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Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC Releases Its First Campaign Video: Episode IV: A New Hope

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Earlier this year Stephen Colbert successfully filed to create his own SuperPAC, with the stunning and wonderful tagline “citizens for a better tomorrow, tomorrow.” Colbert celebrated the decision by first raising money (via his very own credit card swipe), and now has taken the next step in his SuperPAC: producing his own television advertisement in advance of the Ames Iowa straw poll!

Earlier this week Colbert had teased the coming spot, revealing that he had called dibs on supporting Texas Governor Rick Perry in advance of what many are expecting will be his run for the White House. But in a delightfully comedic twist — and potential show of protest amongst the straw poll participants — Colbert’s SuperPAC advertisement is asking participants to write-in as a candidate “Rick Parry” with an “a.”

Given that the vast majority of straw poll participants are not devoted fans of Stephen Colbert’s this write-in prank is likely to produce little news. Still, a funny concept and funnier video. Watch below (followed by the press release):

AMERICA – Colbert Super PAC released a TV ad today in advance of the Quadrennial Ames Iowa Straw Poll – held this year in Ames, Iowa. The ad, entitled “Episode IV: A New Hope” urges Iowans to write in the name of Texas Governor Rick Parry.

Thanks to last year’s Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United, Super PACs can receive and spend unlimited amounts of money – as long as they do not coordinate with a particular candidate. Because that would be wrong. Also, illegal. Currently, there are seven different Super PACs vying to become the primary recipient of that sweet unlimited Parry cash.

“I called dibs on Rick Parry a long time ago,” said Stephen Colbert, President and Assistant Equipment Manager for Colbert Super PAC. “I recognized that he’s got the tough talk, the cowboy boots, and the history-of-shooting-coyotes-during-morning-jogs that our country needs. So if anybody is going to be taking unlimited donations and then not be coordinating with his campaign, it’s going to be not us. So to prove we’re truly uncoordinated, we’re asking voters to write in Parry with an A – as in America, IowA, or PresidAnt. You can feel confident he’s not asking us to do that.”

The new ad begins airing today across the greater Des Moines metroplex. It is the first in a series that will be broadcast in the months leading up to the Ames Straw Poll this Saturday. The ad can be experienced here www.colbertsuperpac.com/episodeiv-anewhope.

Colbert Super PAC is an independent expenditure-only committee dedicated to empowering citizens to embrace freedom, liberty, and freeberty. Colbert Super PAC is officially known as Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but if you give them enough money you can call them whatever you want. Neil. Susan. Madame X. Whatever. Just don’t forget your safe word: Pumpkin patch.

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  • Carl Emmoth

    Who is rick parry??

  • http://twitter.com/LippyBroad lippybroad

    What is a Stephen Colbert?

  • fielding mellish

    Stephen Colbert is the comic genius who is going to make a mockery of the 2012 campaign (not that the republican candidates need any help).

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Nice phony logos for growpac and jobs for iowa Colbert… if this is a real commercial, which it has to be, then can Colbert just blatantly lie and get away with it?

    growpac doesnt have a pot leaf in their logo, nor does “Jobs for Iowa” have Obama’s ‘O’ logo in their name. lol.

    Colbert is smart though- he realizes that Perry is the real man to beat in the republican race. He is the only guy with a chance to unite factioned conservatives, and will be an extremely formidable opponent.

    This is just the beginning of the soon-to-be non stop liberal assault on the man- eventually the dumber of the liberal pundits (I’m looking at you, Chris Matthews!) will pile on when they realize just how dangerous Perry will be to Obama.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    I wonder if IowaGOP took a position on the Lisa Murkowski spelling controversy.

    ETA: My instinct is that the ad didn’t need any Viacom support, but it looks like a good first test.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Tollbooth Perry a real man? Hah-Hah! You’ve never met him, have you? Never seem prance into a room all dandified, have you? Never read anything about him? Real man? Hah-Hah!

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Its called irony, get a sense of humor. What do you expect from a comedian? It really is not an attack on republican candidates at all, it is a satirical take on the entire election process

  • Limpbaals

    A true Renaissance man who has not only mastered his art, but transcended the metaphysical barriers of the medium to impart true beauty and an uncanny understanding of the prurient issues of the day on any who would dare watch. He carefully slides his brush(aka the mouth) over the canvas(aka lens + light capture thingy, aka the camera) and lays out a Masterpiece that takes on the darkness of the hour and forces the viewer to deal with it and the utter hypocrisy of men, all while stunning them with the cleverness, beauty, symmetry and outright humor of his words and the raw emotion behind them.

    With wordplay equal to Shakespeare, Colbert’s impressive repertoire and range of emotions displayed touches on something truly beautiful and divine in us all and leaves a devious satisfaction on the synapses while putting the ugliness of man front and center. Colbert finds beauty in ugliness, and this takes an extraordinary person. Jon Stewart is a skilled Satirist, but Colbert is an Artiste, with all the flourishes, inflections and inspired beauty from the Greatest of the Greats.

  • Anonymous

    Comedian and mega-fundraiser for progressives. No hiding behind the comedian label anymore. Love Colbert, but I see the flawed logic in his shtick. That was the joke for me, watching how he manipulates liberals with trickery. Now it’s dangerous shtick. Sorry Stephen, the gloves are coming off. Progressives out 2012

  • Anonymous

    This is a symptom of a free-market election process. Some will see it as an amusingly disturbing social experiment that shows how easy to create a relatively unaccountable electioneering group, and others will think it’s a farce of democracy. I’ll go with the former.

    Substantively speaking, yeah, Perry’s a contender for the GOP ticket. He’ll have to reconcile his anti-Washington, secessionist-light rhetoric with his political aspirations. After all, how more establishment can you get than an undefeated career in politics and a all-but-confirmed run for President of the United States.

    He’ll also have to address the fact most of the jobs that Texas has cultivated in recent years aren’t new jobs, but jobs taken from other states by promoting lax tax incentives that helped Texas have the largest budget shortfall in the country. Also that the Texas budget was only balanced by accounting tricks like delaying of debt repayments and massive education cuts, which likely won’t be addressed again until 2013 when the state legislature reconvenes–long after the 2012 election.

    It’s easy to ignore the smokes and mirrors from the nosebleed seats. Having lived front and center through most of Perry’s tenure, though, even Perry’s going to have a tough record to defend if he actually runs on it. As will Obama, obviously.

  • Anonymous

    As a proud member of Americans for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow I must say I’m misty-eyed … this ad is just that beautiful!

  • Anonymous

    I knew I was going to love this PAC.

  • Anonymous

    The best part …. that P(A) rry with an A.  Just too funny!

  • Anonymous

    If Stephen would like to waste his own money on this schtick, by all means go ahead and do so. However, he will have no skin in the game when he talks about Repubs disagreeing with taxing the “rich” because instead of giving this money to charity and back to the government, he squandered it.

    The hypocrisy jokes just write themselves.

  • Tigerprez

    And with this Colbert’s transformation from comedian to liberal activist is complete. Too bad for him, these videos won’t be seen as being any different from the normal run-of-the-mill Democrat attack ads and will be taken by Republicans as more evidence that the media is devoted to ridiculing conservatives. Nice try, though.

  • Anonymous

    Well, technically, the money is going right back into the economy to the vendors and staff who helped make and distribute the political ad, as opposed to staying in a private bank account.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not his money.  It is money donated specifically to his political Super-PAC, Citizens For A Better Tomorrow Tomorrow. The purpose of the PAC is to get involved in political ads during this election cycle. The money can only be legally used for that purpose.

  • Anonymous

    Stephen ernie’s love interest. Ernie’s real name is Leibowitz.

  • Anonymous

    Show me the books…

    And you are all for republican PAC’s or are they evil, corporate, money grubbers?

  • Anonymous

    Anyone but o’carter 2 POINT ZERO.

  • Anonymous

    He wasn’t shilling for any Democratic candidate, nor did he mention any actual competition to Perry. And he actually gave Perry more face time. I’m surprised that anyone would threatened by an ad that misspells Perry’s name.

    More importantly, to what purpose or end do you think actually Colbert was manipulating liberals?

  • Anonymous

    Why do you keep following me around and asking me questions if you keep telling me I bore you?  Seems rather masochistic to me.

  • Anonymous

    That’s silly.

  • Anonymous

    Whoa, there. No need to be anti-Semitic.

  • Anonymous

    As are you… silly. Liberal.
    And the silly recall elections…

  • Anonymous

    That’s silly.

  • Anonymous

    Wait a minute, there liberal. What is his real name? How is calling Leibowitz by his real name anti-Semitic? Is calling B. Hussein O’bama anti-muslim and anti-Irish?

    You are the warped liberal judging folks by their name or color.

    Good job condoning the “love interest” between them. Loser.

  • Anonymous

    Rick Perry would make a wonderful president and leftist activist Stephan Colbert is going to screw himself if he’s not careful and get Perry elected.  Wouldn’t that be rich?

  • Anonymous

    Rick Parry is the next target of the left and the Rules for Radicals:

    Rule 1: Power is not only what you have,
    but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your
    numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many
    more people than you do.

    Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

    Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent.
    Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

    Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill
    them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian
    church can live up to Christianity.”

    Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack
    ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your
    advantage.

    Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t
    having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

    Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment
    may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

    Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use
    all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is
    the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the
    opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your
    advantage.”

    Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When
    Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the
    washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago
    city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto
    organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off
    airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international
    embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

    Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
    Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what
    would you do?”

    Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t
    try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible
    individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

    According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into
    reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your
    major strength.”

    Just like obama does.

     

     

     

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    He’s the real man to beat in the race.

    Dont take my word for it:

    intrade.com

    The market always speaks the truth, you f’ing jackass.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    I’d take Perry’s record over Obama’s anyday.

    No one has a tougher record to defend than Obama.

  • Anonymous

    The only people that hold onto money are businesses and people that fear for the future. Everyone else spends it. Nice spin though on this SuperPac.

    Having worked in politics myself, you don’t employ many folks on a project. Jusy saying.

  • Moosenuts99

    TOTALLY EVIL: why else would Colbert be making a mockery of it?

    You guys should really inform yourselves on this stuff before you try and comment.

  • Anonymous

    The article said that he contributed his own money.

    I feel sorry for people that get suckered into donating to this PAC.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Where is Citizens for a better tomorrow, tomorrow headquartered, Jonestown?

    My advice: Try the grape Kool-aid. Its the best flavor.

  • Moosenuts99

    Hmmmmm.

    Texas:
    5th highest poverty rate
    RAnks 43/50 in HS graduation rate
    46th in teen pregnancy
    47th in LITERACY
    50th in percentage of uninsured
    50th money spent per capita
    http://www.chicagonow.com/politics-in-dupage-county/2011/06/rick-perry-and-texas-real-economic-advantage/

    SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE!!! BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • Moosenuts99

    Colbert is the media? BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhaha

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Limpbaals is anything but limp for Colbert…

    Just dont forget to wipe down the keyboard this time after you’ve finished. Last time you left a post like this your caps lock was stuck for weeks.

  • Anonymous

    Why?  This ad is brilliant and serves an excellent purpose as far as I’m concerned.

  • Anonymous

    I think I’ll pass on your advise, thanks.  Colbert Super-PAC will make this election cycle interesting, informative and a lot of fun.

  • Anonymous

    You mean Parry, don’t you?  lol

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Next time you want to link to something, dont make it an opinion column, ok, moosenuts?

    People are flocking to live in Texas in droves, which kinda invalidates your point doesn’t it?

    How can you explain the growth if its so horrible to live there?

    As Bill Clinton knew, Its the economy, stupid!

    You conveniently left out any economic statistics that didnt support your premise. You can cherry pick all the stats you want, but the reality is that Texas is thriving.

