1. The writers deserve a raise

2. Whoever thought of this was nothing short of satire genius

3. To anyone who thinks hes making a mockery of the whole presidential process and the candidates, he is, at the same time hes just using the tools the republican party, the candidates, and the Supreme Court have provided him 

Just plain awesome!

lol win

No one has done a better job mocking the absurdity of super PACs and the farce of current campaign finance laws.

Go Stephen!

He’s less ridiculous than Perry and Santorum combined.

Go Stephen!

GENIUS.

Likely the next candidate to “surge” to take someone else out of the race

Stephen Colbert For President Of The United States Of South Carolina!

His schtick was ok the first few months but is wearing thin now & descending to dullness that the real O’Rielly is more entertaining

Aww. Are we a bitter conservative?

If republicans had any class they’d sit out this election and stand behind our President.

Hell, he’s less ridiculous than Perry, Santorum and Romney combined!

And Roger Ailes is nothing but a power-obsessed elitist. He wouldn’t know a true conservative if he tripped over one and adopted him, just like the parodies of journalists he employs on his “News” channel wouldn’t know true journalism if they encountered it any more than they can read cuneiform.

Perhaps making a mockery of the election process is the only way to fix it

if you took rogers words–replaces liberals with conservatives…he would be talking about himself and fox news…
i wonder if hypocrites understand the poop they throw—is actually at their own face?

i guess it is ironicm stupid or as fox news says–EVIL~

I hit “Liked” on this, but don’t underestimate the possibility that the idea behind this was Colbert’s, not his writers. But otherwise, I really like your last phrase – that Colert is:

“just using the tools the republican party, the candidates, and the Supreme Court have provided him”  

And he might never have to leave the “exploratory committee” phase in order to demand – & achieve – all the attention of a filed candidate, which at this stage of the process means MORE attention than a SuperPAC. So – he’s managed to raise some unknown amount of money (which is likely well more than a million, given his offer to have to pay for the South Carolina GOP primary), which he now doesn’t need to commit any of to the SC GOP primary’s expenses, & indeed need not ever reveal how much it is or where it came from (We don’t even know if it came from his PAC fund; he could be funding the SuperPAC entirely himself for all we know – or he & Stewart- or The Colbert Show & The Daily Show – WE DON’T KNOW & NEVER WILL KNOW), & now this SuperPac can support anything he says or does while “not coordinating” with him, simply by Stewart & Stewart’s writers listening to whatever Colbert says publicly (not just on The Colbert Show, but in feature interviews like last week’s one in the NY Times, or on ABC’s This Week, or in an op-ed he gets published where-ever, since what newspaper would ever turn down a Colbert op-ed, or WHERE EVER PERIOD – Colbert could hire a sky-writer to write in the air above Manhatten, Gee, Would It Ever Be Cool If Some SuperPAC Attacked Mitt Romney For Being A Liar, & then magically the SuperPAC releases an ad doing just that and NO PROBLEMO).  

At this point, the one thing he ought NOT to do is actually announce his candidacy. But given the way the GOP primaries are going, he probably won’t ever have to.

F**king brilliant stuff.

Stephen Colbert must be thinking today, Who do I send chocolates to for getting Roger Ailes to attack me?

This is SO perfect: Ailes, the reigning genius of cable news with the awesome market power of Fox, mano a mano with some guy from cable new with the awesome comedy power of Faux.  

And does anyone really doubt who wins here? 

F**king brilliant stuff. 

WOW! freaking genius!

Citizens United was the worse decision that the supreme has made since the Dred Scott decision and its biting the republicans right back in the goolies. 

the last 2 minutes he started losing it a lil…but as usual, classic comedy gold by colberT

It’s been brilliant since he first started his SuperPac and showed how ridiculously easy it is, now we find how ridiculously easy it is to transfer it.  Our political system is completely open to stupid gimmicks that are a lot worse than what Colbert is doing.  And I love the Mitt as serial killer ad.  He can bombard Romney (or anyone else) with these whenever he wants  just as the “real” politicians can.  A lot of the republicans really think he is one of them, they are convinced by his rhetoric and never notice how he is ridiculing them.

Bill O’Reilly wanted to know why the “liberal media” was making so much fun of the republican candidates and their whole election process?  Colbert shows us it’s too easy and does so brilliantly. If republicans haven’t figured it out yet, they have no-one worthy of being President.

The chief danger in life is sometimes we take to many precautions. So live a little. If you stand in one spot you will not go anywhere.

