Colbert: "Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended."
On the October 8 edition of Comedy
Central's The Colbert Report,
host Stephen Colbert mocked Rush
Limbaugh for his attacks on Media
Matters for America, which documented
Limbaugh's characterization of service members who support U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as
"phony soldiers" during the September 26 broadcast of his nationally syndicated
radio show.
From the October 8 edition of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report:
COLBERT: Now, the pope isn't the only public figure to use a cute animal author to make them seem more lovable. Back in 1990, Barbara Bush had her dog Millie write about life in the White House and, just this year, Christopher Hitchens came out with God is Not Great, which was written by a disgusting warthog. But, Your Holiness, don't think that your new book is going to out-cute mine, because I Am America (And So Can You!) was co-written by a six-week-old golden lab puppy named Riley. Jimmy, roll the tape.
COLBERT [video clip]: Let it out. Whatever you want to type, you just type away. You just type away. That's right. Go ahead. That's right. If they don't support the war, then they're phony soldiers. That is right. Grrrr. Ooh, spell check says that's wrong.
COLBERT: Oh, and Pope Benedict, we both need to worry about Ann Coulter's new book. It was written by a Gila monster. Really warms her up. Moving on, nation: Once again, the dot-commies over at mediamatters.org -- I assume the "org" stands for orgy -- are attacking conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh. Recently, the web-shite posted this audio clip of Rush and a caller complaining about veterans who oppose the Iraq war.
[begin audio clip]
CALLER: They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.
LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.
CALLER: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve.
[end audio clip]
COLBERT: Now, some veterans might have been offended but, sorry, Rush just calls this war like he sees it from thousands of miles away in West Palm Beach. Now, Democrats -- Democrats in Congress have demanded Republicans denounce Limbaugh, and nobody has summed up how ridiculous all this is better than Republican presidential front-runner and friend of the show Mike Huckabee.
HUCKABEE [video clip]: Last time I checked, the First Amendment has not been repealed. ... [I]t is not the business of government to infringe upon the free speech of anybody, including a talk show host.
COLBERT: Bravo, Governor. That is the finest insight you've had since you ripped [Sen.] Hillary Clinton [D-NY] a new one for not voting to censure MoveOn.org over their "General Betray Us" ad. You said, quote, "If you can't get your lips off the backside of George Soros long enough to ... say it's wrong to declare a sitting general ... guilty of treason, how would you ever expect to have the support of the very military you might have to send into deadly battle?" Now just because he condemned an attack on our troops when it came from the left, and defended it when it came from the right, some are calling Huckabee a "Huckbocrite." But he isn't -- and the reason is tonight's "word."
Medium matters: Folks, the "Betray Us" ad was offensive because it was in print, and that made it permanent. I heard that after you throw away a New York Times, it takes over 100 years for the lies to biodegrade. But Rush made his comment on the radio, and he chose a career in radio for a reason -- because he can say whatever he wants and then it's gone forever. It's the same freedom I enjoy with my radio show Colbert On the ERT. For three hours a day -- yeah! Some On the ERT fans out there -- now, for three hours a day, I shout whatever pops into my head and it is over. I never give it a second thought. Here's a comment I made on my show just last night:
COLBERT [audio clip]: Look, all I'm saying is that people from Uruguay are human garbage.
OK. That sounds pretty bad out of context, but the context was: No one from Uruguay listens to my show. So, really there's no one to be insulted. It's like the old saying: If a tree says the n-word in the forest, is it offensive? Because the last time I checked, there weren't that many African-American lumberjacks. So, really, folks, who started this?
JOHN GIBSON (Fox News host): [W]ho started this phony war? ... Answer ... Media Matters for America.
COLBERT: That's right. Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us.
Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended. Because the Constitution gives us broadcasters the right to say anything we want but that doesn't mean that just anyone has the right to listen -- and that's "The Word." We'll be right back.
Media Matters people are you aware Colbert is a comedian? I guess not from this stupid post.
Subtle, sophisticated humor? It's lost on the right-wingers.
I would say with all the tight-lipped indignation from liberals on this site whenever a talk show host opens his or her mouth, that is proof positive the humorless left is alive and well.
"...whenever a talk show host opens his or her mouth..."
Give us an example of some of this "talk show host" humor that we on the left are missing. If it's there I haven't heard it....
Seriously folks, I thought it was the right that was "humor-challenged". Look what happened to the “The 1/2 Hour News Hour" on Fox.
The Half Hour News Hour's fifteen minutes are up. Or did it even last that long?
It's already been shelved, though Fox reserved the right to dredge it back up and blow new life into its corpse should it want to.
It has been replaced with he Republican debates.
Hey you guys on the Right:
Colbert's making fun of people who condemn Media Matters. Get it? MMFA is just celebrating it here, okay? Got that too? That's the reason for the post-- they're delighting in it. It's irony, and it's appreciation of the same.
