Stephen Colbert offers to fund $800,000 worth of projects for South Carolina schools
Now that he’s free of his conservative alter ego Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert is free to act like the bleeding-heart, public-school-loving liberal he really is. (The other Stephen Colbert presumably believes in shutting down public schools and letting students fight for spots at private ones in gladiator-style fighting pits.) Case in point: according to The Associated Press, Colbert surprised teachers in his native South Carolina today by announcing that he would fund every single classroom project listed by teachers from the state on the crowdfunding website DonorsChoose.org, a gift valued in excess of $800,000.