Into the Lion's Den - Only It's Not A Lion's Den

Ned Lamont gave a nice performance last night on The Colbert Report. According to Nancy Pelosi, he shouldn't have been on there in the first place. His campaign manager sets her straight:

What exactly was the media strategy?

"It's another chance to engage and excite young voters," said Tom Swan, Lamont's campaign manager, who chewed gum like an expectant father.

The show has the best political demo on television. If Colbert asks, you go, and you go again, and you go again. He's not a "tough interview," as Pelosi believes. Colbert's playing a character, and if you listen he sets his guests up to knock it out of the park every time. The character of Colbert frames the issues in the most marvelously backward, intentionally stupid ways that if you play along, answer straight, and, as Al Franken said in the article, don't try to be funny, you look great by comparison.

Why would any politician shy away from that? Pelosi needs to explain that to me.