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Megyn Kelly: ‘What The Hell Was Stephen Colbert Doing Before The U.S. Congress?’

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Yesterday we described Megyn Kelly as being “indignant” over Stephen Colbert appearing before House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law. Now that it’s actually happened, we’re going to bump that up to “a notch shy of furious.” After showing clips from the hearing and ceding that Colbert is a great comedian, Kelly devoted a segment to asking the question whether this was a colossal waste of taxpayer money.

Kelly invited on Rep. Steve King from Iowa who had let his displeasure with the situation be known during the actual hearing when he got into a semantics argument over the direction of Colbert’s corn packing. King argued that Colbert and Rep. Zoe Lofgren didn’t just insult the American legal system, but American workers as well by implying that they couldn’t work hard (allegations that Colbert strove to avoid, even in character, when they were brought up during the hearing).

At the side of the screen, numbers were shown as to the costs of a subcommittee hearing as well as other celebrities who have testified before Congress. There was no mention to perhaps the most relevant case where another fictional character testified. Yes, I say fictional because, unfortunately Elmo isn’t real. Really lucky sometimes, but not real.

So, is all of Kelly and King’s anger warranted? Was this a waste and an insult? While Colbert’s testimony turned sincere and informative towards the end, most of it was silly parody. Still though, it’s pretty clear that more people are thinking about the plight of migrant workers today than they were yesterday. The only thing that’s guaranteed, however, is that footage of this hearing is going to go next to footage of the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in the pretty damn amazing career highlight reel Colbert’s going to have one day.

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  • notsofast

    Zero-zip-nada!

  • notsofast

    Why was Colbert there?

    Because Señor Wences was already booked!

  • Tony the Fist

    Playing to a tough audience. While I found his comments funny(ish), the setting borders on innappropriate and the people listening only gave him crickets.

  • possibly

    Someone please tell Megan to get back to what she does best:

    race-baiting.

  • felixw

    Congress can’t find time to clarify the tax situation next year, with many businesses forced to hold off hiring until they see what’s coming down the pike. But they do have time to bring a buffoon to a congressional hearing. If you had any doubts that we need a house-cleaning in the House, those doubts should now have been put to rest.

  • Azarkhan

    Wow. He sounds more ridiculous than I imagined. “The only thing that’s guaranteed, however, is that footage of this hearing” will be in several Republican campaign ads.

  • writer

    Next week, Carrot Top is coming in to discuss Iran.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    notsofast said:
    Señor Wences

    Nice reference – had to google that one

  • BatBoy

    possibly said:
    race-baiting

    Define Race Baiting!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeannie-Lin/100000438163664 Jeannie

    Republican congress and who they invited to talk “in character” : ELMO

    2.18 mark approx

    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/360017/september-23-2010/fallback-position—migrant-worker-pt–2

    Megyn Kelly = B-I-T-C-H

  • Thelonious Funk

    What? All the blogs are talking more about Gretchen Carlson than they are me? I better kick it up a notch!

  • The Real Royal King

    Megyn is really a master of kvetching in a mean-spirited sort of way, but who would she want to testify? Maybe, the Arizona governor? She could tell us about how her father died fighting Nazis in Nevada in 1956, or about the decapitated corpses in the desert? Lies and errors, to be sure, but she’s a Republican’t. Nothing else matters to Megyn.

  • writer

    They should have gotten Gordon Ramsay to speak on immigration. He’s as qualified as Colbert in such matters, and could’ve whipped up some good eats afterward.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    What the hell is Megyn Kelly doing as a journalist is a much better question.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    When I was in the third or fourth grade, I used to think that politicians were smart people. But then, we thought seventh graders were really smart, too.

  • MrAut

    being more human & enlightening than 99% of the other typical zombie witnesses

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Jeannie Lin said:
    Republican congress and who they invited to talk “in character” : ELMO

    Ya gotta love those idiot libs. They’re all about change, but every time their democrat heroes do something that’s just too f—ked up for words, we hear, “well, the republicans did it, too!”

    Jeannie Lin said:
    Megyn Kelly = B-I-T-C-H

    Got some issues there, kiddo?

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Having that baboon in Congress was a disgrace.

    Rep. Steve King should have been removed immediately.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Of course, though the stunt does shed some light on the plight of migrant workers and the industry’s need for foreign nationals, I guess one risk from the appearance could be summarized by the chyron under Megyn; “Reaction to Stephen Colbert’s Comic Testimony on Immigration”.

  • writer

    Al Franken laughed so hard he soiled himself. At least that was his excuse.

