Stephen Colbert "praises" ABC for a great debate
By SilentPatriot Thursday Apr 17, 2008 2:00pm
Unlike most in the media and blogosphere, Stephen thinks Gibsonopoulos did a heckuva job at ABC's Democratic debate.
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Last night was the Pennsylvania Democratic debate on ABC. It was the most exciting verbal sparring held in Philadelphia since Ben Franklin haggled with an 18th century pimp. The night was a huge success. To begin with, for moderator, ABC courageously chose George Stephanopoulos, who owes his career to the fact that he was Bill Clinton’s Communications Director. So he was objective, in the sense that everyone knew his bias. Listen to how he went after Sen. Clinton about a conversation where she said Obama couldn’t win the general election.
I’m not going to ask about that conversation; I know you don’t want to talk about it.
She doesn’t want to talk about it. Enough said. Let’s move on. Besides, it would have taken away time from asking Obama this:
Do you think Rev. Wright loves America as much as you do?
He followed up with the equally pressing question “Could God create a rock so heavy that He Himself could not know you’re a secret Muslim?”
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The debate between George and Chuck
We're we simply great or stupendous?
ysbaddaden @ 1:
The great pre-debate. "Should I ask the first stupid question, or should you?"
Colbert '12 !!!!!!!
Great for Colbert and Jon Steward. Has Olbermann said anything about the debate?
These days I'm actually regretting not having a television...Colbert and Stewart just eviscerate these guys as they should.
Obama got hit and he got hit hard. His response in the video where he's wiping his shoulder and pants leg off and "wiping" his face is juvenile. He makes W. look mature. Compared to the way Hillary has handled the pile that's been thrown at her, the contrast is striking. We don't need another impudent arrogant juvenile in the White House.
jmac @ 6:
Nor on this site.
Colbert is priceless!
jmac @ 6:
U R So F-O-S. were you laughing when you typed that?
The "secret muslim" gag is amazing.
Thanks for finally getting this up.
My whole problem with this particular debate has always been with the questions that were presented to the candidates. They were irrelevant and pointless in my opinion. Now, something else seems to be happening. The whole "debate" aftermath is now shifting towards the two journalist and away from the candidates themselves. In fact, if one just happened to walk in off the street right now he/she wouldn't even know that Clinton and Obama were there. All the talk now is about the two news presenters.
That snippet of Stephanopolous decrying the focus on petty issues and trying to keep the Clinton campaign (BILL's) focused substantive issues was classic.
Isn't it great that our best satarists/comedians frame the real issues better than our (best?) spineless journalists?
It's Friday and you guys post a Colbert video....Life is good! Thank you!!
ShouldBeWorking @ 5:
Good for you. The fact is, the less you watch the better informed you become. It's addition by subtraction.
US commercial media is a national embarrassment. Imagine if everyone shut the freaking thing off, and started thinking for themselves again!
Eric
http://www.changeany1thing.com
To be fair - Stephanopoulos has been very unfriendly to Hillary on his TV show "This Week"
He let George Will (clueless George) call the Clinton's avaricious and horrible people with not so much as a peep from Stephanopoulos and all his guest are pro Obama people (imagine that, the media being pro Obama) Despite his career may have been made by the Clinton's, Stephanopoulos is not in their pockets if you look at his entire body of work lately.
Joe O. @ 11:
I also think that it would be wise for the two candidates to get right back on the campaign trail and on television as soon as possible. They need to put this "debate" behind them. Because right now those two news presenters are stealing the Democratic candidates spotlight with their "gaffe".
jmac @ 6:
Yeah, it's very mature to whine about who gets asked the first question. Citing Saturday Night Live as a scholarly source? Double mature. Telling the media to attack Obama or else? What an adult!
Obama, on the other hand, sounds like a petty toddler when he challenges the media to stop the yellow journalism and lift themselves up to a new standard of intellectual, issue-focused coverage. Shame on you, Obama! Separating news and entertainment? How immature!
Joe O. @11 it's not shifting towards....it's called accountability...something you may not be farmiliar with but needs to be addressed non the less
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I'm so fed up with the Mouse's new coverage...they've gotten to be as bad as the Fox.
We really need to bring an end to this pandering to Right Wing America!
StevePam @ 19:
I am very familiar with that term thank you very much and accountability is important. That being said, the focus should remain on the candidates themselves and not on two nitwit news casters.
I'm looking to see a comedy tonight. Which do you think will be funnier? Forgetting Sarah Marshall or Ben Stein's Supernatural Design movie?
Steve Charb @ 18:
Sure they next thing He'll demand is that the press have real freedom to report what is right and wrong in the world without fear of punishment.
