Michael Bublé Expands His Influence In “Conservative” World With Colbert

Michael Bublé is not a name that should probably be making repeated appearances on Mediaite. After all, he’s an adult contemporary Canadian crooner famous for singing old Frank Sinatra songs and seducing all your friend’s mothers. Yet here he is again, fraternizing with another prominent American political commentator, seemingly oblivious (or slyly aware) of the position this person holds in the wide world of conservatism.

Bublé made a public appearance in Vancouver yesterday to sing his country’s national anthem alongside Stephen Colbert. Well, to sing his country’s national anthem to the tune of “The Star-Spangled Banner” in what was presumably a remote segment for The Colbert Report that will air in the near future– for now, all we get are fan videos on YouTube. Bublé has a well-documented sense of humor– he recently appeared in Saturday Night Live in a skit alongside Jon Hamm, for example–but he also has an increasingly well-documented affinity for “conservative” political commentators. It appears his strange liaisons began with his highly public platonic love affair with Glenn Beck, apparently starting sometime in 2007, when Beck, still the semi-obscure CNN Headline News court jester, serenaded him so well that Bublé could only describe him as “a piece of sexual chocolate.” They recently had a second date on Fox News, where they talk about, among other topics, having children, possibly together (below).

This behavior begs the question: is Michael Bublé deliberately befriending some of America’s most controversial figures (if Colbert isn’t controversial, why is the President reluctant to sit down with him for an interview?), or is he simply blissfully unaware of how polarizing his intercontinental pals can be? Does he know Colbert is not really conservative? Perhaps its an ingenious long-term publicity stunt to enhance Bublé’s reputation as a naive, effortlessly charming man-child incapable of sensing danger when he finds it. If Colbert is just another notch on the bedpost, watch out Bill O’Reilly, a wave of doe-eyed innocence and inscrutable Canadian politeness may be coming your way.

[Photo via Huffington Post]