  • ImNotBlue

    Ahem…

    Colbert ‘made mockery’ of Congress
    By PATRICK GAVIN | 9/24/10 12:18 PM EDT Updated: 9/24/10 1:17 PM EDT
    http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1009/reporters_not_amused_by_colbert.html

    Despite the fact that countless Washington reporters couldn’t help but watch Stephen Colbert’s Capitol Hill testimony Friday, not all were enthralled by the Comedy Central star’s performance, as they expressed on Twitter.

    “REALLY not sure this is funny,” wrote ABC News’ Rick Klein.

    “Colbert is making a mockery of this hearing,” said Mother Jones’ David Corn.

    “Colbert’s testimony made a mockery of Congress,” said the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake.

    The Hill’s Mike O’Brien said, “This might be the most amazing public stunt before Congress.”

    National Review’s Kathryn Lopez wrote that “a congressional chairman made a joke of her committee today.”

    Please make sure all further hateful and inane comments directed towards Ms. Kelly, are equally directed at the above writers and their respective publishers.

    You know, for fairness sake.

  • writer

    INB, they’ll get right on that.

  • stoogedudes

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Ya gotta love those idiot libs. They’re all about change, but every time their democrat heroes do something that’s just too f—ked up for words, we hear, “well, the republicans did it, too!” Got some issues there, kiddo?

    You mean like every time we liberals call out how dumb it is to compare Obama to Hitler and the righties claim, “Well you libbies did it to Bush!”?

  • stoogedudes

    For the record, I love Colbert, but after hearing this, yeah, it was dumb to have him in character for this. But then again, Congress makes a mockery of Congress, so…

  • writer

    stooge, we’re not condoning it. Just showing the same level of outrage that you did.

  • stoogedudes

    Well I’d say that calling Obama or Bush Hitler is a heck of a lot dumber and more ridiculous than Colbert showing up in character for a hearing that only a few seem to care about.

  • Cubby

    Again, I highly recommend listening to the last minute of Colbert’s Q&A before anyone passes judgement.

  • notsofast

    possibly said:
    Someone please tell Megan to get back to what she does best:

    race-baiting.

    No, race-baiting, sexist and bigotry are owned by libs like you.

  • notsofast

    Jeannie Lin said:
    Megyn Kelly = B-I-T-C-H

    You? Brain dead.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    stoogedudes said:
    You mean like every time we liberals call out how dumb it is to compare Obama to Hitler and the righties claim, “Well you libbies did it to Bush!”?

    Oh God, the irony, and you probably don’t even see what a juvenile little tit for tat game you wanna play. Grow up, son.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Congress should have hearings on the drug problem and play “Up In Smoke”. Makes about as much sense.

  • TruthLovinFreedomLover

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Oh God, the irony, and you probably don’t even see what a juvenile little tit for tat game you wanna play. Grow up, son.

    Heh, heh! Yeah, we Republicans are rubber and lieberals are glue! Everything you say bounces off of us and sticks to YOU! Grampa.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Jackie_Treehorn says: “What the hell is Megyn Kelly doing as a journalist is a much better question.”

    She’s not a journalist; she works for Fox.

  • notsofast

    GlennBeckReview said:
    She’s not a journalist; she works for Fox.

    Save your breath. You’ll need it to blow up your date.

  • right-is-wrong

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Oh God, the irony, and you probably don’t even see what a juvenile little tit for tat game you wanna play. Grow up, son.

    I see writer got it, but seems like you are the tit for tat game guy.

    Grow up, son.

  • right-is-wrong

    TruthLovinFreedomLover said:
    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Oh God, the irony, and you probably don’t even see what a juvenile little tit for tat game you wanna play. Grow up, son.

    Heh, heh! Yeah, we Republicans are rubber and lieberals are glue! Everything you say bounces off of us and sticks to YOU! Grampa.

    my point exactly

  • Orion Antares

    And this is why watching cable news REGARDLESS of network is a waste of time.

  • felixw

    We want leaders, and all the Left can offer is clowns. But even the Left may have finally realized treating serious matters as if they are a joke is a losing political strategy. They need a new strategy, but that will require such a complete change — in their heroes, attitudes, ways of talking and acting — that it may take years for them to clean out the rot. Put simply, the Left in America has forgotten how to engage in serious debate.

    If you doubt it, just look at the pitiful crap BFD and RRK and NTT and other “progresives” put up here everyday, treating everything like a big joke. But these commenters are just following in the steps of the leading pundits on the Left. All of their opinion leaders are arrogant buffoons — Stephen Colbert, Michael Moore, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Barney Frank, Al Franken, etc. — who lack gravitas and credibility. None of them are equipped to engage in the kind of smart, serious dialogue that the voters want right now. Even more, that we need right now.

