Colbert: Where has the "real" McCain gone?
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Oct 15, 2008 1:10pm
A lot of people are wondering where the "old John McCain" went? Stephen goes looking.
Colbert: Now, many Americans are feeling confused about the Senator, because earlier in the campaign John McCain made promises like this.
McCain: "I pledged at that time and I pledge again a respectful campaign, a respectful campaign based on this issues. People say, 'well, negative ads move numbers.' Well, they may, but do we have to go to the lowest common denominator?"
Colbert: No, we don't. McCain's ads prove we can stay below it. So what has happened to John McCain. I think I may have the answer...
Senator Obama should cut an ad juxtaposing McCain's previous promises of positive campaigning with the disgusting sleaze we're seeing today. We ought to shame him for becoming the very same despicable pol he's always denounced.
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Since the new site began, non of the video posts have worked for me. Hopefully this will change soon because you guys know how I heart Colbert.
You can see the whole show at the colbert report website.
Somewhere in "the village"...
McCain: I am not a number, I am a free man!
No. 2: You are number 6. I am number 2.
McCain: Who is number 1?
Rovers have no affect on him due to his leathery old man flesh.
This is who John McCain was all along. He was just able to hide it better when he was younger.
Now he's just letting it all hang out. He's being himself.
Old, Angry, Bitter, Spoiled, 5 time plane crashing McCain is showing his true face.
Ugly, isn't it?
Right on!
The "old John McCain" is as equally mythical as his "American Hero" moniker(yeah, it's nothing but a fucking moniker). Grandpa has been revealed in this campaign for what he is...an angry, sneaky, manipulative, solutionless, non-intellectual, tired ass Republican bullshit artist.
Prisoner Of W.
Spot on too.
Tonight is huge. Barack can seal the deal.
Dow down 758.88 (tentative at the NYSE bell, final tally still pending).
This helps Obama tonight, if perversely. McCain won't be able to crow about how the market is coming back because of his "economic leadership" proposals.
I had to download it but I got to see it. Prisoner of W should become a common phrase from now on.
It's not John's fault. He's been pushed around by the RNC and battered into a gelatinous pulp by the Rovians. I'm just looking forward to November 5th, when this tired old horse can finally be put to pasture.
The real hard part is stopping all the violent rhetoric that this campaign has spawned. Mobs of angry bigots will likely take every opportunity to make assassination attempts on President Obama. John McCain will have to spend the rest of his career denouncing all the shit done in his name.
Is he a child that doesn't even know the difference between right and wrong? Pushed around? That makes him sound weak. If he can't stand up to the Rovians, how is he supposed to stand up to the terrorists?
The rest of his career? All 30 seconds of it? He is toast and he brought it onto himself.
is right in front of our eyes and ears. A man(?) so desperate for more power He sold what soul He had left. Pathetic and a lesson for years to come.(I Hope)
ask steve Schmidt. Republican strategist. personally i don't think mccain is having much fun. the scars
from 2000 are a recent memory.
Don't ask me. The last time I saw him he was wandering around the stage at the debate.
"Where's my precious?"
"Mr. Puddles, Mr. Puddles".
Will McCain be allowed to repeat the false statement that Senator Lieberman has pushed and promoted that the Iranian President said "Israel will be wiped off the map"
Professor Juan Cole has debunked that statement. Why do these moderators allow McCain and Palin to repeat these dangerous and inflammatory lies?
Here is Professor Juan Cole
http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/hitchens-hack...
"But the actual quote, which comes from an old speech of Khomeini, does not imply military action, or killing anyone at all. The second reason is that it is just an inexact translation. The phrase is almost metaphysical. He quoted Khomeini that "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time." It is in fact probably a reference to some phrase in a medieval Persian poem. It is not about tanks."
The talking heads on tv don't know as much as they want you to think they know. I doubt any one of them even knows about Prof. Cole.
We need to keep calling them out on it anyway. I talked with Chris Matthews about this and Juan Cole, Scott Ritter etc. Diane Rehm has had Juan Cole and Diane has just recently challenged this statement (some of us have hammered her so much) and I respect her for allowing our opinions and information to get through.
Someone should call into C-span before the debate and hammer this one in. Challenge them
POP (pissed off Patricia) still quoting your "when Sarah speaks we all feel smarter" People love it
Colbert is just getting lamer and lamer.
I'll be glad when he is finally considered yesterday's news.
I'm sure He won't miss You. NOW. Is that spelled 'canuk' OR 'canook'? I'm confused.
Colbert is freaking brilliant and that was hilarious. He and his writing team are simply the best.
Hey - if you think Colbert is hilarious, that's terrific.
I support your right to say so.
So how about supporting my right to say that I think he's getting old without you responding by attacking me?
Or maybe that's the new American Way?
Really? I think he just keeps getting better. At first, the schtick was a little hard to decipher, but he's honed that fake republican pundit character to a knife's edge. It's some of the best political satire I've ever seen. It consistently makes SNL and even the onion look amateurish. It is more controlled and of a higher quality and intelligence than the Daily Show.
