Goddess bless Stephen Colbert, this time for testifying in support of the ‘guest workers’ who are one step ahead of the rest of us on the Invisible-Hand-of-the-Market’s escalator to hell:
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And while blessings are being distributed, may suitable judgements also befall the two people in the next clip:
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Rep. Steve King, of course, holds the coveted Wonkette ‘Biggest Asshole in Congress‘ award, for being the lone vote against putting a plaque in the Capitol Visitors Center mentioning that the Capitol was built by slaves. Perhaps Rep. King is afraid that, given Republican wetdreams, his status in the only category at which he’s ever liable to be considered a winner might be threatened by a wave of incoming Teabaggers even more racist, narrow-minded and intolerant than himself?
Jim Newell at Gawker has the best anecdotes about the Colbert / King smackdown.
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Violet
“An insult to the time of the American people.” Oh yeah, I’m so offended that the Congresspeople had to sit there and listen to an American citizen talk about a serious problem, even if he did it in “character.”
That’s way worse than, for instance, Congress interrogating excessively rich baseball payers about their possible steroid use. Who cares about poor people? Boring!
WereBear
Colbert does use his power for good.
Redshift
Stephen speaks truth to power through satire, and it’s especially awesome when he gets to do it to their faces!
Heading out to go canvassing; later, guys!
Citizen_X
Their go-to guy for equal poutrage on the D side of the aisle is fucking Conyers? He’s the silver medalist in the Biggest Assholes in Congress competition.
Nice job of completely missing the point of Colbert’s “comedy routine,” by the way.
Cheryl from Maryland
Mr. Colbert was brilliant. I hope people listen. My favorite moment was when he pointed out what we have now is the free market solution with illegal migrant workers, and we don’t like it. “I believe in the Invisible Hand, and the Invisible Hand does not want to pick beans” — that should be on a T-shirt.
eemom
meh. dunno if we oughta trust a guy who pals around with High Broders.
kindness
It’s so funny to watch the heads explode over at Fox.
Thank you Stephen.
General Stuck
This still remains one of the all time greatest spoofs visited on the wingnuts from Mr. Colbert’s character.
Xecky Gilchrist
Oh yes, Congress must stop wasting time with comedians and get back to the business of calling those things in the cafeteria Freedom Fries.
ornery curmudgeon
Thank you, Stephen … amazing how lifeless and humorless our would-be overlords have become.
Svensker
Stephen’s a Merry Prankster in a suit. Problem is, he’s too smart for most people outside his audience. As happened at the WH Correspondent Dinner, they just didn’t get what he was doing or saying. I’m still laughing at the Corn Packer = Gay Farmer in Iowan joke. Pretty juvenile, huh?
General Stuck
OT
EPI blows Krugman out of the water
JAHILL10
@Svensker: Yeah, but it stopped that halfwit King in his tracks. Hilarious!
Davis X. Machina
Where’s the ‘blowing out of the water” part?
Krugman: “The question is, why on earth would you believe that structural unemployment is our main problem right now?”
Lawrence Mishel; “EPI’s new paper, Reasons for Skepticism About Structural Unemployment, shows that there has been little evidence to support the claim of extensive structural unemployment and that the pattern of employer behavior regarding job openings, layoffs and hires does not support such a claim.”
At first glance they seem to agree…
Southern Beale
Chuck Todd’s lack of self-awareness is stunning.
Montysano
Angry Megyn Kelly’s eyebrows are angry.
master c
guess they never saw the big Bush smackdown….is that possible?
David
But no complaints about the Virginia Foxx or Michele Bachmann-cartoon character personas.
Southern Beale
I’m sorry but as I stated over at my place, I don’t need lectures on making a mockery of our government from the party who impeached a Democratic president over a blow job.
Jesus fucking Christ.
General Stuck
@Davis X. Machina:
edit on second reading, I think you are right. My bad.
Violet
@Southern Beale:
Chuck Todd seems like a real tool. I can’t believe I ever liked the guy during the 2008 election season. He’s just so awful now. Villager through and through.
General Stuck
And I agree with needing more stimulus now. Krugman is right and we need to borrow as much as we can to bring back all those outsourced jobs. Especially manufacturing. I am on board the Keynesian train like a good Obot. Hoot Hooooot!
DonkeyKong
Ann Laurie, can you post a clip of these “serious” bastards in the Beltway laughing til chardonnay sprayed out of their nose at Bushes “Can’t find WMD’s over here comedy routine for sociopaths.
We really need to see that again. To quote some assholes on NPR, that really, really hit “the wrong note”
eemom
it is The Emperor Has No Clothes, times a zillion.
Nick
OT- while Arianna is going ballistic over the Democrats “inability to govern” for not forcing a vote on tax cuts she’d almost certainly later criticize them for, President Obama is the only person in the country calling out Republicans for blocking campaign finance legislation that every Democrat voted for.
Montysano
Joe Bageant nails it:
“If sufficiently taunted”. So that means that denizens of Balloon Juice, TBogg, Sadly No, et al, we’re all part of the problem. A taunt from us, a flash of Megyn Kelly’s angry eyebrows, and we’re off to the races. “Conservatives cackled with glee” indeed.
