Sirota on Colbert

Jeremy Gantz May 30, 2008

In These Times Senior Editor David Sirota did battle with Colbert last night, and held his own quite well, I think: My favorite Colbert line: Regular people work for the establishment. That's what makes them regular.

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Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.

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