Colbert says he fits the bill of | REUTERS Colbert to Haley: Pick me

Stephen Colbert has a message for South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and he’s asked his fans to send it to her: Appoint Colbert.

On Thursday night’s “Colbert Report,” the comedian asked viewers to send messages to the governor’s Twitter handle, @NikkiHaley, telling her to name the South Carolina native to the Senate seat of Republican Jim DeMint, who is leaving the upper chamber to run The Heritage Foundation.


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“Let’s see, you want somebody young, somebody conservative, somebody who’s from South Carolina, maybe somebody who had a super PAC,” Colbert said, pointing at himself.

Colbert pointed to a slew of headlines speculating he could either be appointed to, or run for, the South Carolina seat.

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“When I look at the U.S. Senate, I say to myself: ‘You know what they could use? Another white guy,’” Colbert said.

Haley didn’t rule out the appointment in a Facebook post of her own on Friday, but indicated Colbert’s knowledge of the Palmetto State might be lagging.

“Stephen, thank you for your interest in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat and for the thousands of tweets you and your fans sent me,” Haley wrote. “But you forget one thing, my friend. You didn’t know our state drink. Big, big mistake.”

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When Haley appeared on the “Colbert Report” in April, she and Colbert engaged in a South Carolina trivia contest. Colbert didn’t know the answer to Haley’s first question: “What is the state drink?”(The answer is milk.)