Jeesh you guys are dumb. You're so dumb it's impossible to deal with you. It's pointless to even try.
colbert is not "making fun" of them, he is using humor to satirize MMFA, if oyu had taken of your content filtering left-o-goggles you may have realised that he agrees with what they are saying, not thair exact words. I was under the impression that MMFA was to report conservative misinformation, rather than revel and "delight" in something you mistake as praise.
"Jeesh you guys are dumb. You're so dumb it's impossible to deal with you. It's pointless to even try."
that is the liberal attitude that long ago prevented them from even debating with the right, back when libs had something to say, but now you cannot back your statements with a debate, whenever a conservative challenges you, you emmediatly bring out the "you're so dumb" and "its impossible to deal with you", never confronting the challenge. there is a mountain of thrown gauntlets at the feet of all you liberal posters, some day they will rust and you will lose all of your credibility however much is still left.
The real joke is that MM thinks it can do the dirty work of Hillary and the leftist agenda by attacking any and all in the media who are conservative.
Remember the phony Limbaugh story that was, and is still brewing here? Nice try.
well, if you took the time to actually read the article you are posting about, which you obviously didn't you would see some quite sophisticated humor.
do you not know that any self-respecting liberal doesn't listen to conservative radio?
Nonsense Tommy...
Nonsense Tommy...
I laught at you and your conservative buddies on this web site all the time. You guys are a riot.
SAVE DEMOCRACY, VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT!!
Hey Tommy, like cockroaches when the light is turned on??
Am I to understand you can't make the connection, eh?? Can't see the reason for the post, eh???
Maybe you can't see because the lights are on, and hinder those blinders you had surgically installed??
Happy Thoughts;
Dan Grady
What part of "Mocked" in the first paragraph of this entry has you confused, Tommy, or did you just not bother to READ before you opened your virtual mouth and proclaimed your ignorance... yet again?
BLR....you are correct, if they had READ the first part about Colbert "mocking" Limbaugh they might have "got it".
GREAT sarcasm. I watched it last night and it was hilarious....esp. the part where he asks what .org means, and suggests it means orgy.
But this is the best part. Brilliant!:
COLBERT: That's right. Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us.
Oh please several of the lefties on this site are hilarious and you know it. Not to mention the list of conservative comedians is shorter than the hair on Telly Savalas' head. Just because it is a current talking point doesnt mean it makes sense.
Tommy? Surely you must be joking?! I've read many of your posts in the past and this is a bit surprising. Someone of your obvious intelligence must admit that the best senses of humor come from the left. Those on the right are really only funny accidentally (See any number of posts on O'Reilly). Incidentally, I bet many people who frequent this sight are huge fans of The Colbert Report. I know I am, and I find his over-the-top portrayal of sycophantic neo-con thinking not only accurate, but incredibly funny...On purpose! If I were you, I would stick to defending Rush's 'humor'...
Yep, never laughed in my entire life.
The most hilarious thing about Stephen Colbert's schtick is that the conservative right, out of sheer stupidity and arrogance, has completely FAILED to realize that he is TOTALLY MOCKING them. Aside from the indisputable fact that virtually all successful comedy is decidedly progressive (Stewart, Colbert, Mencia, SNL, etc., etc.), as evidence of the complete absence of sense of humor on the right, we have the above posts by tommy and sporega1943. I rest my case (sadly).
Adding to the above: it's got to be explained to right-wingers before they "get it" (maybe). Then, even if they do get it, they then get angry that they failed to sense the humor, and lash-out.
This type of subtlety differs from the "humor" (for lack of a better word) on, say, Fox' recently lame-and-recently-canceled "Half-Hour News Hour", a rotten show whose heavy-handed "jokes" were of the draw-a-moustache-on-a-photo level.
I don't think you 'got' it. The Media Matters post opened up saying that Colbert mocked Rush. They understand he is a satirist.
the emphasis here is on the "Media Matters wrote that Colbert mocked", what media matters may construe as mockery may not be so, MMFA is so used to bieng mocked, they may be confused as to how to discover who is bieng mocked.
Hey Cons, see Colbert was using IRONY to point out the HYPOCRISY from you clowns regarding all this. And see, Media Matters does know Colbert is a comedian and understands what Colbert was actually talking about. Please re-read the part about recording the actual words that the likes on Billo and the drug-addled gasbag Limbaugh actually say. I know, its tough to re-read things and come to an actually different and factual conclusion. But you can do it. Come on...really, you can.
"Media Matters people are you aware Colbert is a comedian?"
Are you aware that this post, similar to the Olberman posts, is an atta boy for Colbert?
FYI to all right-wingers!!!