Unfortunately, the very people that Colbert is mocking are too stupid to realize they are the ones being mocked. But the rest of us get a good laugh.
jmac @ 6:
I gotta admit - Obama was flustered. Who wouldn't be dumbfounded by the sophomoric questions from Stephanapolous and the totally self-centered financially concerned Gibson.
Obama - you gotta be prepared for anything, even dopey "journalists" framing questions for the Republicans.
naschkatze Hussein @ 4:
Olbermann weighed in heavy. And also graced us with an embarrassing audio of Sean Insanity urging Georgie to go after Obama on his connection with Ayers. Which Georgie then did, verbatim.
John G @ 22:
Put in a DVD of Cloverfield and go to sleep.
John G @ 22:
My choise is Forgetting Ben Stein.
John G @ 22:
Dude! the Supernatural Design movie will be really funny...but only if you smoke a lot of pot first. - Otherwise I would recomend Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden - probably the best $350* at the movies you will ever spend.
*I'm assuming you are going alone...if you plan to bring a friend then you can double this price. And they want to be sure we don't bootleg movies because it wouldn't be fair to the movie makers? I stopped going to movies because I feel it's no fair to me. If I'm going to spend a lot of money to see a movie then how come I have to watch comercials first? I'm surprised they don't have the ticker at the bottom of the screen with advert's all through the film!
John G @ 22:
Evil Dead 2 is a good one...or I, Zombie....and my personal favorite...Invasion! (The exclamation point is part of the title, in case you actually google it) I wouldn't pay 10 bucks or more at a theatre unless it's a LOTR type event...
Liberal AND Proud @ 27:
Been wantin to see that...so, it's a snoozer, eh?
jmac @ 6:
And fortunately for us, none are running for that office this time around. Or didn't you notice??
Stephanopoulos is getting hammered, denounced and condemned by progressive media as if he were a 21st century Benedict Arnold. Liberals are outraged that Stephanopoulos would have the audacity, temerity, and unmitigated gall to question Obama about his association with Bill Ayers. They say the questions are off limits because Obama was only 8 years old when Ayers was bombing US govt buildings. They resolutely fail to address the issue of Obama's relationship with Ayers as an adult. In the aftermath of 9/11, Ayers said he did not regret bombing the Pentagon. Ayers defiantly stated that his only regret was that he did not do more. Please tell me why it is out of line to ask a presidential candidate to explain his lack of good judgment when he failed to repudiate Ayers. Obama chose instead to continue his association with Ayers. I think Stephanopoulos asked a legit question to which millions of Americans wanted an answer.
abob @ 33:
Bill Ayers - such a monstrous terrorist MUST be in prison, right? In some sort of supermax facility, where he gets an hour of sunlight a day?
Oh wait... you say he's actually a professor at one of the best universities in the country? Golly gee, how could that be, when Sean Hannity himself has said he's a terrorist!
Joe O. @ 21:
Wrong! The focus DOES belong on this becuase its time for accountability in the media...why are you against THAT,do you work for MSM?
If so, I feel for you but understand your fear of accountability.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 31:
I thought it was not bad, but not great either. A fairly generic monster movie with a gimmick.
The Elite Rusty Shackleford @ 36:
Fair enough...any gratuitous boob shots?
abob @ 33:
Georgie didn't have the "temerity, audacity and unmitigated gall" to ask the question. His puppet strings were pulled by Sean Insanity.
abob @ 33:
Ayers blog was linked today in the roundup here at c&l go read it and don't rely on the likes of Hannity to define him for you.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 37:
Nope, at least not that I remember.
The Elite Rusty Shackleford @ 40:
Ah well...does it at least have strategically placed product shots?
abob @ 33:
Speaking as a Canadian, then "millions of Americans" are dumb, dumb, dumb. After the debate, the New York Times published a fact-checking article that noted the time discrepancies between Ayers's comment and 9/11: "Mr. Ayers did not make the remarks after the attacks on the World Trade Center that day. The interview had been conducted earlier, in connection with a memoir that he had published, Fugitive Days, and he was referring to his experience in the Weather Underground."
If winning Trivial Pursuit qualifies someone to be your President, good bye, and good luck.
I dare say "millions" had never heard Ayers name until Hannity spoke of him. If you are on a committee with someone who robbed a bank, does that mean that you condone bank robbery or that you are a bank robber yourself? No, it sure doesn't.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 41:
Oh HELLS yeah.
