Wow, that was amazing. Yes, how does he do it. :-)

How is your subchapter S corp. set up Mr. Colbert? Don’t want to talk about that? Your audience wouldn’t understand anyway. Love the show…..Funny.

What the hell do you think they are? Aliens? Machines?

Zombies!

I wonder…are unions people? Are governments people?

No, I don’t really wonder because those are stupid questions with obvious answers.

Another manufactured “scandal” by the liberal media.  Sorry libs, this one is a non-starter. 

I’ve worked for corporations most of my adult life. I can assure you that everyone there from highest levels on down are all people.

This class warfare/envy politics stuff isn’t working…just ask democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg.

But please keep it coming lefties.

You’re kidding right?

It just shows who is paying him.

It just shows who is paying him.

This will backfire on the Left.  They sent far left activists to disrupt Romney’s campaign, and he handled them with firmness and conviction.   The vast majority of Americans agree with him, not the statist thugs that tried to shout him down. 

The liberal media is so clueless that they think they will score points by publicizing this video, but this will only enhance Romney’s credibility and appeal with most voters.  Call it an “Ollie North” moment.

This will backfire on the Left.  They sent far left activists to disrupt Romney’s campaign, and he handled them with firmness and conviction.   The vast majority of Americans agree with him, not the statist thugs that tried to shout him down. 

The liberal media is so clueless that they think they will score points by publicizing this video, but this will only enhance Romney’s credibility and appeal with most voters.  Call it an “Ollie North” moment.

Well Obama had yes second or third fundraiser of the week last night in NY. Is he owned by those fat cats?

Not even a little bit. You may answer the question, if you’d like.

Romney (and you) are out of touch. People are getting furious with the big corporations who are paying less taxes than ever while making their biggest profits in history. Do you really think the common man, even the tea party common man is keen on that? Romney is now the “let them eat cake” candidate.

Are these comments for real or some kind of reactionary political astroturfing from team Romney? It’s a JOKE. 

Wouldn’t it therefore make more sense to say that corporations are made up of people too?

Ask Romney’s dad, who was leading Nixon in the 1968 race before he made his famous “brainwashing” comment that ended up sinking him.

Isn’t it  Romney who has amassed more lobbyist contributions so far than all the other republican candidates put together? Yes. Double standard, Michelle? 

Colbert isn’t funny anymore, he used to have some witty attacks, but know it’s just garbage that almost anyone could write.

How is a double standard? I’m not the one railing against the rich.  Nice try though!

And you think the Dem’s are looking out for the little guy?   Every heard of GE!?  You are the Hypo here. 

Would it have made more sense to say Soylent Green is made up of people?

Would it have made more sense to say Soylent Green is made up of people?

Imagine there’s no corporations…

http://tinyurl.com/5tysmev

What are corporations, if not people? It’s a simple question.

Romney isn’t being paid to run the country.

Why? Also, he’s dead, so that’s not gonna be easy.

No, instead imagine that they paid their fair share of taxes.

Well you got me there, but I think you get the point.

Well no, he is spending his fortune trying to buy it.

You criticize Obama for raising campaign money while Mitt is raising more corporate lobbyist money than all the other republican candidates put together. Yes, double standard.

Probably not.

GE has nothing to do with progressivism.

By law, corporations are “people” but I thought what he meant was not just that but they’re made up of people – and not just those at the top that everyone is complaining about. Still, most people believe “corporation” is synonymous with “greed”, so this will definitely be used against him.

I am real person.  And I might even be incorporated.  But if you want to find phony political activism and astroturfing, look no further than the group that disrupted Romney’s rally yesterday.  Here is a link to their web site:

http://www.iowacci.org/

Here is a challenge.  See if you can find a single Republican in their leadership.  And if not, please explain why they are attending a Republican rally for a Republican candidate in a Republican primary in which non-Republicans can’t vote.

I’m waiting…..

Anyone with any investments owns corporations. If you have a 401K, you are a corporate owner. If you have a pension, you are a corporate owner.

Corporations aren’t just people, they’re damn near everyone who’s ever been productive.

Corporations are tools that serve people, they are not people themselves.

Every single white middle or above class man, woman and many children are the proud owners of American corporations. 
 
