Politico Buries the Lede: Stephen Colbert Met with Audience Indifference in SC
by John Nolte***UPDATE: One of the folks involved in the event was kind enough to forward the video. It’s a must-watch. The great Frank Luntz gets bigger laughs than Colbert (who gets none) and not because these South Carolina moms “don’t get” the joke. These are smart women who know Colbert’s joke really isn’t. Watch how many of them describe Colbert as a left-winger and, quite hilariously, as a “Charleston dandy.”
Man, I love the American people.
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Because those left-wing journOlists at Politico share Colbert’s agenda to define GOP candidates as out-of-touch, because Politico shares Colbert’s goal to deny free speech to millionaires not named Stephen Colbert and corporations not named Politico, it makes sense that after gushing all over Colbert in somewhere around 258,223 stories, Politico would bury the lede in the 258,224th:
Via POLITICO’s Mackenzie Weinger in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Stephen Colbert made his appearance at the Café Moms town hall via a recorded video message:
Stephen Colbert made a cameo appearance at the Café Moms town hall meeting in Myrtle Beach on Monday with a recorded message asking the audience if they agree with Mitt Romney’s line that “corporations are people.” …
“My next question for the Café Moms South Carolina town hall is: What do you think about South Carolina’s favorite son forming an exploratory committee to run for president? While you discuss that I’m going to call my mom.”
And snark, snark, snark, and blah, blah, blah.
The real story, however, is found (as it usually is at Politico) near and at the bottom:
Most of the audience said they thought corporations were indeed people before Colbert came back onscreen in another taped segment. …
The crowd, with just a few exceptions, said they had absolutely no interest in a Colbert run. The comedian is set to respond to the moms later this afternoon.
None of this matters to Colbert, though, because his audience isn’t the everyday people anymore; it’s the elites in the media. He’s become their personal funny-monkey by promoting himself to the left-wing MSM’s personal and political prejudices.
As I write this, there is nothing on the front page of Politico about Solyndra, Fast and Furious, the under-employed, or the large numbers of those who have lowered the unemployment rate by giving up their search for work, but there are TWO front-page stories about Stephen Colbert’s antics.
Colbert is not engaging in political humor, he’s engaging in partisan politics disguised as humor — and the corrupt MSM is enabling him every step of the way.
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You know, on a lark I took a journalism course in school and I think I remember burying the lead to be a bad thing? Am I wrong here?
Ignore issues, watch the hypnotoad, he's a conservative, he speaks to you. Wait, am I talking about Colbert or Romney?
Squirrel!!!
Why are any legitimate news sources giving any coverage to this blatant commercialism of an entertainer trying to increase his profitability ?
A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, "I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead." Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead.
His Super PAC bit went nowhere so now he's shifted gears and is going nowhere with a phony Presidential bit. How does this guy have a show?
I didn't even like Colbert back when he did Mr. Goodwrench
commercials. His partisan political monkeyshines are a
national disgrace. Say, isn't he a "one-percenter" now…
It's on one of the networks that canceled MST3k.
Colbert's humor is pitiful low-brow satire masquerading as something intellectual.
he reads a teleprompter better then obama, but has the same bad writers.
Well, these folks and the media you mention are not the majority.
Too bad, in their warped little world they don't know it.
But the people in the real world do.
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?
Why do banks charge a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they know there is not enough?
…just some other obvious questions no one ever seems to ask.
A great description of Colbert himself.
Colbert reminds me of a little creep I once tuned-up in the schoolyard….
It's obviously Bush's fault
I'll bet you lunch that Colbert got weekly tune-ups in school
*parachutes out of mini-fighter plane*
Gah! I hate squirrels!
Yeah, when he was caught sniffing seats between classes….
hmmmm, the women didn't laugh because they are smart? How disingenuous. Do you think we can't tell smart from dissuaded?
John, obviously you are targeting the lower eschelon of iq's here. Of course he didn't get any laughs with an intro like that.
Dumb.
These days there's a media that is catching all the hypocrisy.
The print media business is circling the drain. I haven't subscribed to my hometown paper for 30 years.
If I thought they had real reporters willing to bring a story to print no matter where it took them I would subscribe,.
I suspect millions of others would do the same.
Nolte is right about Colbert just playing to the "media elites" – but regular America is catching on, it seems.
Thank God for the New Media.
Most of the audience thinks corporations are people?
John, please see your eye doctor. Quick.
These poor women. Perhaps by the end of the session they were convinced. How pathetic.
A corporation is about the stockholders who are people and have an invested interest in the company being successful and generating profits. The VOICE of a corporation is based on expressing the will of the stockholder not the employee. That is why Corporations need the right to free speech unencumbered by the idiocy of politicians, who would prefer not to have their bad ideas regarding jobs contradicted by the voice of a million stockholders.
Be they a media outlet like the NY Times or a Exxon Mobile, they have a right to express the desire and needs of their stockholders
Colbert is simple. He departed from the South Park Model to the Stewart Model as Obama ran for office and he has been trying to be satirical about Conservative ideology that he doesn't understand. He thinks it came from the Moral Majority when it is rooted in Goldwater.
How did Colbert keep himself from throwing up as he pretended to be a typical South Carolina voter? If he calls this satire, he is sicker than I thought he was.
Droopy Dog cartoon had a line for people like Colbert.
"Joke's over son, go home!"
