A little over a week ago,
I posted a short transcript of Stephen Colbert's Fisting Statue of Liberty bit. When I checked the traffic to the blog the next day, I was stunned by the hits my humble blog attracted. It was about three orders of magnitude higher than usual. My post had somehow become the number one hit at google for
"fisting statue of liberty."This is all the more surprising considering that the expression was already out there. I only discovered its risque meaning after Stephen Colbert ordered his Nation to type the search terms into google.
Like his guests--authors, politicians, musicians--I, too, enjoyed a
Colbert Bump, a momentary surge in popularity by association. The evidence:
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