The posting of the great Stephen Colbert "Word" commentary was so that anyone that might have missed it, those that post in here, can now watch it here!
This was a brilliant way for Colbert to put it directly over the heads of the right-wing puppets and zombies!
It seems to have worked already with some in here......
Colbert Rulz!!
"Stephen Colbert mocked Rush Limbaugh for his attacks on Media Matters for America, which documented Limbaugh's characterization of service members who support U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as 'phony soldiers'"
Mocked. MOCKED. "M-O-C-K-E-D." Media Matters gets that it's satire. Didn't you get that they get that?
Duh.
No doubt MMFA is fully aware Colbert is a comedian! Seems like it is just the drooling wingnut fools that cant find the humor. LOL LOL
Duhhh, you wingnuts, get a clue!
Are the folks at Media Maters aware that Colbert is a comedian??
LOL! are you serious? How come the wacko wingers can't handle it when they get tooled by a comedian?
I laughed.
I hereby decree, in lieu of David Brock, that from now on, all those conservatives who do one thing and say another shall now be referred to as "Huckbocrites."
I agree, a worthy soundbite. Let's drive it home...
Huckbocrites, Huckbocrite, Huckbocrite, Huckbocrite, Huckbocrite.
Repetition is the key.
WITH? Hello, satire. Or is MMFA being satirical in this posting? Or is comedy and satire off limits here too? It's hard to tell anymore........
Wow, that is such a knee-jerk reaction for you that you don't even bother to read the articles anymore.
"On the October 8 edition of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert mocked Rush Limbaugh for his attacks on Media Matters for America..."
So then WITH?
This is similar to the Olbermann threads that are posted. Colbert is mocking the right, agreeing with MMFA.
Colbert mocks both the left and the right. I love it when he mocks the left, and the audience doesn't laugh, or even hisses. But you conveniently never mention anything like that, do you?
Whatever.
Why not? It's a media mention of this site that backs up its opinion.
Why does it seem to offend you so much that this is here?
I could care less why it's here - it's just ridiculous that's all. It's a site about monitoring misinformation, not patting their own backs when they get a member of the media to put their logo on screen.
If you don't care then why do you ask? In love with the sound of your own voice saying "WITH?" ?
Colbert really makes his best point in the conclusion, Limbaugh and company demand that they have the right to say anything they want without it being subjected to any sort of analysis or objection.
He doesn't care, but the undies still twist all the same.
Moonbat,
Rush and others are concerned that the government is looking to decide what is appropriate speech. Wouldn't you agree that it should be up to individuals what speech they pay attention to and not the government?
The fact alone that he calls everyone who disagrees with him a phony, means that he only cares about the free speech of those who agree with him.
And what does your question have to do with what MoonBat wrote?
Yes, Rush is very concerned that everyone gets to say what they want.
Umm.... except when they disagree with him. Then they should shut up. Why do people who disagree with Rush hate America so?
Beat ya by 2 seconds.
Hey Moonbat, where was Rush's concern over supposed censoring when it came to Congress' condemnation over the move.on ad?
Right. Didn't think so.
Whoops, meant to direct that reply to PROUDCONSERVATIVE, sorry Moonbat.
Moonbatty, bonehead and eraser,
I was responding to this part of the posting by moonunit:
Colbert really makes his best point in the conclusion, Limbaugh and company demand that they have the right to say anything they want without it being subjected to any sort of analysis or objection.
Colbert is a great satarist, I enjoy that manner of putting forth a viewpoint. I have stated time and time again that we conservatives welcome the dialogue of ideas, stated directly or with humor. I think that it is a winning strategy for us.
Moonie felt that Rush complained about the scrutinty and demanding that it stop. To the contrary, I feel that each side needs to be open and free for discourse and let individuals decided was is correct or reflects their ideals in the arena of political debate. I don't believe he calls everyone who disagrees with him a phony. I see them as misdirected or illinformed.
That is why I support Media Matters (very little) and its efforts to cause people to consider what they believe as the proper view and direction of the nation. Colbert has a great way of doing that. As they are challenged to analyze their own beliefs they should now clearly what a democrat or conservative lead congress or president will mean for them.
This site needs to continue to hold candidate's feet to the fire and not allow them run away from them to accomodate hope for electability.
I don't understand you, Proudconservative. You make reasonable and cogent points but insist on name-calling.
Ignatias,
Name calling!? I use sarcasm for entertainment and yes do mock the funny names people have assigned themselves. No harm was intended and those that have asked me to stop torturing them by twisting their names, I have willingly done so.
I never go beyond that except with MM(vl), BM.org and (this one kills solon) democrat party. I won't get nasty or vile in my use of language but admitedly, like to tease a bit. Again, I'll stop when someone takes offense.
