Stephen Colbert loves Glenn Beck's sanity... and fears for it

[BurtWorm]

:patriot:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/01/stephen-colbert-rips-apar_n_181673.html


Stephen Colbert ripped apart Fox News host (and New York Times cover boy) Glenn Beck Tuesday night, mocking his 9-12 project, meant to conjure the spirit of compassion and camaraderie Americans felt on September 12, 2001.

"We weren't told how to behave that day after 9/11, we just knew," Beck says to describe the project. "It was right, it was the opposite of what we feel today. Are you ready to be the person you were that day after 9/11, on 9/12?"

"Ready!" Colbert shouted, decked out in a gas mask, holding a gun, and wearing adult diapers.

Colbert then used a classic "Daily Show," exposing the hypocrisy of Beck's 9-12 project by highlighting comments he made on September 9, 2005.

"This is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this," Beck said on his radio program that day, "you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims' families? I don't hate all of them. I hate probably about 10 of them. But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining. And we did our best for them."

"The 9-12 project is not for families directly affected by 9/11, just people building their careers on it," Colbert said.


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[Juche]

1. That was art

I only catch DS and TCR about half the time but people were commenting on Colbert's report on Beck so I had to make sure I watched it.


Poor Glenn Beck. Soon you will be able to empower corporations and destroy labor unions and the rights of minorities with phony populism soon enough.

[BurtWorm]

2. It was.

What a blubbery phony Beck is. I can't believe he's sincere, myself. It looks like pure bullshit, if bullshit can be pure.

[malaise]

3. It was hilarious

We were cracking up with laughter.

[underpants]

4. Colbert rocks

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. Colbert is a gem

between Colbert and Stewart everything gets said that needs saying

Glen Beck is fucking nuts > He needs potent medication

[NeedleCast]

6. one of the best segments ever on Colbert

Awesome satire.

[Arugula Latte]

7. I saw that last night ... One of his best, ever.

Stephen is a seriously talented actor. His fake crying is up there with the best of them. :rofl:

[roguevalley]

10. That rates right up there with the time he was on the Daily Show

doing a segment on the marriage of Prince Charles while peeling and eating a banana. I thought I would die watching.

[Tuvok Obama]

8. Oh HELL yes

I don't get Comedy Central anymore (downgraded my cable programming) so DU is the only place I hear about gems like this.

Thanks BurtWorm!

[backscatter712]

9. You can watch Daily Show and Colbert Report online.

The episodes are put online, in full, just a few hours after they air on cable.

[Tuvok Obama]

11. Thanks, but I have a slow (640 kpbs) DSL connection

It's just fast enough to tease me, when it comes to watching shows online.

Pauses every ten seconds or so, then makes me wait twenty seconds for the next ten.

Switching to a cable connection would mean paying Comcast, and the whole reason I downgraded my cable TV package was to pay them as little as possible. I may eventually downgrade to no cable TV, and get all my news online and all my shows from library DVDs and Netflix.