Steven Colbert is a true patriot

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:26 am

I'm serious, this guy has just dumped the tea in the harbor!
I have new found respect for the guy. I always enjoyed his shtick but today he used it like a man and punched Congress in the teeth with it. Ok, so maybe it was more like he made a fist, held it out at arms length and they ran their face into it but either way he delivered the blow!
Frikken morons lol

CUDA · Post by **CUDA** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:39 pm

Link?

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:42 pm

CUDA wrote:Link?

Experts don't need to cite; they are the source.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:44 pm

This one ?

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:48 pm

Grendel wrote:This one ?

Sorry, yea that's the main one.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:45 pm

You know, congress has been such a comedy act, it takes a comedian to show what fools they really are.

null0010 · Post by **null0010** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:04 pm

I don't see any tea...

but I agree, Colbert is an awesome dude and it is awesome that he is advocating on behalf of these people.

flip · Post by **flip** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:24 pm

Uh, that's not the only job they have taken. I started in construction when I was 15. By the time I was 25, I was making between $1800-$3000 a week and I was under bidding most. I also know many a colleague in construction that were making between 250-300 thousand a year, framing houses.Not bad for an \"undesirable\" job. By the time I was 35, I could hardly find a job because most of them were being done by illegal immigrants who had severely underbid even myself. I'm not sure Colbert did anything here but reinforce the 'misconception' that illegals are only doing jobs that no one else wants.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:37 pm

Will, I'm not knocking Colbert, I like his shtick too, especially since right-winger types don't like him AT ALL. But what was it he said that caught your attention and got you all \"happy camper\"?

I also know what Colbert is talking about with farm labor and how hard it is to do, because as a kid, I used to pick strawberries every summer for measly piece-rate pay. That is BEFORE child labor laws essentially made it illegal to hire kids for that type of labor in Oregon.

But I agree with flip. Almost every construction person I've seen around town is Hispanic. All the roofers, framers and other building trade contractors are almost exclusively using Hispanic or Mexican labor nowadays. They usually speak to each other in Spanish as well. Sometimes even the white boss has to speak to them in Spanish too. These jobs USED to be good paying jobs that someone could support a family on. But I'm seeing fewer and fewer young white males (or females) doing these jobs anymore. I'm also willing to bet that these new laborers aren't being paid anywhere near what the trades used to pay.

Has everyone seen or heard what Jon Stewart is going to hold? He intends to hold his own rally in Washington as a counter to what Glenn Beck did.

http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:01 pm

Yea that might draw a few hundred people.

null0010 · Post by **null0010** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:15 pm

AlphaDoG wrote:Yea that might draw a few hundred people.

Facebook has (as of now) 149,383 people who say they will go, and Colbert's "March to Keep Fear Alive" has 60,825 who say they will attend.

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:13 pm

Lol! It's not really what he said that makes me happy, it's that Congress called him in thinking it would make them look good, a popular funny guy making a statement that will be seen as pro amnesty and instead they made a mockery of themselves (our Congress) by inviting him in there! He turned it into a circus.

At a time when we have so many people looking at congress with the deadly serious what-are-you-going-to-do-to-fix-this-or-else stare... they go on TV and effectively come walking out of the restroom in front of the cameras forgetting they still have their dick out!!
Lol! I'm thrilled that he went there and put the icing on the idiot cake! I'm ecstatic that the reason he was there was because a bunch of incumbents thought that was a good use of our tax dollars and our paid representatives time.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:26 pm

tunnelcat wrote:

I also know what Colbert is talking about with farm labor and how hard it is to do, because as a kid, I used to pick strawberries every summer for measly piece-rate pay. That is BEFORE child labor laws essentially made it illegal to hire kids for that type of labor in Oregon.

Heh TC, when I was 11 years old I worked for the corner produce market picking tomatoes, green bean, cucumbers etc...and we got paid by the peck or the bushel. Funny thing was we were all white boys and girls and we all spoke english.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:29 pm

Hey you can still mow your neighbors lawn...

Oh wait, Mexicans do that too.

