George Will makes the extremely short list of guests who actually made a good give-and-take with Steven Colbert. The only others I’ve ever seen NOT be awkward and do a good job of pushing the shtick forward were James Carville, and O’Reilly (though for some reason Steven became the awkward one in O’Reilly’s presence and had more than a few moments go flat). I think there was one more but I can’t remember who it was.
Anyway, enjoy Will’s dry responses and deadpan humor as he allows Colbert to sum up conservatism as an untouchable freedom dome where you just put a bunch of things inside and let whatever happens happen – and if a turtle eats a fiddler crab, then by golly that was his choice (both of their choices presumably: the crab for choosing that environment and the turtle’s choice for expressing himself that way). sweet.