Colbert has been an asswipe lately. Liberal Conscience book would be a pamphlet?

[Colorado Progressive]

He has just been letting himself loose lately, I dont know if I will watch him anymore. Anyone else pissed at him?

[Blue-Jay]

1. .

[More Than A Feeling]

2. Nope, I thought that was perfectly in character, and therefore funny.

Also, I'm glad he brought up Wellstone's book. I, too, wondered why Krugman did that.

[Colorado Progressive]

5. Why Krugman did what? delay his book release? nt

[TroglodyteScholar]

21. No, he bit Wellstone's title...n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Isn't he supposed to be a comedian of sorts?

Sometimes it's OK to laugh at yourself.

[Colorado Progressive]

6. Yes but lately he seems to have gone beyond that, I really think he is on the other side nt

[Mrs. Overall]

9. Are you saying Colbert is really a Republican?

You have a Jon Stewart avatar, yet misunderstand Colbert's humor?

[Colorado Progressive]

17. Sometimes Colbert seems very difficult to pin down. Maybe I am just a nerd scientist.

Colbert with his self-professed Catholic beliefs confuses my little brain.

[Mrs. Overall]

20. He does what he does very well--that's why even a lot of conservatives

still haven't figured out that he is making fun of them.

[Colorado Progressive]

24. LOL so nerd scientists and Repukes are equally gullible? nt

[Mrs. Overall]

25. Geez, I hope not!

[whoneedstickets]

35. That's how he got invited to that now famous Press luncheon...

Someone didn't get the act. Frankly I find the over-the top stuff pretty obvious. Where he REALLY shines in during the interviews at the end. He's managed to completely skewer a few conservative pundits (Dinesh DeSouza (sp) was one) while pretending to be laudatory and showering them with praise or 'agreeing' with their points. He leaves them blustering and stammering first to catch the insult and then to find a comeback. Since a lot of this comes while he's thinking on his feet it shows just how clever he is (usually smarter than the pundits, that's for sure).

[Richard Steele]

44. That was a great moment in history!

The fact that he was even THERE just showed how
clueless and mindless the current misAdministration was.

[renate]

58. I absolutely adore him...

But I kind of wish he'd tone it down during the interviews of people who are on our side. (I realize he's imitating Bill O'Reilly, who would never tone it down, but still.) I love it when he makes his right-wing guests look ridiculous (while agreeing with them--he is so brilliant at that) but his guest the other night--Charlie I-forget-his-last-name, who wrote "Takeover," a book I can't wait to read--had a hard time getting a word in.

Other than that, I totally heart Steven. :loveya:

[charlie]

22. Yeah, like Bill Moyer's Baptist ordination

You can bet I never let that subversive reactionary on my TV.

[charlie]

28. The funny thing is

What if he ever did do a Dennis Miller flip? What could he do? People would still laugh their butts off while he poured his heart out. The surreality of an arch conservative stuck in the role of an arch conservative buffoon would send him to the looney ward.

[Lucinda]

47. Impossible

I'm convinced that Dennis was replaced by an alien. An unfunny, unhip one.

[DemBones DemBones]

48. Hey, scientists aren't nerds, unless we

want to be. Sometimes I'm a nerd, sometimes I'm not.

Colbert is a practicing Catholic but he pokes fun at the Church sometimes. He's usually mocking something some bishop has said. Though he seems to be agreeing with the bishop, what he says is over the top, a joke.

He's developed a comic persona based on Bill O'Reilly. It's a character he plays on tv. He said in an interview that he won't let his kids watch his show because they're too young to understand sarcasm and that he's playing a characters. He said he doesn't want to be tucking them in at night sometime and say "I love you" and have one of them say "Good one, Dad!"

A friend of mine watches FOX to keep tabs on them and she says Colbert has really got all O'Reilly's mannerisms down pat. (She's a chemist and she's not always a nerd, either, BTW.) We both suspect some conservatives watch Colbert and don't get it that he's a liberal making fun of O'Reilly and his ilk.

Either that or he and Jon Stewart are both secretly conservatives pretending to be liberals and, in Colbert's case, pretending to be conservative (which he secretly is) on tv.

It's the Colbert Uncertainty Principle. :evilgrin:

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. It must mean that we are in power now, at least sort of. Satire is the

price you pay.

[charlie]

11. You're supposed to think that

Shows how good he is.

We can definitely agree then, Colbert brings too much funny for you. Try smaller doses, use a little NPR in between as a palate cleanser.

[Colorado Progressive]

19. Maybe if I gargle during cammercial breaks? nt

[hisownpetard]

13. Wait... No, really... whaaat? n/t

[never_get_over_it]

26. He is SO NOT on the other side

one day this week he was talking about the LIEberman Kyl vote and played a clip of John Edwards saying this was giving the freak in chief the permission to take the first step towards attacking Iran - Colber said really when I'm about to walk off a cliff one step is enough....

[Colorado Progressive]

27. OK I believe you all now. Thank you. nt

[never_get_over_it]

30. Good I'm glad

because I friggin love that guy!!!!!