    But its not just the economy, but also the culture of freedom for businesses that is making Texas the fastest growing state:

    http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/texas-leads-us-in-high-growth-cities.html

    http://govpro.com/news/census-population-growth-20110104/

    http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20110217-population-growth-surging-around-dallas-other-texas-cities-census-figures-show.ece

    Again, lets stack Obama’s record against Perry’s. I’ll have that fight anyday.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what happens when liberals let their dick skinners to the talking while drinking. You get Francois, the admitted limpballer, and the typing douchebag. Anything he said make sense?

    Leibowitz is only skilled as a satirist by abandoning his real name. Coal-Bert is an artiste in the Catholic form. He hates Jesus. The art-testicle is on this site, you liberal whacko’s.

    For someone with limpballs, dude sure sucks like a lady…

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Actually its not called irony if its a real election ad. It ceases being ironic or a ‘parody’ the minute this PAC became real.

    And as a real ad, you cant do things like make fake logos for other PACs. I actually plan on filing a complaint with the FEC about this.

    its really easy to do:

    http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/complain.shtml

    and if Colbert gets busted on this stunt? Now THAT would be the funniest moment in Colbert history.

  • Anonymous

    What it will do is give Iowans some comic relief from the constant “real” political ads they have to suffer through.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Its “Parry” vs “Oba-mao” in 2012.

    Romney wont get the nomination because he cant unite conservatives.

    You can get “Parry” at around 8 to 1 to win the presidency on intrade, 3 to 1 to win the nom.

    Killer odds…the great thing about intrade is you can sell at any time- its not like a bet, per say.

    But if you dont agree, please drive his price down lower by betting against him so I can get him even cheaper.

    thanks!

  • Anonymous

    moosenuts is a liberal turd. When it loses, as usual, it will call you names… And add that whole laugh-tard thing…
    Note the lack of Wisconsin facts.

  • Anonymous

    The left is nowhere near as partisan as you seem to think.  Colbert makes fun of Obama all the time.  Only the right bought into the Obama as Messiah routine they tried to lay on the left.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    That Casey anthony got a lot of “face time” too.

    Using your logic, her trial must have been great for her!

  • Anonymous

    Umm, he wasn’t making fun of any republican PACs you brown-eye-hole liberal loser. READ THE POST.

  • Anonymous

    Masochistic? Like the shit you were talking about Wisconsin? Where are those balls now you masochistic liberal retard? Now you are the “victim” of the “man” holding you to your cocky liberal bull shit posts about the TEA Party being defeated. You still have not posted the election results, douchebag. But you still run your vinegar scented mouth.

  • Anonymous

    I smell vinegar, douchebag.

  • Anonymous

    Or advice even.

    I crack up at people like you that think that folks like Colbert offer anything informative, interesting and a lot of fun.

    For comedy, I’ll stick to The Big Bang Theory.

  • Anonymous

    The majority of politicians associated with these regions are Democrats.

    1) Camden, NJ

    Governors Democrat since 2002Senators Democrat since 1959 except 8 months in 1982US Representative Democrat since 1975CamdenState Senator DemocratHouse DemocratsMayors Dem since 1969
    2)St. Louis, MO

    Governors Democrats 1993-2005    2009US Senator Democrat since 2006US House Dem since 1949State Senator DemocratState House DemocratsMayors Democrats since 1949
    3) Oakland, CA

    Governator RepublicanUS Senators Democrats since 1969US House Democrats since 1949State senate Democrats since 1962State House Democrats since 1967Mayors Democrats since 1977
    4) Detroit, MI

    Governors Democrats since 2003US Senators Democrats since 1979US House Democrats since 1933State Senator DemocratsState House DemocratsMayors Democrats since 1962
    5) Flint, MI

    Governors Democrats since 2003US Senators Democrats 1959-1995 and since 2001US House Democrats since 1973State Senator DemocratsState House DemocratsMayors Democrats since 1975
    6) New Orleans, LA

    Governor RepublicanUS Senators Democrats since 1897US House Democrats since before 1910State Senator DemocratsState House DemocratsMayors Democrats since 1872
    7) Birmingham, AL

    Governor RepublicanUS Senator Democrat/Republican (flip/flop)US House RepublicanState Senator DemocratState Representative RepublicanMayors Democrats since 1975
    8) Cleveland, OH

