progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
June 29, 2012 Leave a comment
Echoing the sentiments of millions of conservatives across the nation, yesterday a disillusioned Stephen Colbert went over to his high school locker in order to take down his Tiger Beat poster of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
April 25, 2012 8 Comments
When I consider which Daily Show correspondent might branch out from the main show and found his or her own Comedy Central project à la Stephen Colbert, my vote goes to John Oliver. True, there other plausible choices, as the Daily Show is stacked with talent. Oliver impresses me with his ability to both write and perform, to handle sketches as well as stand-up, and with a distinct political take on the world.
April 21, 2012 Leave a comment
Who can Mitt Romney find who won’t overshadow him? Wait! That’s it! The perfect ticket! “Romney / Romney’s Shadow 2012.” And, the best part is, it will change positions every time he does.
- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, April 18, 2012
April 11, 2012 2 Comments
On Monday, Stephen Colbert noted that the Republican primary contest is coming to a close.
COLBERT: After a bruising Republican primary season, the foreplay is over, and like all Republican foreplay, it was expensive, vindictive, and ended with something pretty predictable.
April 9, 2012 3 Comments
Ham Rove. He has all the brains of Karl Rove, with half the sodium.
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April 5, 2012 Leave a comment
MONDAY (April 3, 2012)
It’s a new week, and Stephen Colbert’s mind turns to thoughts of government regulation. This includes air pollution and food pollution.
Everybody knows, liberals have a long history of slandering good American industries with hurtful names. Sure, these days everybody hates “air pollution”, but when I was a kid, we celebrated it as “bonus clouds”.
March 31, 2012 2 Comments
MONDAY (March 26, 2012)
Stephen Colbert segues from President Obama’s words about Trayvon Martin to Geraldo Rivera’s nonsense about blaming the hoodie.
At first I naively thought that the President was expressing a moving sentiment to a troubled country, but then I learned better….Now, it would be very easy to blame the shooter or blame the law that let him off or blame easy access to guns or blame our nations borderline pathological distrust of young black men. Luckily, a top legal mind has fingered the real culprit.
March 18, 2012 4 Comments
MONDAY (March 12, 2012)
The guest on Monday was Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity. I was struck by one of her comments, which points out how regressive our political culture is when we’re not even trying to get rid of poverty.
I come back here and I think “Oh, if we were really serious about fixing poverty, we could do it in like, half a second.”
March 10, 2012 Leave a comment
MONDAY (March 5, 2012)
After all the commentary on Rush Limbaugh’s misogynistic attacks on law student Sandra Fluke, Colbert came up with an insight often missing from the conversation…
I don’t understand why this man has gone through four wives.
…adding…
I don’t think that Rush should have apologized for calling her a prostitute. I mean, it takes one to know one. And remember, he only apologized to keep his advertisers, proving Rush will do anything with his mouth for cash.
March 3, 2012 Leave a comment
MONDAY (Feb. 27, 2012)
Stephen Colbert deconstructed the campaigns of Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney as they battled over Michigan, including Romney’s “speech of a lifetime” at Detroit’s Ford Field.
Mitt really connected with those empty seats by also being plastic and uncomfortable.
Obama thinks everybody should go to college like he did. Well, pardon me, your highness, but some of us weren’t handed a ticket to Harvard by being the biracial son of a single mother on food stamps. Must be nice. Rick Santorum understands the real American Dream, that if you work hard enough, your children can have fewer opportunities than you did.
February 25, 2012 Leave a comment
Stephen Colbert returns to the airwaves after his absence due to his mother’s illness.
I just want to address my recent absence from the national conversation. As the hub around which the Republic turns, I can understand why the machinery of this great nation ground to a halt last week when you were denied this. Now I’m sure you felt the same way that I do when I’m in a room with no mirrors.
His guest is Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto, who makes a strong argument for why independent bookstores can succeed where chain bookstores have failed. Patchett’s Nashville bookstore is Parnassus Books.
February 18, 2012 2 Comments
MONDAY (Feb. 13, 2012)
The guest was activist Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and one of the forces against the Keystone XL pipeline.
I love that Stephen Colbert manages to regularly include activists in his entertainment.
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