Colbert's Opening Statement

hedave

I love this guy - maybe more than Stewart now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1T75jBYeCs

DeLukin

Haha. Awesome. "Maybe this Ag Jobs bill would help. I don't know - like most members of congress, I haven't read it...". Good stuff.

gabers

Love it. Only Colbert could make a report on immigrant labor this funny. Too bad Fox News couldn't catch the actual valid points he made instead of tossing it aside with indignation. But then people don't really watch Fox News for actual news, right?

cajunkiwi

It's funny to hear the people who brought Elmo in to talk about education saying the Dems don't take this seriously because they brought in Colbert

Jason P

Fucking awesome!

kenny olav

It seems like you can divide the world into two groups: those who get Stephen Colbert's humor and the seriousness behind it, and those who have a poor sense of humor and are way too serious about the wrong things.

Cosmo

To read the entire transcript, go here:
http://bluewavenews.com/blog/2010/09/24 ... ranscript/

Also, the most poignant comment was when he was asked questions from the Congressional panel...
REP. CHU: "Mr. Colbert, you could work on so many issues. Why are you interested in this issue?"

COLBERT: [Takes a pause of two or three beats to think before answering, dropping character]
"I like talking about people who don’t have any power, and it seems like one of the least powerful people in the United States are migrant workers who come in and do our work, but don’t have any rights as a result. And yet, we still ask them to come here, and at the same time, ask them to leave. And that’s an interesting contradiction to me, and um… You know, “whatsoever you did for the least of my brothers,” and these seemed like the least of my brothers, right now. A lot of people are “least brothers” right now, with the economy so hard, and I don’t want to take anyone’s hardship away from them or diminish it or anything like that. But migrant workers suffer, and have no rights."
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Colbert uses comedy, satire and irony to point out truths that we rarely get to see on the Lindsey Lohan: Top Story joke news broadcasts that defines American Journalism today.