    Governor DemocratUS Senator RepublicanUS House DemocratState Senator DemocratState Representative DemocratMayors Democrats since 1990
    9) Jackson, MS

    Governor RepublicanUS Senator RepublicanUS House DemocratState Senator DemocratState Representative DemocratMayors Democrats since at least 1949
    10) Memphis, TN

    Governor DemocratUS Senator RepublicanUS House DemocratState Senator RepublicanState Representative DemocratMayors Democrats since 1991
    Then there is our own little slice of Heaven, Youngstown, Ohio,
    who did not make the list due to a loss of population, but consistently
    places in the top 20.

    Governor DemocratUS Senator DemocratUS House DemocratState Senator DemocratState Representative DemocratMayors Democrats since 1978
    In contrast, the cities with the least crime, and the better
    places to live, are those with a Conservative majority and family
    values. A much higher percentage of married parents, working people and a
    higher priority placed on education.

    Democrats and the left have degraded the values and morals our
    country was founded on, through abortion and welfare oppression, gay
    “parents”, their crusade against GOD and the rest of their socialist
    agenda.

    Now they have control of the country. Anyone not brainwashed by the
    mainstream media and their Democrat puppeteers can see the destruction
    they are intent on provoking.
    Continue reading on Examiner.com Democrat strongholds rank as worst places to live – Youngstown Trumbull County Conservative | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/trumbull-county-conservative-in-youngstown/democrat-strongholds-rank-as-worst-places-to-live#ixzz1UfpjvLdJ

  • Anonymous

    Any person that donates to his SuperPAC deserves to lose money in the stock market.

  • Anonymous

    People in IA live in IA politically because they live for political ads and politics in general.

    Seriously, stop talking about political matters. You make yourself look silly.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Criticizing Obama for not being liberal enough is not the same as ridiculing him. Sorry.

    I watch every Colbert/Stewart episode so you might want to try your logic on someone else who doesn’t know better.

  • Rob

    filthy conservative

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    The best part about the soon to be President Perry is how it will make every liberal think they are having a bad acid flashback.

    He sounds and looks like Bush and is the governor of Texas! What year is this??

    HAHA just dont tell any liberals that they are actually rivals as opposed to friends. That would ruin their nightmare.

  • Anonymous

    Really?  They live for seeing the same ads repeated over and over during every commercial break day in day out week after week?  They’re really that different in Iowa, are they?   LOL

  • Anonymous

    Nice thoughts for your fellow man, I see.

  • Anonymous

    Lovely.

  • Tennisballz2000

    what’s a “rule”?

  • Tennisballz2000

    You spelled Obama wrong.

  • Tennisballz2000

    Casey Anthony is running for president?

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Correction: Stephen Colbert is going to make a mockery of the REPUBLICAN 2012 campaign.

     

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Yes and the joke’s on you for getting your news from him.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Iowans take themselves and their role in politics pretty seriously.

    Colbert’s ad has the potential to backfire if they think it makes mockery of their straw poll.

    Prodding the public to place phony votes? This is shaky comedic ground he could be on.

  • Mugatu

    Uh, how do you know?  Sounds like the typical bagger projection

  • Mugatu

    It is nice you pulled your dick out of your sister long enough to make a few posts, go bagger!

  • Anonymous

    Ha. You’re all right. Just try not to take the Internet too seriously. Night!

  • Anonymous

    Actually, I don’t think any of what you posted actually address anything that I asked or posited. But it’s okay. Maybe next time!

  • Anonymous

    Look at you, trying to change the subject. It’s adorable.

  • Anonymous

    Well, like I said, the tax incentives that drive businesses to Texas led to the largest budget shortfall in the country. But yeah, the business are there. And the lack of a state tax really helps, except that property taxes can be a massive burden, considering it’s among the highest in the nation.

    Texas isn’t thriving; it’s surviving. I love Texas; I plan on settling back down there as soon as I finish what I need to do elsewhere. Hell, if Perry forced Texas to secede, I’d book my flight immediately. But the truth is that Texas’ successes are mired with deep flaws in its infrastructure and faces significant problems over its lack of long-term investment in its citizens. A booming economy for the wealthy industries doesn’t do enough to hide the state’s increasing poverty and drop out rates. And those those are primarily reflective of sixteen years of conservative and Republican leadership.

