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2016 Postmortem

Jean-Jacques Roussea

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2. Check your soul at the door

Reply to Joe941 (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 15, 2016, 04:05 PM

Dec 2016

Colbert’s advice to other correspondents: “Check your soul at the door.”
Rob Corddry and Ed Helms call it “invaluable” advice for doing the kind of field pieces the show was famous for. “When you’re in the field, you’re in the character of a correspondent. You are going to suck them dry like a lamprey until you get everything you can out of this interview,” explains Colbert. “That behavior has to be cold-blooded. What you’re doing might get on you — the badness of what you are doing — and you don’t want to get it on your soul.”

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Convincing Republican Electors: DOs and DON'Ts [View all] Jean-Jacques Roussea Dec 2016 OP

I'm not sure I'm that good of an actor. Joe941 Dec 2016 #1

Check your soul at the door Jean-Jacques Roussea Dec 2016 #2

Gee. There's no chance that this message won't get forwarded to repub electors warning them onenote Dec 2016 #3

Well if they read it then in itself it'd be a compelling argument against Trump Jean-Jacques Roussea Dec 2016 #4

I doubt that repub electors would find anything identified with DU to be compelling onenote Dec 2016 #5