BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 08 May 07 - 06:24 PM

Stephen Colbert had some US congressman who was fighting for the 10 commandments in schools, libraries and other public institutions..

At one point Colbert asked him to list the commandments and he could only come up with 3..

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 07:01 PM

Donuel, here is another statement of the type you frequently make: I gave away dvd's of the CSpan coverage of the festivities until CSpan threatened to sue me.

What on earth does that mean? The only way, it seems to me, that that could be true is if you were acquiring free copies of the dvd from CSpan and giving them away. If you were buying them, CSpan could not possibly have objected.

What on earth do you mean?

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 06:49 PM

I think the funniest correspondents dinner was Clinton's last year in office.

I gave away dvd's of the CSpan coverage of the festivities until CSpan threatened to sue me.

Nowadays you tube can show it with impunity.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:51 PM

Watch big media sell our mini nukes as ordinary "bunker busters"

There will be no pundits to decry their use.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 12:43 PM

http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.tv/orwellrolls.php


Orwell rolls in his grave

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 12:42 PM

Obey Corporate Media - work more hours for less.

Obey computer election results

Obey the leader

Protect the lie

Protect the tax break for the wealthy

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 12:37 PM

We have more democracy in American Idol than the US goverment.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 12:23 PM

It seems to work for about 10 years before it really starts to unravel. Sometimes it works forever. Remember the Maine? see... when we forget - IT WORKS.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Stringsinger
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 11:56 AM

"The 3rd Reich lessons learned by the American Enterprise Institute and Rumsfeld' crowd, would include the Reichstaad fire, a uniformed president and blitskrieg."

And 911?

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Peace
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 11:41 AM

This type of thing happened when Vietnam was in its closing days. People hate like hell to lose wars. If Iraq had been quick and to the point, few folks would be speaking against it. It would be a small piece of history. (Grenada comes to mind.)

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 11:34 AM

PS some would say
The 3rd Reich lessons learned by the American Enterprise Institute and Rumsfeld' crowd, would include the Reichstaad fire, a uniformed president and blitskrieg.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 11:13 AM

"It did not threaten to shake loose nuclear weapons from quasi-rogue states like Pakistan...."




William Pit forgets that the Soviet Union and China had nukes and were allied with Viet Nam.

The demonstrations WORLDWIDE against this never ending War against Terrorism is also unprecedented.

The Viet Nam lessons learned from the Pentagon is to NEVER show bodies or coffins of US troops. To continue to make up stories about the fate of our troops, the reasons for war and continue to paint protestors as villainous traitors to the US.

The 3rd Reich lessons learned by the Pentagon is to NOT keep such good records as the Nazis. To have a propoganda agency in charge of a uniform news. To torture and invade with impunity.

The early European lessons learned by the Pentagon is to support succesion of the King with his son, even if that son is an idiot.

The Crusades lessons learned by the Pentagon is to empower the Religious "Reich" with as much voice and power as possible.

The caveman lessons learned by the Pentagon is might makes right.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Apr 07 - 12:59 PM

Hey. If you didn't hear Rich Little at that function ya don't know what you're talkin' about. He was crass.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Apr 07 - 09:25 AM

GregF - find the humor in it or go nuts is pretty normal thinking. Just because it's tragic doesn't mean it can't be made fun of... the trick is to try not to make fun of anything to the faces of those who haven't been able to laugh yet. I don't think anybody's telling VA Tech jokes yet - but I heard the first Challenger joke before the wreckage had all hit the ground.
Who was it said tragedy+time=comedy?

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Greg F.
Date: 23 Apr 07 - 08:14 AM

There is not one single solitary fu$king thing that is even remotely funny about Bush & the BuShite Junta.

Disgusting? Yes. Obscene? Sure. Embarrassing? You bet.

Funny? Not on your [or anyone else's] life.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Apr 07 - 07:00 PM

I'm refreshing this thread because the Gridiron dinner was put on again this weekend. Rich Little, the impersonator, was the guest speaker.

Sad to say, Little was mostly not funny. I used to like him.

I didn't watch to the end.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Ron Davies
Date: 20 May 06 - 12:47 PM

BB--

Have you actually heard the Colbert correspondents' dinner speech? I have, and especially the early part was just hilarious.

Observations such as:

I'm so honored to be here--I can't believe it. I think I'm dreaming Somebody please shake me. Actually I'm a sound sleeper--somebody shoot me in the face.

The media is all liberally biased --except Fox News. Fox News gives both sides of every issue--the president's side and the vice president's side

I'm with the president--I believe the best government is the one that governs least. By that standard we've created a wonderful government in Iraq.