  • Anonymous

    Not so much. Even with minimal production costs, as I have it understood, air time for PACs, super or not, isn’t free. Not sure if you can confirm that or not.

    And you’re right; the only people that hold on to their money are those who fear for the future. That’s exactly why the 2001, 2003 and 2010 tax cuts worked so well by having top earners invest in the economy. Trickle down and what not.

  • http://twitter.com/TheGrottoTweets Laurie Beth

    That’s what I was wondering. Even if people actually do this, if Iowa has no law that you have to spell a write-in candidate’s name correctly, the votes will count for Perry.

    Plus, it’s the straw poll, people, not the caucus. This is just a preliminary thing so people can get an idea of how the first caucus *might* go, but the votes don’t actually count for anything.

  • Tennisballz2000

    He’s got a crush on u! xoxo!

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I’m going to be in Iowa visiting my sister so, I will have to swing on over to Ames to vote in the straw poll.   I hope my hun Stephen Colbert will be there.  Vote Parry!!

  • Tennisballz2000

    Nobody cares who you’d take in the ass. Keep it to yourself champ.

  • Anonymous

    The fun of Colbert’s superpac is a bit deep for shallow thinkers, but I’ll tak a shot at explaining it.
    1. PAC = Political Action Committee. They use free speech to disseminate a message. However, speech isn’t free when you want TV, radio, and other ads, so PACs collect money.
    2 People like PACs that they agree with, but think the ones they disagree with are cheating by collecting money from (rich folks) (unions). ((cross out one))
    3. Some legal (genius) (idiot) ((cross off one)) decided that no one could complain so long as there was no direct contact between the PAC and the candidate that the PAC wanted to support. This means that a candidate cannot approve of or reject what a PAC does.
    4. There were more complications, so the (geniuses) (idiots) decided to make SuperPACs.
    I know. It’s hard to follow ‘cuz it makes no sense.

    THAT IS THE BIG JOKE!

    People who contribute to Colbert’s SuperPAC know it is a joke, and are sending him less money on average than they would pay to watch a live performance by him, but the best part is they join him in playing the joke on every last one of you who are complaining about  Colbert and his SuperPAC.

    THE JOKE IS ON YOU!

    PS The other joke is PACs and SuperPACS do not change people’s minds. They are no more effective than your (and my) posts here. So, if you are going to throw money away, this is the fun way to do it.

  • http://twitter.com/WorldDivider Mark Prior

    A retard who dumbs down news for people who suffer from add.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I hope it’s not a joke because I donated $500 to it.  It’s better than spending the money on political campaigns.   

  • Anonymous

    But you do understand that it is a joke on whatever politician(s) he chooses to mock, right?

  • Anonymous

    I guess the place is totally boring without politics, right?

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Most of the time for the actual Iowa Republican caucus, voters are given a blank sheet of paper upon which they write a name and according Roger Simon (pg 3), spelling doesn’t count.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    How can businesses that wouldnt have been in Texas in the first place be blamed for the state’s budget shortfalls? How can new jobs with new taxpayers that wouldnt have existed, hundreds of thousands of NEW jobs since 2006, be a net loss to the state?

    Your math doesnt add up, sorry. Perhaps there are other reasons for budget shortfalls that you havent considered- I say that because your arguments are more apt to come from the daily kos than bloomberg businessweek.

    Listen, you seem thoughtful and reasonable enough so Im appealing to you: Try mulling over the economic realities that face this country, then compare it to what’s happening with Texas.

    Can you really, truthfully say that Texas is worse off than the rest of the nation?

    The next time you are comparing Perry’s record, you need a baseline. Texas doesn’t exist in a vacuum after all.

    Whatever shortcomings you feel the need to bring up about Texas, when you refuse to bring up:

    A) the disastrous fiscal policies in more liberal states (California, New York)

    and

    B) the disastrous way Obama is running the Federal government.