[hisownpetard]

54. His "role model" is Bill O'Reilly. n/t

[troubleinwinter]

43. Hahahahaha!!!!! Puhleez.

[Hissyspit]

4. It's satire!

[Richard Steele]

7. Um, dude- he's not really a conservative pundit. We all drew straws to see who'd tell you. I lost.

[Colorado Progressive]

14. I'm not a dude. nt

[Richard Steele]

18. It's 2007, and "Dude" is no longer a gender-specific term. Please see your own sigline.

[DemBones DemBones]

50. Maybe she was simply informing you, not complaining

that you referred to her as "dude." If someone called you "dudette," you might want to inform them that you're not a "dudette," right?

Reasonable people could also disagree about whether or not your assertion that "dude" is "no longer a gender-specific term" is correct. I think many people still consider it to refer to a male.

[DefenseLawyer]

51. You're being very unDude!

Or el Duderino if, you know, you're no into the whole brevity thing.

[Gregorian]

8. He plays his role so well he's got you convinced.

Wasn't it Tom Delay who had a link to Colbert's website on his homepage? He's that convincing.

He's using the back door approach to criticism.

And remember, he got the speech at the White House press dinner. But also remember that he kicked Bush's ass.

[Colorado Progressive]

12. well he must be convincing. So why does the audience boo when he mentions Krugman?

nt

[hisownpetard]

16. Maybe the sign says to? n/t

[Gregorian]

31. They're in on the act.

I noticed that too. The Krugman boo was most noticeable. I thought it was scripted. It pretty much had to be.

It's a real twist in logic. More than many can handle. My 80 year old mother was appalled until she realized what was going on. Now she won't miss a show.

:)

[RainDog]

15. huh?

I thought Colbert was brilliant in his "quantum" parallel universe. I don't say that often about any show.

[Colorado Progressive]

23. Whipping the long hair behind him? LOL! I almost choked!

[seriousstan]

29. Quick..Throw him under the bus!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

32. Stephen Colbert is the furthest left person on television, bar none. n/t

[Exultant Democracy]

33. Posts like this make us all look super foolish. Why not edit it now while you can

so that it isn't saved for eternity.

[Mrs. Overall]

34. Posts like this can be very informative. I think I hear the weeping of a hundred sad trolls,

who, after reading this thread again and again, finally understand that Colbert really isn't on their side.

[Rosemary2205]

52. LOL

:)

[Colorado Progressive]

37. Go to hell, not editing. nt

[Richard Steele]

49. Considering the source, I suspect you are using the wrong definition of "us", knowhutImean?

People FED this one; now it thinks it lives here.

[question everything]

36. Agree. I would often turn the TV off after Stewart

however these past two weeks, at least, he has been great.

Of course, my cable provider had to intrude with its "system warning" or something right in the middle of the interview with Lovell. Bastards!

[backscatter712]

38. Funny thing about Colbert

Even though Colbert goes out of his way to make his show waaaaaaay over the top, truth turns out to be stranger than fiction, and the Republicans do things even more outrageous than Colbert does when he's in character.

[Lindsey]

39. I don't know why "liberal Conscious Book would be a pamplet" is

different than anything he's been saying since he's been on. His satire goes over many on the rights heads and that's why they go on his show and invited him to their dinner. I don't ever see how his stuff could get "old."....unless he actually became a right-wing nut job in which case I don't think he'd be on Comedy Central after and produced by Jon Stewart.

[Common Sense Party]

41. I believe that was liberal CONSCIENCE book

Although liberal CONSCIOUS book is funny in a different direction...

[KaptBunnyPants]

40. Colbert is the best thing on TV.

Satire isn't for everyone. You're not supposed to agree with what he's saying; he intentionally acts the part of an ignorant right wing idiot in order to trash their beliefs. It's not that well hidden, in fact, in "the word" segments they have written text along side him undercutting every line he says. If you're actually getting mad at his message, you're totally missing the point of the show.

[Swamp Rat]

42. He is better than ever!

His last few shows have been brilliant! :applause:

[ellisonz]

45. No.

[REP]

46. T H I N K for a moment - He's Now Plugged Krugman's Book TWICE

Colbert does satire. If you don't get this by now, and if you failed to notice that in those segments he held up Krugman's book, mentioned when it would be released and made sure the title was known - well, I'm afraid there's not much hope for you.

[Az]

53. Its called satire

He is lampooning the right and the media talking heads. He is playing at being a right wing self absorbed media blow hard. Meaning that the comments he makes are deliberately uninformed and arrogant. That is the humor. That only an uninformed idiot would think that of liberals. In fact it is an overwhelming amount of conscience that sometimes burdens the liberals.

[AlCzervik]

55. i pre-ordered his new book and i cannot wait until it gets here! Love him.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

56. Jonathon Swift's been a real buttmuch recently.

Poor Irish children should be eaten? I don't know if I'll read him anymore.

Anyone else pissed off?

[graywarrior]

57. OMG, I question anyone who doesn't get Colbert.

Not being critical, just questioning.

[DrunkenMaster]

59. It's called "satire"

and requires a bit of critical thinking on the part of the observer.

[monobrau]

60. I thought only wingnuts didn't get it

But - although I know it's satire and it is often funny, it grates on my nerves after awhile.
Stewart's a lot easier to watch because he's being natural.

[backscatter712]

61. I get a kick out of Colbert's narcissism.

When other talk shows introduce guests, the guest runs on from stage right, jumping, waving, smiling, bowing and taking the big welcoming round of applause.

On the Colbert Report, it's Stephen Colbert who gets up & runs around and bows and waves, taking the round of applause when he introduces a guest, while the guest hides in a corner. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: