I was recently catching up on a whole bunch of episodes of the Colbert Report the other day not knowing — to my great surprise — that he recently interviewed social media troll Andrew Keen. For those who are not social media nerds (such as myself), Andrew “Blogging Is Destroying Life As We Know It, And if I Have To Tell You You’re Clearly Too Stupid To Realize It” Keen recently published a book called “Cult of the Amateur”, where he asserts the social media — such as blogs — are destroying Culture.

Cleverer minds than mine have deconstructed this towering ode to idiocy, but suffice it to say one of the central arguments is that professional “gatekeepers” of educated opinion, whether they be professional critics or journalists, is being eroded by the “democratizing” effects of the Internet.

I suppose that if it was merely his *opinion*, that would be one thing; to come off as a complete and royal Douchebag is quite another. I invite you to have a look — and laugh — at his interview with Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report, where his attempt at deadpanning his right to be elitest are neither clever nor witty, and his attempts at deflecting his own observations taken to an absurd extreme (something to be expected on the Colbert Report) appear, for a lack of a better word, *lame*, although he’s trying to appear patronizing.

Andrew Keen is a magnificent troll, but on live TV anyway, he’s an even better douchebag.