The sickening thing is that Colbert is just exposing Super PAC money for what it is – a total scam.  I didnt find this as funny as I found it humiliating as a citizen of the US.  We have turned our elections over to money and corporations, period.  Keep humiliating us Steven, I suppose there is a chance enough people will wake up and be shamed into understanding Citizens United someday…

Stephen Colbert is amazing, Roger Ailes assessment of Jon Stewart is not even true because he makes fun of both democrats, republicans, tea party, etc.. And I love when Fox news says he only makes fun of liberals to maintain credibility, one Jon Stewart in on COMEDY CENTRAL but than if that is the case I could say MSNBC only has a few conservatives on so they can maintain credibility and Fox News has a few liberals so they can maintain credibility. Colbert and Stewart always show how ridiculous this political crap is.

The average conservative american is a bit dull.

Hard to compete against such polished comedians as this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvSjDkF7HE&feature=related

It somewhat leveled the playing field with unions… live with it.

“We have turned our elections over to money and corporations, period.”

No – not ‘money and corporations, period’ … but ‘money, corporations, and unions, period.’

The AD on YOUTUBE for those who can’t see it on the Comedy Central garbage player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay0UAeUmrWQ

46% of union workers voted republican already, how much more did they need to level it?

And your source for that assertion is ?

That seems very, very unlikely – would expect it to be maybe 30% for some unions, and approaching 0% for others. Amazing that 98% of their dues go to the Democrat party if what you state is even remotely close … but I suspect it’s nowhere close to reality.

“A lot of the republicans really think he is one of them, they are convinced by his rhetoric and never notice how he is ridiculing them.”

Are you sure? This can’t be, or … ?

Indeed, Colbert is doing everyone a favor. Satire just follows reality.

Maybe not 46% but Politifact rated this for a 40% “mostly true”

http://tinyurl.com/3e4ubsf 

Maybe not 46% but Politifact rated this for a 40% “mostly true”

http://tinyurl.com/3e4ubsf

Unions spend less than 5% of the total, contrary to what the RepubliCONS want you to believe. Average citizens -misguided to be sure – spend more to defend corporations than unions spend to defend average workers.

Stephen
Colbert is a comedian, and the other Republican candidates are bad jokes. Pat
Paulsen and Andy Kaufman tore down the gates, opened the door, and Colbert has
charged through the portal!

If it was not so serious it woud be funny at how much of a laughign stock the Roberts Court is. (specifically speaking of but not limited to the Citizens United case)

I’m beginning to think this Colbert presidential gambit has legs. Politics in this country has never been as absurd in my lifetime, (born 1937). Our garbage politics is starting to disassemble because it doesn’t make sense any longer and too many people in our own country are needlessly suffering because of the overwhelming greed and mismangement of our economy. Also,  one political party has totally abnegated its responsibility as is shown in the pathetic but hilarious Republican Presidential Show. The Right is exhausted and the Democrats are only in slightly better shape. People like Colbert and Stewart are just having fun while educating us about the absurdity and immorality of continuing to support such a system. 2012 is going to be a year of serious positive change, Thank the Lord.

Thank you Stephen.

lol…. I could care less about citizens united.. I’m actually glad its biting the republicans back in the goolies

“Stephanopoulos During ‘Heated’ This Week Interview.”

Seriously!   You actually think the interview was heated?  Satire accepted if that was your intent.

The blogger who got 32 likes for saying “Whoever thought of this was nothing short of satire genius”   needs to be paid by Cobert and Stephanopoulos!

“We’ll see”, said the Zen master … come September – October time frame we will have the most expensive, most inaccurate, and no doubt most offensive campaign season we’ve ever endured.

I am a 27 years old doctor,mature and beautiful. and now i am seeking a good man who can give me real love, so i got a sername Andromeda2002 on  Agedate.СòM, a nice and free place for younger women and older men,or older women and younger men, to interact with each other.Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.
 

Then judging by this, the unions do not represent the workers, do they ?

At # 10, SEIU … 100% to Dems, 0% to Repubs
At # 12, IBEW … 98% to Dems, 2% to Repubs
At # 24, AFSCME . 98% to Dems, 2% to Repubs

http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topcontribs.php

Not true …

http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topcontribs.php

i don’t get what your point is, the unions are no where near the top, and also i think by unions you mean the individual people part of a union since unions as an entity couldn’t donate unlimited sums anyway. i guess a rural backwater like Wyoming doesnt need unions they just need more cows.

Oh great, a story about Stephen Colbert recycling a tired joke.

No, not his career. His fake presidential bid.

