Creepy Colbert

I was home alone watching The Colbert Report one night this week, and I saw a glitch on the screen. It looked to me like that Mirror Mirror on the Wall from Shrek, so I rewound and used my trusty TiVo remote to slow the images down. What appeared before me was a creepy mask right over Stephen's face!


After checking around on the internet, I learned it was the Guy Fawkes mask, the symbol of Anonymous who provides WikiLeaks with all of their information. I wasn't sure what to think at this point. I still felt pretty creeped out. Usually when Colbert makes a joke, he wants the entire audience to know what he's doing. That wasn't the case with this screen image. The only people who saw it were the viewers at home. I started to think that Anonymous had done this himself. Just before the mask flashed on the screen, Stephen's guest was saying that all of us are Anonymous. And the guest had explained that Anonymous hacked into the emails and iPad of the head of a company known as HBGary (who is trying to out the real Anonymous).

This commotion makes my head spin. There are some people who think that the show edited it to display the mask on purpose. If that's the case, that really relieves my mind. I sat in my pajamas on the laptop wondering if masked crusaders could hack into a TV show's feed. After all, Colbert is recorded about five hours before it airs. In this technological age, isn't anything possible? I'm eager to see how Stephen broaches this subject on Monday's show. There have been quite a few nerds like me online deciphering the whole situation. Didn't see it? Watch the clip here: