Stephen Colbert is A-1 when it comes to undressing the purveyors of the right’s twaddle about liberals causing this or that. D’Souza has been pitching his garbage for a few years now. It was illuminating to see how Colbert got him to show his hand so. D’Souza came off like a wet-behind-the-ears brat who doesn’t know shit from Shinola. The Kool-Aid I had as a kid, to the best of my recollection, never tasted as good as the stuff these diehard, “bitter-ender(s)” righties must be slurping. Oh, by the way, I hope Sen. Jim Webb hits it out of the park tonight. Peace.

This idiot is right in one thing:  Iran’s current regime can easily be linked to the radical Islamic terrorism that resulted in 9/11.  Part of doing a successful regime change in Iran is getting it to come from within.  In order to do that, we must understand that this horrible regime did not just pop up in a vacuum.  It was the result of 25 years of brutal oppression by the Shah, who in turn was installed by an overt coup d’état orchestrated by the Eisenhower administration in 1953.  When the radicals came to power, they hated and rejected everything about the Shah, especially the USA.  There is no need to look for blame, but it is important to understand where they are coming from if we indeed want to influence them and an outcome that will actually be in the best interest of our Country.  Military (overt or covert) regime change has not worked very well for our Country in the long term (e.g. Bay of Pigs, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, among others, and – Oh! – Iran in 1953).  It is time we try something new that actually has a hope of succeeding and not biting us in the ass months, years, or even decades later.  I suggest we apologize to the People of Iran (not the government) for our Country’s role in overthrowing their duly elected (democratic) government in 1953.  Prime Minister Mossadegh is a cult figure in Iran (even if few of us know of him) and is reviled by the repressive government of Iran.  Such an apology would fuel a lot more anti-government sentiment in Iran than any sanctions or bombs.  The beauty of this is that it costs us absolutely nothing, as compared to the billions we will spend trying to get other countries to support the sanctions or the trillions that it would cost us to take any military action, yet it would endear our Country to millions if Iranians that actually want to like us and would love to see the current regime gone.  Madeleine Albright started down this path in 2000 and it is time someone picks it up again.  Think about it, what do we risk?  Credibility you say?  Could it be any worse than now?  If we do this and it doesn’t work, we can still go after any other options.

This idiot kept saying bin laden did 9/11, when bin laden has no reason to lie about it and said not only he didn’t do it but look at your own government! It wasn’t like we weren’t after him already!

Someone should remind D’Souza that Bin Laden said he got the IDEA to attack America in the 1980’s, as retribution for Marines being stationed in Lebanon.  Therefore, RONALD REAGAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11 !!!

You read it here first.

Here is another fact, that everytime Bush says something it is always “we wage war over there so they do not come here”.  It has been some time since 9/11 and no planes have flew into buildings, I think if the government had been watching they would have listened to the person who said there are guys who want to learn to fly without learning about landing the plane. And then Condi Rice gets on television and said who would have imagined such a thing, I mean the idea was in plain sight.  If the airlines were really worried about people’s safety 1st thing they should do is run I.D. card through a machine and then it would show up a lot of phoney I.D.’s I mean they do it at the clubs to keep underage drinkers out. 

But people are not viligent and when people become bored at their jobs they are not really thinking.

Personally I think the airline industry does not have enough to serve the public, the amount of planes flying has increased, the the number of hubs for these planes has not increased.  I really think that to save gas people could travel the old fashioned way, take the train, train travel is great, and you get to meet more people on a train than you would ever meet on a plane.  And train travel could be increased after all Germany is way ahead of the U.S. when it comes to train travel, their reason I imagine would be the cost of gas and Europe is a much small place than the U.S.

It seems as though when things took a little longer to get from one place to the other people were calmer and probably lived longer.

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington

Regis, the term “alien” is not racist or pejorative term when used to refer to a foreigner who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living. It is purely a statement of fact and has been used in that context for centuries. It’s derived form the latin word ‘alienus’, meaning “belonging to another”.

Any pejorative context is in your own mind. Perhaps some hispanics who object to the word don’t understand the origin or traditional context of the it and mistakenly think they are being compaired to ET.

in comment #48426, David Ellis points out:
“Comedy Central demonstrates the courage and conviction to do what mainstream media does not:  ask hard questions.”

In this, the era of capitalism-run-amok, the MSM dare not permit the sort of no-punches-pullled inquiry that the Colbert/D’Souza piece exemplifies. To allow partisan commentators such as D’Souza to have their feet held to the fire risks alienating some segment of the audience, thereby putting Holy Profit at risk, which is the worst form of heresy possible in the de facto plutocracy America has become.

Dinesh D’Souza stands as the perfect example of how to become a well known author overnight.

Find an audience with fixed opinions based on miss-information and prejudice. Write a book making those simple and narrow-minded views seem valid. Manage to squirrel your way into a TV spot with a well-known comedian and hit the book-selling circuit running.

Finding an audience eager for a rational for blind hate is easy. Overcoming a natural inclination to tell the truth might be a little harder for some. But, apparently not for D’Souza.

OK, if you want, you can go all the way back to the Revolutionary War (and beyond) and find things happening that ultimately led to 9/11. For example, 9/11 never would have happened if Manhattan hadn’t ... duh.

So lets relegate D.D. to the corner of totally useless crap where he belongs.

Dinesh D’Souza, who I think is of Indian heritage, is one of the most racist people out there.  I’m sure he wouldn’t like it if someone used a slure against him for being Indian.  But it’s OK for him to call African-Americans lazy “welfare queens” and Hispanics “aliens”.

Now this is the kind of spanking that should take place more often in america.

Colbert put a whipping on this guy! There was no argument, because this guy had no foundation for his ignorant beliefs.

The same for bush, cheney, rice, someone get out the paddle that Colbert used and use it on these three.

I will be watching a full episode of Bill O’Rielly for the first time tonight, and I can’t wait!

Radical Muslims were inspired by the liberal left to attack on 9-11? I didn’t know dick Cheney was a Muslim.

lol, “Clinton did absolutely nothing”????  He only tripled counterterrorism funding and started the first comprehensive foreign counterterrorism program in the history of the United States with the CSG and Richard Clarke. Oh, and Al Gore started airport security initiatives and Richard Clarke even wanted to create contingency and security plans in case someone flew a plane into the pentagon (can somebody say, told you so?)

3 cheers for Colbert for getting a US-American fascist to OPENLY ADMIT what many people have long suspected:

When it comes to cultural values, personal freedoms and sexual mores, the US-American right wing AGREES FAR MORE WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN than with the ideals of openness, tolerance, and individual liberty that are eshrined in our pinko, corrosivem degenerate, FRENCH (Enlightenment influenced), immoral and

worst of all

SECULAR

Constitution.

It sound as though like de souza ACTUALLY APPROVES of the terrorist attacks on the US.

US-American democracy is is danger from right-wing fanatics like this.

Where do this man’s (perverted) sympathies really lie??

Who is this guy? Smug, arrogant and insulting. Colbert put him in his place. I don’t see this book flying off the shelves.

Once again, Comedy Central demonstrates the courage and conviction to do what mainstream media does not:  ask hard questions.  Is it any wonder that more and more young people today are getting their news from Colbert and Stewart than any other source?

Stephen Colbert is my hero for a number of reasons, not the least is he’s funny too.