Stewart and Colbert; don'tcha wish we could join them?? by Niki2

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Stewart and Colbert; don'tcha wish we could join them??

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UPDATED: Monday, September 20, 2010 09:31
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Saturday, September 18, 2010 6:56 AM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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"Rally to Restore Sanity" is set... TV personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are taking their political feud to Washington and plan to hold opposing political rallies on the National Mall just before the midterm elections. Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," is promoting a "Rally to Restore Sanity" on Oct. 30 for people too busy with their normal lives to go to other political rallies.

Nearby, Colbert is promoting a "March to Keep Fear Alive." The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" is encouraging participants to bring an overnight bag and five extra sets of underwear.

National Park Service spokesman Bill Line says the two have filed a single application for a permit to host 25,000 people on the mall. It hasn't been approved yet.

Someone mentioned this, and yes, it gave me a good giggle too.

Someone on the "other" side made a crack that if they thought they could pull ANYTHING like the numbers Beck did, etc., etc. What I found amusing about that (once I knew what they were talking about) is that they actually must believe Stewart and Colbert are trything to COMPETE with Beck, which reeely made me laugh. That they would take seriously a couple of comedians even TRYING to compete with Beck just cracks me up. It's so silly for another reason, too...you won't find many sane people bothering to go to a rally, all fired up and wearing hats with tea bags dangling from them. The vast majority of us DO have daily lives and think Beck's rally was a silly self-agrandizing stunt, nothing more.

And yes, I, too, adored the sign "I disagree with you, but I don't think you're Hitler" etc. It IS nice to see a small piece of sanity in this insane world, and I wish I could go. Bet it's gonna be FUN! Can't afford it, but I'd sure enjoy it!

I'll bet the MOST fun will be Colbert's "rally"; won't it be a gas if some actual Tea Partiers take him seriously and show up? Doubt they will, but oh, that would be the MOST fun!!

On the other hand, I'll betcha some Tea Partiers DO show up to Stewart's rally, infuriated that he'd dare to do such a thing, and missing the point totally.

I was told a while back that there are actually righties who believe Colbert is SERIOUS, that he's actually hiding his rightist tendencies behind sarcasm. Shows you just how dumb some people can be...!

They are both consumate satirists, how I wish we could go.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 7:29 AM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by Niki2:
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"Rally to Restore Sanity" is set... TV personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are taking their political feud to Washington and plan to hold opposing political rallies on the National Mall just before the midterm elections. Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," is promoting a "Rally to Restore Sanity" on Oct. 30 for people too busy with their normal lives to go to other political rallies.

Nearby, Colbert is promoting a "March to Keep Fear Alive." The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" is encouraging participants to bring an overnight bag and five extra sets of underwear.

National Park Service spokesman Bill Line says the two have filed a single application for a permit to host 25,000 people on the mall. It hasn't been approved yet.
Someone mentioned this, and yes, it gave me a good giggle too.

Someone on the "other" side made a crack that if they thought they could pull ANYTHING like the numbers Beck did, etc., etc. What I found amusing about that (once I knew what they were talking about) is that they actually must believe Stewart and Colbert are trything to COMPETE with Beck, which reeely made me laugh. That they would take seriously a couple of comedians even TRYING to compete with Beck just cracks me up. It's so silly for another reason, too...you won't find many sane people bothering to go to a rally, all fired up and wearing hats with tea bags dangling from them. The vast majority of us DO have daily lives and think Beck's rally was a silly self-agrandizing stunt, nothing more.

And yes, I, too, adored the sign "I disagree with you, but I don't think you're Hitler" etc. It IS nice to see a small piece of sanity in this insane world, and I wish I could go. Bet it's gonna be FUN! Can't afford it, but I'd sure enjoy it!

I'll bet the MOST fun will be Colbert's "rally"; won't it be a gas if some actual Tea Partiers take him seriously and show up? Doubt they will, but oh, that would be the MOST fun!!

On the other hand, I'll betcha some Tea Partiers DO show up to Stewart's rally, infuriated that he'd dare to do such a thing, and missing the point totally.

I was told a while back that there are actually righties who believe Colbert is SERIOUS, that he's actually hiding his rightist tendencies behind sarcasm. Shows you just how dumb some people can be...!

