Grand Duchesses Maria, speaking to her children in the basements of Yekaterinburg.

He's our best American.

Unrelated side note: John Baptiste has no on-screen charisma at all. He's horrible.

I didn't catch this live, but the studio silence for most of the Colbert election night clips is chilling.

No Steven, the vast majority of us on the left don't hate the right because "it feels good". We hate them because we've tried to reason with them for over 3 decades, we've tried to listen to their idiotic fears & concerns, and tried to respond rationally to their "arguments". We've begged and pleaded with them to be reasonable, to look at facts, to look at evidence, to listen when we present them a logical argument, and all we've gotten in return is hysteria & WARBLGARBL. And that WARBLGARBL is hurting many of the weakest members of our society, which makes us angry. And for some of us, their very refusal to engage with basic logic or evidence also angers us. And *that's* why we hate them.

Because it sure as hell doesn't "feel good" to know that roughly half of this nation is functionally retarded. It really doesn't. Hell, it doesn't feel good that the actually retarded are functionally retarded. It's not funny or "feelgood" to see people (retarded or otherwise) reason so poorly. And yet here we are. They've made their choice to embrace WARBLGARBL and RESENTMENT. And we hate them for it.