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Colbert Offers Comedy Shtick in Farm Workers Testimony, Fails to Amuse Lawmakers

So you think the character that Colbert was portraying in front of congress was a "real person"? Also, do you think that the topics being described, ie: Music classes in our public schools, which I fully support, to Illegal immigration?


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I don't think the topic matters. I think there's a huge difference between a person testifying and a ****ing puppet. I know which one I think is more ridiculous.
 
During a time when we were not in an economic process on an issue not even close to be controversial.

You really think that is a valid comparison?

Actually, in the hardcore conservative county I grew up in, they have cancelled the music programs in schools. This is America, we can do better than that. For many, that is controversial. All politics are local. People get upset when these things happen.
 
I don't think the topic matters. I think there's a huge difference between a person testifying and a ****ing puppet. I know which one I think is more ridiculous.

what? I thought Colbert was a ****ing puppet. They are both equally ridiculous and both should have to refund the taxpayers for wasting our money.
 
I don't think the topic matters. I think there's a huge difference between a person testifying and a ****ing puppet. I know which one I think is more ridiculous.

Plus, Elmo is a communist. He's all about sharing, and he's red!
 
what? I thought Colbert was a ****ing puppet. They are both equally ridiculous and both should have to refund the taxpayers for wasting our money.

I don't necessarily disagree. But, he was ****ing funny at least. I mean, I would NEVER have watched anyone else testify before a committee because that **** is just boring as all get out. I just wait and get the cliff notes version later.
 
Colbert's "performance" just shows what a farce the US government is. Who invited him there again?

I don't really care so much that he was invited there to do a sucky comedy schtick. I care that he was invited there and paid for it.
 
I don't necessarily disagree. But, he was ****ing funny at least. I mean, I would NEVER have watched anyone else testify before a committee because that **** is just boring as all get out. I just wait and get the cliff notes version later.

I have to disagree on this one. Normally I find him to be hilarious, too. However, his schtick in that committee hearing was flat and dull. I think to me it was just that it was far too surreal to actually be funny.
 
I have to disagree on this one. Normally I find him to be hilarious, too. However, his schtick in that committee hearing was flat and dull. I think to me it was just that it was far too surreal to actually be funny.

i think it was just inappropriate.
 
I don't really care so much that he was invited there to do a sucky comedy schtick. I care that he was invited there and paid for it.

Furthermore, declaring the United States government a farce because of an instance of misjudgment on behalf of a small number of Democrats is just a tad harsh.
 
Furthermore, declaring the United States government a farce because of an instance of misjudgment on behalf of a small number of Democrats...

it's quite a bit more than just colbert, where ya been
 
There is a time and a place for comedy. Personally I found this whole thing to be out of place. I think the problem is that he did the whole thing "in-character". In other words he was trying to be funny the whole time when really he should have just been normal Stephen. The whole thing just came across as stupid. He's making a mockery of something that should be taken seriously.
 
LOL!

what planet have YOU been orbiting?

The one that is confident that we can turn things around, and despite the large amount of bad decisions from democrats, this country's national and state mechanisms are still working well. Dissent is working well, the Republican party is being responsive towards the dissent against the Obama administration, and stand a significant chance of affecting policy decisions in the near future.

Do you foresee, realistically, the removal of our constitutions? I sure don't. How about a violent revolution in the streets? Not I.
 
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There is a time and a place for comedy. Personally I found this whole thing to be out of place. I think the problem is that he did the whole thing "in-character". In other words he was trying to be funny the whole time when really he should have just been normal Stephen. The whole thing just came across as stupid. He's making a mockery of something that should be taken seriously.

Wrong.. He did not do the whole thing "in-character" just the first 5-8 mins. The rest was him being real. Try to stick with the facts please.
 

And yet this pales in comparison to the horrors and dangers our young republic faced domestically. I know this seems out of step with the ferver in the realm of current event analysis, but I see these serious problems of our country, and still can have enormous faith in our ability to solve the problems. We faced far worse in our first decades as a Republic. I find your lack of faith depressing, and short-sighted.
 
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And yet this pales in comparison to the horrors and dangers our young republic faced domestically. I know this seems out of step with the ferver in the realm of current event analysis, but I see these serious problems of our country, and still can have enormous faith in our ability to solve the problems. We faced far worse in our first decades as a Republic. I find your lack of faith depressing, and short-sighted.

Be that as it may, no country in the world has been able to get out of the amount of unfunded liabilities that we are on the line for. At $100 trillion, we'd have to sell every Federal and state Asset, confiscate every house and sell it, confiscate every retirement account and auction it just to start to reduce that red ink.

When the GOP refuses to raise taxes and the Dems refuse to cut, we're headed for real big problems.
 
Be that as it may, no country in the world has been able to get out of the amount of unfunded liabilities that we are on the line for. At $100 trillion, we'd have to sell every Federal and state Asset, confiscate every house and sell it, confiscate every retirement account and auction it just to start to reduce that red ink.

When the GOP refuses to raise taxes and the Dems refuse to cut, we're headed for real big problems.

No country in the world has a GDP as large as ours, although I'm not trying to minimize the problem and obvious danger of having a 100 trillion dollar deficit. Anyhow, to respond to the OP: Colbert testifying in front of congress may not have been a great idea, but I don't buy these symbolic arguments. "Well, it symbolizes our congress not taking things seriously." So what? Congress as a whole was bought out by the credit card lobbyists last year, and there are a lot of other things that are actually very concerning and important. Five minutes of a comedy routine isn't even remotely close to making my list of things to be upset with.

I was actually pretty impressed with some of his answers and I think calling his remarks racist is way, way off the mark. If you listened to the things he said, he was describing illegal immigrants as a group of people who come here to work hard and are routinely used and abused for their cheap labor. And his analysis that illegal aliens take jobs that Americans might wind up doing but are far from ideal could have come from any source, but he was as eloquent in his description as anybody could have. It was certainly not his funniest or sharpest performance, but I think it was ultimately an unwise decision that wound up looking better than I would have thought. I definitely have a ton of respect for Stephen.
 
And yet this pales in comparison to the horrors and dangers our young republic faced domestically. I know this seems out of step with the ferver in the realm of current event analysis, but I see these serious problems of our country, and still can have enormous faith in our ability to solve the problems. We faced far worse in our first decades as a Republic.

sure, our govt is serving us just swell, our state and national mechanisms are swimmingly, and nothing is as bad as 1787...

LOL!
 
Be that as it may, no country in the world has been able to get out of the amount of unfunded liabilities that we are on the line for. At $100 trillion, we'd have to sell every Federal and state Asset, confiscate every house and sell it, confiscate every retirement account and auction it just to start to reduce that red ink.

When the GOP refuses to raise taxes and the Dems refuse to cut, we're headed for real big problems.

I entirely agree. Nevertheless, I have every confidence in our abilities to work on this set of problems.
 
sure, our govt is serving us just swell, our state and national mechanisms are swimmingly, and nothing is as bad as 1787...

LOL!

Well, you do have to consider the circumstances which they were in. We had a hell of a time right before the Jackson era, and not much longer after that, yet again was there an incredible set of circumstances that could have changed everything. The entire concept of the Union was in jeopardy.

What we have now is not pretty, but I in no way consider us, as a nation, failing.
 
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