They are both consumate satirists, how I wish we could go.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

Glen Beck and Spongebob Squarpants get better ratings then both those douchebags COMBINED! Don't belive me, check the ratings at http://tvbythenumbers.com But this will give Stewarts 14 writers the chance to earn those "EMMYS". I wonder how many writers Beck has, or Hannity, or Limbaugh, or, Ingraham, or Levin?

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 8:10 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Let's see... Beck pulled somewhere between 80,000 and eleventy billion, depending on who you ask, so anything over 80 grand is a competitive figure.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 8:16 AM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Let's see... Beck pulled somewhere between 80,000 and eleventy billion, depending on who you ask, so anything over 80 grand is a competitive figure.

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Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.

They'll get a couple thousand stoned collage kids bumping into shit, that'll be the funniest thing that happens there.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 8:19 AM

KWICKO

Yeah, you're right - people showing up with properly-spelled signs just isn't that funny. It won't be nearly as hilarious as your typical tea-bagging rallies.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 8:26 AM

CUDA77

Like woman, I am a mystery.

If I hadn't just taken a trip to Chicago last weekend, I'd love to have tried to go. People are posting some really funny sign ideas on Twitter. My personal favorite was "Please put your sign down, I can't see."

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 8:27 AM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Yeah, you're right - people showing up with properly-spelled signs just isn't that funny. It won't be nearly as hilarious as your typical tea-bagging rallies.

AURaptor's Greatest Hits:

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 20:32 To AnthonyT:
Go fuck yourself.
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Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:26 To President Obama:
Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.

....and then going to the headqaurters of the "Discovery Channel" and take hostages! I can see Keith Olbermann as one of the speakers, he'll say something stupid and forget his pants.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 12:31 PM

RIVERLOVE

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Originally posted by whozit:
I can see Keith Olbermann as one of the speakers, he'll say something stupid and forget his pants.

His track record would say that you're wrong about Keith forgetting his pants. He's too perfect to do anything that silly. He has a checklist just in case. He has perfect hair. He has the best suits. He has the most intellectual-looking glasses ever. He has a perfect voice. He is the most perfectly sanguine and sadistic guy out there in cable-land, taking more negative-energy pleasure than is almost bearable during his endless quests to mock an slander everyone in the world that doesn't share his perfectly-honed NBC/NY Times views, but watching him frequently melt down on camera can be perfectly hysterical too.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 12:45 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER

It's funny you should say that. In my own experience I've met more lefties taking Jonathon Stewart seriously the righties taking Stephen Colbert seriously, though I don't doubt the nutjobs exist. Too me, Colbert seemed more blatantly satirical and frankly funnier, but that might be because I'm conservative and more familiar with the right than the left.

Anyway, I'll bet it's hilarious but it'll still be a publicity tool, much like Beck's bit, so I don't see the comparisons as entirely unjustified. Been a while sense comedy central's done anything original... but that's a topic for another time.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 12:50 PM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by Riverlove:
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Originally posted by whozit:
I can see Keith Olbermann as one of the speakers, he'll say something stupid and forget his pants.

His track record would say that you're wrong about Keith forgetting his pants. He's too perfect to do anything that silly. He has a checklist just in case. He has perfect hair. He has the best suits. He has the most intellectual-looking glasses ever. He has a perfect voice. He is the most perfectly sanguine and sadistic guy out there in cable-land, taking more negative-energy pleasure than is almost bearable during his endless quests to mock an slander everyone in the wolrd that doesn't share his perfectly-honed NBC/NY Times views, but watching him frequently melt down on camera can be perfectly hysterical too.

....and then he blows a fart.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010 9:29 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Oh, please, Cuda, where can I find those signs? I could use a good laugh, and those would be FUN!

As to the comparison, it fails: NOBODY takes Stewart or Colbert seriously, least of all the lefties. We enjoy good political satire, and the funniest thing of all is that Stewart will go after the left as humorously as the right, but you love to label him a leftie exclusively.

Come to think of it, where ARE the right-wing political satirists? I don't think I've ever heard of one. Something about the ability to laugh at ourselves...

