I don't want to rain on the parade, but just as some in the reactionary media think people actually get their news from Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report (a Comstock lode* of comedic gold** IMO) is a delicious parody of Faux News after 8pm Eastern/7pm Central.
Thus I don't find someone erecting a straw man based on the looniest wing of the Creationist sub-culture being particularly prescient in his comments about Creationism or how a certain crank segment of the American population reacts to things like Tiktaalik or why H5N1 is a threat to humans.
I have a co-worker in his 60s who had some older female relative that thought there was no way the Apollo missions were sucessful. She wasn't one of the organized Moon Hoax claimaints like Bart Striebel, she was just some generic crank whose incredulity prevented her from accepting what her own eyes were telling her.
Anyway, as I'm watching this I'm watching Colbert interview Sherie Hite and I again iterate that a parody strawman isn't "getting it right" per se. It's hilarious for those of us in the know, but I don't think a parody is the same as responsive commentary to a position taken by cranks like science hating Creationists.
* Kudos to my fellow Americans who knew what the Comstock Lode was.
** Double kudos to those of you who read my analogy and thought, "wait a minute, the Comstock lode was silver, not gold."