Tom DeLay and Defense Team Confuse Stephen Colbert for Conservative Journalist

This is too funny... and as I was preparing to write about it I saw that the good folks at The Carpetbagger Report - a fine Vermont-based blog that writes on the national and internation scene - already did it justice:

Silly me, I always thought it was fairly obvious that Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's Colbert Report was an over-the-top parody. Apparently, Tom DeLay isn't in on the joke.

Yesterday] morning, DeLay's legal defense fund sent out a mass email criticizing the movie "The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress," by "Outfoxed" creator Robert Greenwald.

The email features a "one-pager on the truth behind Liberal Hollywood's the Big Buy," and the lead item is Colbert's interview with Greenwald on Comedy Central (where Colbert plays a faux-conservative, O'Reilly-esque character). […]

DeLay thinks Colbert is so persuasive, he's now featuring the full video of the interview at the top of the legal fund's website. And why not? According to the email, Greenwald "crashed and burned" under the pressure of Colbert's hard-hitting questions, like "Who hates America more, you or Michael Moore?"

In related news, DeLay's office also announced it has endorsed Bob Roberts' Senate campaign in Pennsylvania, contributed to Sideshow Bob's mayoral campaign in Springfield, and has issued a formal refutation to rebut Al Gore's address to the nation on Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago.

And Texas ever let this man be in a "leadership" role? Do they also elect dead armadilloes down there, too?