Eleanor Holmes Norton vs. Stephen Colbert...hmmm, wonder who's likely to win? -- YouTube

I love YouTube. One sees a TiVo'd Colbert Report, says to oneself, "I have to blog that," and no longer even questions whether it will be available for blogging. It's a given.

Now, to business.

One would think it obvious that if you're a Congressman considering being interviewed by Stephen Colbert, you -- or at the very least one of your staffers -- would understand that you'd better meet two requirements:

1. You're not stupid.

2. You have a sense of humor.

Eleanor Holmes Norton was not qualified.

Seriously, she gives every appearance of being somebody who had no idea that it was a comic interview. So she takes offense at what are obvious jokes, lectures Colbert in all seriousness on basic civics that he of course already knows, and then decides to try to use sarcasm to make him look stupid. This last is the rough equivalent of Robin Ventura's decision to kick Nolan Ryan's butt, only rather more of a mismatch.

It's hard not to agree with Colbert's conclusion: "Now do you understand why you don't get a vote?"