Even a left wing zealot like Colbert knows, yet lies & ignores this fact for a laugh and the honor of burying his face in Obama’s crotch.
 
I don’t know if Colbert is more sick or just plain sad.
 
He is merely patronizing Obama’s 5 lbs of free cheese & college education crowd, the dregs of society ( libs ) who wouldn’t know a 401K from Mary K, so they are too dumb to even realize what he is doing.

Ironically government giving preference to large companies was the reason for the Boston Tea Party.  Mit and the pro-corporate government-giveaway-to-big-business is exactly what the colonists were rebelling against.

You are not at all supported by the polls which show most people wanting to increase taxes on the rich, which is obviously necessary since they are being taxed at the lowest rate in decades.

Corporations are tools created by men to help them be productive, they certainly are not people.

Romney learned about corporations at

Stanford University
Harvard Law School
Harvard Business School
The Boston Consulting Group
Bain & Co.
Bain Capital

And Val, your expertise in this matter comes from?  

I own a car – does that make cars people?  Does that mean that cars are not just people but damn near everyone that has ever driven?

If a corporation’s actions kill people (lets say a pharmaceutical corp.), who goes to jail?  Are corporations just like me or do they have special privileges?

-all white middle or above class men and women own corporations
-Corporations are people

therefore all white middle of above class men and women own people.

- everyone that likes free cheese is liberal
- all college educated people are liberal
- all college educated people are dumb

Im guessing that based on your logic you are the proud owner of people right?

Polls are taken by people with way too much free time on thier hands (liberals) so of course they will come out with a result that suits the left… Conservatives are too busy working and producing and paying taxes to have any time to bother with a ridiculous poll!

To the people who think Corporations are people.

Are you serious? Corporations are made up of people, this is much is true, but they should not be given the same rights as a person because they are not. They are a construct, plain and simple, something that exists on paper. The debate is going on because corporations are being considered a “person” not just a conglomerate of individuals with varying beliefs. They have their own liability despite the fact that they can’t do anything without the people making the decisions. And now they are considered a person with regards to free speech and campaign contributions. 

What the people are essentially arguing is that you can’t confer the rights of an individual to a corporation, not the obvious fact that corporations are made up of people. 

dems are obviously looking out for the little guy more than republicans

that’s nothing to say of the progressive caucus in the house, who care
more about the little guy than any caucus in washington

Ok, then if they are people, should each corporation have a separate vote when it comes to electing the President?

If you answered yes, you’re delusional, but at least you’re consistent.
If you answered no, then corporations aren’t people.

If you wan’t an answer, corporations are a construct, essentially an idea that numerous people either believe in, adhere to, or are connected with. Think of it like a tribe, it is a grouping of people, but it is not people

oops, meant to reply to Pablo’s comment below…

Well…this is what I mean.  Under the law, a corporation (the legal entity) has the same rights as a person.  But most people don’t know that or what it means or why that is. 

It’s why the courts took the position on the campaign finance law that barred corporations from expression of political views.  If you bar a corporation, you bar all people…because corporations are people….

Republicans are on the wrong side of history. The masses will soon rise up (at the polls) and usher in a new progressive history.

The Supreme Court ruled against you on this.  Romney’s position reflects the current law of the United States. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

My goodness I had no idea. Mitt is just a pair of sun glasses away from being an agent in the machine army.

 The Supreme Court agrees with Romney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

His views are represent the law of the land.  And Mr. Colbert’s views represent the world of Comedy Central. 

Get over to http://www.movetoamend.org to take back our country.  The Constitution says We the People not We the Corporation.  

They are all beholding to the big contributers to some extent. Now to claim that corperations are people too, that may be a BIG comment used against him in the campaign. The guy is WEIRD

and under a little pressure he coughs up “corperations are people too” thats why they were there

uh what?

Corperations are people too, my friend
     
                     WEIRD

Romney understands that the Supreme Court has decided that corporations are persons.   And of course he would be well informed on this, having studied corporate law at Harvard Law School, and corporate issues at Harvard Business School, before embarking on a successful career in the corporate world. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

But Don (like the other liberals here) takes his legal advice from Comedy Central…..