HA you overestimate your annoyance to me. It just shows your ignorance that you dont know the NAME of the largest political party in America. Being a ReNAMBLAcan your ignorance is typical
I prefer "Repugnant-cons." After all, not all of them are pedophiles, but a TON are crooks & liars (as that eponymous site details) and thouroughly disgusting with thier politics of fear, loathing, and distraction.
Hairsolon,
Your words say no, but your capitalization says YES!
<>To Solon:
<>A NAMBLA reference from a member of MM? Whodda thunkit? You should have started your name with a 'c' instead of an 's'.
<>"I don't believe he calls everyone who disagrees with him a phony. I see them as misdirected or illinformed."
Before he called dissenting soldiers phonies, he said that Caller #1 was not a real Republican.
BTW. Bonehead! How clever of you! I declare you to be the greatest wit since Oscar Wilde.
Scallion cranium,
Thanks for the Wilde compliment...or were you just being sarcastic, you rascal you?
Scallion cranium?
That was kinda cute.
Of course, it is easier to come up with funny names than to address the content of my post.
Media Matters very little ONLY in your limited Limborg conciousness
Proudcon, do you realize that ,in your post, you do sort of a Norman Bates-esque dialogue, both as yourself and Rush? Check the first-to-third person transitions. Interesting.
If Rush protested the Senate taking time to attack Moveon.org's free speech, I mised it.
PC,
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that your were outraged when CONGRESS decided to spend their 'extra' time condemning an organization for exercising their right to free speech...Feel free to post a link to your comments about the matter!
which is why Rush and the others all immediately condemned Congress for the unprecedented act of condemning the speech of a cititzen's group. Link us to those comments please.
This site is about whatever it wants to post. There's a lot of gray area.
Tommy: "WITH [why is this here]?"
And then Tommy, one post later: "I could care less why it's here."
And that's really all that needs to be said about that.
Of course subtlety is lost on you. WITH is a simple question that none of you have answered, as I ask it, I still could care less. I just like to see liberals stumble over themselves rubberstamping everything posted.
"Subtlety"? Now that's funny. Maybe nobody's answering your disingenuous questions because you asked, "Why is this here?" and then you admitted that you don't care why it's here. Don't pretend you deserve an answer. You don't.
It flies over your head like a 747 doesn't it?
HAHAHA!!!
Oh, yes, your razor-sharp satirical wit and cunningly subtle humor has gone over all of our heads. Let's just recap your blistering satirical jabs in order:
" WITH? Hello, satire. Or is MMFA being satirical in this posting? Or is comedy and satire off limits here too? It's hard to tell anymore........"
"So then WITH?"
"I could care less why it's here - it's just ridiculous that's all. It's a site about monitoring misinformation, not patting their own backs when they get a member of the media to put their logo on screen."
Ah, what tremendous wit! Wilde, Twain, Swift and Voltaire have nothing on our Tommy. You have skewered us beyond our comprehension! We all bow down to your superior intelligence.
Why, thank you Clams.
WOW!
Mark this date down Tommy...Clams finally admitted how terrific he thinks you are.
That was nice of ya Clams :-)
Yes J, there is a new big red heart on today's date on my calendar......and he says that I "don't deserve an answer", yet he keeps answering me.
I am really touched.
Wow. I'm actually embarrassed for you two. There's nothing more cringe-inducing than humorless fools who are not only convinced that they're smart and funny, but who actually think that they're smarter and funnier than everyone else.
It flies over your head like a 747 doesn't it?
HAHAHA!!! - tommy
Tommy, I think this may have been the moment when you jumped the shark.
He jumped the shark in the first segment of his first episode.
Asking questions without any concern for the answer does make you one better than most conservatives who don't even like to ask questions. After all they have already received all answers from the one gifted directly from God, Rush Limberger.
However it did lead me to leave a note to self; Do not engage in discussions with people who ask questions but do not care about the responses.
Rule #2
Do not take seriously anything written by persons who have to resort to childish misspellings of Limbaugh, Republican, Bush, or anyone else on the right.
Rule #3
Put fingers in ears. Chant LA-LA-LA-LA-LA at the top of your lungs as others attempt to respond to your questions.
Now now AA, this is just how Liberals show us that they have a sense of humor ;-)
Thus ending the right-wings monopoly on nastiness.
Are you worried?
Me worry?
Nah.
The Left have always been as nasty as the Right. It's just now that they've figured out how to make it funny.
No the left has NEVER been as nasty as the right. When the LEFT promotes someone as evil and twisted as Ann or as insanely crude as the Weinerdog get back to us. That is unless you mean the left HERE or among the general public in which case I concede your point. You know here in the US we are a bit puritan about all this. Have you ever watched the House of Commons in Britian? Its like two beers and commercial break from a barroom brawl. Famously Winston Churchill was told by Conservative Politico and Viscountess Nancy Astor of the House of Commons Winston if I were your wife I would poison your coffee. Churchill responded. Nancy if I were your husband I would drink it.
