Stephen Colbert's speech at College of Charleston

[mucifer]

Pretty much proves Rachel's theory that Herman Cain's campaign was nothing more than performance art.

But I gotta say the people in the choir sure didn't seem happy with Colbert's speech.

[rgbecker]

1. It's going to take some nutty stuff to turn this country around.

[Armin-A]

4. in this case i think the nutty is pretty brilliant

[xtraxritical]

9. For the most part SC is largley composed of red necks.

They raised the kids. They consider education beyond high school elitist. Colbert picked the wrong audience here.

[Armin-A]

14. i think the audience is the nation

[anon-y-moose]

2. the choir does'nt laugh cus there just kids. (kids won't laugh till you tell them what is funny)

[drmeow]

12. One of them thinks some of it is funny n/t

[wolfgirl]

3. Colbert is brilliant! n/t

[deutsey]

7. He is. I'm in awe of his satirical genius. n/t

[malthaussen]

5. I noticed that about the choir myself

It seemed to me that Mr Colbert was playing to a pretty tough room, there -- allowing that the open-aired space may be considered a "room." Not just the choir, but the audience response seemed fairly tepid. That might have been a sound problem, though.

And I agree about the "performance art" label. Of course, all of life is performance art, but this alliance of Cain and Colbert would seem to confirm that Mr Cain either is a complete idiot, or never took his candidacy seriously to begin with.

-- Mal

[Sanity Claws]

6. He managed to work in some great things

He actually got to state his point explicitly: our entire campaign finance system is a joke.

BTW, did you catch his mention of Freedom Works?

[ohtransplant]

11. "...because Freedom Works."

[unapatriciated]

13. I almost fell off my chair laughing

Colbert is brilliant.

[lindysalsagal]

8. Cain just helped out a librul comedian! Holy crap!

Can you say news whore? WTF? I wonder if the Koch brothers know he just did that? He's gonna get a whoopin!

Hysterical! "Don't let the pure money get contaminated by ugly politics!"

[sce56]

10. Well the 5000 in the audience loved it!

[Lionessa]

15. With all of this, I expected some Cain votes, but

it seems even if there were, no one is willing to report them.

I checked MSNBC and a few others but no Cain votes reported anywhere that I can find.

[progressoid]

16. Just a few thousand people — 1 percent of the vote

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Not many South Carolinians got on board the Stephen Colbert-commandeered Cain Train.

Just a few thousand people — 1 percent of the vote — went for Herman Cain in Saturday’s primary, despite the comedian’s effort to turn a joke out of Saturday’s primary results by urging fans to vote for the former Godfather’s CEO’s, whose name remained on the ballot.

...

But despite the positive reception on the College of Charleston’s campus Friday, when Colbert held a joint rally with Cain, college students interviewed said they and their friends didn’t take the joke seriously enough to follow through at their polling places on Saturday.

“Me personally, I viewed it as a gag,” Seth Whisnant, 24, a University of South Carolina student who voted for Ron Paul.

Steve Kropski, 26, a law student at the University of South Carolina, said he thinks most people will take Colbert’s endorsement of Cain as a joke. “I can’t imagine people would [actually vote for Cain], but I never underestimate that there are some people who did.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71773.html#ixzz1kCg3l7aj

[The Wielding Truth]

17. Colbert is too good for me I seldon understand his humor. It seems like butter on a right wing bun.