    Yes, the Left is in a big, big hole. But I can predict exactly how they will respond. They will turn it into another joke.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    felixw said:
    If you doubt it, just look at the pitiful crap BFD and RRK and NTT and other “progresives” put up here everyday, treating everything like a big joke.

    Interweb blogs are srs bizness!

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    felixw said:
    arrogant buffoons

    Wasn’t that a punk band from La Jolla?

  • Mr.Papshmer

    right-is-wrong said:
    I see writer got it, but seems like you are the tit for tat game guy.

    And I see you still don’t get it. Think, man, think!

  • felixw

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Interweb blogs are srs bizness!

    BFD, your comments are to intelligent discussion what ants are to a picnic.

  • felixw

    Paul Westlake said:
    Wasn’t that a punk band from La Jolla?

    I never liked the La Jolla punk bands. The Malibu punkers were more authentic.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    felixw said:
    I never liked the La Jolla punk bands. The Malibu punkers were more authentic.

    More of a Newport Beach punk myself, so I see your point.

  • AngelPeters

    Oh Megyn, honey, you were given a high degree of intelligence, weren’t you? Why pretend to be stupid? Ratings perhaps? Or to encourage fake outrage?

    Grow up, Ms Kelly. Show that you are a woman with a spine and intellect. Don’t pretend to be stupid. Those of us women who are intelligent expect you to be as intelligent as we are. Especially considering you are intelligent. Fake stupidity doesn’t become you.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    felixw said:
    BFD, your comments are to intelligent discussion what ants are to a picnic.

    Intelligent discussion lol

    All your posts consist of three themes….

    1 -The Lamestream media sucks and is to blame for everything.

    2 – That is why Fox is number 1

    3 – Wait until November.

    What the fuck are you actually discussing besides having a circle jerk with your fellow teaturds?

  • bigbrainbrad

    megyn kely is hot

  • felixw

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Intelligent discussion lol

    All your posts consist of three themes….

    1 -The Lamestream media sucks and is to blame for everything.

    2 – That is why Fox is number 1

    3 – Wait until November.

    What the fuck are you actually discussing besides having a circle jerk with your fellow teaturds?

    I am glad to see you going back to using the word tea-turd. That was your intellectual highpoint, right up their with Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Idea and Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. Your later work, while impressive in its eloquence and gravitas, lacks the specific tea-turd-iness that so inspired your fledgling efforts.

  • timcajun

    Lets get this straight, All media are liars, except for Fox, Fox is number 1 and If Fox said it, it is true!

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  • betweentwoevils

    Fox made too much to do about nothing.

    Mr. Colbert paid his own way, and bought attention to an issue that would have otherwise passed under the media radar. Good on him.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    felixw said:
    I am glad to see you going back to using the word tea-turd. That was your intellectual highpoint, right up their with Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Idea and Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. Your later work, while impressive in its eloquence and gravitas, lacks the specific tea-turd-iness that so inspired your fledgling efforts.

    That was such an eloquent way of avoiding the point… I think I’m gonna cry. [sniff]

  • timcajun

    We should never call the tea party, tea-turds. The tea party people are thoughtful, caring, open minded people, with new ideas that will work this time.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    timcajun said:
    with new ideas that will work this time

    Ding!

  • Yoda002

    She get her panties all in a bunch over nothing… Fox wouldn’t know real news if it landed in their studio!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-De-Rosa/503357744 Anthony De Rosa

    Why blame Stephen? Blame these dopey congressmen, both repubs and dems, who constantly waste our money with celebrities testifying before committee. This isn’t the first time and unfortunately, unless we stop it, it won’t be the last.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    Jeez… What a embarrassment of the integrity for our great nation.There are a lot of hard working people in this Country. Colbert made a complete joke out of it..

    Tea Party——The Adults.
    Congress— A Bunch of Children
    Colbert—Mental Patient

    And people wonder why “I” don’t want to be associated with The Republican and Democratic Party’s…

    Really! Liberals as well as Conservatives have to be tired of this country going down the tubes, but wait we can’t do nothing about is so lets make a mockery out of our system of Government.. .All I can say America this is your future. You wanted it you got it………

  • felixw

    Paul Westlake said:
    That was such an eloquent way of avoiding the point… I think I’m gonna cry. [sniff]

    I thought a dose of Schopenhauer would help everyone sleep better tonight.

  • Rescuedog

    Burnnotice said:
    Jeez… What a embarrassment of the integrity for our great nation.There are a lot of hard working people in this Country. Colbert made a complete joke out of it..

