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‘Colbert Report’: Who’s the Jesus-est?

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Posted on Aug 22, 2009
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Boy, Stephen Colbert got a lot accomplished on “The Colbert Report” this past week! He established whose God was best (duh) and why writing an Op-Ed in The New York Times is a clear sign of desperation and defeat (double duh), and he even managed to outdo Rep. Barney Frank in the table-talk department. But with what kind of cracker does Obamargarine go best? Hmmm.  —KA

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By Shenonymous, August 28, 2009 at 10:24 am Link to this comment

Some have a richer sense of humor than others.  and some can recognizes it better than others.  So much for equality among humans.  Colbert’s mockery of society, through parody, especially and surreptitiously criticizing the Rightists, even though, cleverly, it often looks as if he is among them.  But an attentive ear would show that while not a liberal, he sticks hot pokers in the absurdities that is the Republican propaganda strategies.  But he definitely does not pull punches against Dummocrats either.

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By LocalHero, August 28, 2009 at 10:13 am Link to this comment

Spot on stuff and, oh brother, Susan. This “peice” (as you so assuredly mis-spelled it) does not have “canned laughter” - it’s taped in front of a live audience. Hence, you’re an idiot.

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By Susan, August 26, 2009 at 7:10 am Link to this comment
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I don’t listen to Colbert, Fox, CNN or the other junk-news, and MSNBC only to find out what disinformation is being piddled out, then I go to the source to find out what is really going on.
Don’t feed them the ratings.

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By Purple Girl, August 26, 2009 at 4:38 am Link to this comment

Whos the ‘Jesus-est’??
Certainly not those with automatic weapons slung over their shoulders or strapped to their legs.
Those are the ‘Roman-est’

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By Susan, August 25, 2009 at 2:15 pm Link to this comment
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Colbert isn’t as funny as he thinks he is (hence the canned laughter), his development obviously was arrested when he was a young (probably not very popular) adolescent, and he isn’t very intelligent. This whole peice reeks. He is not a journalist OR a comedian, but one of those (so many these days) paid disinformation specialists - basically, up - end the week’s news, bash anyone trying to make sense of it and keep the big mouth running - his type will do anything for money.

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By Shenonymous, August 23, 2009 at 7:58 am Link to this comment

Colbert’s unparalleled hyperbole shows the idiocy as he says, of hopping on a
Pogo stick in church
, uh, “to get closer to Jesus on the high points of the
hops,” and what benefit it does for humanity.  He probably meant from the triple
hops brewing process high points you get from drinking the usual two six-packs
of Miller Lite.  It could become the next sacred beverage.

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