As shown briefly on Colbert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRCL217_810
Joe O. @ 21:
Let me clarify my point a bit further. The last thing Obama and Clinton need right now and with the elections just around the corner is another Rev. Wright (which those two journalists are turning into) to hog up the spotlight with what they did or didn't do during the debate. The media over all will pick up on that and run it for weeks. Everything will be about what Gibson and Stephanopoulos did and the candidates will have to respond to it. My point is, Gibson and Stephanopoulos are inconsequential because they are not running for President. Forget the small things and focus on the big picture.
Great outro:
A young George Stephanopoulos saying that Americans want to discuss jobs and education; they don't want to be diverted by side issues.
Vic @ 42:
Obviously the "Decider" couldn't win a game of Tiddlywinks, much less Trivial Pursuit.
I think Obama would make a fine President. I think Hillary would too. McCain...I wouldn't hire him to clean my toilet.
StevePam @ 35:
I'm not against that. I'm just saying, this takes away from the Democratic candidates campaigns. It focuses the attention on on the media and not on them.
The Elite Rusty Shackleford @ 44:
Excellent! Pepsico? Or Coca-Cola?
The Elite Rusty Shackleford @ 34:
Bill Clinton is the one who commuted the sentences of two members of Weather Underground radicals that Ayers was part of.
This is something that has been less than glossed over by the same MSM who got 1 month of trash journalism against Obama out of a 28 second soundbyte of something another man said who was quoting yet another man.
Besides do some research on the guy Ayers. It's ignorant to act like Obama is guilty by association without knowing the facts...
Hillary and Obama debated each other over twenty times. Nobody remembers any of those previous debates because the moderators asked the same standard issue questions that the candidates answered with the same scripted responses. The recent ABC News debate drew the biggest audience of all the rest. The American public was excited to finally hear the candidates respond to uncomfortable questions we wanted answered.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 50:
If I recall correctly, some cell phone company.
abob @ 52:
What's this 'we' shit? And wow,bad TV got great ratings! How....profound.
Its not that Snuffleupagus shouldn't ask Obama's about his contacts with Ayres, its that he should be balanced about it and give adequate time for the answer and ALSO check out Hillary's similar contacts too! Lets face it, ABC erred in having George act on the panel of two. BRING BACK THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS!
Crooks and Liars has turned into a joke site. Why don't you guys come out and endorse Obama, then us Hillary supporters could tell you to shove it, which we are going to do anyway........Goodbye jackasses.
Joe O. @ 46:
Do you think you are enlightening me...because you come off as a twat.
Stop trying to take accountability away from media you concern troll and please stop clarifying as you have made your little point while invoking the name Rev.Wright.(kinda odd... makes you really seem like MSM) Now what about the bigger point of accountability?
The last thing we need is MSM messing with OUR election proscess! Stop defending them.
Kudzu @ 56:
See ya.
The Elite Rusty Shackleford @ 53:
The only one without a cellphone was the monster.
Colberts "secret Muslim " crack was classic and nearly as funny as the night before when he played a 10 second clip of a Rev. Wright rant and then turned to the camera and said " Now why wont this story go away?".
Kudzu @ 56:
Hasta la bye bye.
Kudzu @ 56:
Ya go tell your friends you left because of sniper fire tough guy.
Liberal AND Proud @ 59:
It was impressive how, even with all the destruction, cell phones continued to work. Even in the subways.
What if John McCain recently established and maintained a relationship with a right-wing extremist who bombed abortion clinics back in the 1970s? Would the progressive media would want McCain to be questioned about it? What if the abortion clinic terrorist remarked that his only regret was that he did not bomb more clinics back in those days? Would Obama apologists be willing to let McCain off the hook and move on to more important political issues during a debate? These are rhetorical questions because everybody knows the answers.
Funny thing is the Dallas Morning Nudes didn't mention a thing about how the debate moderators went over like a dead balloon.
Dallas Morning Nudes is owned by Belo
Who is affiliated with Disney
And owns the local ABC station...
What if You realise You've made your point.
David Hawes @ 66:
That was for abob.
David Hawes @ 66:
Cogent observation, sir. The defense rests.
abob @ 64:
Are there abortion clinic bombers who are now respected university professors and productive members of the community? Just curious. That would REALLY help out your hypothetical.
abob @ 64:
What if goerge Bush pardoned them and then endorsed McGoo?
Obama sat on the same board as this man. Look him up and see if you should take on the Clintons for letting them off despite his terrorist ties or blame Obama for being a public servant in the same city as Ayers.
Makes no sense really for Hillary to bring this up...but there is that experience showing again...that judgement.
Bill Clinton pardoned members of that VERY terror group and he endorses Hillary.
And by the way we are no longer going by "Obama apologists" as we have NEVER apologized for supporting him...no from now on you can call us THE MAJORITY.
abob @ 33:
Oh please, this is a non-issue. Ayers was never convicted of a crime. And Stephanopoulos's question about Ayers has little to do with why people are angry with ABC.