    Tea Party——The Adults.
    Congress— A Bunch of Children
    Colbert—Mental Patient

    And people wonder why “I” don’t want to be associated with The Republican and Democratic Party’s…

    Really! Liberals as well as Conservatives have to be tired of this country going down the tubes, but wait we can’t do nothing about is so lets make a mockery out of our system of Government.. .All I can say America this is your future. You wanted it you got it………

    I have to disagree with your comment about Colbert. He didn’t make a joke of “hard working people”, he made a mockery of Congress. And I for one was glad to see it. They – along with the entire Obama administration – are all filthy corrupt swine and deserve all the mockery and scorn we can give them. They don’t deserve respect from anyone. Respect is earned. They have none.

  • Rescuedog

    Zoe Lofgren’s invitation to Colbert was the modern equivalent of Caligula appointing his horse to the Roman senate.

    I can summarize Colbert’s performance in five words: “The emperors have no clothes.” He made them all look like fools. Good.

  • Azarkhan

    A Justice Department prosecutor defied his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday, where he leveled an explosive allegation: top officials in the department gutted a voter intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group because the suspects were black and their alleged victims were white.

    The prosecutor, Christopher Coates, also said the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged “race neutral” enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. After President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office, the culture intensified, Coates told the panel, ultimately leading to his departure as chief of the voting rights section early this year….

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42676.html#ixzz10UvSL5GP

    Hmm, hmm, hmm
    Barack Hussein Obama
    Another black racist
    Hmm, hmm, hmm.

  • Pablo

    Was Colbert sworn in? Was he really doing shtick under oath?

    This is your Most Ethical Congress Ever on drugs.

  • Pablo

    betweentwoevils said:
    Mr. Colbert paid his own way, and bought attention to an issue that would have otherwise passed under the media radar.

    Yeah? What issue was that, specifically?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ruth-Gretzinger/596613915 Ruth Gretzinger

    Azarkhan, thanks for bringing up an actual NEWS STORY of critical importance to the country. our Department of Justice has apparently been operating under guidelines that say they’re not going to investigate complaints of black voter intimidation against whites.

    personally, I think that’s a hell of a lot more important than Stephen Colbert speaking before Congress in his TV voice, which was a creepily odd stunt that helped no one. “bringing attention to the plight of migrant workers”? oh, please. not 1 person in 10 will be able to tell you tomorrow what he testified about.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Azarkhan said:
    A Justice Department prosecutor defied his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday, where he leveled an explosive allegation: top officials in the department gutted a voter intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group because the suspects were black and their alleged victims were white.

    The prosecutor, Christopher Coates, also said the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged “race neutral” enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. After President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office, the culture intensified, Coates told the panel, ultimately leading to his departure as chief of the voting rights section early this year….

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42676.html#ixzz10UvSL5GP

    Hmm, hmm, hmm
    Barack Hussein Obama
    Another black racist
    Hmm, hmm, hmm.

    Ruth Gretzinger said:
    Azarkhan, thanks for bringing up an actual NEWS STORY of critical importance to the country. our Department of Justice has apparently been operating under guidelines that say they’re not going to investigate complaints of black voter intimidation against whites.

    personally, I think that’s a hell of a lot more important than Stephen Colbert speaking before Congress in his TV voice, which was a creepily odd stunt that helped no one. “bringing attention to the plight of migrant workers”? oh, please. not 1 person in 10 will be able to tell you tomorrow what he testified about.

    You mean the story with the unsupported allegations by Christopher Coates, the former chief of the Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under Bush Jr, the same civil rights division that developed a record of ignoring very real cases of institutional racism during the Bush administration? I suppose you could call it news, if just another neo-con bigot trying to play the race card on the Obama administration is news anymore… but it just happens way too often to qualify nowadays.

  • betweentwoevils

    Pablo said:
    Yeah? What issue was that, specifically?

    Did you not watch the clip?

  • right-is-wrong

    Paul Westlake said:
    You mean the story with the unsupported allegations by Christopher Coates, the former chief of the Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under Bush Jr, the same civil rights division that developed a record of ignoring very real cases of institutional racism during the Bush administration? I suppose you could call it news, if just another neo-con bigot trying to play the race card on the Obama administration is news anymore… but it just happens way too often to qualify nowadays.

    allegation – I hear the right always claim it’s only an allegation – libbys use that when they have nothing to say

    Azarkhan said:
    where he leveled an explosive allegation

    yep – guy had a problem before Obama took office

    Azarkhan said:
    After President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office

    here is a link to the story of chicken little
    http://eleaston.com/chicken.html
    If you use the same line all the time – nobody listens

  • nrgetick

    Did some calculating,By megyns estimate, colbert cost the taxpayers $125,000. According to cspan the hearing was 130 minutes long, colbert only talked for 5 minutes. In actuality his testimony cost us less than 5 thousand bucks.

    ehhhhh…. considering all the other bullshit and jokers who show up to these things alot of the time…, im saying worth it. The 111 congress is a joke.,.,that includes dems and rethugs. How much did it cost us just to listen to wallstreet con-artists cry and beg us for money?

