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By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 5th, 2010 at 12:23 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I was ambivalent on my Colbert Report performance, but that the left has gone insane over it suggests it went well.

One leftist twittered that being in HD gave her a better view of where to put the bullet in my head.

Ah, feel the love.

Consider this an open thread.

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  • DONTREADONME

    to fix that CEP. :)

  • DONTREADONME
  • Jack_Savage

    She’d go potty in her pants if she ever got close to a real gun. Or a real man, for that matter.

  • DONTREADONME

    yes, I am taking full advantage of an open thread!

  • DONTREADONME
  • Jack_Savage

    Grounds for divorce on the left, apparently.

  • bs
  • Jack_Savage

    Heck, she’s 63 anyway. Given the way leftists treat women, maybe that was it.

  • DONTREADONME

    your way just to spite the evil witch, literally.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    We’re in trouble.

  • AndrewHyman

    Nice profile of Erick here.

  • Aaron Gardner
  • AndrewHyman

    I thought the Colbert interview was good. Erick has a very calm demeanor that comes across well on TV. I don’t know if I realized that Redstate has a pro-life requirement for front-page contributors, as Erick described to Colbert. Personally, I oppose Roe v. Wade, and continue to do everything I can to get it reversed. States should be able to re-criminalize it if that is what the democratic process decides in each state. At the same time, I personally would prefer to vote for a ban on abortion after two months from conception, as compared to a ban from conception forward, but would vote for either of those bans if the alternative is a policy like the extremely callous and harmful and lawless policy SCOTUS has forced on this country for 37 years. So, I guess I wouldn’t quite qualify for the front page at Redstate, but I will be very happy if you pro-lifers succeed in restoring democracy in this country.

  • Raven

    Moe, though. She better watch out around Moe…

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    cuz Susan was “holding out” because Tim wasn’t “sufficiently for” HC Takeover — like the younger Sarandon is for….. Or maybe he was getting too Liberal with her daughter, never put anything past the Hollywood Left, because they are both ultra-HC-Takeover advocates — since they say withhold I guess the converse of being over-”zealous” (we’ll call it) and go-at-it-like-rabbits with those for HC Takeover might hold true….

    And thanks for bringing this up again for me to have the chance to get the rude digs in again ;-) :P lol

  • Raven

    Loved the amendments to the Honorary Councilman Barack resolution… Loved it.

  • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    Just being “trumpeted (if not trumped up) now” only following a Terrorist (though failed) Attack on Obama’s watch does this break!?!? Hmmm…. not at all suspicious!!

    No doubt when it hits the Magazine stands we’ll see more, but I’m sure there’ll be some form of RACE-BAITING implication!

  • vanekl

    Current law stipulates that you can both arrest someone for fetal homicide when a fetus is at 8 weeks, yet at the same time terminate a pregnancy at 9 months with no repercussions. Serious people should ask themselves whether that even makes sense.

  • audax

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVfYtjH951I

  • audax

    …Obama as Honorary member of the Macon City Council amendments

  • audax

    what were the others if any??????

  • http://www.bearcreekledger.com toni100

    supposed to be funny. Maybe I just don’t have the left’s sense of humor. He was successful in mocking you though Erick. The whole segment was nothing but a mockfest. You did pretty good in not being taken in by his mocking but there’s always something that tells me it’s not a good idea to appear on a leftwing media show for a conservative. All in all, Erick you appeared to be calm and laid back in the face of being condescended on and mocked by Colbert. I’d like to hear what YOU think of your appearance.

  • Duke

    You’ve got to remember that most TV is little more than video caricatures, striving to make incidents bigger than life and thereby magnify a chuckle into a laugh. Colbert was doing some reaching. But I do believe your assessment of Souter is very close – he needs to get the goats out of his backyard.