Oh, do you mean like people who childishly say the "Democrat" Party instead of the Democratic Party"? I gotcha...will stay away from people like that.
Obviously that doesn't include me.
But nice try anyway.
"Obviously that doesn't include me."
Didn't say it did...but it does include George W. Bush and Rush Limbaugh. Why should I believe anything they say if they must resort to such childishness when referring to (blaming everything on) the Democratic Party?
Because Rush who refers to DINGY HARRY would never do anything like that himself right? Rush giveth, Rush deserveth back. Then there is that Demcrat Party meme. So I guess what you really mean is that since ONLY conservatives are allowed to do such things you will ignore the lefties HERE who do them. Good luck with that.
AA:
I agree, and extend that to Limbaugh's "pet names" for Democrats, "Dingy Harry" Reid, "Algore", "puff daddy" Daschle, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Childish, and reveals a lack of substance. Ditto with using "Democrat Party" when it's instead properly the "Democratic Party".
Users of this tactic are, by definition, unworthy of any audience. Agreed. And thanks for pointing it out.
And don't forget Hitlery Klintoon and the feminazis, as well as all the gosh darn fun they had playing around with Barack Hussein Obama's name, while we Dhimmicraps are recounting childish conservatism's "greatest" hits.
No you just cant go too long without posting WWWWAAAAAAHHHHHH
Tommy, your "I could care less why it's here" retort just confirms Brabantio's assessment of your original "WITH" comment, i.e., it was "a knee-jerk reaction...[and] you don't even bother to read the articles anymore." Care a little more next time before you post, Tommy. Otherwise, you risk turning yourself into a cliche.
And another flabbergasted liberal joins in. And I am a cliche? Now, that's rich.
Tommy, I don't think anybody's flabbergasted, tight lipped, indignant, or stumbling over themselves to defend the site. I only see reasonable attempts to help you understand, and others who are bored of your hysterical demands that the entire world accounts for its actions directly to you.
At your best, you initiate some good discussions, and you're occasionally very funny. Today you're in your 5 year old making fart noises mode, and it's really boring.
As boring as the recent influx of dittobots insisting that their annoying thickness and repetition of propaganda is somehow " infuriating the liberals with truth".
Take a day off, Tommy, If you can't do any better than this.
HBL,
Thanks for your condescending little speech, but if all of you are so irritated at the fact that your liberal lovefest,, post after post, gets a little tongue in cheek interruption by me or someone else - then why respond at all?
I love that - people urge me to stop, or take time off, or give it up, or you're all so bored - yet they cannot help themselves but respond........I would say the five year old behavior is your own.
Let's not forget that you claimed that you hold yourself accountable for everything you say here. So we're just trying to help you help yourself, since you're obviously having tremendous problems in this regard.
The cons seem a bit grouchy today. Maybe it's because we have all the good comedians. They just have dry bones, whisky, ciggy infested (AC) and a thrice divorced, glutonous, bearing false witness hatemonger like Gush. Too bad, so sad. Such shining examples of Repulican virtuousness. Ha. Colbert is a riot. I have him on the tivo and will get to him post haste.
I don't think Tommy's being grouchy, I just think he's in need of attention. There's no better way to get attention in a group of lefties than to be obnoxiously and logically inconsistent and then blow it off with a bit of false bravado, and Tommy's a smart boy. He knows that all he needs to do to get his weekly dose of attention is to come in here and be intentionally stupid.
Tommy, I can't believe you don't recognize a satirical condescending speech when you see one.But sure is great to see you get so furious.
When are you going to GET that what MMFA does on THEIR website isnt up to YOU to decide. When are YOU going to get YOUR website and tell us about it so we can come by and tell YOU how to run it?
i agree with Tommy, this site should not have the right to choose self-congradualtory articles, makes one think about how do they select articles on conservative misinformation over liberal misinformation.
"this site should not have the right to choose self-congradualtory articles, makes one think about how do they select articles on conservative misinformation over liberal misinformation."
They shouldn't have the "right"? How do you imagine you would take that away from them? It's their site, they have every right to post whatever they please.
It's a site about conservative misinformation. They say so themselves in their mission statement. It's not like it's hypocritical or something.
I have to object to your "agreement" with Tommy on his behalf, since his comment wasn't nearly as idiotic as yours.
Why does it seem to offend you so much that this is here?
Uuuuhh...no sense of humor? It's a scientific fact that conservatives are not genetically wired for humor.
One of the requirements to becoming a conservative is to have a humorectomy.
Or is it just a gratuitous slap at Limbaugh, and a little preening by MMFA whenever they get mentioned in the media? Wow, such a service they are providing.