Davis X. Machina
@General Stuck: I can thank my superior level of caffeination, most likely.
(I was kind of hoping PKrug was wrong. That would signal a rift in the laws of probability. I was throwing on clothes to run out and buy lottery tickets before it closed again.)
Davis X. Machina
@Montysano: Bageant has sailed close to this “Liberals just need to lie better, and get their hate on more often” line of analysis before.
In its own way, it’s as condescending as any of the condescending things the “complete-sentence and actual-facts” school of liberals are accused of doing.
eemom
@Nick:
Arianna is a fucking joke.
What Colbert did yesterday shows her and all of her useless ilk for the dressed-up frauds that they are. To continue with my Emperor analogy.
NobodySpecial
@eemom: Repeat after me.
Arianna is not a liberal.
Arianna is a grifter.
Mike G
@DonkeyKong:
In the Village, humor and laughter aren’t the spontaneous expressions of enjoyment of an intelligent mind, they’re acting poses the talentless courtiers use to advance their careers. You issue forth a ‘laugh’ at the witless statements of the powerful like the Chimp, with his juvenile nicknames and jokes about missing WMDs, to suck up to them.
Colbert has no power, he can’t help them in their maneuvering for personal advancement, so why would they laugh at anything he says?
Three-nineteen
Is anyone else watching the entire hearing? King’s remarks are unbelievable. First I was going to comment on him saying that the US growing their own fruits and vegetables can’t be important because the Eskimos didn’t need them, but then I got to this part (not blockquoting because I’m transcribing from the video):
“..the Joe the Plumbers of the world who would, many days, prefer the aroma of fresh dirt than the sewage of the American elitists who disparage them, even as they flush.”
Dr.BDH
Megyn and the rest of Fox News know that Colbert has their number. That’s why they hate him. They get the joke and they don’t like it, because Colbert cuts them to the bone. Megyn meant to say, “Colbert, funny or making conservatives look like assholes? Or both?”
General Stuck
@Davis X. Machina:
I have no excuse, other than being an idiot. At least part of the time. And thank you for the correction:-)
DonkeyKong
All they can see, smell and hear is power or lack of. Brilliant Mike G.
Kyle
@NobodySpecial:
I lived in the congressional district represented by her (now-ex) husband in the early 90s. She married him, knowing he was gay, as a vehicle for her political ambitions, and led him around by the nose. They did these joint husband-and-wife media interviews and she would be doing 70% of the talking.
Arianna was a shameless phony, all raw ruthless ambition and mendacious to the bone. Also a devotee of the creepy John Roger new-age cult. People like that don’t really change, they just develop new ‘acts’ and new targets for their grifting. I would never trust her an inch.
Bob L
Oh man, the expressions on the Republican’s faces is priceless. Colbert is the MAN.
roshan
Sometimes it just feels like Megyn Kelly has gone through a sex change operation to become an asshole.
hitchhiker
Did she really just say that Colbert wasted $125,000 of taxpayer money with a 5 minute speech?
Did King really just say that he didn’t believe Colbert had actually done any farm work?
How do you even have a conversation with people that stupid? They’re impossible to parody.
btw, if you’ve never heard Colbert give a straight interview, this one is pretty incredible.
Origuy
Zoe Lofgren is my Representative. I didn’t know she was the one who invited Colbert until I watched the video.
Who was the guy behind Colbert who never cracked a smile? Someone from Fox News?
JenJen
@Nick: @eemom: @NobodySpecial: Word.
The Republic of Stupidity
And yet Darrell ‘The Idiot’ Issa had no problem whatsoever w/ Colbert “endorsing” the GOOP’s new fake, fake, ultra-fake “Pledge To America” at almost the exact same moment…
I would say the irony is astonishing, but I’m afraid irony has given up and gone into hiding, muttering something about “the Witless Protection Program” as it slipped out the back door…
And meanwhile, Glenn Beck sails full steam ahead w/ his “Obama Is a Christianist/Nazi” rant…
It’d say this is all funny, but it isn’t anymore…
It’s too farkin’ crazy/scary…
Anya
@Kyle: I never though Arianna was sincere. She figured out a lucrative scam with her liberalism act. She still hopnobs with the likes of Gingrich. Even after his latest inexcusable stands, she invited him to blog at HuffPo. She has no principles.
El Cid
Paul Krugman just blew Paul Krugman out of the water. Also threw him under the bus, and slapped him in the face. At least I think that’s what I saw.
asiangrrlMN
@Three-nineteen: Cliff from a few threads below was listening to the whole thing for a second time. He’s crazy, I think.
@Violet: I know. I liked him during 2008, too. Now, i couldn’t even click on that link because I loathe him so much.
@El Cid: This is why I fake-married you. Get your big bottle of Ommunis(c) ready!
I love Stephen Colbert for delivering an important point in a funny, intellectual, and incisive way. Fuck Congress with a rusty pitchfork.
hitchhiker: Thanks for the link. I have never heard him out of character before.