    It shows that you have a blind spot for only what you want to see.

    Im not saying Texas is perfect- no place is. But once again, I’d take Perry’s record any day over Obama’s.

  • Anonymous

    Colbert will be elected president before Perry does.

    What’s that you say? Colbert will never be elected?

    Well, that is four years before Perry will be elected.

  • Anonymous

    Did everybody miss the subtitles? He put uber-liberal symbols on the logos of a few uber-conservative PACs.

  • Anonymous

    Did everybody miss the subtitles? He put uber-liberal symbols on the logos of a few uber-conservative PACs.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I like that, it may fool some conservatives into thinking those are Democratic SuperPACs.  

  • Anonymous

    Michigan is a swing state. Voted for Republicans from Nixon’s second term to Bush I’s first and only term.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    You have to excuse Tennisballz. He’s a little cranky today for letting his NAMBLA membership expire.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Yes your right. I hate those guys at the grocery store too, with their questions…

    paper or plastic? who do those baggers think they are?

  • Anonymous

    He put a pot leaf on the Grow PAC.  lol

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    I guess you didnt read the thread did you? I commented about that 10 hours ago.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    intrade.com

    Please, I beg of you- put your money where your mouth is.

    I’d love to buy Perry at a lower price so please drive his price down by betting against him.

    What are you, afraid of being wrong and losing some money?

  • Anonymous

    LOL  Parry’s our man!

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    So in other words, all PACs are good for the economy. Is that what you are admitting?

  • Anonymous

    Like they’re going to need any help.

  • Anonymous

    OK. Ten hours late to the party. I waited to see the show first. Sorry.

  • Anonymous

    That’s the thrust of it.

  • Anonymous

    If there were a way for either of us to really collect, I would give you 5 for every one you bet if he did win. Since this is only theoretical, shall we say a million (internet) dollars?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Colbert is scared of Perry! Ha Ha Ha!!!

  • Anonymous

    Less taxes means less tax revenue for the state. While a business obviously contributes more past taxes (namely jobs and salaries for state’s citizen), the similarly relaxed tax codes for individuals–with the exception of high property taxes–do little to increase that revenue to prevent a shortfall, and a large state means a large budget. Like I said, Texas has been in Republican power for more than fifteen years. It’s a right to work state with no teachers unions and the last two governors, Perry obviously included, have purposefully done next to nothing about immigration or contributed substantively to the immigration debate because of the Hispanic voter bloc.

    It’s not that Texas is worse off: I said that that Texas was surviving, as opposed to thriving or failing. It’s surviving by cannibalizing existing jobs from other states and by kicking the budget can down the road for the next legislature. There’s nothing wrong with surviving, but its not enough for me to declare Texas’ a full-blown success story.

    Just to be fair, it’s not that liberals or conservatives have blind spots or are willfully ignorant or are stupid or are morons. To be sure, there are some who are, but that’s the exception and not the rule. It’s that we have different priorities. Your priorities are economic solvency and free markets; mine are a healthy, competitive citizenry and investment in the nation’s infrastructure. It’s not that you don’t care about my priorities or I in yours. We have the same ideas (read: a great America), just different ways to go about it.

    If we’re talking records, they’re both extremely and embarrassingly flawed in their own ways. So I fall back on my priorities, which align more with Obama’s platform than Perry’s.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know but I think he is a member of this outfit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Kuo8lb6Bg&feature=mh_lolz&list=LLvczlKgi8Mtc

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Fact: I am scared of Rick Perry

  • http://twitter.com/pakattak natey p excello

    Yes it is. Mockery is mockery, it doesn’t matter if the mockery doesn’t follow in your political beliefs.

  • http://twitter.com/pakattak natey p excello

    Not trying to defend Colbert, here, but the popularity of The Big Bang Theory is vexing. The show is terrible.

  • Anonymous

    he used to be funny, now he does a dopey show…

  • Anonymous

    Nah. Parry was an easy target for puns.

  • CosmosDan

    It will be interesting to see how Perry’s Army of God is received by voters.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxJ9762j1Y

     

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