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Stephen Colbert gets it right

Submitted by Ruth on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 21:51
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Watch him call Glenn Beck on his shameless use of 9/11 to build his career: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/22327...

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The 910 Project...

Submitted by IPSecure on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 04:02.

9/10/01

2.3 Trillion Missing From Pentagon.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7904516028875682825

Rumsfeld: "In fact, it could be said that it is a matter of life or death."

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thanks for posting this

Submitted by MMJ Ministry on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 05:38.

i was wondering what Colbert was going to be dressing up as for Halloween, i like it. ;)
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Alot of need to lok back at ourselves,

Submitted by chonk123 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 01:07.

We did'nt always have it comepletely right and most of us have woken up over time and have change the way we spoke and thought. You have to admit having your eyes opened to what is going on is a very emotional time. Give the guy a break. He si not perfect and neither are we. Some of us get a little nutty sometimes too.The things we are facing are very overwhelming. At least he is trying as well as he knows how to wake people up with what is probably a great risk to his career. Take a look at your own past mistakes. We are still sometimes misguided. stop condeming and give him a chance. Judge Napolitano is now on Fox too so maybe there is change. It won't be perfect overnight if ever but it in some ways helping our cause at least for the moment. non of us even agree on everything. At least he is giving some a chance to speak on his show that he doesn't completely agree with. I afraid that many of us have become bitter and unforgiving. sometimes rightly so. But the benifit of the doubt is in order sometimes. Colbert is a comedian and uses sarcasm. You can't always take what he says as how he really even feels.

I'm willing

Submitted by Ruth on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 03:29.

to take Colbert with a grain of salt. He never even came close, however, to accusing Ron Paul supporters of being terrorists, so I'll take Colbert with a grain of salt, and I'll take Beck with a bucket of salt. Oh, and I don't believe for a second Glenn Beck is willing to do or say anything to risk his career. The only reason he ever has Ron Paul on his show is because he knows it will boost his ratings.

I liked

Submitted by Ruth on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 03:17.

Colbert's Ron Paul interview, especially to part at the end when he asked him to raised his hand if he wanted a government agency to be disbanded: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/88505...

Glen has been getting wierder

Submitted by PaulBot on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 00:36.

and weirder. This is a man falling apart. It's not helping the cause when one of the few people sounding the alarm is coming off as a nut job.

I think a guy named blackops called this a few weeks ago. Beck is a plant. I forgot the term he used. Beck is a tool to marginalize the idea that tyranny is on the loose. A wolf in sheeps clothing. You get the picture.

BTW, this vid is hilarious.

I think it was 'Judas Goat'

Submitted by cultivator on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 01:33.

"I think a guy named blackops called this a few weeks ago. Beck is a plant. I forgot the term he used".

this thread - http://www.dailypaul.com/node/86000
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Sad

Submitted by Beau3d on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 23:56.

First of all, the comments made by Beck in 2005 were disgraceful and sad. I agree that he should definitely come out and apologize for it. Once that gets passed around, his 9.12 Project will lose any shred of legitimacy it might have had.

But beyond that, I have to say that I am saddened by all the people laughing in the audience. Because the fact of the matter is this...those people are not prepared for what is coming. They mock now, and they will mourn later.

Will they be laughing when the dollar collapses, they have no job, no home, nothing to eat, and we are thrust into a tyrannical one world government?

God have mercy on them.

I'm happy Glenn Beck is

Submitted by aVoiceof Reason. on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 23:52.

I'm happy Glenn Beck is taking some of these issues more seriously now...

but then he turns around and puts on this drama act... regardless of whether or not he truly means it/feels that way, it makes it hard to take him seriously... Plus, the 9/12 thing is sort of retarded.... That's not exactly a good analogy for freedom or liberty.... and really, the days after 9/11 seemed incredibly shallow to me... just a whole lot of people with no ideas or sense of real direction, basing actions on emotions and having those emotions exploited for the benefit of news stories and political gain.

I'm afraid, that despite his progress, he still comes off slightly hypocritical.

Unfortunately, I don't have any good advice for what he should do differently... it's just easier to be strictly principled, and then you never develop these credibility issues.

Nevertheless, I kind of hate Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart... they're funny and smart, and pros at calling out the media/politicians... but it seems like they're extremely partisan and only go after the "right." Which is fine, they totally deserve it for all their blunders over the last several years... but now they're especially hitting hard when the conservatives are starting to talk like conservatives again. And at the same time, they let the more liberal side go with barely a slap on the wrist. And all the while, they get to hide their partisan propaganda behind being "entertainers" and comedy... but their viewers take them as sources of information, and they know it and exploit it to their advantage. I mean, it honestly would not surprise me if they did favors for Obama by attacking his enemies and critics (just look at the CNBC thing).

Slightly hypocritcal?

Submitted by Ruth on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 03:08.

I'd add a couple of orders of magnitude to that...And I know Stewart and Colbert lean to the left, but both are equal opportunity when it comes to comedy. Consider Stewart's comparison of Obama's inauguration speech to Bush's: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/01/21/jon-st...

Those were a couple of terrible

Submitted by reedr3v on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 23:33.

clips of Beck, he definitely left himself open on those. But it's looking very much as though the left MSM is really trying to take him down, by characterizing him as a wild-eyed fanatic making absurd accusations about our benign government being oppressive. The audience lapped it up as Americans almost always do. laughing all the way to fascism.

this shows the real Beck

Submitted by sambachico on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 22:06.

He needs to apologize for those old comments to the 9/11 victims.

I say we all e-mail him and ask him to make a public statement about that.

If he doesen't, well we all then know he is a real tool attempting to manipulate us, or if he actually apologizes we will know he has actually changed.

The crying seemed like bad acting to me.

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My impression is

Submitted by Calgary4Paul on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 00:09.

he's trying to do what Alex Jones does, but he's not very convincing. He knows who pulls the strings at Fox and when push comes to shove he will turn on us. If the US is ever attacked again he will go back to foaming at the mouth about those who lack the right kind of "patriotism".