The Colbet Report

“The Colbert Report is like heroin. Instant addiction! I thought it was going to be a cheap spin off of The Daily Show and not nearly as funny but it is a hoot. And having seen the O'Riely Factor only makes it funnier.”

“Colbert”

“now if you could just learn to spell it”

“i think colbet is a kind of cheese”

“i've only seen some of it...his segment on the dailey show was funny but a whole show of it seems a bit over kill to me but i guess i have to watch a whole episode before i make that call”

“I watch it and Jon Stewart. both funny!!!


and that is Col-bare Reh-pore TO YOU!

lol”

“Man do I agree, Nigal. Colbert is one of the funniest people I've seen in a while.

I love his incredibly quick, dry wit.


I'm in tears watching him sometimes.”

“It's always fun to see how the interviewees react to him.

I watch the Daily show and the Colbert report once in a while. The Daily show had some new guy, compartively young, as their culture critic. I thought he was weak and it was the first really weak bit I saw on the Daily show.”

“He does make the stupidity of the right more bearable, through humor.

"Question: Is GW Bush a great president, or the greatest president ever?
.....
.....

I'll put you down for 'great'."”

“Nigal, fyi my town FINALLY got Comedy Central. I've joined the rest of you in the 21st century now. I'm glad they rushed out and brought us this channel just in time for Chappell Season 3. Ouch!”

“DH - you can rent seasons #1 & #2!”

“Got 'em, they're great.”

“Is there finally going to be a season 3? Dave did Willy's Comedy Club here in Dayton on Thanksgiving and the day after but I couldn't go. :(”

“NPR is airing an interview with Stephen Colbert tomorrow on their show "fresh air"...check local listings”

“The lefty 'genius' just can't seem to catch on to this Fuego thread thing.
LOL”

“It wasn't made a feugo thread because it isn't a political fight thread. Well, at least not when I started it.”

“Settle down nanny.”

“Yeah or Violin will give you a Wag or the Finger and put you on the notice board.”

“LOL, Nigal. If he's not sharp enough to figure out Fuego, I figure I don't have much to worry about. ;-)”

“Having checked the link and seeing it has nothing to do with The Report` I have to agree with you SS that V still remains Head R-tard of TT.”

“I see the link doesn't point to the segment of the Colbert Report any more. Here is the corrected link that will take you to the right place: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/04.html#a7008

You girls can take it easy.”

“Much better! :)
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“The name-calling and hair-pulling is getting old, people! Why don't you guys just make out and get it over with.

Seriously, the benefit of fuego (any thread having to do with politics or relition, which by the way includes the Colbert Report) is that it cuts down on people having to watch you guys taking pot-shots at each other if they don't want to. So pointing out that something isn't fuego on a "non-fuego" thread in a not-so-civil way such as this is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Or cutting off the people's noses who don't want to hear it...or something like that!!”

“

Did ya watch the vid Lyra? It was humor, not feugo.
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“LOL!! Very funny. ;-)

I watched the video, what does that have to do with my post? I'm saying:

1) Fuego as a category means any thread inherently about politics or religion
2) The Colbert Report is about politics
3) Yelling and name-calling at someone for supposedly posting something fuego on a supposedly non-fuego thread is counter-productive”

“lyra, lyra, lyra......

Please don't be so hard on The Vile Man.
He can't help it. ;-)”

“Thanks Mom.”

“Ha! The Conservatives are so tight-assed they think it's a real news show!

...and they dance funny, too.”

“I'm going to break all of you in half! LOL!! That's mine and Tarpy's new funny catch-phrase...even better than "I'm going to rip your head off." Haha...so useful.
;-D”

“"2) The Colbert Report is about politics"

And knowing this you still clicked on the thread? Besides, I call Violin names on non feugo threads too. :)”

“I personally don't block out the fuego threads, I click on those too sometimes. Ususally I don't even notice what category a thread is when I open it. I'm just pointing out factual information!
;-)

Fuego was created to cut down on the bickering for people who didn't want to hear it, so bickering about whether or not something is fuego on a thread that's categorized as non-fuego just makes people who might otherwise not want to, hear bickering.

I'm not a big fan of name-calling anywhere! Unless I'm doing it, cheese-monkey.”

“lyra is a monkey lover.....
lyra is a monkey lover.....
lyra is a monkey lover..... ;-)”

“The man has brass ones. See the video here: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104
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“WASHINGTON A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk-show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.

Earlier, the president had delivered his talk to the 2,700 attendees, including many celebrities and top officials, with the help of a Bush impersonator.

Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk-show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, “and reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

He attacked those in the press who claim that the shake-up at the White House was merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. “This administration is soaring, not sinking,” he said. “If anything, they are re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.”

Colbert told Bush he could end the problem of protests by retired generals by refusing to let them retire. He compared Bush to Rocky Balboa in the “Rocky” movies, always getting punched in the face — “and Apollo Creed is everything else in the world.”

Turning to the war, he declared, "I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."

He noted former Ambassador Joseph Wilson in the crowd, just three tables away from Karl Rove, and that he had brought " Valerie Plame." Then, worried that he had named her, he corrected himself, as Bush aides might do, "Uh, I mean ... he brought Joseph Wilson's wife." He might have "dodged the bullet," he said, as prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald wasn't there.

