I'm still wondering why Colbert is so important?

[Flabbergasted]

What's the big deal?

[babylonsister]

1. Hearing the truth was refreshing. nt

[sce56]

2. The Man had the Balls to stick it to the Chimp in his FACE along with all

others in the crowd like the WH Press corps and others!

[Flabbergasted]

6. We are paying attention to a guy insulting Bush when the biggest civil

rights event since the 60's is occuring? What the hell?

[screembloodymurder]

12. Excuse me, are you referring to the rights of illegal aliens?

They have the right to remain silent......then we deport them.

[Flabbergasted]

14. No I was talking about LEGAL hispanic immigrants...

[Bridget Burke]

57. No, everyone has the right to speak out in the USA.

Not everyone who protested was an "illegal alien"--what a blast from the past!

Besides, most of them will NOT be deported.

[blondeatlast]

13. Edit: sorry I kicked it. nt

[Flabbergasted]

15. Bush is a little tool in the oil companies belt. Pretty meaningless!

[sce56]

20. Well I can chew bublegum and walk at the same time! Here in California

I'm participating in the Boycott great things are happening but we need to keep up on all the fronts at once and to see Colbert sticking it to Bushsh*t is a great thing to see and talk about! Ahora aqui en la cuidad de mi nacimento.

[SpiralHawk]

56. It's not about insulting Bush, it's about forcing him to hear --

for once -- the truth about what he has done to America.

Colbert struck a blow for reality.

Bush and the CONS live in Cloud Coo Coo Land, while the rest of America lives in reality.

Colbert let them KNOW that we KNOW that they don't KNOW and that they better get a frikkin CLUE

[Cha]

61. JHC! Where have

you been for the last 5 years? Having someone like Colbert stick the truth to bush not 8 feet away is freakin' priceless..sorry you don't get it, but there are plenty of people who do.

[grytpype]

3. He made Bush sit and listen to it.

If he did it on his show it would be merely funny, but he made Bush sit there on camera and listen to every minute of it.

No one talks like that to Bush, ever. Ever.

[Flabbergasted]

8. Bush is worthless. If we focus on him we are merely distracting ourselves

[TankLV]

42. You just don't get it,do you? What's worse is, you REFUSE to "get it".

Simply sad, So very sad.

[Flabbergasted]

43. I remember Gore talking in Jan. No effect. I remember Feingold!

No effect! What difference does this guy make?

[William Seger]

19. He made the WH PRESS CORP sit and listen

I really think that they were Colbert's real target. It was fun to think how pissed Bush* must have been, but that won't change Bush* one iota. The shame he heaped on the press corp, however, may just bear fruit.

[NVMojo]

4. Would you have been able to do it? Especially so well? End of story.

[Flabbergasted]

10. I'm more of a musician than a speaker and yes I would rip his f-ing head

off!!!! Even they ripped mine off afterward...!

[Harper_is_Bush]

5. Me too.

Yes it was very funny...a great roast of Bush....but the significance of it is being exaggerated I think.
He didn't say anything everyone else isn't already saying.

[Don Claybrook]

7. You must not have seen the video yet

Really, you should watch it. I don't watch his show, but Saturday night was the rarest of performances. I'm jaded, but this was something to behold.

[tuvor]

9. When was the last time the chimperor was told he had no clothes?

To his face?

It's important to celebrate! :party:

[Flabbergasted]

11. And Meanwhile we are ignoring the greatest civil rights movment since

MLK....And the Bus Boycott!

[screembloodymurder]

16. These illegals are

helping to wage a war on the American working class. Who do you think is orchestrating these marches? It's Bush and his corporate supporters.

[Flabbergasted]

17. No they ARE the American Working class......with us....

[tuvor]

24. You asked, so I gave you my answer.

Include your real point in your OP, please and thanks.

[Flabbergasted]

25. I stated my point "We are Ignoring one of great civil rights moments"....

I think its important.

[tuvor]

26. If it's that "important," state it in the OP like I already suggested.

Not afterwards, like you did. That way it doesn't look like you're hiding your agenda.