  • nrgetick

    if your really butt hurt about the 5 grand, write colbert,,..,he seems like a good guy,im sure he would donate the money to a worthy cause like a veterans fund or something.

  • nrgetick

    how much did it cost taxpayers to hear roger clemens lie about his steroid use. maybe we should petition him to pay us back too!!!!

  • maxine

    She’d be so much more prettier if she would take that stick out of her ass.

  • Latin2

    I will tell you something about Colbert’s testimony and video that most people don’t know.

    In the early mid 60s the fruits and vegetables USED TO BE PICKED BY AMERICANS. Many of them Mexican – AMERICANS.

    Then during Johnson’s Great Society the Left created the vast Welfare program to have as many poor people to get Welfare. The majority of those who used to pick went on Welfare and “hid their husbands”.

    At the same time UFW union tried to make a ploy to have Mexican-American sign up for the Union which would make the food more expensive.

    The Great Society planned DESTROYED homes of those who used to pick in California. The homes used to be headed by men and made family units.

    But because of Welfare women didn’t need men, they wanted “boys” who would stay with them and not work. Because if they worked they would lose their Welfare. Thus DESTROYING the family dynamics. Since men could not work they found ILLEGAL ways to make money, ie; selling drugs or ripping off cars, etc…

    Farmers could now not get anyone to pick, and those people used to be Mexican-American families or Filipino-Americans…but because of a ‘free’ Welfare check the farmers could not get anyone…so they had to get ILLEGALS.

    It was the Liberal policies that destroyed Latino families in those areas and it spread and because of these policies brought in millions of Illegal aliens.

    Liberal policies created gangs and pushed drug selling and other “illegal” activities by creating Welfare. Welfare turned the old family unit UPSIDE DOWN and destroyed the poor in all areas of the country.

    The Left created a vast DEPENDENT class. Dependent on government and crime.

  • Some_Dude

    It was a pop culture figure leveraging his fame to raise awareness of issues he finds important. Democracy in action. It would be the same was it a titan of industry, or renowned scientist, or even just an average civilian.

    Megyn is on Fox News, and their narrative involves fighting immigration reform. That’s why she’s taking her stance and asking the questions that she is, the way that she is.

  • Pablo

    betweentwoevils said:
    Did you not watch the clip?

    Yes. So, what issue was it, specifically “that would have otherwise passed under the media radar.”?

  • Pablo

    Some_Dude said:
    It was a pop culture figure leveraging his fame to raise awareness of issues he finds important. Democracy in action. It would be the same was it a titan of industry, or renowned scientist, or even just an average civilian.

    Except for the shtick, which is what makes it, quite literally, a joke.

    Megyn is on Fox News, and their narrative involves fighting immigration reform. That’s why she’s taking her stance and asking the questions that she is, the way that she is.

    Why are David Corn, Rick Klein, Aaron Blake and Mike O’Brien taking the same stance?

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Jeannie Lin says: “Megyn Kelly = B-I-T-C-H”

    Eventually people will come to understand that Fox is just not a news network in any sense of the word “news.”

    Fox is a political operation for (not of) the Republican Tea Party. If Colbert had been invited to address immigration by a Republican congressman, Kelly would have full of admiration for Mr. Colbert.

    Kelly is not a bitch; she’s a political operative like everyone else on that propaganda channel.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Why in the Hell is Louis Gohmert on C-SPAN and broadcasting from the floor of the House? Until you can answer that one, Kelly, you can STFU!!

  • Patrick Henry

    timcajun said:
    We should never call the tea party, tea-turds. The tea party people are thoughtful, caring, open minded people, with new ideas that will work this time.

    Tim, you might just be right, if you would give any of them a chance before you judge. As far as the new ideas, nothing like them have been given a chance since Reagan and Clinton. And no one has significantly shrunk the government yet. You and I both know that there is layer upon layer of bureaucracy that is not needed and wastes great amounts of OUR money.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Eventually people will come to understand that Fox is just not a news network in any sense of the word “news.”

    Fox is a political operation for (not of) the Republican Tea Party. If Colbert had been invited to address immigration by a Republican congressman, Kelly would have full of admiration for Mr. Colbert.

    Kelly is not a bitch; she’s a political operative like everyone else on that propaganda channel.