The comparison fails on another front: People going to this rally will do so for a laugh and some relief from the gawd-awful intensity of the Tea Party, nothing more. People who went to Beck's Messianic Gospel Get Together took him COMPLETELY seriously...unfortunately too seriously, even according to him:

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I’m a rodeo clown,’ he said in an interview, adding with a coy smile, “It takes great skill.” “He added later: “I say on the air all time, ‘if you take what I say as gospel, you’re an idiot.’“

As to Olbermann, he's turned into a self-parodying joke, anyone who takes HIM seriously is as benighted as those who take Beck seriously. The difference is, Beck does it for the bucks and WAS up front about it (even if he's not now); Olberman believes is own hype.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010 9:53 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

A gift to righties and a reminder that Jon Stewart rips everyone. Sorry I couldn't find the originals:

(p.s., please note that his "leftist" audience, AND I, laughed through each of those, and I agree with his every point.)

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Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:19 AM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by Niki2:
A gift to righties and a reminder that Jon Stewart rips everyone. Sorry I couldn't find the originals:

(p.s., please note that his "leftist" audience, AND I, laughed through each of those, and I agree with his every point.)

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signing off

I'll cut him a little slack then, Olbermann's an asshole....and he's stupid.

Those arn't boobs, they're lies! - Stewie Griffin

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Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:28 AM

HKCAVALIER

Hi Niki,

I think you may be overstating your case here a bit (I know, it's easy to get polarized talking to some of these folks). Um, I take Jon Stewart pretty seriously, actually. I think he's one of the few voices of sanity on the air these days. I know the politicos tune in to see how they're doing. I mean, if he holds a rally and eleventy-billion people show up, I think it will effectively put Beck's stunt in perspective. And, o' course, if he doesn't, then so what, right? It's kind of a win/win for comedy.

It's funny what's happening to politics in this country. We're beginning to see if politics truly can function as a "popularity contest." We seem to be getting farther and farther from dealing with political appointments as, y'know, jobs, with necessary skills and specialized knowledge, and instead think of every politician in yearbook terms: Most Likely To Succeed, Best Dressed, etc. One of the central problems of the Bush Admin. was that they routinely put ideology ahead of competence--appointing people based on allegiance, rather than their aptitude for the given job (all our best and brightest are sent to Wall Street now, anyway). A horrible precedent to set. Now, with Republicans out of power, they want to turn our popular elections into this kind of spoils system. They want to run candidates on purely cultural and ideological terms, searching for the most photogenic right wingnuts they can find. I tend to think they will fail, rather miserably. I for one, don't think they will get a majority in either house of congress this November, but we'll see.

Y'know, Sarah Palin is certainly very popular, but will it/can it translate into enough votes to get her elected? I keep thinking these primaries are really just customer service surveys issued by the government, and it's always the most obnoxious, perennially dissatisfied folk who have the most to say. People who don't absolutely hate the product they purchased, have much better things to do than participate in customer service polls. People bitch endlessly about their banks and about their insurance or their doctor but that's no indication that they're gonna switch banks/insurance providers/doctors any time soon. Particularly when the competition are a bunch of wackos who can't answer simple questions like, "What magazines do you read?"

And, sorry, but I don't see ol' Keith as a joke--I just think he's kinda played out. That, and Republicans are out of power (I think that's where he gets this bizarre reputation as a sadist. I think that's funny, but the right wing clearly feels like the man is kicking them when their down). I think he was great during the Bush years--they hated him and he just kept at em, week after week. Back then his rants had the proper context. Now, he's got a lot less to be outraged at, the sins of the Obama Admin. are mostly the result of confusion and halfassery, hard to get riled up about Obama's ongoing mediocre showing.

So now, Keith's reading short stories every Friday, I dunno what that's all about! (Okay, that part, sure, kind of a joke, kind of a "what is he thinking" type deal.) I think both he and Colbert were a lot better, a lot sharper when Bush was in charge. Colbert is the classic court jester and he's not making fun of the king anymore.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010 11:37 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Fair enough. I used to listen to Olbermann, too, but have been turned off for quite some time.

And mind you, I take Jon Stewart VERY seriously, for just exactly the reason you stated: that he's one small voice of sanity in what seems like an increasingly unsane country. But taking his comedy for saying it like it is doesn't mean I take him seriously like people are supposed to take Olbmermann, Matthews, Maddow, Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, etc., seriously. Do you know what I mean? He's not telling you what to believe, he has nothing invested in being some kind of "authority figure", it's a political comedy show,which gives him the freedom to say what other's won't. Besides, that magnificently mobile face...sigh....