And so on. It's certainly possible that Cohen doesn't have much of a sense of humor.   Maybe he's heard too many after-dinner speakers.


It's also possible that some writers overreacted to what Cohen wrote. But to extrapolate from this that 2008 will be 1968 redux--that could only be done by a columnist desperate for a column---and only believed by credulous Bushites.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 May 06 - 09:51 PM

(pssst, Bobert! Have a wonderful gig.

Subject: RE: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: GUEST,Bobert, away from home
Date: 13 May 06 - 09:43 PM

Yeah, Amos, William Pitt really does a fine job of explaining the anger felt by some many folks in America... Sho nuff found myself nodding in complete agreement with everything he said...

My band mates and I were talking about this just a few hours ago and we were talkin' about how things were during the Vietnam days and old hippies and stuff like that... And I made the comment that there were a lot of folks who liked to get high or get laid and grew their heai long but who never got it... Yeah, these are the folks of my generation who now are having their turn at running the country and they still don't get it...

I wish that all the brain-dead folks here who can only parrot the company line were capable of not only reading but comprehending what Mr. Pitt has written...

...But then again I wish that for just 5 minutes that a pet would understand exactly every word you are saying to it... You know, like if you poop in the bedroom yer going back to the pound... Or', if you run out in front of cars they will run you over and you may die... That kinda stuff...

But the chances of the Bushites being to read and comprehend Mr. Pitt's letter are about the same as gettin' Rover to know not to run in front of the car...

Bobert, away from home, sniff.... I miss my own bed...

Subject: BS: More on Colbert/Bush Funniness
From: Amos
Date: 13 May 06 - 02:21 PM

This take on the controversial Colbert roast is well worth reading. There was an earlier discussion about the event and the Richard Cohen article about hate-filled email, but it seems to have disappeared.

Article addressed to Richard Cohen by William Pitt.

Excerpt:

Greetings! I was inspired to write you after reading your missive in today's Post regarding all the nasty emails you have received of late. Personally, I found Colbert's performance hilarious and timely, the kind of satirical backhand so desperately needed these days. I don't begrudge you your opinion that he wasn't funny, and I agree with your belief that it wasn't your opinion on his performance that motivated such an angry response.

    It wasn't. You yourself nailed the reason: "Institution after institution failed America - the presidency, Congress and the press. They all endorsed a war to rid Iraq of what it did not have."

    The fact that your Colbert commentary became the flint against this rock doesn't mean that Colbert, or your opinion of him, is to blame for the resulting firestorm. The fact is that people are angry - brain-boilingly, apoplectically, mind-bendingly so - at what has happened to this great country. I am, quite often, so angry that my hands shake. Yes, a former high school teacher from New England here, so filled with bile and rage that I sometimes don't recognize my face in the mirror.

    You, sir, should not be asking why so many of your email friends are so angry. You should be asking why you yourself are not with them in their rage. I have admired a number of your articles over these last years, and know that you are no fool regarding our situation in Iraq and here at home. It isn't your grasp of the issues that concerns me, but the absence of outrage. Do you really care about the things you write about, or is all this merely grist for the mill that provides you a paycheck?

    "I have seen this anger before," you wrote, "back in the Vietnam War era." No, sir, you have not.

    You hearken back to rock-throwing days in Vietnam, and lament hatred and rage. But you do not see that those days are quaint by comparison given our current geopolitical situation. Johnson and Nixon, whatever else their faults may have been, were internationalists who understood the need for connection to the wider world. The war in Vietnam, barbaric as it was, did not inspire tens of thousands of Vietnamese to join martyr's brigades. It did not threaten to unleash chaos in a part of the world that holds the economic lifeblood of our whole existence. It did not threaten to shake loose nuclear weapons from quasi-rogue states like Pakistan....

...your characterization of the anti-war crowd tells me you have not spent a single moment out in the streets with them. I have. I have covered dozens of protests, large and small, in cities all across this country before and after the invasion of Iraq. Millions upon millions of Americans participated in these, and never once, not one time, was a rock thrown.

    No violence was offered anywhere, unless it was violence offered to old ladies by riot-garbed police, as was evidenced in Portland several years ago. I have the photographs to prove it. If you want to see anger, enjoy this picture of a 60-year-old woman holding an anti-war sign while being placed in a hammer-lock by a riot cop." (See link above). (...)

Read the whole thing. It is incisive and goes straight for the jugular of the question of Colbert's masterful presentation.


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