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Colbert Video: If Corporations are People, Romney is a Serial Killer

By: quill67 (Diary)  |  January 15th, 2012 at 04:50 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

This is an example of what will be run against Romney in general.

Some may wish to defend Romney. It will be a difficult task. Surveys show Republicans have become the representatives of the working class (Isn’t that funny considering what Democrats talk about)

But how will Romney play to the Republican working class worker?

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  • kestrel

    I don’t know that comedian, but I read the transcript of Stephanppoulos’ interview of him from this morning. I hope he’s funnier in person than in the reading, because he sounded like an idiot (pardon the bluntness) and made Stephie sound the same.

    Not saying you’re not correct in your analysis. I agree that Romney will play like fingernails on a chalkboard to blue-collar people, who we actually have a chance of getting in large numbers this election.

    • quill67

      But I enjoyed this piece for its dark humor and because it really does show how much trouble we will be in if Romney is the nominee.

  • lizzie

    Jon Stewart, according to polls, is more trusted as a NEWS source than most of the mainstream media.

    The 18-29 cohort gets most of their news from Stewart and Colbert, on Comedy Central.

    I might add that it was Jon Stewart’s satire of OWS that finally got Mayor Bloomberg to clean them out.

    My 1st view of Rick Perry was when he was on book tour and actually made Jon Stewart speechless (Nov. 10, 2010) Stewart did a bit on the “Geography of Racism” October 3, 2011, that shut down that WaPo n-rock story.

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/videos/tag/debates

    For anyone who wants to see how Jon Stewart blew Romney apart after the debate where Romney put his hand on Rick Perry’s shoulder, view minutes 6:00 to end. Priceless. The entire segment is priceless, but three minutes dissecting Romney is probably why even the msm relies onJon Stewart for story memes:

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-19-2011/indecision-2012—fear-and-pandering-in-las-vegas

    The Colbert Report is a different form of satire than Stewart’s Daily Show.

    Colbert started out satirizing Bill O’Reilly. I do not often watch it, but I do know that NSC Native Son Stephen Colbert was polling ahead of Huntsman in SC last week, which is why Colbert was on “This Week” this morning.

    Back to how Stewart satirizes the GOP field (he also skewers Obama very nicely) – he really misses Herman Cain, has a light touch with Rick Perry because he respects the man who made him speechless, and

    will absolutely destroy Romney. Just watch minutes 6-end of Oct 19, 2011 segment, and count the ways:

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-19-2011/indecision-2012—fear-and-pandering-in-las-vegas

    Thanks Quill67.
    Had to come online to check the weather forecast for the week.

    • lizzie

      and Colbert is the offspring of the King of Satore, Jon Stewart.

      and somehow the full header for my comment above went missing.

      • Scope

        promises to go on a Greatful Dead concert across the country, with his own three offspring willing to do the vocals, you’ll have that. The only missing part of Huntsman’s equation is the long hair, the bong, and the tie-dyed bandanas.

        Too funny lizzie that a real live clown show can beat the guy that can’t tell a funny joke to save his life. And, Colbert isn’t even qualified for the SC ballot. LOL

        • lapert

          And what do you do when your candidate hasn’t performed as well as Huntsman and is tied with him in polling in South Carolina… blame the Virginia GOP

          • Scope

            stalking my comments? Would it be because I called you out for the Ronulan you are? Or maybe you are one of the VA GOP retards who have made VA a laughingstock?

          • lapert

            Neither of those, I take it you didn’t look at any past posts I have had that mention Paul – can’t say I’m surprised by that. And I don’t live in VA, sorry.

            I just don’t like whiny people who re all emotion, no thought, looking to find blame whenever things don’t work out their way and threaten to walk away when their political candidate isn’t succeeding in a crowded primary field. Its ‘base’ like you that give the conservative movement a bad name.

  • romansdaughter

    we are going to have 4 more years of Obama. Man I have to admitt that is one hilarious video. Mitt the Ripper! LOL

  • znjs

    during the general election, recommended because everyone should laugh once in a while.

    Personally while I’m a big fan of Stewart, I feel like Colbert has a lot more misses then hits… but when he does connect he can just crush it. Just devastatingly funny at times. His work at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was just amazing, though the media tried to claim otherwise since they ended up being skewered as much as the White House. But he does need the right set-up to be affective – very few people know how to interview or be interviewed by him. As seen by his interview today with Stephanppoulos – decidedly unfunny. And that’s pretty common.

    Personally my favorite part is still the Mitt “HA!” at the very end.

  • Kyle-MI

    Colbert and Stewart are using this ad and their super pac to push for campaign finance reform, most likely complete federal government control of campaign finances. Both of them are huge, huge lefties in real life. Colbert is a spoof of a right wing activist, although he is a particularly lousy one because half his audience doesn’t get it.

    Colbert is the living embodiment of Saul Alinsky’s tactic of ridiculing your opponent.

    • quill67

      Ridicule Romney and at the same time campaign finance laws. But what it also shows is how effective using Bain will be.