[Flabbergasted]

28. But I was hiding my agenda! Because I think it is a vital....

[tuvor]

30. Thanks for trusting us all so much!!!!!

I'll make it a point not to reply to your posts from now on.

[Flabbergasted]

34. This group is a vast side swipe of the entire western civ. I think that

we can do about alot more with this site.

[0007]

60. I certainly don't think it is the greatest civil right movement since

the 60's. Far from it. It is the biggest America screw up for letting greedy businessmen get low wage workers. It has hurt the economy and the American wage earner.

And don't tell me that Mexicans do jobs that American won't!

If you are a legal immigrant why worry?

[itcfish]

63. You are Not Going To

Civil Rights or enjoy freedom of speech until the media is free. We need to re-instate the Fair Media Doctrine, then the rest will follow.

[blondeatlast]

18. You started a great thread on the topic yourself, so why waste your time

here?

You are right on every response to this thread, why not move your own along?

Here's a great thread on the topic. Perhaps you can offer something to thediscussion HERE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2601241&mesg_id=2601241

Holy heck--here's yet another great thread on it--started by YOU, OP--so why are you wasting your time on negating someone else's issue?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2601466

[Flabbergasted]

22. I really don't understand what you're getting at???

[blondeatlast]

27. My point is, if that's your issue, why post a negative thread

and PERSIST in answering every reply to it?

Use your passion for the other issue wisely--and concentrate your efforts THERE.

My peeve with you, FG, is that you honestly believe everyone should share your POV and passion (I admire you for that) about YOUR pet issues. If we all did that, DU would be a tremendous bore, actually.

Expecting a reply to this one within minutes although I'm leaving for dinner...

[Flabbergasted]

29. Funny thing is its not my pet issue....My really issue is democracy!

[blondeatlast]

40. Heh, heh, heh... nt

[Vickers]

21. Because he hates your fucking guts.

Hope this helps.

[Flabbergasted]

23. Well it tells alot about you I guess!

[Vickers]

33. Wow, uh, great rejoinder.

Don't choke on my nut-hair. :eyes:

[Flabbergasted]

35. Well Gosh I feel insulted?

[sendero]

31. If you really don't know..

... I'll tell you because it is really simple.

Bush** never has to hear any reality, and Colbert shoved some right is his face. What is the practical effect of this? Almost nothing probably.

What is the psychic effect on those legions of us here that wish that once, just once the press would stand up and do their fucking jobs? Priceless.

[Flabbergasted]

32. So your saying there is absolutely no effect other then we exp vengeance

[sendero]

38. I'm not a "christian"....

... so using a loaded word like "vengeance" won't affect me at all.

After watching someone wreck the country, wreck our standing in the world and wreck Iraq, excuse me for not feeling like a few minutes in the hot seat are justified, and in fact downright pleasurable.

[Flabbergasted]

39. But you told me exactly that in your first response?

[Cha]

62. Hey, you are so right, sendero!

I feel it was "Priceless", too!

And we're what's important!

[sendero]

64. In my best Scooby Doo voice.

.... huh?

[Cha]

67. What do you mean,

"huh?", Scooby Doo? I was expounding on your "psychic effect".. :D

"What is the psychic effect on those legions of us here that wish that once, just once the press would stand up and do their fucking jobs? Priceless."

[sendero]

68. Sorry..

... I get it now :)

[skids]

36. Several reasons:

1) Because a person with progressive politics got the invite to do the dinner sheerly due to his stature and popularity -- so much so that they didn't do their homework if that's not what they expected him to do. That demonstrates the strength of the progressive demographic.

2) Because we no longer have to wonder if either BushCo or the WHPC realize just how much of a beef progressives have with them and why. We now know they have been told, very eloquently, to their faces. We suspected that they knew, but now all doubt is put to rest.

3) Because those poor few sheep who thought Colbert was just a funny RWer have been thoroughly thrust through the looking glass, which can only do them good in the long run.

