at all. Or, to look at it more critically, they're selectively ignoring the facts -- older correspondents haven't done so well -- because it doesn't jive with what they feel in their hearts, that TDS is a platform to stardom. That's pretty truthy, right there.