Hoyer thinks Colbert's testimony "inappropriate"?

[Left coast liberal]

God, I love Colbert. I just love how he mocks the powerful to their faces and then rubs their sanctimonious little mugs right in it.

Inappropriate, Steny? Me thinks you protest to much, you tool!

Colbert is a champion and is bringing much needed thought, focus and attention to the voiceless immigrant farm workers!

Maybe Steny could do his job so Colbert, a comedian, would not have to!

Rant off.

Except for the fact that Colbert's White House Correspondence dinner speech of several years back is still some of my favorite TV during the hell time of Bush.

Thank you Stephen Colbert for having the balls that the Dems don't have!

XOXOXOXO

[handmade34]

1. yup

"...Steny could do his job so Colbert...would not have to..."

[Left coast liberal]

3. and why would Hoyer even say that?

How does his statement help the Democratic agenda.

Does he know that Colbert does satire? Or maybe he thinks he is serious!

Lordy help us!

:-)

[wtmusic]

2. Colbert's Washington Press Club roast of W was a master stroke.

Instead of the deferential jibes everyone expected, he hung him out to dry.

[Left coast liberal]

4. It was one of the happiest moments for me during Bush Hell!

[wtmusic]

10. Yep - a few moments of completely unencumbered glee. nt

[EFerrari]

25. It was a thing of beauty, for sure. n/t

[City Lights]

5. Get over yourself, Steny.

:eyes:

[Left coast liberal]

6. Totally! NT

[Maccagirl]

7. STFU Hoyer

Colbert is a national treasure when we need him the most-Steny-you not so much. I'd go on but Hoyer isn't worth the effort. Creep.

[Left coast liberal]

8. In a nut shell, Maccagirl!

[treestar]

9. Last sentence - really unfair

It's easy for a pundit - they don't have to be elected and they can say anything, no matter how outrageous, and it is not taken seriously and does not affect them.

[Left coast liberal]

13. Oh really? How come Steny and his ilk....

Didn't go down and volunteer with the immigrant farm workers?

Perhaps he was too worried about pissing off his agri-business buddies!

No, all Dems are not empty suits; Feingold, Boxer, Grayson, etc.

But unfortunately somehow on the "beltway" many of them do think that siding with the little guy is bad for business.

Those are the Dems I despise and will work to replace with good solid progressives who haven't sold their soul to the corprotocracy!

[Hello_Kitty]

11. What powerful people did Colbert mock during his testimony?

[Left coast liberal]

15. Maybe all the powerful people who close their eyes to the immigration...

...issue. Who support building walls and turning a blind eye to vigilante creeps cruising the borders.

Plus have very little problem cashing the checks from ADM and Monsanto.

You know! Those people.

Yes, lots and lots of Repugs but unfortunately a lot of Dems too.

Not very good for the party, IMHO!

[Hello_Kitty]

18. But not the rich farm owners exploiting and abusing their workers.

No, Colbert was sympathetic to them and their "labor shortage". His testimony was basically carrying their water. Colbert mocked ordinary Americans, who as wrongheaded as they may be, are not the powerful.

[Posteritatis]

24. A few of them claimed he mocked the military by being there, or something similarly inane. (nt)

[Hello_Kitty]

26. I'm talking about Colbert.

He could have taken on powerful rich business owners who exploit and abuse workers but he didn't. He carried water for the business owners - they have labor shortages and will move their farms to Mexico if we don't give them the slaves workers they want need! His mockery was for American workers, who as we all know are too soft and lazy for hard work. This dumb stunt will backfire on the Dems.

[ejpoeta]

12. all i have to say is that it is one thing to diss them from a tv studio.

the fact that he will go to where they are, be it the correspondence dinner or congress, and give it to them to their faces shows colbert has got big huge balls. and the look on the faces of the congresspeople he testified too says it all to me. they didn't like it one bit. if it wasn't true, they would have been laughing.

[Left coast liberal]

14. Indeed!

[Goblinmonger]

16. The only problem I have is that he should have broke character.

He swore an oath to tell the truth and then went in in character. Minor, I know. I will get shit for this, I know. And trust me, I understand satire. But it just didn't feel right having an actor in character testifying before Congress. Why not just put Archie Bunker up there?

[handmade34]

21. He did tell the truth

it didn't feel right because we still (as I wrote in another thread) expect people to "know their place"... well, Colbert was irreverent and it made people uncomfortable enough to have to reflect on what is really going on...

[Goblinmonger]

27. I'm not arguing his point at all.

I think it was a great satiric point. But a lot of the points he made were as the conservative character made as satire/sarcasm.

[Rex]

17. I'm sure the thinks Colbert is a DFH or a professional lefty.

That is all it takes for a small mind.

[COLGATE4]

19. I think Steny's inappropriate.

[Bitwit1234]

20. I think those insurance exs who testified at the HCB hearing

was inappropriate. And the private republican citizens they let testify were inappropriate but the did anyway. So how come a Democrat should be made to shut up when they want to testify.

[Greybnk48]

22. I just emailed Hoyer to let him know that

I'm embarrassed by his appearance on The Fox right wing propaganda channel and embarrassed in general by Congress. I also let him in on an apparent secret, namely, that the non-Fox demographic (under 60? and liberal), perceives Colbert and Stewart as merchants of truth and champions of the liberal ideal. The media is a joke (the joke that has been co-opted by that Palin thing). Congress is perceived, for the most part, as a bunch of gutless, self-serving pols (Dems) and psychotic, racist idiots (R's).

I'm paraphrasing here, and still a bit hot under the collar. But I said that he ought not to scratch his head and wonder why young people don't align with embarrassing Dems like him. It's because they align with Liberals like Colbert and Stewart that they can be proud of.

[LooseWilly]

23. I guess mockery of the un-job being done on the issue doesn't poll well...

and anything that doesn't poll well is, by Politician-Logic, "inappropriate".

Look, and listen, around... the point isn't to get anything done—the point is to hold onto power. Doing stuff might make someone unhappy... it's inappropriate.

[flyarm]

28. It was! Oh and by the way , what ever happened to the subpoena's issued that the subpoenaed, never

showed up? By the dems..what ever happened to those who ignored the subpoenas?

But Colbert a commedian showed up, in fact was invited to make fools of them all and waste our tax dollars being their.. and made damn fools of everyone in that room..and he wasn't even funny!

In fact none of it i a damn bit funny anymore when so many are hurting in this nation..we still have a damn war of lies going on.

I don't find a damn bit of this funny, When a democratic congress invited a comedian to a hearing that is very serious, to testify! When I see so much misery going on in my own town and neighborhoods. And so do most of the rest of us!

And anyone who makes excuses for this bullshit is only showing how low the IQ has become in this nation!

[tavalon]

29. Bite me, Steny

Really, I mean, really?

[Orsino]

30. Colbert's act was one of those rare times..

...when truth was spoken in Congress.

Anyone down on it either wasn't paying attention, or fears scrutiny of the actual issue under discussion.