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:54 pm

null0010 wrote:
AlphaDoG wrote:Yea that might draw a few hundred people.
Facebook has (as of now) 149,383 people who say they will go, and Colbert's "March to Keep Fear Alive" has 60,825 who say they will attend.

Facebook, may yet be your path out of this corrupt world.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2244245551

On Topic: Colbert is a nut case. In fact you can ask Jon Stewart. They share a bed. The bed being bad humor.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:50 pm

they're satirists. they're supposed to make you think they're wacko, adog.

loved the video.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:15 am

Will Robinson wrote:I'm serious, this guy has just dumped the tea in the harbor!

Yep Will, Colbert is more a patriot than some people realize. Here is an older clip I think you would also appreciate:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 7758574879

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:19 pm

Lol! It's not really what he said that makes me happy, it's that Congress called him in thinking it would make them look good,

She said her goal in inviting Colbert was to bring awareness to the issue, and on that account she succeeded.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 4:01 pm

Will Robinson wrote:Lol! It's not really what he said that makes me happy, it's that Congress called him in thinking it would make them look good, a popular funny guy making a statement that will be seen as pro amnesty and instead they made a mockery of themselves (our Congress) by inviting him in there! He turned it into a circus.

At a time when we have so many people looking at congress with the deadly serious what-are-you-going-to-do-to-fix-this-or-else stare... they go on TV and effectively come walking out of the restroom in front of the cameras forgetting they still have their dick out!!
Lol! I'm thrilled that he went there and put the icing on the idiot cake! I'm ecstatic that the reason he was there was because a bunch of incumbents thought that was a good use of our tax dollars and our paid representatives time.

Yep, he made them look pretty silly. The expressions on some of their faces said it all. Representatives King(R) and Chaffetz(R) especially, did NOT take the joke very well.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162- ... 03544.html

They may have spent our tax dollars listening to this stunt, but it DID put the problem in the headlines, front and center. But what irks me is a that these 2 esteemed Republicans, King (went ballistic on FOX to Megyn Kelly) and Caffetz, went out into the media circus during their/our working hours and griped about it to any pundit that would listen, instead of going back to work and doing something to solve the immigration problem.

woodchip wrote:Heh TC, when I was 11 years old I worked for the corner produce market picking tomatoes, green bean, cucumbers etc...and we got paid by the peck or the bushel. Funny thing was we were all white boys and girls and we all spoke english.

So what ever happened to that rite of youth passage? Sure it was hard work, but one could be outside and make a little summer money. Oh wait! I know! The rise of corporate farming put an end to that practice. No corporate farm that wanted to make a tidy profit could drive child laborers hard to pick enough produce fast under the conditions they wanted to work them under. They needed strong, hard working, low paid, illegal Mexican adults to get around those inconvenient and pesky state labor laws.

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:43 pm

LOL TC Corporate Farms didn't involve kids in urban areas where we shined shoes, mowed lawns, sold newspapers, raked yards, shoveled snow, the list goes on.

Here's what happened, the gubment, instilled a no care attitude on the young'uns.

Kids these days have no clue about what it was like to actually \"help\" the family. Don't be shoving your KOS Talking Points at me. I grew up when it was a good thing to try to succeed in life.

You go out of your way to say it's the big bad evil corporations that rule the world, but you lay NO blame on the Progressive Wanks that actually write the rules for corporations to abide by.

Want to change the world? Get \"right.\"

null0010 · Post by **null0010** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:12 pm

AlphaDoG wrote:Kids these days have no clue about what it was like to actually "help" the family.

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I grew up when it was a good thing to try to succeed in life.

Speak for yourself.

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:17 pm

null0010 wrote:
AlphaDoG wrote:Kids these days have no clue about what it was like to actually "help" the family.

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I grew up when it was a good thing to try to succeed in life.
Speak for yourself.

I'm pretty sure I DID.

null0010 · Post by **null0010** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:47 am

AlphaDoG wrote:
null0010 wrote:
AlphaDoG wrote:Kids these days have no clue about what it was like to actually "help" the family.

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I grew up when it was a good thing to try to succeed in life.
Speak for yourself.
I'm pretty sure I DID.

No, you made a blanket statement about young people today.

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