I'm sorry, but your headline really oversold it. This is approximately the level terror this inspired:

This is quite possibly the best and most useful Lifehacker post of all time.

Actually, the joke did work, and it was brilliant satire. I don't even like Colbert but this was a brilliant segment.

If you actually read some of the tweets, you'll find that isn't true of all or even most of the angry tweeters. The Gloss posted the best ones in their oped.

I am SURE your objection to this is in good faith, Michelle-Malkin-who-literally-wrote-a-book-about-how-putting-Japanese-people-in-concentration-camps-was-the-right-thing-to-do.

I often joke that learning Excel is the most useful skill I've learned in the real world and that they should teach an advanced Excel course in grad school as it would be more useful than most of the other classes... but really, I'm not joking. Totally serious. Knowing Excel is like magic... you learn a little trick…

It's a syllogism for Podhoretz:

"every italian 100% hates sherman just because of that interview after the game..typical gorilla nigger"

As a half-Italian, I promise you that you're much more of an embarrassment to us than anything Richard Sherman could ever do. You fucking piece of shit.

Once again, Madonna's setting trends for everybody else.

Can we get this guy a cameo on the next season of Always Sunny? I bet he can even bring his own riot punch.

Then it got itchy again but much much less. I hit it one more time with the dryer and the next day they were pretty much gone. But not before the Fire Nation attacked.

Add one more.... Caring.