4) Because that one speech generated a huge outpouring of internet support, rivaling, let's say, Cindy Sheehan in it's mindshare, and though that may make the importance of it a self-fulfilling prophecy to some it doesn't matter: the echoes of that speech will ring for years in politics, from the concepts right down to the lexicon (e.g. "backwash".)

5) Because the last time someone from Comedy Central got seriously political, the show he complained about got canceled...

[Flabbergasted]

37. Point is listening to Media Spokemans no matter the net is couter-producti

[TankLV]

41. Because he is the FIRST to say DIRECTLY to the tin horn DICTATOR himself

- less than a few feet away - that THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES! - and neither do his courtiers!

THAT is why!

The next big hurdle, aparently, is for the first prominent person to say to HIS FACE that his is a fucking LIAR and WAR CRIMINAL!

[Flabbergasted]

44. Trace the money from Colbert on down to Bush

[politrix]

45. I'd Rather Trace The Money Down To YOU

You clearly have an agenda.

[Flabbergasted]

46. Yeah I think we are clearly off track focusing on politicians and media

personalities!

[politrix]

47. We Are Focusing On Political TRENDS

And the winds have shifted BIGTIME.

Colbert is just a vessel of change and we rejoice it. Get it?

We have been on the road to hell with NO BRAKES. Colbert just slammed his foot down and we're hopeful it is the beginning of our careening nation/world coming to a halt.

[Flabbergasted]

48. Colbert just focused on the train wreck! Not the solution!

I listened to Gore, Kerry, Feingold, and the rest. We are the last chance!

[politrix]

49. Shit, He Only Had 20 Minutes

He diagnosed the disease - did he have to CURE it, too? In one sitting?

Obviously, he's the doctor, not the surgeon.

There's a couple hundred million of us here, can't someone ELSE handle the solution part of things? HE took all the risks.

YOU should back him up and have a solution ready, not be in here tying up the board, pretending not to get it.

You're looking like one of those passive/aggressive trolls that distrupt a board by asking asinine questions and refusing to get the obvious while well-intentioned people waste a week trying to school you.

They used to fool me til I realized that they were even more effective than the trolls who just offend everyone. They can tie up a board with endless dumb questions.

That wouldn't be what YOU'RE doing, is it? WHY is someone finally stating the truth on global tv (finally) so hard to imagine as a great thing?

How many years have you been waiting to hear the plain truth on tv, just to save your sanity? Why DON'T you get it? Huh?

[Flabbergasted]

50. Bitches, bictching, on TV is not a solution. The solution wants u!

[politrix]

51. You Know, I Hadn't Noticed Your Troll Avatar Before

Disguised as Yoda...

[Flabbergasted]

52. I'm really not a troll. I want DU to seek progressive thought not media,,

crap....

[DoTheRightThing]

54. But people shout that at him everyday...

Cindy's group, and others, held placards for him to read--it's on the news/blogs/media 25/8!

Where'd you ever get the idea he hasn't heard all this stuff before?

[Zorra]

53. If you don't get it by now, I'm not going to waste my time explaining

it to you.

[Guaranteed]

55. Because the media's carelessness is putting America in a dangerous

situation. Colbert has pinned down the formula, and is exposing it for how ridiculous it is.

My opinion is that his is the most important show on television today.

[ShortnFiery]

59. When Our Press is in "lock down" and "fawning mode"

the only way we can drive home the true issues is through satire.

It works! The Right Wing is so damn inane, they have no respect for such humor and largely ignore us.

Whatever it takes - and it seems to be working. :-)

[Bridget Burke]

58. Colbert uses "words." You say you are a musician.

Words have power & many of us appreciate what Colbert said. And where he said it.

That doesn't mean we ignore the "issues of the day."

[blondeatlast]

65. And this thread rolls ever on--with the complaining OP still spending

an inordinate amount of time on it. Every post to the contrary gets a reply from the OP; but Colbert's speech "isn't worthy of OUR time." :shrug:

This is rapidly becooming one of the most unintentionally funny threads on DU.

:rofl:

At this point, I can't help watching this train wreck. I'm powerless...

[Beacho]

66. He's the closest thing we have to our own Swift or Twain

We need more like him.