    Your mental health is in question, and I’m sure I’m not the first to tell you this. It’s one thing when a bunch of people call you a spaz for your political beliefs, but it’s quite another when multiple people tell you that you need help because of you obsessions. I’m not trying to be funny, you should at least look in the mirror and ask some questions.

  • Patrick Henry

    maxine said:
    She’d be so much more prettier if she would take that stick out of her ass

    You would be so much prettier if you didn’t sit on your face.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Patrick Henry said:
    You would be so much prettier if you didn’t sit on your face.

    Ever notice how marxist women always dump on the looks of conservative women? And another pattern I’ve noticed… Conservative women tend to be pretty, and liberal / progressive women tend to be, well, not pretty. My theory is that proggy women think that mother nature has left them out, and they’re pissed. It’s exactly the same thing as poor people being jealous of the wealthy, they know they’ll never be wealthy, and they’re jealous and pissed, so they try to bring the wealthy down.

  • WilsonTheHeretic

    Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)

    Another Californian wasting taxpayer money. I wish I could say I were shocked.

  • BlackWidow

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Ever notice how marxist women always dump on the looks of conservative women? And another pattern I’ve noticed… Conservative women tend to be pretty, and liberal / progressive women tend to be, well, not pretty. My theory is that proggy women think that mother nature has left them out, and they’re pissed. It’s exactly the same thing as poor people being jealous of the wealthy, they know they’ll never be wealthy, and they’re jealous and pissed, so they try to bring the wealthy down.

    I didn’t know you were a psychology major! Gee now I am really impressed.

  • BlackWidow

    Patrick Henry said:
    You would be so much prettier if you didn’t sit on your face.

    Actually I think these Republican women are taking O’Donnell to seriously. A good piece of ass would do wonders for their mean streak. But of course that would be against their beliefs.

  • Pablo

    My theory is that proggy women think that mother nature has left them out, and they’re pissed.

    Right. This is why they think they need to be in charge of “social justice”, because God/Gaia/fate screwed them over and can’t be trusted.

  • Patrick Henry

    BlackWidow said:
    A good piece of ass would do wonders for their mean streak. But of course that would be against their beliefs.

    BW, definitely not against their beliefs. They just believe it should be done with a person you love in a committed relationship. I know that’s extreme.

  • Pablo

    Actually I think these Republican women are taking O’Donnell to seriously. A good piece of ass would do wonders for their mean streak.

    Yeah, you can tell Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann never get laid. Immaculate conception x 5 x 2.

  • RichS

    nrgetick said:
    how much did it cost taxpayers to hear roger clemens lie about his steroid use. maybe we should petition him to pay us back too!!!!

    My thought on the Clemens testimony was, “Good, Congress has solved unemployment, Iran trying to build a nuclear bomb, immigration and all of the real problems so now they can look into something that has nothing to do with Congress’ duties and responsibilities.”

    I wish we had to enforce the last sentence in Article 1, Section 4 of the US Constitution.

  • RichS

    Bill Adkins said:
    Why in the Hell is Louis Gohmert on C-SPAN and broadcasting from the floor of the House? Until you can answer that one, Kelly, you can STFU!!

    Are you saying that until she answers your question she has to shut you up?

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Latin2 said:
    will tell you something about Colbert’s testimony and video that most people don’t know.
    In the early mid 60s the fruits and vegetables USED TO BE PICKED BY AMERICANS. Many of them Mexican – AMERICANS.
    Then during Johnson’s Great Society the Left created the vast Welfare program to have as many poor people to get Welfare. The majority of those who used to pick went on Welfare and “hid their husbands”.
    At the same time UFW union tried to make a ploy to have Mexican-American sign up for the Union which would make the food more expensive.
    The Great Society planned DESTROYED homes of those who used to pick in California. The homes used to be headed by men and made family units.
    But because of Welfare women didn’t need men, they wanted “boys” who would stay with them and not work. Because if they worked they would lose their Welfare. Thus DESTROYING the family dynamics. Since men could not work they found ILLEGAL ways to make money, ie; selling drugs or ripping off cars, etc…
    Farmers could now not get anyone to pick, and those people used to be Mexican-American families or Filipino-Americans…but because of a ‘free’ Welfare check the farmers could not get anyone…so they had to get ILLEGALS.
    It was the Liberal policies that destroyed Latino families in those areas and it spread and because of these policies brought in millions of Illegal aliens.
    Liberal policies created gangs and pushed drug selling and other “illegal” activities by creating Welfare. Welfare turned the old family unit UPSIDE DOWN and destroyed the poor in all areas of the country.
    The Left created a vast DEPENDENT class. Dependent on government and crime.

