Kevin Bleyer
Kevin Bleyer
Kevin Bleyer is the multiple Emmy Award-winning former writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a contributor to President Barack Obama's speeches, a co-author of the #1 NY Times Bestseller Earth: The Book, Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution, and the co-author, with Governor Bill Richardson, of How to Sweet-Talk a Shark. In 2008, he became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2014, he served as a Fellow at the University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.
Yes, my fellow citizens, despite what the original Constitution of the United States says about the qualifications for statehood and the guarantee of representation in Congress, by every measure that truly matters in America (bigness, crowdedness, awesomeness, Texasness), Nebraska doesn't deserve its star on the American flag.
To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.
The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse - from both the King James Bible and 'The Lord of the Rings.'
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'