Can somebody explain his political views?
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MrAleisterCrowley — 16 years ago(November 05, 2009 01:25 AM)
Very true. His hatred of bears runs very deep. He won't less those furry brown bazztards get away with anything. I am proud of his willingness to take them on and call them out. Nobody else did before him (except O'Reilly)
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bamboopandacat — 16 years ago(September 25, 2009 11:06 AM)
Ya know on the show the day of Obama's innaugeration (how ever that's spelled) he said he was sad, because he's a republican. Then he showed footage of Bush crying at the speech (the shocked look) then he did the same shocked look.
He flashes the red light when his politcal views are stated.
His character sticks up for the right side.
I just assumed he was Republican, but maybe he changed because he also tried to claim he was black. Maybe he's now a black..lol..democrat. ha.
I bet he did that on purpose just because he forsaw this very conversation happen. Like "Hahaha one day people will admit to each other that I really am a black democrat, easily related to the President". -
col_rutherford — 17 years ago(December 14, 2008 10:27 AM)
It's funny that there are so many people who think that Colbert is actually a conservative Republican. I wonder if these same people also think that Spinal Tap is a real band or that Jonathan Swift was seriously proposing that Irish children be sold as food.
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bootnuts — 16 years ago(April 27, 2009 10:35 AM)
Exactly, His whole show is a Bill O'Reilly Parody, if not making fun of all conservative pundits. (not that Im a liberal by any means, it's just that his program is set up strikingly similar to O'Reilly's show)
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lisagirl117 — 16 years ago(September 24, 2009 04:43 PM)
It surely is so amazing that so many conservatives don't get this, but then again, as Stephanie Miller put it, many of them are chronically "irony deficient". I would think, as pointed out, just with " The Word" segments, you would have to also have serious vocabulary problems not to notice which way the dagger is pointed.
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maximummonkeyman — 17 years ago(April 05, 2009 05:18 AM)
I think anyone that fails to understand that his character and himself are mostly seperate has never seen his show. However, it seems to me that he's fairly moderate, in line with most American 'liberals'.
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MyWifeMorganFairchild — 17 years ago(March 14, 2009 03:59 PM)
A good question OP. Although his IMDB profile says he's a leftist (usually refering to Democrats), impo when I watch The Colbert Report, it seems he's always saying something negative about President Obama though while Bush was in office, Colbert was always holding Bush to a high standard. Maybe people are right in saying that on TV, Stephen is protraying himself as a Conservative Republican and also mocking the real Co.Republicans at the same time. I don't know if this is true or not. But I have a slight theory. Do you remember hearing about Stephen Colbert being asked to speak at some grand dinner being held at the White House by then President Bush and first lady Laura? Colbert accepted the invite and went and from what I remember people enjoyed it for the most part. Though I can't remember if he ever did any Bush bashing or if he kept it clean. Now, I think that if Colbert were a true anti-Bush person, he probably would have declined. Besides, do you think he would have been invited had he been known prior to bein1354g a Demo and critizing Bush? My guess is no, he wouldn't have. If they wanted someone who was funny, they should have gone with John Steward, clearly the funnier of the two. But they didn't because of how much Steward depises Bush. Colbert on the other hand was the safe bet. So he was chosen. That being said, I think that Colbert is a republican not a democrat.
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hubbhome — 17 years ago(March 19, 2009 07:38 PM)
He spoke at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and was not the safe bet. He stuck it into Bush, twisted and lifted. You can probably find it on YouTube still:
"So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 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."
"The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will."
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juviejay — 16 years ago(April 15, 2009 03:02 AM)
Yeah, Colbert slammed Bush. I loved that, by the way. My favorite part was when he was talking about the 32% of Americans that still supported Bush and he said something like, "Some people will look at that and say the glass is half empty. But it isn't. It's two thirds empty. My point is there is still some liquid in that glass. But I wouldn't drink it because it's mostly backwash."
What a great slam. Nailed Bush and back handed all of his misguided supporters.
People tend to want to box Colbert and and Stewart (with a t) into political camps, but I think they are both more complex than that, as are most Americans. When they criticized Bush or Cheney, I think they are doing just thatcriticizing Bush or Cheney. It doesn't mean they hate all republicans, or that they even disagree with all republicans. They just have a dispute with some of them on certain issues.
How can conservatives not have problems with our president lying to us, getting 4,000 of our soldiers needlessly killed, running up a huge deficit, and not even getting the guy responsible for attacking us? If a democrat had done the same thing he'd have been filleted by the conservative pundits. But, since Bush was a republican, they all held ranks and supported him. This is the kind of ridiculous partisanship that, I believe, so irks Colbert and Stewart. And it is why they consistently ridiculed the former administration and its supporters.
She's very coolbut there is a definite intensity about her.