Best thing on television. Hands down.
Thanks for a reasoned response, at least.
I disagree, obviously, with your conclusion - but at least you didn't resort to republican style name calling.
I think Stewart's style is more substantial than one that relies on satire and mocking O'Reily constantly.
As an example, Stewart's comparison of McCain's new speech with the one he gave at the Republican convention was pure gold.
He can do these kind of things without depending on phony "character" acting. He is more believable and more intelligent - and that's why he will last much longer than Colbert.
And Now McCain's Even Gone ‘Willie Horton’ on the Economic Crisis
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3311
The fellow prisoners comment was an "unfortunate slip".... in the same way that loose lips like sink ships. McCain almost came out and told us what the neocon's/Goper's plan for the average American citizen is after they
complete their take over of the American governmentwin the election. I'm sure McCain was waterboarded and severely beaten for that little indiscretion.If McCain had run his campaign above board instead of using Karl Rove's ugly and pathetic strategy he would be much further ahead in this race.
Will Schieffer let him get away with repeating the lie that the Iranian President said "wipe Israel off the map"?
According to Professor Juan Cole and others who speak Persian this is what the Iranian President said
“the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time.”
He did not say
“Israel should be wiped off the map”.
Will Bob Schieffer allow the Iraq and Iran warmongers false interpretation of what the Iranian President said to be repeated for the hundredth time (or more) over the last three years?
the correct quote is 'the Zionest occupation.....etc.'
is the one who called his rich, younger, mobbed-up wife a '****' and a 'trollop' and tried to peddle her for biker votes at Sturgess (I reckon he thought she could pull the train)...
The one who fled his airplane on the deck of the Forrestal and ran for cover leaving his buddy to die...then later lied about the incident...
The one who made propaganda videos for the people who still calls "gooks," and then later lied about it...
No there's no mistake. The "real" McCain is a vile, venal, cowardly, chickenshit asshole...
Does McSame really think he can go through yet another horrific crash and just walk away??? He'll live on in infamy either way.
for the GOP, McCain and Palin are simply useful throw-away candidates.
Useful in that the hate they stir up will endure long after their defeat.
I suspect the GOP is betting Obama will get just one term, given the losing hand he'll be dealt, and suspect the GOP leaders think they'll regain the WH in 2012.
I'm not so sure that they will be able to defeat him as an incumbent. But the GOP has always been very prideful and too sure of themselves. My in-laws won't vote for him because "there's something about him" they don't like. Nor will they vote for McCain anymore cause he's part of the problem that caused all this mess. My (very republican almost libertarian) SO is planning on writing in Ross Perot. I'm all for him throwing away his vote.
But anywhoo . .. I'm of two minds what will happen to Obama. I'm pretty sure now he will win but since the last debate the similarities between this campaign and that of JFK/Nixon (1959/60) is kind of scary. So I'm wondering if history will completely repeat itself. You could make a case of the similarity of the anger over a possible black president and that of a catholic president. There are too many angry people out there.
But right now a lot of those angry people are focusing their anger on Washington in general. At this point they may well be willing to give Obama a chance. Let's hope so.
Like they gave the Clintons a chance? Unless we can get the scummies like O'Reilly, Limbaugh, and Savage off the air he won't get a real chance. Even if he (and what's looking like a veto proof democratic congress) do everything we could hope for, they will still be rousing up the rabble to do and say bad things.
But I like your optimism and will try to believe that things will be okay and we'll go back to our almost-utopian society. :)
he pissed off so many people, but because he pissed off, by challenging, some very dangerous people in positions of great power.
I think Obama knows not to do that.
was assasinated for trying to kill Castro. Kennedy failed-The Cubans got Him. Plain and simple. Concidering what has transpired,it's a streach to believe the same fate will be wrought on Obama. Once He IS the president,of course.
that's what they are betting. Feel lucky?.... Concidering how short a time it took W to fuck everything up,it might take Obama one term to fix it.