  • newred

    Lt Gov Mitch Landrieu is running for Mayor of New Orleans this year. Given that he will likely win the run-off on 3/6/10, that will leave an opening. From what I’ve found on the web, the 1974 state constitution, article 4/section 15 (amended in 2006 by referendum no. 12 – act no. 858), allows for the sitting Gov to nominate a replacement, which must be approved by a majority vote of both houses in the legislature, but because there will be more than one year remaining on the term, the replacement must stand for election during the congressional election in Nov 2010, then again in the normal statewide elections in 2011.
    Any idea of who Jindal would/should nominate? The GOP has not held the Lt Gov seat since 1988 – 1992 (prior to that was the 1870′s). This person could be well positioned to follow Jindal as Governor in 2015, or challenge Mary Landrieu for the Senate in 2014.

  • throwback59

    When you appear with a left winger you know what you’re in for. When you appear with a left winger pretending to be a Conservative, he will try to make you look bad while pretending he agrees with you. Kind of a no win situation.
    The Goebbels exchange is a case in point.
    If you want to spend time with fake Conservatives, there are plenty of republicans to chose from.

  • tankertodd

    http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/mon-january-4-2010-

    You can fast forward to the latter part of the show if you get annoyed with Colbert.

  • yoyo
  • bk

    I hardly ever watch him as I don’t find him THAT funny, but from what little I’ve seen he does the same sort of stuff to the lefties. Him mocking the guests in an attempt at humor seems to be the whole point of the show.

  • bk

    Jindal can put a conservative in a good spot and Mitch has got to be better than just about anyone else who’ll run for mayor on the left. As I recall, Nagin was considered to about as conservative a guy as could get elected when he first ran. From what I’ve seen from afar, it looks like Mitch is several notches above his half-witted sister.

    But does a white guy really have a chance to become mayor of New Orleans, even if he’s a Landrieu?

  • ajl_mo

    nt

  • Third Street
  • Streiff

    but under the Terms of Service you agreed to when you registered we will continue billing your credit card for the remainder of your 5 year membership.

  • mbecker908

    Certified check to Redstate. I’m not a director or an officer or any kind of official, but I’m pretty sure that a certified check in the amount of at least $150,000 would do the trick.

  • penguin2

    I feel bad for you, but the site admin has told you the rules, and that is the way it is. Really, when I saw your post, I couldn’t believe it, because I was just thinking I hadn’t seen your request lately, so maybe it all worked out. Guess not. Actually, I am on your side in this because I don’t like to see anyone distressed.

    Try to think about it this way, RS may be a place you want to return to, one never knows the future, so we’re just holding a place for you.

  • Third Street

    New Orleans doesn’t elect white mayors. It hasn’t in over thirty years and I doubt it’s going to start now, even if it is Mitch Landrieu.

    The guy lost in ’06 to Ray Nagin, for cryin’ out loud. And this was after Katrina. Since then a lot (but by no means all) of the displaced blacks have moved back to the city.

    So, the state is probably stuck with Mitch, the guy who came here to Lafayette and wandered into the Cajundome shortly after Katrina, having his flacks push relief workers out of the way so that he could score photo ops with refugees who had just lost everything they had in the world. Fortunately, the Lt. Gov. in LA doesn’t do much of anything.

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    focus to the point of obsession on the meaningless that holds no real consequence, while ignoring all the things of real importance that negatively effects his Life, Liberty, Health, Welfare, etc, going on around him. In that respect, I kinda enjoy his occasional returns to redisplay that bad example.

  • Jack_Savage

    I have a new sig:

    “Forget Joe the Plumber – I am ajl_mo!”

  • http://jakespeaks.wordpress.com/ Jake W

    How about this: You forget about your account here and never come back, and we forget you ever existed, deal?

  • gekster

    Facts;
    Before today,you havn’t commented since 11/24.
    = 40 days.
    1 month, 10 days.
    or,
    1 month, 9 days.

    you see where i’m going here, don’t ya.
    If you could, try for several months, (to me it’s more than two), and then come back ant post again.
    I can tell you that your account probably will still not be closed.
    Just come by and check.
    Not trying to say any thing bad here, ok.

  • Raven

    And that poor enviro-weenie he had on Really had it bad.

    “Did you fly on the back of a spotted owl?”

  • historyliz1980

    From the local talk radio I’ve been listening to, things are different There’s a lot of activism down here now, so saying a white guy actually might pull off a win in NOLA, isn’t so far fetched.

    Just sayin’ from a ragin cajun student.:)