Well, we keep hearing from trolls here how MMfA is some insignificant little site, and this shows that it's gaining national attention. It is like the Olbermann threads, which I think are largely unnecessary, but this is somewhat different.
Let them enjoy it. And besides, it's freakin' funny stuff. Lighten up.
Me lighten up? It's you and the others that can't help but brainlessly defend anything your sacred website posts as if someone were attacking your own family.
That is what's so hysterical........but you miss it everytime.
What happened to you not personally attacking people? I thought you were supposed to be some sort of arbiter of respectable behavior here.
Look, is someone offended by this? Is there something unfair, racist, polarizing, outrageous or dishonest in Colbert's comments? If not, then what is the comparison to comments from people like Coulter or Limbaugh where we are told to get a sense of humor?
It's funny, and it's harmless, and I don't think it's anything you disagreed with before. So why all the spittle?
It's because my initial post was satire, and every subsequent post after that........for those who claim to "get it", they certainly don't here. Watching all of you getting all bent out of shape is what drove every comment I made, and you still are trying to rationalize it in some serious vein.
I can't believe you missed the sarcasm in a topic thread based solely on satire.
Holy cow.
"WITH? Hello, satire. Or is MMFA being satirical in this posting? Or is comedy and satire off limits here too? It's hard to tell anymore........"
That's satire? How? When I pointed out what the article said, you didn't say it was satire then, you just repeated "WITH?" If it was satire, why repeat the question?
Do you really think anyone is going to believe that?
You're still stumbling over yourselves with this aren't you? As entertaining as it is, it's lost on you, even now. I can't help you anymore.
You can't justify your excuse? Can't explain it? I wonder why that is.
Yes, Tommy is such a good poster, but instead of just admitting that he didn't even start to read the article, he just spewed nonsense. And then he has to go into insults, phony bravado and lies to cover it up.
How respectable.
It's his version of the 'phony soldier(s) defense.
Actually, he's gotten exactly what he wants: another topic all about him.
Ah, Tommy, but what you don't realize, is that all the responses to your satirical post were ALSO satirical and sarcastic. Joke's on you! Where's YOUR sense of humor?
By the way, this post was sarcastic. Unless you actually found it insightful, in which case, it was dead serious.
Satire? Are you kidding?
The fact is that many here just absolutely cannot stand anything questioned here, it drives them nuts. They will not admit my posts were tongue in cheek because then they have to admit they overreacted in their rubberstamping defense of all things MMFA.......so instead they sit there and tell me that I was being serious, how ridiculous.
Yet they keep it up anyway."Satire?"
Yes.
"Are you kidding?"
Yes. Dumb question. In fact, I am ENRAGED that you would ask that. It drives me NUTS!
It is almost ridiculous how serious you take things like this. You've all but admitted that you're a troll. Oh, and I'm joking!
Have a nice day! (Again, joking.)
Does anyone else get the impression Tommy has a burr in his saddle today?
That was funny! But am I being satirical with that remark? I post, you decide.
I am going to guess... yes, you were being satirical.
</sarcasm>
Now THAT was funny
What happened to you not personally attacking people?
When was THAT ever the case?
Actually Tommy your every post is evidence of MMFA's graciousness. You come here daily and you and many others spend hours insulting MMFA and their visitors, their Liberal visitors of course. How many people would allow you to come into their homes and subject themselves to your insults and ridicule? Not me you’d get my size 7 up your butt as I kick you out my front door. MMFA’s better then me. That said you do spark some very interesting debates but you are quite rude to your hosts.
A service you seem to make use of everyday?
Tommy,
I believe the intent, as with many other posts made to this website, is to highlight references to Media Matters made by other people in other forms of media, which, in effect, keeps a barometer on how much of an impact Media Matters is having. Put simply, they're tooting their own horn. Obviously your aghast and outraged at such self gratification, as it stands in violation of MMFA's mission statement, which does not make mention of highlighting the fallout in other forms of media directly caused by MMFA.
Posts like Tommy's make me understand just a little bit more how Colbert was hired to do the Press dinner a few years back, and why so many were just so darned surprised at what his performance entailed.
WITH? Hello, satire. Or is MMFA being satirical in this posting? Or is comedy and satire off limits here too? It's hard to tell anymore........
it's not hard to tell unless you are Tommy.
TOMMY:
I, for one, am comforted that you care so very much about whether MMFA is adhering appropriately to their mission statement.
You agonize for us over whether each thread is appropriate. You hand-wring over the possibility that satire might be misunderstood. You fret continuously that MMFA may be "wasting time" by covering issues or topics that you believe do not meet the high standards you expect from this site.
TOMMY, you are truly the CONSCIENCE of MMFA, the unofficial ombudsman who takes that objective look at ever single syllable written here with your hypercritical eye ... and you do it to PROTECT this site, its reputation, and its mission. Your criticisms and observations are made out of LOVE ... anyone can see that. And we thank you for all your selfless diligence.