But if you want to talk guilt by association, however, Bill Clinton granted clemency to two people from the Weather Underground, who had been serving sentences of 40 years and 58 years after convictions on weapons, explosives and related charges.
In addition, Chicago's Mayor Daley has also worked with Ayers on school reform.
So if you're going to condemn everyone who ever knew Ayers or associated with him--you're talking about a lot of people.
Speaking of guilt by association: How do we know you've never been associated with someone who committed a crime, or was ever arrested?
abob @ 33:
I suggest you read the Roundnup from this morning. Ayers has a blog. More lies from the msm that you bought.
I know I thought it was real "fair" when Georgie Step-on-all-of-us told Hillary..."I’m not going to ask about that conversation; I know you don’t want to talk about it".
I'll be you a hundred dollars that there weren't millions of Americans wanting an answer to the Ayers question. There might be now (though I doubt it) but definitely not before.
abob @ 33:
Abob, you're pissing off the trolls....disgracing their name.
abob @ 64:
If McCain established and maintained a relationship with a right-wing extremist who bombed abortion clinics. Yes, we'd want to know about that. Because McCain is against abortion, and a "relationship" would indicate agreement and support.
Obama, on the other hand, has indicated NO relationship with Ayers beyond working with him on a charity board. Obama has never said he agreed with Ayers' politics or what the Weather Underground did decades ago.
abob @ 64:
McCain recently established and maintained a relationship with a right-wing extremist who bombed Iraq.For those of you who don't know this fact it must seem shocking but.....it's going on right now!
abob @ 33:
Stephanopoulos is getting hammered
I plan on getting hammered tonight.
I am SO GLAD Colbert is on the air again! He so cuts these useless dickheads down to size.
abob @ 52:
You wanted those questions answered, abob? Are you THAT superficial that those issues matter to you?
Do you not have any concern for the price of gas? The future of your job? The cost of your healthcare? The value of the dollars you make? The stability of our national currency? I guess it's comfy in your little bubble.
Somebody needs to tell George Stephanopoulos that he can never replace George Harrison in the Beatles, so he'd be doing us all a favor by getting his haircut restyled to something a little more post-60s.
That statement is more substantive than those embarrassing declarations he followed with question marks during his "interview."
We're back to:
Seantor Obama, would you rather burn an American flag, or urinate on one? Please choose.
Wait, we never left there.
6 jmac Says: Obama got hit and he got hit hard. His response in the video where he’s wiping his shoulder and pants leg off and “wiping” his face is juvenile. He makes W. look mature. Compared to the way Hillary has handled the pile that’s been thrown at her, the contrast is striking. We don’t need another impudent arrogant juvenile in the White House.
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If this is for your stand-up routine, it needs polishing before you take the stage, you fucking moron. At least you have the sense to admit the WH is currently occupied by an impudent, arrogant, juvenile, so you can't be all bad. (W. look mature??? Hmmm... on second thought... )
Both candidates were like deer in headlights, because it was surreal. Who could have anticipated.... (to borrow a wing-nit Katrina phrase)???? Not that I'm saying they do or did drugs, but I'd be wondering if I, myself, weren't having some sort of LSD flashback. I'd be pinching myself: is this happening? Am I awake? Where the fuck am I, and who are these retards asking me such lame questions??
abob @ 33:
Millions of Americans wanted an answer about Ayers? I doubt if more than a few thousand Americans knew who he was before the question was asked.
Stuffinenvelopes is a shill for the DLC. He is mailing it in.
Question: Who is Ayers?
21 Joe O. Says: StevePam @ 19:
That being said, the focus should remain on the candidates themselves and not on two nitwit news casters.
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You mean watch the puppets and ignore the puppeteers? Kinda like the bu$h/Cheney ventriloquism act?
In the brutal crucible of big time politics; perception is reality. Michael Dukakis did not lose to Bush Senior based on policy issues. His ill advised photo-op in a tank that had him looking like Snoopy instantly doomed his campaign. Obama and his apologists better wake up and realize that in the general election Republicans will run thousands of video attack ads starring Rev Wright and Bill Ayers morphing them into the image of Barack Obama. If Obama persists in his dismissive attitude toward these damaging topics as if they are simply annoying trivial distractions not worthy of his time or attention; he will go down to landslide defeat to McCain in November.
ysbaddaden @ 76:
Count me in.
Stephanopoulus is another stealth neocon. Screw him. And Clinton ,too.
Our civilization has come to this. We're f**ked. It's all over. Think of the large % of the American population who believed that debate was legit.
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