I’m anxious to see the Super Pac ads regarding Obama in the fall.  As an independent moderate, I love satire that pokes fun at both sides.  Each side thinks their side is perfect, smart, and ethical but the other side of the political spectrum is clueless, lacks ethics, and exhibits zero class.  Pot meet kettle.

now we need to place this on billboards for all to see,very very true.

 How’s that ice-cream named after YOU selling???

This show creates an oversimplification of all the issues of the day
condensed into little childish bits so his small minded audience can
have the perceived illusion of actually understanding the complex issues
of the day. It’s like the retard political version of sesame street to
be frank.

The Colbert surge just took out John Huntsman.

Not a surprise that a conservative would completely miss the point and fail to see this that this is mostly a send-up campaign finance law and that Romney and Obama are not the point of the ad.

Go back to your Victoria Jacksons and your Paul Shanklins. It’ll be easier for you. Thinking is hard.

“Independent moderate” LOL
We believe you.

The prior assertion was “Unions spend less than 5% of the total”.

The ‘point’ is that they spend quite a bit more than 5% of the total.  Simply that, that the quoted 5% is not true.

The amounts on that list are some specific contributions by the single national level union organizations, and do not include other subgroups or even locals.  Nor do they include ‘issue advocacy’ expenditures – if you click on SEIU, you will see that $ 15.8 million was spent for candidates at that level.

What you see there, for both parties, is only the tip of the iceberg.   It does not include all expenditures nor those of affiliated organizations, officers, directors, partners, etc.  It’s all, for both parties, rather obscene.

Never been to Wyoming – hear it’s quite nice there.

Go Stephen!!

Did Georgy ask Stevey if he thought states had a constitutional right to outlaw contraceptives even though no such state wants to?

You would like that wouldn’t you comrade?

Good to see him now and then as a reminder of which of the two Comedy Central guys isn’t funny.

I was using my own memory of the Politifact rating, you’re right, it was 40%.  All of the nations union members are not in just three unions.

Jeez, why is the media so daft? He said specifically, that he is running for “the presidency of the United States of South Carolina”. These folks should go and watch his announcement speech. Since a place like this does not exist, then he is not on the same tangent as running for the actual Presidency of the US of A.

Why do these folks always take the bait every time? Another blessing of the 24-hr news cycle. Sigh.

Really?  How in the world could you think that “each side thinks their side is perfect…” ?  It’s just not so.  No one who pays attention thinks any such thing.   Those of us who read all they can and listen to all “sides” know that there is no “perfect” etc. side, just that one is less harmful than the other.

Like I said, conservatives are dull. That video is a perfect example of the conservative deaf ear for creative humor.

He doing it to show how America and free speech and corporations combine with that ridiculous Supreme Court ruling. Yes he is making a mockery of it and he should.  What ever happened to by the people, of the people and for the people.  The American presidential process is an embarrassment to the rest of the world… He who has the most money gets more “free speech” than others..

Actuall “free lies” correction.

Exactly. This isn’t a democracy anymore and I hope the conservatives judges on the Supreme Court are proud of themselves. Especially when foreign millionares get invovled in this whole scheme.

Smalls mind eh?   Is that how he influenced the ballots in  TWO states? How many Republicans voted for Gov pArry???

To be even franker, Mr Colbert depth as both a Christian and as an American puts fear in the hearts of people like you.

False equivalency what? Only in the minds of hardcore Murdochites do Unions pose a threat to our nation, well murdochites and gilded age robber barons.

A single corporate PAC American Crossroads has already spent 92 million dollars. The combined totals of ALL Union spending is just over 27 million dollars. 

If a single corporate PAC spending 4 times more then the combined total of ALL union spending equals a level playing field to you.    Well All I can say Is I have a bridge in NY NY Id like to sell you.

Not even close !

2008 Campaign season – SEIU – $ 85 million, AFSCME – $ 63 Million … that’s just 2 unions, and we are already more than 5 times what you assert.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124243785248026055.html

i’ve been humiliated because the process has been corrupt my whole life time which is only two decades. You just now are finding out this is how we run our country?

i’ve been humiliated because the process has been corrupt my whole life time which is only two decades. You just now are finding out this is how we run our country?

i’ve been humiliated because the process has been corrupt my whole life time which is only two decades. You just now are finding out this is how we run our country?

Is George Stepanopoulos playing along with this or is he really this vacant ?  Colbert is way ahead of it.  Too bad most Repub voters in S.C. don’t know what satire is.  In fact, they think all these Superpac ads are from the candidates themselves.  The system is fixed, everyone.  Amnesia and doublespeak is the new norm, and most of the candidates are no more qualified than you or me to lead this country into the 21st century.  It can only get better.  Well, maybe sillier.