Colbert also made biting cracks about missing WMDs, “photo ops” on aircraft carriers and at hurricane disasters, melting glaciers and Vice President Cheney shooting people in the face. He advised the crowd, "if anybody needs anything at their tables, speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers and somebody from the N.S.A. will be right over with a cocktail. "

Observing that Bush sticks to his principles, he said, "When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday -- no matter what happened Tuesday."

Also lampooning the press, Colbert complained that he was “surrounded by the liberal media who are destroying this country, except for Fox News. Fox believes in presenting both sides of the story — the president’s side and the vice president’s side." In another slap at the news channel, he said: "I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it the No Fact Zone. Fox News, I own the copyright on that term."

He also reflected on the alleged good old days for the president, when the media was still swallowing the WMD story.

Addressing the reporters, he said, "Let's review the rules. Here's how it works. The president makes decisions, he’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Put them through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know -- fiction."

He claimed that the Secret Service name for Bush's new press secretary is "Snow Job."

Colbert closed his routine with a video fantasy where he gets to be White House Press Secretary, complete with a special “Gannon” button on his podium. By the end, he had to run from Helen Thomas and her questions about why the U.S. really invaded Iraq and killed all those people.

As Colbert walked from the podium, when it was over, the president and First Lady gave him quick nods, unsmiling. The president shook his hand and tapped his elbow, and left immediately.

Those seated near Bush told E&P's Joe Strupp, who was elsewhere in the room, that Bush had quickly turned from an amused guest to an obviously offended target as Colbert’s comments brought up his low approval ratings and problems in Iraq.

Several veterans of past dinners, who requested anonymity, said the presentation was more directed at attacking the president than in the past. Several said previous hosts, like Jay Leno, equally slammed both the White House and the press corps.

“This was anti-Bush,” said one attendee. “Usually they go back and forth between us and him.” Another noted that Bush quickly turned unhappy. “You could see he stopped smiling about halfway through Colbert,” he reported.

After the gathering, Snow, while nursing a Heineken outside the Chicago Tribune reception, declined to comment on Colbert. “I’m not doing entertainment reviews,” he said. “I thought the president was great, though.”

Strupp, in the crowd during the Colbert routine, had observed that quite a few sitting near him looked a little uncomfortable at times, perhaps feeling the material was a little too biting -- or too much speaking "truthiness" (Colbert's made-up word) to power.

Asked by E&P after it was over if he thought he'd been too harsh, Colbert said, "Not at all." Was he trying to make a point politically or just get laughs? "Just for laughs," he said. He said he did not pull any material for being too strong, just for time reasons. (He later said the president told him "good job" when he walked off.)

Helen Thomas told Strupp her segment with Colbert was "just for fun."

In its report on the affair, USA Today asserted that some in the crowd cracked up over Colbert but others were "bewildered." Wolf Blitzer of CNN said he thought Colbert was funny and "a little on the edge."

Earlier, the president had addressed the crowd with a Bush impersonator alongside, with the faux-Bush speaking precisely and the real Bush deliberately mispronouncing words, such as the inevitable "nuclear." At the close, Bush called the imposter "a fine talent. In fact, he did all my debates with Senator Kerry." The routine went over well with this particular crowd -- better than did Colbert's, in fact, for whatever reason.

Among attendees at the black tie event: Morgan Fairchild, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, Justice Antonin Scalia, George Clooney, and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of the Doobie Brothers -- in a kilt.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002425363”

“Outstanding video. The truth hurts, and evidently makes people squirm. The best part about it was that he presented it just like O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh and the Bush Administration has been presenting things over the past 5 years.”

“Haha! The Word of the Day the other day was “Wikiality” where Stephen talked about being able to go onto the wikipedia entry for elephants and say there are more elephants today than 10 years ago in order to mess with environmentalists. Here’s the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmHm0rGns4I&search=colbert%20wikipedia

The elephant’s page now says…

“This page has been temporarily protected from editing to deal with vandalism. Please discuss changes on the talk page or request unprotection. You may use {{editprotected}} on the talk page to ask for an administrator to make an edit for you.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant


And now Stephen's banned. LOL!

http://spring.newsvine.com/_news/2006/08/01/307864-stephen-colbert-causes-chaos-on-wikipedia-gets-blocked-from-site”

“Fire up the tivo people! Bill Myheadistoobigtofitinmyass O'Riley will be on the Report` tonight.

This should be great.”

“My stupid cable company doesn't carry Comedy Central!”

“doesnt matter. they have a liberal bias
”

“It was fun watching Colbert rip Dinesh Desouza a new one the other night.”

“O'Reilly is going on Colbert, and Colbert on O'Reilly. Should be fun. :D”

“What is funny is the number of Lefties that still think Colbert is real news. LOL”

“I reckon Mr. Lincoln's suits were made of wool.

The only thing prosperous about the south in those days was the aristocrats/oligarchs.”

“Man, you guys could turn any thread to shlt couldn't ya?”

“mARKo and his little trolls do try. ;-)”

“The cotton-pickers were anything but "prosperous".

Oh yeah, they were human property.”

“Stove I remember people thinking Chevy Chase was the NEWS on SNL. If certain people's WIVES (hint hint) tell them its the truth...well they better listen if they know whats good for them.”

“I didn't get a chance to watch it yet but here ya go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECbO6jZRzhs”