His "rally" isn't serious--would be LOVERLY if millions showed up to let the world know just what a small minority the Tea Party really IS, but I know it won't happen. They were driven by ideology, fired up and looking for someone/something to hate (when they're not busy hating Obama) and for Beck to lead them in a chorus of halleluja; the people who would come to Stewart's rally are sensible humans for the most part, they'll get a kick out of it from their own living rooms. But I DO want to see those signs!

Your second paragraph, depressing as it is, is right on the mark, as far as I'm concerned. It's frustrating to watch!

The "Thurbur Fridays" segment is a lot of what turned me off Olbermann. He said he does it because he read that stuff to his dad as he was dying and his dad said he should read them on the air. Never a Thurbur fan, haven't heard a single one...if I AM watching, I switch channels then.

To me he has become almost as over the top as that other guy, the Joe Show or whatever it is, and he's become a pompous ass who takes himself too seriously, he doesn't need ME to. If there's an important issue, I'll take Maddow any day, thank you; she's proud of her guys fact checking stuff and she's prettier, besides. JMHO

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Sunday, September 19, 2010 12:19 PM

HKCAVALIER

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Originally posted by Niki2:
The "Thurbur Fridays" segment is a lot of what turned me off Olbermann. He said he does it because he read that stuff to his dad as he was dying and his dad said he should read them on the air.

Ach, jeez, really? That's...not good. That is the very definition of self-importance. Maybe you're right. Maybe I don't watch enough of Olbermann anymore to see him in full Beck-style-crocodile-tears mode. "My father asked me to do it!!!111" Embarrassing.

HKCavalier

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Monday, September 20, 2010 5:02 AM

JONGSSTRAW

Niki

Thanks for posting those videos. Your "gifts" are greatly apprciated. The Olbermann one is priceless!

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Monday, September 20, 2010 5:39 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Yer welcome, JS; gotta give you guys a goodie every now and again, y'know.

That IS one of the things I appreciate about Jon...yes, he lampoons the right far more often than the left, but in my opinion the right gives him SO much more/better material. But he has no compunction about lampooning anyone, right, left, non-politcal, you name it. And makes me laugh doing it. It's what makes me respect him.

And yes, Cav, every Friday he closes the show with "Friday with Thurbur", complete with overstuffed chair, glasses; maybe even a coat with patched elbows, I haven't watched in so long I forget. He sits there pompously reading from Thurbur--I listened to a couple when he first started, and they made no sense to me, they were so obvious...and actually pretty boring. To me, it's the perfect example of what a stuffed-shirt he's become and how he takes himself WAY too seriously now, so I rarely watch. Besides, all those shows repeat the same stories with little variation, so I prefer Maddow...or Matthews, if I enjoy people hollering at each other!

I DO love that, the way our time schedule works, I can watch Matthews if I'm eating dinner then, or come in late and watch Maddow, immediately followed by Stewart and Colbert. It seems appropriate, somehow to have two comedians immediatel following the "serious" pundits!

But Olbermann...eh, I gave up oh him a long time ago. Actually, wasn't watching regularly about the time he took time off to be with his dad while he was dying, which about cinched it for me. I have all kinds of respect and sympathy for someone losing a loved one, ESPECIALLY in such a sad and prolonged fashion, but he made such a big deal out of something that should be PRIVATE (or at least far more private than he made it)...I think I quit watching about the time Afleck did that MAGNIFICENT piss-take on him (did everyone see that? Even Olbermann himself showed it--quite possibly because it was about HIM!). That was priceless, and so clearly showed what a pompous ass Olbermann is.

Prior to that, I changed channels when he started with his "special comments", but by then the whole show turned me off. It's too bad; at one time he was relavent and interesting. To ME. Now he's just a pompous ass.

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Monday, September 20, 2010 6:31 AM

JONGSSTRAW

CNN has sunk to a new low, even for them. In October they will be replacing the 8pm Rick Sanchez show ( prayers DO come true!) with.....are you ready?......

The Sultan Of Sleaze himself, the one and only :
Elliot Spitzer!!!!!

I'm sure O'Reilly and Olbermann are shaking in their boots with their new 8pm competition!

Can't wait to hear Mr. Spitzer discuss family values and morality with his guests. Sponsors for the show, Cialis, Extenze, Motel 6, and Bob's Big Bad Boner Creme have all said they will support Mr. Spitzer despite his past problems.

