‘Colbert Report’: Libertea
Tuesday's primaries brought a couple of surprising results, such as the voting victories of problematic e-mail forwarding enthusiast Carl Paladino in New York and anti-masturbation crusader Christine O'Donnell in Delaware. What are we to make of these people?Tuesday’s primaries brought a couple of surprising results, such as the voting victories of problematic e-mail forwarding enthusiast Carl Paladino in New York and anti-masturbation crusader Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. What are we to make of these people? Stephen Colbert breaks it down for us in this clip from Wednesday’s “Colbert Report.” –KA
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To call Carl Paladino brash and a loudmouth understates the case. The New York Daily News has taken to referring to the Republican nominee for New York governor as "Crazy Carl," and his latest series of outbursts demonstrated why.
Carl Paladino has made a joke of the New York governor's race, but on Sunday the tea party candidate showed he could be hateful as well Speaking to a group of Orthodox Jews just days after it was reported that two teenagers and an adult were tortured nearby in the Bronx for being gay, Paladino said children should not be "brainwashed" into thinking homosexuality is "equally valid" (continued).
Right-wingers like Sarah Palin know that nothing gets Americans hot under the collar like some good old-fashioned wordplay. Take "death panels" as one recent example of fanciful rhetorical styling for political gain. Or how about this one: "Ground Zero mosque."
Carl Paladino has made a joke of the New York governor's race, but on Sunday the tea party candidate showed he could be hateful as well Speaking to a group of Orthodox Jews just days after it was reported that two teenagers and an adult were tortured nearby in the Bronx for being gay, Paladino said children should not be "brainwashed" into thinking homosexuality is "equally valid" (continued).
Right-wingers like Sarah Palin know that nothing gets Americans hot under the collar like some good old-fashioned wordplay. Take "death panels" as one recent example of fanciful rhetorical styling for political gain. Or how about this one: "Ground Zero mosque."
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