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Related: About this forumStephen Colbert: "Corporations are people."
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/01/15/404666/stephen-colbert-corporations-are-people/It was not until after Stephen Colbert handed the reins of the Super PAC he founded over to Jon Stewart and the PAC was re-dubbed The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC that it released its ad accusing Mitt Romney of being a serial killer of corporations, based on the assertion that corporations are people and that Romney, as head of Bain Capital, oversaw the dismantling of numerous such people. But on ABCs This Week this morning, Colbert himself came out decisively in favor of corporate personhood. During a back-and-forth over the role of money in politics, Colbert pointedly asked host George Stephanopoulos if he thought corporations were people. When Stephanopoulos deferred weighing in on the question, Colbert responded, Corporations are people. You wont weigh in on whether some people are people? That seems kind of racist, George.
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annabanana
(52,791 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)The purpose of the Republican party is to tilt the population balance to those who don't process satire. I recently had to instruct two reactionary friends who had sent me Colbert's amazing piece on OWS as a "send up" of the movement.
They didn't get that he dressed as Che Guevara to "infiltrate" Zucotti Park, and the hilarious interview where he "took apart" the meticulously constrained, self-described "female bodied person" calling herself "ketchup." Attendants wheel in a large gourmet meal. Colbert offers some to the interviewees, which they decline, and proceeds to chow down while conducting the interview, "sure you don't want some of this? Hm-mm! It's really good!" with the subjects maintaining an earnest dignity. (I imagine that subjects for DS and Colbert interviews get at least some minor prepping, amounting to "Don't react to anything they say to you."
My correspondents saw this as skewering the Occupiers. And as I analyzed it for them, one finally admitted that Colbert is satitizing right wing pundits, the other dropped the subject. Of course I now send them the links to great Colbert clips, because they're such great fans. They never acknowledge.
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Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)All the time.
Armin-A
(367 posts)simply put. his satire is not only funny but it explains the flaws of things so crystal clear
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)It really does make it sound like what it is-ridiculous...
trumad
(41,692 posts)He wasn't going to way in on the question---are corporations people.
Gotta love our press.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)I am looking forward to moving into the white slavery trade. I understand it's a growth industry. We should really thank Mitt for blazing a path in the slave trade with Bain Corporation.
(Satire, for the humor impaired)
DemzRock
(1,016 posts)I have to admit I have a certain racism against Invisibles. Sorry, it's just the way I was raised.
ChadwickHenryWard
(862 posts)It's not an easy thing to destroy other people's positions by loudly espousing them.
spooky3
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zanana1
(6,102 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Is It Pointless
(17 posts)would imply that he's got integrity or cares about anything besides big republican money and the political status quo.
ChadwickHenryWard
(862 posts)The Supreme Court has become such a joke. Between their baldy pro-corporate agenda, their total lack of effort towards hiding their partisan political biases in decisions, the near-constant conflicts of interest by Scalia and Thomas, and the fact that Thomas has not asked a single question in over a decade, the Supreme Court is a national embarrassment. Count it among our badly broken institutions, along with our Congress, the White House, electoral politics, our healthcare system, our schools, our financial institutions, our news media....
greiner3
(5,214 posts)That the OP's title was true to Colbert's meme.
Oops, I forgot to add, for those who think me biased, which I TOTALLY am, that Colbert's reply is classic and the interviewer is crap.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Staying in character the whole time. He was playing Luntz against himself while "playing" dumb.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/394777/august-16-2011/colbert-super-pac---frank-luntz-commits-to-the-pac
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)He fights for us in the true spirit of that great American who gave his all for the people in 1968, Pat Paulsen.
Just listen to that deft critique of Citizens United and you'll why it's the worst Supreme Court decision since Dred Scott.
rwsanders
(2,594 posts)If corporations are people, then they are only people. Now the 'equal protection' clause of the constitution can be used against them.
Also, I think that anyone that is facing foreclosure is now in the clear. The constitution says that a person has the right to face their accuser in court, but a corporation can't make an appearance. Since the corporation is a 'person' they are bound to appear. No appearance, then the case must be dropped.