CNN has played musical chairs with the 8pm time slot for years. They used to have "Crossfire" which was a good show. Then they had Campbell Brown who was decent. Then they hit near rock-bottom with Rick Sanchez. His ratings are so low he actually owes viewership points back to the network. Now Elliot Spitzer! If I know CNN, they have a back-up plan ready just in case Spitzer flops. Rumor is it's a toss up between Pee Wee Herman, Milli (of Milli Vanilli fame), or Danny Bonaduce. Good Luck to all!

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Monday, September 20, 2010 6:49 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Are you freaking KIDDING me!?!?! What could Spitzer POSSIBLY have to say of interest? You're right...they've lost their minds.

I'm not around much anymore at what is for us the 5:00 time slot. Used to watch Brown sometimes when I went off Olbermann, she seemed good and attracted me 'cuz she was more like Maddow, interested in FACTS and reason...wish I'd known Crossfire was then, but that's probably when I first started watching political shows, and was taken with Olbermann.

Sanchez was amusing...sometimes, but not often. Too full of Sanchez. But Spitzer?!?! Incredible.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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Monday, September 20, 2010 8:16 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I wouldn't be so quick to judge Spitzer - see, thing is, in order to progress in the ranks, you *have* to have a certain amount of "dirt", there's a certain secret-society aspect to the upper ranks of power which does involve not only some nuttery, but also some serious deviances, and this is how they keep control, you understand ?

Used to be Franklin, which was the "leash" holder, but when he got outed and fell out of power it was Jack Abramoff which took up the reins, and fucked if he is gonna talk - although I'd be interested as hell to find out what he knows, especially given he was hangin out with Mohammed Atta.

Right now the "leash" is firmly in the hands of Erik Prince, and therefore the bad boys of Blackwater, which is how and why they're being allowed to get AWAY with so much, don't you know...

But anyhows, Spitzers real "crime" was investigating the big boys of Wall Street like AIG, and sounding the klaxon early before they could get the scam fully in place, thus leading to the ire over the bailouts cause the con-job wasn't all set up and publicly massaged in advance, in short, he tried to blow the whistle, and shit like that is WHY no one gets a leg up in those hallowed halls without some dirt on them you see.

At least Spitzers indiscretions were both consentual and with someone of legal age, which is very rarely the case and makes him by comparison a moral fuckin paragon, especially as compared to pissants like Karl Rove, and I could tell you stories, babieee....

So he cheated on his wife with a high class prostitute and tried to slide a couple room bills on the business account - so fucking what, he's human and fallible, whoop tee fuckin do - and consider well that if the feds were using that ring for a honeypot trap and had every damn thing tapped, how that directly translates into funding for them to continue to manipulate our government, create phony "terror" plots, and fuck with their protectees instead of EVER doing their goddamn job ?

But no, flame Spitzer, out of all the bastards pointing the finger, all the bastards providing the evidence, and every single member of the court, the most decent man in the room.

Fuck. That. Noise.

Like hell am I going to stand against a guy who's worst moral impingement is something that, as a Poly, wouldn't even fucking BOTHER me, and help destroy him to protect the gutter slime of the earth he was investigating, I ain't fallin for that - and it shames me that so many have.

Consider what mighta happened if he *HAD* managed to nail AIG and all involved to the wall, as opposed to them laughing all the way to some cayman money laundry and spitting in our faces, and we lap it up cause we're told to ?

No, I don't think so.

Spitzer is a decent guy, hung out to dry by his own ethics, and for that reason, I will not stand in judgement of him, not for something I don't even think should be a crime, or even a matter for anyone but him and his wife, period.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Monday, September 20, 2010 9:31 AM

MINCINGBEAST

I do not care for either, and now I will wrinkle my nose dismissively. Stewart < Colbert < any fart joke.

Stewart flirts with humor, but rarely delivers it, and as of late takes himself seriously while still claiming the mantle of comedy. Colbert is like Sascha Cohen, in that once people are in on the joke (no, he's not a conservative) he's no longer as funny. Still, his joke rally is a nice idea, though it'd be funnier if it was in earnest.

Many years back, when the "Free Tibet!" movement was all the rage with the kiddies (note that Tibet was a slave owning theocracy before the Chinese did their thing), I advocated for a "Keep Tibet Enslaved!" concert. Not sure who I stole the idea from, though I'm certain I did. Maybe Mr. Stewart, back before he started to believe his hype?

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