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Stephen Colbert–in his own inimitable style–accuses the media of having torture fatigue for completely ignoring the story of the secret torture memos in favor of navel gazing on debates and the presidential race.
Not one of these shows did a roundtable on the legality of naked stress positions in frigid temperatures. Because, folks, what the president does is no longer the story. The story is who will be the next guy to detain enemy combatants.[..]
Why pay attention to him? And the less people pay attention to him, the more he can do all the things that he doesn’t want people to pay attention to. So ladies and gentlemen of the media, by all means, focus on what percentage Fred Thompson will beat McCain among moderate, conservative, pro-gun lobby, anti-socialized healthcare, pro-anti-immigration reform, Hispanic nursemaids. Please, keep treating the president like a lame duck and that will allow him to be the mightiest duck this nation has ever seen.
Filed Under: The Colbert Report/Stephen Colbert
Tags: George Bush, Media Criticism, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, The Word
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Colbert rocks.
Yep, he’s right. Beware the “shiny” objects as Marcy-emptywheel, says.
Colbert was funny in Jr. High school.
He always managed to appeal to those super intelligent kids who couldn’t seem to lace their sneakers so he stayed in the bleachers with the rest of the stand up comedians.
bang @ 3:
What was it like in the bleachers, bang?
LARRY CRAIG!
(bathroom humor)
Gregory @ 4:
Heh…the “bang” occurred UNDER the bleachers.
Gregory @ 4:
:lol: Gregory.
I pegged ‘bang’ as an under-the-bleachers kind of guy, though.
miss_kitty @ 7:
I mean in a lurking, not-getting-any kind of way…
Hello Miss K,
Yeah, under the bleachers, looking up the skirts.
No one’s ever accused me of having much imagination, but man…the idea of Bush bombing Iran in some hopeless “Sunset Boulevard” comeback attempt just won’t go away.
Stephen gets to the point, like no one else. Too bad no one is paying attention except us liberals.
Colbert never has a bad show. Kudos to him and his staff
That bit was OKAY…but if you missed the show the night before (Monday) you missed the BEST TOTAL SHOW he’s done in a long, long time…from THE WORD, to the kids on SCHIPS, to the guest…it was a KEEPER!!! Wish I was able to…watched it when replayed last night…
Yesterday.
Look over here kiddies! I have a gameboy. Do you want it? Go there.
Today
No! No! Look over here kiddies! See the teddy bear. Do you want it? Come here.
Tomorrow.
Wait. wait! Look over here kiddies! I have some candy. Do you want some? Come here then roll over.
“Torture Fatigue” sounds about right.
I mean it would totally explain this, in a time and place when President Bush says that we don’t torture, except, of course, when there’s money in it to be made by making fun of it.
Glad to be living in such an Enlightened Era.
~nwa
It’s exactly this reasoning that has me creeped out every time I see another police brutality or “missing” person story on Faux. It’s as though we are being trained to believe that this is the norm, nothing to see here, move on to the next story. When the country is burned out on missing pretty blond girls, who the hell is going to care to listen to a story about a missing brown person?
I didn’t know that Colbert was just as funny in High School and that he hung out with the smart kids. Makes sense, though, that he was always this awesome. That’s very cool.