I'm sure MMFA is a much better place, thanks to your loving guidance and ever-helpful second guessing. Thanks!
Now Tex that was funny!
It is so accurate I don't know if I should laugh out loud or weep uncontrollably.
I going with laugh. You're both great!
The introductory paragraph to the post says that S.C. "mocked" Rush Limbaugh. I don't think MMFA is missing the joke.
Also, I love the Colbert Report. I'm wearing my wriststrong bracelet right now.
I had almost turned off the tube and gone to sleep when this came on last night.Very well done.I can't believe that there are posters here who didn't get this.
Wait. Yes I can.On a regular basis, posters here write ridiculous sarcastic comments satirizing the neocons, and inevitably somebody takes those comments as sincere.
Before Colbert spun his show off from the Daily Show, I read a blurb in which he described his plan to do a parody of BilldO. I thought it was doomed for failure, a plan to parody something that is already a self-parody. Colbert surprised me, and he pulls it off.
As evidenced by those, right here, who can't distinguish between an over-the-top parody of our current media, and that same media.
I didn't get the part about the Pope. Could someone fill me in?
But the rest of it was funny, but Colbert usually is.
Of course I've been known to laugh at what Ann Coulter writes or says at times, so maybe my sense of humor is suspect ;-)
Beach, get your Yankees suck jabs in quickly...I can take it. Hey I'm laughing about that too :-O
Jeter-
It's OK to laugh when reading Coulter. I can't help it either, some of the stuff she says is so ridiculous.
Now, if you find yourself cackling evilly at a Coulter lie, you might need to go take a cold shower.
Micsha,
Coulter has her clever moments. Sometimes I even laugh at her lame stuff.
But I never take her seriously.
If I recall correctly, the pope is releasing a book supposedly "written" by one of his pets.
Probably written by a German Shepherd. :D
BLR,
Thanks for that info. This is the first I'd heard about that [the Pope], though I do remember Barbara Bush's Millie book.
Are you kidding, Jeter? My hapless Halos folded faster than Rush's Rangers. I will speak no more of baseball.
Except to say, BoSux!
Beach,
I agree we will not speak of baseball till next Spring.
BoSux. I like that ;-)
I'm wearing my wriststrong bracelet right now.
C'mon! By now you MUST have met someone more famous!
I keep ten of them on hand at all times for just such an occasion - so I can still wear one.
I guess I had better sic Colbert on the question of why no MMFA Monday? Was it the holiday (Columbus Day)? Or was it, as my hate-wing neighbor declared, Gumbaugh's lawyers enjoining the site? Never fear, Colbert will tell us.
Yes, Media Matters, you didn't learn from the real Nazis!
Hitler's secret weapon wasn't the V-1 rocket. No, it was his recording machine. On that primitive WMD, he'd play back the speeches of Churchill, Stalin, and FDR for all the world to hear, thereby commencing his vicious attacks & smears on the allies. Nearly brought 'em to their knees, too.
I saw this bit last night and it was hysterically funny. The part of about how things would be just great if MMFA would just stop putting the real quotes out there for people who don't already agree with them was priceless. Conservative boobs on this site who don't get the delicious satire...not so priceless...about a buck-three eighty.
about a buck-three eighty
How would one write that, BILLIE?
"Back in 1990, Barbara Bush had her dog Millie write about life in the White House"
I haven't read this book by Millie. I heard it was ghost-written by Millie's butler, a chihuahua named Speedy.
Well Brutus The only GOP candidate recieving visible monetary support from the troops is Ron Paul. Who is the only Gopper suporting withdrawl. The DEms are getting alot of support from this population.
Quite a few vetrans post here, including me. Don't say I don't support the troops. As a Nam era vet I'm a bit sensitive to this accusation. Don't you have some poor V-chip child to harass today.
In other news P. Waldmen admitted today that MMFA gets its marching orders from The Young Turks, on Air America. So accusations about George S. and Hillary are merely a smokescreem to hide the truth.;-)
Media Matters gets marching orders from the young turks? I'm disappointed; I was hoping it was from Clinton's dog Buddy.
Hey Eweston. I may be on the leading edge of something here.
I heard Sean Hannity on the radio as I went to lunch yesterday, he referred to the MMFA/Clinton/Soros conspiracy as "The Axis of Destruction".
Last night, I flipped by Fox, and heard our boy Sean, again. refer to the same shadowy cabal as "The Axis".He used a different word than destruction, maybe "Censorship" or something equally scary.
At first I thought that was pretty subtle for Hannity, as his audience, in their ignorance of history, may not have an immediate reaction to the word axis (as compared to Islamofascist or Hillary).