I would say, this IS the real John McCain... At 72, this is all he amounts to... A shallow shell of a pandering pol looking to do litterly anything including recycling his own old and worn out strategies that didn't even work the first time.. (as if his handlers think noone has a memory...) All to try and regenerate this waste of everyones time and energy to grab the one brass ring he's always apparently lusted after... The sad truth is he was probably always like this... Given a real look at his complete track record from lo-rent naval academy grad to weakass bomber pilot, to skirt chasing phony top gun behavior while overseas to shitcanning his first family to marry into money after his all too beat into the ground P.O.W. experience....(have you heard? He was a P.O.W... alert the media...) to all the rest of it. Smoke and mirrors and oportunistic behavior looking to enrich himself one way or another as a senator...That's his whole freakin career if one just looks objectively at it.. Not that a majority of all pols ain't the same to one extent or another... But he's the one trying to sell the meme that at 72 he's the real deal to save the country and trying to use his past history to make the sale... If he had been a woman with a wink and pretty dress and this kind of track record?? The only term anyone would use to describe him is golddigger... That's what he is, that's what he's always been... THAT is what WE DON'T NEED as a president of this nation...... In short, he's just a pathetic old man who is neither qualified on the merits nor deserving on his own terms to be the leader of this country.......evaluate and vote accordingly.......JD
Haven’t heard a word from all the assorted mad doctors of the GOP, not hide nor hair, and it makes me apprehensive, yeah, uneasiness erupts from the very crux of that black abysmal abdominal pit within the dilapidated firmament that contains the loose ends of my scuffed shattered soul, that certain nuns, “lay” people, and Palin supporters warned me in semi-serious tones is the birth place of Satan (or satin, if you’re a buck-toothed inbred mega-ditto-head Repug from above/below the rust belt) and all his foul minions (or fowl, if you’re, you know…), which took interminable residence the day I told Sister Ann Daniel to go fuck herself (Gosh, I hope she took my advice, and perhaps had somebody snap some Polaroids). I suppose they all want to just throw in the existential towel amidst the constant carping criticism and half-baked orders of your fearless and clueless leaders, and in one last desperate act of Seppuku, screaming insolent maxims against all the absurd and pointless social “issues” that nobody gives a shit about, self-inject yourself into the nearest gaping earsplitting maw of any local shredder, making sure that you finished the last of the Old Style before making such a hasty decision.
Could it be that youse pinheads believe that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society that has led people into war and reality shows, has obviously failed like everything else, and with that failure, an explosive epiphany of retrograde angst and ire has been directed at the very values you foisted upon the unsuspecting, in turn, causing you to depict, keyboard in arthritic hand, all that is absurd, stupid, and ultimately flawed, rejecting any even mere pretense of morals or ethical values in pursuit of “Country First”, or, more correctly, “Country Fisted”. Or, as some would stipulate, an expressed rejection of that ideology in a deeply personal expression that appears to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality. A protest "against this world of terrorist boogeymen", all with proper punctuation and big words that are hard to spell.
With these days consisting of mind-deadening 24-7 news cycles and instant microwavable dick filled breakfast tarts with 11 different flavors of pink cheese flavored shit, it’s certainly refreshing to behold something, historically referred to as the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of GOP sub-humans (reality shows aside). An insane spectacle of collective homicide, but with nice pretty colors? A perfect anathema to Thomas Kincade and his kaleidoscopic abortions? I would like to see in the future, when historians sing a silly song, excuse me, your praises, that I knew you as a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the post-Bush economic morass and moral crisis, a monster with no head, which would lay waste to everything in its path. A systematic crusade of destruction and demoralization...In the end nothing but a loving act of sacrilege.
Don't ask what happened to the old Mccain, this is the old McCain. in more ways than one. The media loved McCain because he was always good for a soundbite. They love him today because he seems ready to break at any moment and they need to be there when it happens. He could blow at any time but reality is rarely that entertaining he'll most likely fade off into the dust much like Bob Dole did.
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who waged the worst campaign for president ever. Until now.
Chalk up New Hampshire for Obama now that Sarah Palin said they are part of the Northwest!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1hN6DFQyDs
Crowd is silent as somebody shouts out "northeast!" Bwahahahahaha!
She wouldn't dare come to the Northwest. We're pretty true bloo out here. But having been raised a Nor'Easter that probably didn't go over well either. What a scream.
and we could swear we smelled pig all day.
Just wow. Best laugh I've had all day. But,I'mm saving my giggling and guffaws for tonight.
I don't know where Palin was today but I just saw a clip of her standing on what appeared to be some small outdoor stage and she was holding her baby in her arm while she was speaking. God, she uses that little child like a fu*king stage prop.
The evil Senator played by Martin Sheen held a baby up as a shield when he was being shot at by Christopher Walken. That ended his career.
Hopefully, the Alaskan Amway Amazon will have hers ended soon.
She used her 6 year old as a shield when she dropped the hockey puck and was angry that people booed her child. All her kids are stage props. I wonder if it's sort of a dare to get people to try to say that she shouldn't be abandoning her kids for her career. Like she's trying to pick a very particular fight - one she knows she can win.
'It's not what she believes that bothers me. It's what she knows to be true that just ain't so.'
that it's only a doll and not a real baby. But,concidering the sourse,i doubt it.Shameful.
but it seems like a doll because it never moves or opens it's eyes. Have they drugged it?
Debate practice from the American Prospect. Pretty funny.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_...
Enjoy!
That was almost scary. You can compare that to today's election. Penguin even says "my friends" and "who is he" just like McCain :-D
You are seeing the real McCain....just check his history, now it is just being amplified!
At the end of the Colbert Report episode, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz claimed that contractors were being paid to ship sand to Iraq from Kuwait. Does anyone have more details on this one?
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