    That entire diatribe is a complete load of crap! Because of welfare, women didn’t need men anymore? So what, they just kicked their husbands out? You’re kidding yourself… and others that believe this sophistry. You wanna know what destroyed the family farm and ushered in the era of massive, corporate exploitation in the agriculture sector? Try the “Right to Farm Act” in 1982, another totally counterproductive cause championed by conservative shills for big business. And now here you are with their newest revisionist history designed to blame liberals for conservative policy. Grotesque and flat wrong!

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Your mental health is in question, and I’m sure I’m not the first to tell you this. It’s one thing when a bunch of people call you a spaz for your political beliefs, but it’s quite another when multiple people tell you that you need help because of you obsessions. I’m not trying to be funny, you should at least look in the mirror and ask some questions.

    The only people that need help around here are the blind wannabe elitists who think the neo-con gravy train will pull into their station someday. I got news for ya, it won’t. LOL

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    BlackWidow said:
    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Ever notice how marxist women always dump on the looks of conservative women? And another pattern I’ve noticed… Conservative women tend to be pretty, and liberal / progressive women tend to be, well, not pretty. My theory is that proggy women think that mother nature has left them out, and they’re pissed. It’s exactly the same thing as poor people being jealous of the wealthy, they know they’ll never be wealthy, and they’re jealous and pissed, so they try to bring the wealthy down.

    I didn’t know you were a psychology major! Gee now I am really impressed.

    A stunning revelation. lol

  • Mr.Papshmer

    BlackWidow said:
    I didn’t know you were a psychology major! Gee now I am really impressed.

    Let me guess… You’re an ugly progressive broad, no?

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Let me guess… You’re an ugly progressive broad, no?

    Let me guess… you’re sweating, conservative pig, no?

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Paul Westlake said:
    Let me guess… you’re sweating, conservative pig, no?

    Going back to Usenet, I’ve made it a point to not correct peoples English, _unless_ they’re being insulting. Seeing people make retards out of themselves while attempting to tell other people how f–ked up they are is a hoot. Try again, son.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Paul Westlake said:
    Let me guess… you’re sweating, conservative pig, no?

    Going back to Usenet, I’ve made it a point to not correct peoples English, _unless_ they’re being insulting. Seeing people make retards out of themselves while attempting to tell other people how f–ked up they are is a hoot. Try again, son.

    You weren’t worth the proofread, Noah Webster.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Oh, and at least I know how to use a comma. ;-)

  • Bad Wolf

    Megyn Kelly does a great parody of a reporter.
    She is always in character.

    Wonder when Congress will invite Fox News to amuse them?

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Paul Westlake said:
    Oh, and at least I know how to use a comma. ;-)

    Yer killin’ me homes, stop! Kids crack me up, man. :)

  • Bad Wolf

    Patrick Henry said:
    BW, definitely not against their beliefs. They just believe it should be done with a person you love in a committed relationship. I know that’s extreme.

    Nice thought.
    Now, Bristol believes the same things.
    Let’s require all pundits and politicians and their kids to get Paternity tests or would that be hypocrisy tests?

  • Kate8

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  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Yer killin’ me homes, stop! Kids crack me up, man. :)

    Aw. It laughs that it may not weep. Sad… so sad.

  • CarmanK

    He was using his celebrity to bring attention to the great hypocrisy of American agri business and the radical right. Migrant workers are necessary to the harvesting of crops in this country. He is right, these are jobs that the educated american worker does not want to do unless of course they own the farm. He was showing the abomination of how american businesses abuse their workers and pay them disgracefully. He was exposing the injustices that americans put up with becasue the right wing extreme and business media sweep the abuse of workers under the “free trader” label. Migrant workers live in appalling conditions, work under extreme heat and cold and end up paying the “farmers” for their room and board before getting their pay checks. COLBERT DID WHAT the self righteous, arrogant hate mongers: Hannity, Beck, O’Reilley and Murdoch fail to do in their bigoted rants against Obama and the nation’s people. Those sorry excuses for men of power are far too busy advancing their own agendas to take a look at the real problems of the nation. They are dividers and they get richer every day as the hate and divisiveness goes on.

  • CAconservative

    Let us not forget who afforded Mr.Colbert the opportunity to make an ass out of himself. Yes, it was another major-ass by the name of Zoe Lofgren. If you’ve ever had trouble understanding why the richest state in the Union is in such a bad economic condition, look no further than Zoe Lofgren! This is the kind of nonsense sitting in the California Legislature.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Bad Wolf said:
    Nice thought.
    Now, Bristol believes the same things.
    Let’s require all pundits and politicians and their kids to get Paternity tests or would that be hypocrisy tests?

