Colbert, understandably took issue with the hamster-on-a-squeaky-wheel-like ramblings from this silly little man and in his usual style mocked him to great laughter from his audience. What really stuck in my craw, however, were the parts where Colbert, in keeping with his Fox News pundit schtick, kept referring to the same old, tired, nay, fucking exhausted, stereo-types about North American Indigenous people. The whole segment was peppered with stupid, politically incorrect comments like, "(t)hey might build burial grounds on top of our sacred malls!", but the kicker for me was the finishing bit:
I’ve got a few choice words for our Indian Overlords: How. Me, Big Chief Hips Like Woman honored to be your humble servant. Waited many moons to join new empire. Me have great hair, please no scalpum. Me one of you. Share your values. Me use every part of animal, in that I eat Slim Jim. Heap big sodium nitrate. Me movum on.What the fucking fuck, dude?! I know that your whole thing is satire but this is just as offensive coming from your character as it would be coming from the deranged horse's mouth that is Bryan Fischer. Your stupid, ill-thought out at best; ignorant at worst comments are perpetrating the myth that Indigenous people are either extinct or trapped in some kind of wormhole, time conundrum that has preserved them and their culture as perfect relics.
Just like the headdress wearing hipster who claims not to be racist, I'm sure that you don't actually think that "Indians" speak this way but your glib words hurt some and influence others.
If you're in Canada, the whole clip is here. Americans, here. Rest of you, my apologies, but you're on your own.