Colbert mocks Bill Kristol's concern trolling
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Aug 27, 2008 8:15pm
When Stephen wants an unbiased and honest opinion of how Hillary Clinton's speech went over with Democrats on Tuesday in Denver, who better to ask than Bill Kristol, right?
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COLBERT: "Now, of course, to judge convention speeches, I always turn to Bill Kristol. Monday night he said this about Michelle Obama's speech."
KRISTOL: "I thought it was sort of generic."
COLBERT: "And, as for Senator Clinton's praise for Barack Obama, here's how Kriristol described that."
KRISTOL: "Generic. Could have been applied to any other democrat."
COLBERT: What a wordsmith. Kristol's description about Democratic speeches are so.... what's the word? Interchangeable? Non-descript? A kind of cheap knockoff of a brand name product? It'll come to me.
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And how would you describe Bill Kristol? Could it be ... generic?
What a wordsmith. Hard to believe the NYTimes actually hired this neocon hack and expect readers to actually READ his deathless prose.
Stephen Colbert, on the other hand, is wonderful, insightful, hysterical, irreplaceable.
Every news outfit is owned. The news is not the news anymore.
Anais @ 1:
I would prefer to describe him as late. As in 'the late Bill Kristol.'
Nobody takes the Republican sword (and lie machine) and turns it back on them better than Colbert. Genius.
Scum, the generic word that can be used to describe all of the propaganda peddlers who dare to call themselves journalists, IE Bill Kristol.
Did you see McCain's video tonight? I got the message. "Don't be mean to me tonight, Barack. I was nice to you this time."
Luckily, Barack will say screw that. He better hammer McBush hard tonight.
When did we abandon English and start to use phrases like "concern trolling"? What does that even mean?
I wish he'd dig in a little deeper.
When Billy smiles wide like that, for some reason he reminds me of Grandpa Munster.
Hahaha Cindy McCain, who says that she is an only child, has a half sister as they say. And her sister says that shw will be voting for Obama. Haha.
Read about it here
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/cindy-mccains-half-sister-im-voting-for-o...
that's it! that's it! kristol's just like those white cans with the black lettering on them that say "beer" that contain that yellow stuff ...um...i've said enough...
Colbert sounds like he's coming down with something. Hopefully it's not the weaponized HN51 virus released at the Olympics.
Ooops, did I just say that? I guess my national security clearance just went bye bye.
Should not Bill be in Afghanistan.
Ie. Leading the charge.
At least for a photo op.
You know, standing by Karzai, just before a rocket propelled granade
flys overhead.
He can exit quickly via a helicopter .
Has anyone seen Bill in any War Zone?
I think that William the Bloody and Sean Hannity should go on a walking tour of Baghdad to show us the wonderful progress that's been made. Unescorted, of course.
SCHRODINGER'S CAT @ 13:
Exit quickly, pushed out... To-may-to, To-mah-to.
bill kristol wasn't he involved with PNAC?
spot on
Some friends and I were actually at this taping last night and before the taping someone asked Colbert who his worst interview was and he said it was Kristol (that's why there was extra laughing when his name came up on the show). Colbert said he thinks he's a complete tool and his first question was "You were a founding member of the Project For The New American Century. So, how's the century going so far?" And the guy just glared at him.
KRISTOL is synonymous with WRONG. His columns are like reading the daily horoscope: for entertainment purposes only.
The intelligence within his writers circle continues to blow me away.
general billy kristol once led a battalion of g.i. joe dolls in a daring raid on an insurgent neighbor's sand castle, until he was forced to retreat due to heavy enemy cat$#!+.
seriously, why is this bloodthirsty leech still on the loose?!
Dear Mr. Colbert ~
Please feel free to pick on William "the bloody" wanker Kristol any chance you get.
He needs that indecent smirk wiped off his pretty face.
*
Kristol and Brooks were separated at birth. Can all of us be invited to the Inside Edition's coverage of their imminent reunion ? Maybe bill O can host the whole affair. The whole affair promises to be.... generic ?
Sorry, but I grew up in the Twin Cities and they are much more easy to tell apart than Bush and McCain. They're on different sides of the river, for gosh sakes. Ya.
Well, once McCain mumbles his way through the RNC affair he can swap generic with geriatric, hit send and take the day off.
Kristol...
I can see why the people on the right hate the NY Times. With people like Kristol, Brooks, Dowd, and Freidman writing for them you can just feel the liberal bias.
I think Colbert was actually looking for a phrase like "uninformed moron". Way to go NYT. Keep that liberal bias flowing
William Wallace @ 4:
And yet, some people STILL dont see what he's doing.
Which just makes him a super duper genius
Biff Limbaugh @ 16:
see post #18
The word Kristol was looking for in support of McCain was "geriatric".
As if anything the anti-American thug Bill Kristol has to say has any credibility. As an influential PNACer, he needs to be brought up on war crimes charges along with all the other monsters in the Bush regime.
Typical of Colbert, he nails him to the wall. I'd like to see stephen Colbert or Jon stewart as the next presidential press secretary.
McStain @ 2:
Try therealnews dot com
Pete&Pete @ 7:
English, like all living languages, is constantly coining new words and idioms to describe things as Hesse put it "previously unthought". Internet mediated discourse has been a particularly fertile source of such. "Concern trolling" quite nicely describes posts ostensibly disturbed at potentially damage to the subject at hand, but actually pleased. Its use beats having to mine German for schadenfreude.
pluky @ 33:
Well said. Language is constantly changing, whether we like it or not. Some words are simply created, i.e. "astronaut" in the 1950s/60s. Some are old words used in a new way, such as the noun "party," now also being used as a verb. One used to be guilty of SHOWING a person disrespect, now one just "disrespects" a person (ugh.)
The "word" which makes me cringe the most? "Snuck." No such word. "Sneaked" is correct, although I'm sure some dictionaries now include "snuck" because it's firmly entrenched in English. Guess I'll just have to live with it.
“Generic. Could have been applied to any other democrat.”
I.e., an enthusiastic speech full of praise for an intelligent and competent person who fights for justice and equality. Did Kristol really think through what he was actually saying? Thanks, Bill!
For the millionth time I wonder: why does anyone give Kristol airtime? He's an unimaginative idiot. Period.
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