    Nice try, cuz, straight out of Rules for Radicals. Try to put your opponent on perpetual defense by pointing out that they don’t live up to their own standards. It’s why they’re called standards, bro. For instance, Christians can never live up to their own standards because they’re not perfect, they sin, everyone knows that. In the same sense, conservatives can never live up to their own standards, either. Does that mean that people should simply give up trying to live a virtuous life, like progressives?

    In any case, you’re a chump.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    CAconservative said:
    If you’ve ever had trouble understanding why the richest state in the Union…

    I hate to say it, and I hope that you and your conservative allies right the wrong, but California is the laughing stock of the country right now. Decades of liberal policies have turned your state into something to avoid.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    …straight out of Rules for Radicals. Try to put your opponent on perpetual defense by pointing out that they don’t live up to their own standards.

    This from the sophist genius that says:

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Your mental health is in question

    But that’s not all…

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    It’s why they’re called standards, bro. For instance, Christians can never live up to their own standards because they’re not perfect, they sin, everyone knows that. In the same sense, conservatives can never live up to their own standards, either.

    Oh, that’s a good excuse – you can rail against people of other religions (or no religion), and other political persuasions, for failing to live up to YOUR standards while simultaneously absolving yourself of having to live up to those SAME standards. If that’s the way it works, why aren’t YOU living up to MY standards? Jackass.

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Does that mean that people should simply give up trying to live a virtuous life, like progressives?

    Like progressives? Fuck you, you pompous ass. No, keep trying to lead that virtuous life you’ve obviously failed to attain, just shut the fuck up about the the virtues of the lives of people you don’t know and don’t want to know.

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    In any case, you’re a chump.

    Blithering idiot. Let’s look at some of your pop psychology, chump.

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    My theory is that proggy women think that mother nature has left them out, and they’re pissed. It’s exactly the same thing as poor people being jealous of the wealthy, they know they’ll never be wealthy, and they’re jealous and pissed, so they try to bring the wealthy down.

    I’ll take progressive brainiacs over conservative space cadets every day of the week. Your “theory” and $2.25 will get you a ride on the bus. I bet the girls just LOVE you. LOL

  • Mr.Papshmer

    I can certainly understand why you’re a proggie, as it seems like you’re yearning for someone to hold your hand through your life. You wouldn’t have gotten very far in my world, son.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Paul Westlake said:
    I bet the girls just LOVE you.

    My wife of over thirty years says she still loves me, anyway. But… You’ve shown me that you’re still a kid, and I suspect that at some point you’ll start paying taxes and perhaps pay attention to your pay stub instead of just looking at the three hundred dollars in the little box on the right side of page one. :)

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    I can certainly understand why you’re a proggie, as it seems like you’re yearning for someone to hold your hand through your life. You wouldn’t have gotten very far in my world, son.

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    My wife of over thirty years says she still loves me, anyway. But… You’ve shown me that you’re still a kid, and I suspect that at some point you’ll start paying taxes and perhaps pay attention to your pay stub instead of just looking at the three hundred dollars in the little box on the right side of page one. :)

    My sympathies to your wife. And all the “son” and “cuz” stuff doesn’t make you sound old and wizened, it just makes you sound like an asshole. And way to avoid the points I made. You a paper tiger, “sport!”

    buh bye

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Aw, it’s been fun, admit it! You’ve had fun telling a fifty one year old conservative to go to hell, and I’ve had fun riling up a young proggie. I’ve been sparring with progressives on the Internet before there was a web, and the one thing that everyone learns eventually: it’s not personal. Sure, we trash each other, and make fun of each other, and tell each other how stupid they are, but tonight, we’ll both go to bed, and tomorrow, we’ll find something else to dump on each other about. :)

  • beavoux

    Any thing that outrages “Megyn Kelly” is worth whatever she said it cost!

  • Mr.Papshmer

    beavoux said:
    Any thing that outrages “Megyn Kelly” is worth whatever she said it cost!

    Translation: You’ll never do a chick even remotely pretty, so your jealous, progressive instinct tells you to dump on pretty girls. What a mook.

  • right-is-wrong

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    I’ve been sparring with progressives on the Internet before there was a web,

    What the hell does that mean?

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    it’s not personal.

    No, but sad. Very very sad.

  • D REX

    can’t be any funnier then Clusterfuck Bush getting a shoe thrown at him….. lololol
    Megyn kelly is a racist bitch

  • beavoux

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Translation: You’ll never do a chick even remotely pretty, so your jealous, progressive instinct tells you to dump on pretty girls. What a mook.

    Yeah I’m sure your “wife” chick is even remotely as “Pretty” as Megyn Kelly (she’s got a crooked nose!) I’m sure you jerk off to Fox news when she’s out of the room!

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