There is a BIG difference between “people” and a “person”. Romney did not say that corporations were ‘persons’. People is defined as “(plural) any group of human beings (men, women or children) collectively”. 

You make it sound even worse.

OK, so let’s just say that ‘corporations are collective groups of men, women and/or children’ and pretend they are not “people” (although defined as such by dictionaries).

Fair enough.

Actually, no they don’t completely disagree with me on this. First of all, what I said was that the philosophical debate is whether a corporation is the same as a person and that I think they SHOULD not be given the same rights as people (not that they currently ARE not given those rights).

What the Supreme Court has historically done is rule that in some instances a corp is a person (the first amendment) and in some instances it is not (the fifth amendment and self incrimination). This is a historical debate that has ebbed and flowed depending on the make up of the Supreme Court. What is clear is that Corporations do not currently have ALL the rights of a person, so the best that can be said is that under current law a corporation is like a person “in some respects”

Anyone who defends that a corporation is a person or persons is insane. Forget the legalities. Look at the implications and how negatively it affects the political system. It’s just silly….left or right, democrat or republican, independent or indifferent, we are all getting screwed.

So is the ability of the government to take away your property in the name of Eminent domain. You want to hide behind the “law of the land” argument for that one, too?

Thanks for the false choice. They are people ie..the corporation. Colbert’s equivocation of the word people is what your not getting. Geez, it’s like arguing with my brothers kids. Stay in school.

Love the new slogan Romney. When I heard him call for a constitutional amendment to ban SSM as well as numerous other talking points I knew he was panderer in chief. 

The bottom line is that Romney’s comments on this matter represented settled law.  His critics attack him based on their wishful thinking.   You have a right to your wishful thinking, but the Left looks silly by attacking Romney on this, when he has precedent and a Supreme Court decision in his favor. 

what’s happening in iowa isn’t a primary, and you don’t have to be affiliated or registered with any party to be involved. it’s a straw poll and it’s irrelevant. just like mitt romney.

If a Democrat candidate stated the Supreme Court position on eminent domain, it wouldn’t be a big news story.  But Romney simply states a fact of settled law, and gets attacked from liberals — who, frankly, don’t have a clue what they are talking about.  Romney learned corporate law at Harvard Law School.  Stephen Colbert learned corporate law at Comedy Central. 

As for you Redleaf, when need a lawyer, feel free to phone Comedy Central.  But let us know how it works out for you. 

George Carlin -”Who Really Controls America”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI&feature=related

George Carlin -”Who Really Controls America”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI&feature=related

They are financial people, not flesh and blood people. A person who has an S corp. could be said to be two people, one existing only on paper and one who can cast a vote. That is still only one vote.

Or to put it another way, people are not corporations, even when they are the sole owner of a corporation.

The dust has settled, and we can now see the impact of Romney’s push back on the planted hecklers.

Here is CNN’s article: Romney sees political gain in controversial remark
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/13/romney-sees-political-gain-in-controversial-remark/

Here is Salon’s article:  Why Mitt Romney was Right About Corporations:
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/13/corporate_personhood/

Here’s The Daily Beast:  Romney Keeps Lead in Poll
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/08/09/romney-keeps-lead-in-poll.html

Score one for Romney, and zero for Comedy Central and leftist plants at rallies

So you’re keeping score. To what end? Is this a war between the “left” and the “right”? How is it helpful to invest in such meaningless crap? Take a step back. Take a deep breath. You are not part of the elite…you are not in with the politicians. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU…only your vote and small money contribution. There is no god damn team, only a way to divide us. How can someone feel linked to a multimillion dollar politician? Try to tell me his intention is to help the common man and I’d laugh in your face.

50% of all graduates graduate in the bottom half of the class. Look at GW Bush now he was a dumb one!

work more I’m retired!

His comments representedhe got flustered and started babbling I bet he he could have that line back he would take it. But he is WIERD

Try to spell “weird” correctly if you hope to use it as a smear.  Or “code word” for Mormon.  If in doubt about the spelling, check the talking points memo from the DNC.

Actually they are greedy money grubbers who put profits ahead of people.
Hows that?

That firmness and conviction will cost him his nomination!

well Pablo is an obvious shill who else can post all day and get paid for it. Soon he will start a different nickname.