…trotted out to distract from Obama’s DoJ scandal.
Yes, it seems to have gotten about ten times the coverage, so if that was the goal, mission accomplished.
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…trotted out to distract from Obama’s DoJ scandal.
Yes, it seems to have gotten about ten times the coverage, so if that was the goal, mission accomplished.
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Yes, the state media has done well focusing on inane pop culture while ignoring a major civil rights travesty. I speak as someone involved in civil rights issues in the 60s.
Well let’s not be too paranoid. Pop culture always gets more airtime than serious legal issues, doesn’t it? National Enquirer sells way more copies than the Washington Post, and Britney Spears’s antics grab more primte-time airtime than the fate of GM or the recount wars in Minnesota. We can probably explain this one by mere vapid pandering to the bread ‘n’ circuses crowd.
You’re right, Carl.
It’s a good thing we have alternative media today or the DOJ story would go down the memory hole.
I think Colbert is yet another liberal, entertainment business, jerk. To prove this, he did everything but wear floppy shows and a fright wig to testify in a hearing in or nation’s Capital. Actually, on second thought, trot out the shoes and wig. I’d have rather seen Sideshow Bob, at least he’s funny.
I’ve heard all day long about how Gary Sinise, and Charlton Heston and Jon Voight have testified FOR the right, so Colbert was just the left’s choice. Well, I guess that’s true, in essence.
But Colbert showed up as his inane, overly wordy, Right-Wing alter ego. Voight, Sinise and Heston showed up as THEMSELVES, not characters from their movies. And as themselves they spoke about topics they are involved in every day as voting Americans.
Although Colbert lives in CA or NY. He may get two votes then, one for each ego.
I’m just glad I’m not from the constituency of that Congress moron who called him in. I’m looking for a P/t job and I don’t have the time it would take to mount the recall!
Thats ok, the Republicans can always have more hearing on the DOJ/Panther case after they control the house.
As I blogged, this is contempt of congress. To be more precise, it’s not Colbert having contempt for the members. It’s the members having contempt for the American people.
The fact that the American people are not up in arms over a DOJ being injust, bothers me beyond expression. There are times I think this is proof of the multiverse concept because otherwise it’s not possible for this idiocy to exist in just one universe.
“To be more precise, it’s not Colbert having contempt for the members. It’s the members having contempt for the American people.”
For however much I might disagree with Representative John Conyers on some issues, Mr. Conyers got it exactly right, and he was trying as delicately and diplomatically as possible to extract the committee and Congress and his Democratic Party from this circus act. The Chair, appeared to be completely brain-dead, along with all the people in the room with their stifled smiles at this “comedy.”
I mean in addition to character comedy, there is stand-up comedy, skit comedy, and situation comedy. Each of this modes can be “edgy” and address serious social concerns — in a comedy club, or on late-night TV.
What are we going to have next, Ray Romano, in character as Ray Barone, testifying about steroids in sports? Don Novelo in character as Father Guido Sarducci, testifying about the problem of abuse by clergy? Sesame Street puppets offering opinions on early childhood education?
Using an entertainment idiom, Congress has just “jumped the shark.”
This after just voting out the use of the phrase “mentally retarded”, which is the Beltway crowd.
Conyers is blander than Ferris Bueller’s economic teacher.
Congress has just “jumped the shark.”
So our happy days are over? Can these clowns have any less gravitas after this? I thought Senator Al Franken was their jump the shark moment. I shudder to think what might the actual moment be.