Kieth Olbermann on the Supposed Dem Boycott of The Colbert Report
Heres to my friend Vern, who scoured the internets...um...YouTube, until this was posted for us to see.... here at the RIP.
For any of you who have been living under a rock, Steve Colbert, formerly of Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, has a show weeknights on Comedy Central at 11:30 PM, in which he does the news as a spot on Bill O'Reilly "type" of anchor. Colbert IS O'Reilly...but he is also so much more. Any of you who read this blog even semi-regularly know that I am such a big fan of this guy and that I think hes an American hero. He not only gave the best Washington Correspondents Dinner speech EVER, directly to President Bush, who was NOT amused...but he has joined Jon Stewart and Kieth Olbermann as another leading light in the TRUTH, delivered in logical, funny, and understandable terms. These guys have guts and they started speaking truth to power long before any of the M$M made any sort of baby steps to get on board.
Here is Kieth on Rahm Emmanuel's suggested boycott of The Colbert report by Dems...in fear of the possibility that some Americans might not get the joke and might believe what goes on there is real.
Considering that during the "War on Christmas" this year, Colbert interviewed his guests in a fully decorated Jesus manger... and also considering that Colbert's "son" on the show is an eagle named Steven Jr who he tracks with a tracking device and sometimes he even sends spys like Rick Ocasek, of The Cars fame, to rescue the bird...all I can say is...Rahm, what the fuck is the matter with you? Maybe its low expectations of people and FEAR of speaking the truth that has gotten us into this mess.....who told Gore not to follow his passion? Who tucked Kerry in at night?
Us dems better get with the funny (you hear me Mark Green??) and we'd better get with it FAST!! People need it; it gets the point across; the dumbing down and blunting of the message to try to make it palatable to the middle of the country isn't working.
here you go...enjoy this montage of Colbert in all of his glory. This is what the Democratic Party is afraid of.....?
posted by Melina at 9:32 PM
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Rahm Emmanuel is an idiot. This is the guy who decided that the DCCC should ONLY put money into those seats that the Dems were GUARANTEED to win. It was Howard Dean's 50-state strategy that took back the house, NOT Rahm's so-called fundraising ability. Rahm decided that Tammy Duckworth was a can't miss candidate because of her status as a disabled Iraq vet, instead of the more popular and more progressive Christine Cegelis. Hey, Rahm....does the name "John Kerry" mean anything to you? Rahm is all about shoveling money into the pockets of Bob Shrum and other Washington hack consultant losers. He's one of those guys who makes me believe the Democrats only exist to make us delude ourselves that there's a difference.
Yesirree, I agree....
He is also a close friend of Laurie David who, while very connected and doing some good work is more than a little rigid and alienating...I still feel guilty every time I leave my cell phone charger plugged in...and what part of the rest that I do cancels that out?...Like, cant I buy some freakin carbon credits or something just so I don't have to unplug the thing all the time?
Anyway, on Ring of Fire I learnt that Rahm's brother Ari is a fancy talent agent in H'wood and is who the character of Ari in Entourage s based on (as if thats a GOOD thing!)
These guys are some sorta super human, fake clone boys or something.
And I expect that Rahm is more along the lines of someone like Hillary who is carefully positioned and controlled as opposed to Edwards who has been shouting the truth (well, as much as seems possible anyway...I'm not horribly disappointed yet) ....I dunno....
Something is missing there and it seems like Dean has been de-balled or something....
I wish he was saying that he thinks because Ill bet its pretty interesting and controversial.
...or maybe not...he is loud in his silence. Maybe hes afraid that he'll scream or something.
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