Stephen Colbert isWhere did that come from? It doesn't even make any sense.holding a rallyis using the shameless self-promotion of Glenn Beck as a platform to promote his own brand. Just because it's about politics doesn't make it political: these guys are all about the money.
Nothing wrong with it. I admire both of them for developing an audience and making a living as entertainers, but I do not allow myself to be fooled into thinking that these are genuine political voices.They haven't even tried to imply these rallies are about anything other then getting together and having fun. How did you manage to get that stick so far up your ass?
"I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound—with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world."Video of Colbert's performance [starts at 53:35].
"REASON is just one letter away from TREASON!"BTW -- here's the 'Rally to Restore Sanity' Facebook page.
Mazola declines with regrets the kind invitation of Stephen Colbert for Saturday, the thirtieth of October. He is unable to attend due to acute fear and will instead sit in his closet and stare out at the world.
Colbert is also talented, but he hasn't got Glenn Beck talent, or maybe his audience is tougher. In any event, Colbert's subject rally is Colbert Inc. taking the opportunity Beck Inc. created to promote the Colbert Inc. brand. Indeed, by convoying on Beck's hard work, he is also showing himself to be the less capable entertainer.Let me see if I understand your argument: Colbert is morally no better then Glen Beck. But Glen Beck does a better job of cynically brainwashing people into forking over money, so therefore Beck is somehow the "winner" in terms of cynically manipulating people into giving him money?
“Stewart was an important factor in the unionization of the writers for Comedy Central. The Daily Show writers were the first of Comedy Central's writers to be able to join the guild, after which other shows followed.Union Deal for 'Daily Show' Writers.
He supported the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, commenting on The Daily Show episode just before the strike in a sarcastic manner about how Comedy Central had made available all of the episodes for free on their website, but without advertising, and said 'go support our advertisers'. The show went on hiatus when the strike began, like other late night talk shows. Upon Stewart's return to the show on January 7, 2008, he refused to use the title The Daily Show, stating that ‘The Daily Show’ was the show made with all of the people responsible for the broadcast, including his writers. During the strike, he referred to his show as A Daily Show with Jon Stewart until the strike ended on February 13, 2008. Stewart, as well as several other late night talk shows, returned to TV early in January even though the strike was not over, because their stage crews and production teams were suffering much more than the writers from the financial crunch, and by that point had been out of work for two months.” *
"Stewart said he's not aiming for anything wild and/or crazy, but rather provide an event 'for some nice people to get together for fun, maybe some special guests and some great conversation...It will be like a chat room, but real!'"*posted by ericb at 9:36 AM on September 17, 2010
> I am not a crackpot.That'd make a pretty good sign all by itself.
WE DEMAND A COMPETENT, ACCOUNTABLEposted by suetanvil at 12:38 PM on September 17, 2010 [42 favorites]
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SOON AS PRACTICALLY POSSIBLE.
Too angry for Stewart's rally, wrong polarity for Colbert's.
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Television comedian Stephen Colbert has gotten famous by using his trademark conservative faux-outrage to label the United States Congress as a joke.Video.
On Friday, a House subcommittee – maybe, sort of, actually we really don’t know -- might have played along.
“I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-SPAN One,” Colbert promised members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security, where he appeared as a witness on the issue of migrant farm work.
The subcommittee chairman invited the Comedy Central personality to testify at the hearing, which addressed the possibility of offering illegal immigrant farm workers a path to citizenship. Colbert’s “expertise” in the arena of immigration and farm labor stems from a July 2010 episode of his TV show “The Colbert Report,” during which he joined subcommittee chairwoman Rep. Zoe Lofgren to spend a day doing the work of an agriculture laborer.
Speaking in character as a bigoted and irate “free-market guy,” Colbert argued in his testimony that “we have to do something” about the plight of farm workers “because I am not going back out there.”
“At this point, I break into a sweat at the salad bar,” he said.
It's unclear upon how many members of the committee the joke was lost.
Rep. John Conyers, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, initially requested that Colbert leave the hearing room before his testimony, arguing that his presence had achieved its purpose by bringing attention to the hearing's subject matter. Lofgren interceded, saying that Colbert was in attendance at the subcommittee’s request, and Conyers relented.
Colbert did not stick to his (joke-free) prepared testimony, breaking from his planned dry statistics about American agriculture in favor of gags about entering his colonoscopy results into the Congressional Record.
If the committee’s intent was garnering publicity by inviting a late-night comic as its star witness, it worked. Lofgren commented at the outset of the hearing that she had not seen so many cameras in a hearing room since the impeachment.
Colbert did note the seriousness of the issue of immigration during the hearing's question-and-answer period, saying that he likes "talking about people who have no power."
"Migrant workers suffer. And have no rights," he said.
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