Then it occured to me that Ken Burns' documentary is running pretty regular on PBS, and the word "Axis" may be in the public consciousness enough right now that even Fox's couch potatoeees may make the connection.
Let's see if this one catches on with the wingnuts here, and which word they decide on to finish the term; "Axis of _______?"
We'll see Beach. My thought, it might just remain The Axis.A properly powerful phrase, and then they could go free form after the title. Accusations of Mopery with intent to creep? It could happen here, or maybe over there.
With the rate of posting today. Did a rhetorical dam burst somewhere.
Ah, the best humor tells it like it really is!
Hillarious!
Way to go, Colbert!
So, would the righties' complaints on this meta-misinformation be meta-complaints?
He has a point. I see a dark grimfuture if Libs have it thier way, where Hate Speach laws are put in place. Is hate speach telling a bunch of fasting illegal immigrants to starve to death? Take away my first amendment, I will take to arms and fix the problem. My right to speach is more imprtant then your little soft feelings.
I don't believe in "hate-speech" laws. It is wrong headed. I will always defend your right to be an a-hole, evil.
: )
And I yours! Thank you.
Norotor, you sound like a pretty macho guy.
No more macho then you sir. Does it take a macho guy to go postal?
No. However, if you were a man you wouldn't need a gun.
did you complain to congress for chilling free speech recently.
Let's see . . . Media Matters posts Keith Olbermann's comments when he names someone a "worse" person. They do it to underline the exposure of right-wing misinformation.So why do some here unable to deduce that they are extending the same courtesy to Colbert and not immediately posit that Media Maters "didn't get his humor."Oh, wait, that would be reasonable and a logical extension based on reality. Two things missing from most right-wing talking points.
Stephen Colbert is on of the finest political satirists of our time. He makes us see how ridiculous the far right extremists sound. We need to stop criminalizing people, calling them unpatriotic and pro-terror because they disagree with the war and occupation of Iraq.
COLBERT: That's right. Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us.
Ha. Colbert nails it.
here ya go, a sample of that world famous, 'merican consuhvateeve humor. Notice that someone has to die, be humiliated or denigrated for conservative humour to work. MMFA is expecting way to much if they expect conservative to understand that treating colbert just like any other conservative pundit is funny.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1908123/posts
Be sure to scroll down to the absolutely hilarious picture of Rudy and Hilary enjoying a night on the town.
pithaughn,
I'm sure you are proud of fellow libs who like to use foul language for their laughs at Democratic fundraisers. Oh yeah, Whoopie Goldberg's off color musings regarding the President's last name at the Democratic Convention was hillary-ous. Oh and so to was Robin William's repeated use of the f-word and s-word at a Democratic fundraiser attended by the Clintons and just about every other high ranking Democrat! I was so impressed with how they all laughed right along.
Yeah, those limousine liberals have one funny sense of humor.
I dont know what some peoples obsession is with profanity. It doesnt shock me, it never really did though it was NEVER used in my house when I grew up. It doesnt make anything funnier but it doesnt stop anything from being funny to me. I find Robin ALWAYS hilarious and Whoopie inconsistant. Sometimes she kills other times to me she falls flat. Acting like a prig, like adults in the company of adults have an obligation to talk as if they are talking to a third grade class however, doesnt compute to me. My father used to have a sign that said profanity is the strong expression of a weak mind. I never bought that. I am an adult and recognize that adults sometimes talk like adults.
I actually don't like it when people use foul language. I don't find it funny. But this is a ruse for you conservatives. You use as much foul language (just ask the people at MMFA that get hate mail from foul mouthed wingnuts that can't spell) as anyone. But you act all high and mighty like we are deficient in a way that you are not. It's isn't true. I have read plenty of wingnuts blogs that not only get really nasty with their foul language but are quite misogynistic as well.
"Yeah, those limousine liberals have one funny sense of humor."--AnotherAmerican
Thanks for the acknowledgement. But, don't be too hard on yourself. Many limo-riding conservatives are very funny comics as well: Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Hume, Coulter, etc. In fact, put all those limo's end to end, they'd stretch from Wash D.C. to Iraq.
What's funny is that no one with a brain is laughing.
Therick, those people might suggest killing people they don't like, cheerlead for war, and advocate denying their fellow Americans basic kindnesses if they're not rich, but they do it without using naughty words.
Speaking of Cons not getting the joke does anyone remember this flash from the past?
A good sign that Tom DeLay doesn’t have the facts on his side: the top source for his latest defense against his critics is Stephen Colbert.
Not knowing Colbert, I would have thought that the opinions expressed by colbert are rather conservative, it appears to be though that the liberals have already coveted this fellow of one of thier own.
hilarious. Colbert has a strong following because of shows like this one.. he does a great job of pointing out hypocrites like Limbaugh