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STRUCTURE Each segment begins with basic information about a specific district, such as history and geography, and sometimes a humorously bizarre event that happened there. The district is also almost invariably referred to as "fightin'," as in the "Fightin' 11th." The sole exception is the first edition, in which a local sports team is referred to as "fightin" mere seconds after this term would later become customary, pointing to the origin of the use of the term. Most segments feature an interview with its Representative . One comedic maneuver that Colbert commonly employs in these interviews, particularly when he is interviewing Democrats, is to ask the Representative a : great war, or ''the greatest'' war?" When the interviewee, nearly always a Democrat, tries to express his or her disapproval of Bush, Colbert will usually state that the only choice is between "Great" or "Greatest," and nearly always states, "I'm gonna put you down for 'Great'." (He often refers to previous Democratic representatives who chose great, and shows clips from their interviews where they, too, refused to choose either 'great' or 'greatest,' and Colbert simply bulldozes over them saying, "I'm gonna put you down for 'Great'.") After the interview, Colbert adds the segment to "the big board", a map of the entire United States with district lines drawn; the new district, shown in sparkling gold on a blue background, is usually very difficult or impossible to see due to its small size. Though many districts have been profiled, the map still looks largely vacant overall. REACTIONS OF INTERVIEWEES Although the interviews intentionally show most of the Representatives in an unflattering light, the Representatives' post-interview reactions have varied. Colbert's interview with Representative Jim Moran pleased the Congressman — he told the ''New York Times'' that he thought Colbert "let me off kind of light.""Laugh, and the Voters Laugh With You, or at Least at You", '' New York Times '', Week in Review p.1, Feb. 26, 2006. district was home to the Pornography industry, gave an apparently long and dull explanation of a Tax proposal, and participated in the making of a "pornographic video" with Colbert and impersonated a robot. |
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