Thank Stephen Colbert

let me count the ways.

“Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle,” Colbert says. “Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which information doesn’t mean anything, then there is no objective reality. The first show we did, a year ago, was our thesis statement: What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts. Of course, at the time, we thought we were being farcical.”

I am an Australian who managed to catch your show while I was visiting new york earlier this year. When I got home the bush speech was emailed around all of my friends and family who pissed themselves with laughter, and I was able to brag that I had seen the show. I didn’t understand what you had against bears until I saw the movie ‘Grizzly Man’ the other day. Now I get it. As for paleoliminologists, they are still my friends.

After the clips of Mr. Colbert’s performance were ordered taken down at YouTube — where 41 clips of the speech had been viewed a total of 2.7 million times in less than 48 hours, according to the site — there were rumblings on left-wing sites that someone was trying to silence a man who dared to speak truth to power.

But as became clear later in the week, this was a business decision, not a political one. Not only is the entire event available to be streamed at C-Span’s Web site, http://www.c-span.org, but the network is selling DVD’s of the event for $24.95, including speeches and a comedy routine by President Bush with a President Bush imitator.

colbert left in the dark about his own greatness.

:_(

aren’t more people doing this? :0/

Thanks, misswa, for the link. :-)

”...don’t pay attention to the approval ratings that say that 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he’s not doing? Think about it. I haven’t.”

“I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message: that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound—with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.”

So wonderful, I can’t stop watching it… here’s what we’re talking about:

Link

“I believe in this president. Now, I know there’s some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in ‘reality.’ And reality has a well-known liberal bias.”