Probably why Droopy is still funny and Colbert isn't.
I made it 12 minutes in and then couldn't take it anymore. When Luntz asked the 9 year old for his opinion I had to shut it off. I hate these Luntz focus groups because it is very depressing to see so many stupid people with their stupid opinions mouth off in their inarticulate ways about things they know nothing about. I haven't seen one of these focus groups yet that didn't make me want to crawl into bed, pull the covers over my head, and never come out. This country is doomed.
If anyone wants an eloquent explanation for why corporations are people just go to YouTube, search for "Milton Freidman" and start watching. Here's a better way to spend 28 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdRpyfEmBE
I'm saddened that most people don't realize that Stephen Colbert is a tool of the Frankfurt School Critical Theory crowd and Saul Alinski (the man has made a career out of Rule #5 alone).
He's not merely a comedian or satirist, he's a tool of the left and the Democrat party to mock and undermine conservatives and Republicans by polluting the water and diluting their message (and it seems to be working since so many people in that focus group appeared to take him seriously at his word).
When he runs as a Republican, he's not just having a laugh and making a few bucks but he's there for the very serious mission of undermining a Republican candidate selection process that is already a [rhymes with Buster Duck].
WTF? So now Luntz is doing his schtick around someone else's OBVIOUS schtick? Colbert is obviously a comedian; he's no satirist, though methinks he fancies himself one. I think the ladies took Colbert seriously b/c Luntz presented it seriously.
Those palace guards gotta look out for one another.
I find Colbert funny and sometimes he makes a good argument for conservatism whether by design or absurdity.
The old comic Pat Paulsen used to do this, so Colbert is not new at this. All this is for is to make money.
He didn't get any laughs at all. But now you;re right, I am targeting low IQs. Hope that fact wasn't confusing.
What Colbert is doing really irritates me – it's like the class clown running for Student Body President with no credentials and no real desire to win just to make a scene and gain attention. I hope that this is all just a media stunt. Colbert is an annoying person as a general rule (before someone calls me biased – I think his Comedy Central counterpart, Jon Stewart, is absolutely hilarious (albeit often misguided) – but what he is doing is not taking seriously the real issues that are pressing this country into the ground.
Oh I get it…
If you agree with me – You must be SMART!
If you disagree with me – You must be STUPID!
..I know "Rose hips" diet supplements are recommended for PMS – better increase your dosage, dearie…..
lol, good one John. I had that coming. :0
"None of this matters to Colbert, though, because his audience isn’t the everyday people anymore; it’s the elites in the media."
More of your inaccurate, partisan drivel, Nolte. I'm an "everyday" people and I love Colbert. Apparently all of the "everyday" people who watch his show also love him. (Yes, yes, I know there is a belief liberals do not work and are all on welfare, but that's as much of a joke as is Frank Luntz.)
lol. thanks doc. but are you really suppose to prescribe online to complete strangers without a proper consultation?
I smell a lawsuit. Ka-ching.
…..I smell a stank, dopey Marxist Soros-troll…..
………Bada -bing !……
lol, I don't know which characterization I'm most offended by. Coming from a doctor, it validates my opinion of how low we've set the bar. Society is doomed. Abandon ship.
…Obama makes lots of folks feel that way, but the Dems "super-shellacking" is a'coming….
…………..293 days to VICTORY !……..
Sorry Nolte, I've been to live tapings of Colbert's show in NY and there was nothing in the audience but everyday people and from all over the world. Go figure thought that a bunch of morons at a Luntz focus group didnt like Colbert?
And second, using Colbert to deflect from the travesty that is Citizens United isnt working.
When you get drunk and tell that story for the umpteenth time is Springsteen's "Glory days" playing in the background too?
no real desire to win just to make a scene and gain attention.
LOLOL! Wasnt that obvious?
Who is Colbert?When I say I stopped watching TV at the end of the ST-Voyager run,I'm not kidding.I tossed my Trinitron out in '93,and got a video spigot card,connected my vcr and cable tuner,and off we went,never looking back.I CAN access tv,but,why?IF i actually want to see something,it's over a digital data feed now.Like Comcast predicted,in '93.When they prototyped direcTV with a 16 processor supercomputer(an SGI),and I got to do audio(ac3,aac,mp3-4,interleaving,etc).
The Sony reps stated they were NOT going to embrace the new Fraunhoffer codec(now known as mp3)for the digital Walkman.That was the last week of me working in my credentialed field(audio/video engineering for broadcast)and went IT fulltime.
Wow! I was just telling my daughter how funny Droopy was! Definitley funnier than Colbert.
These ladies know that our problems are no laughing matter. Colbert is only funny to hard leftists, and adult idiots who still live in their parents basements.
Nope, that's not what I think at all. But I do think most of those women in the video were very easily swayed by that Chris Christie doppelganger. They did not show a lot of intelligence, imo.
Corporations do not magically appear out of nothing; neither do they continue to exist on their own. Corporations ARE "persons" because they represent the interests of a group- from the CEO to the janitors- their JOBS. The health of ANY corporation is important to the people within and WITHOUT, influencing the jobs and financial interests in the community. The media tries to convince the audience that "corporations" ONLY mean those big, multinationals (and I am not a huge fan of those), rather than what it ACTUALLY means- everything from a one-man operation to a larger American company. The minute you "incorporate", you are a corporation. And yes, they ARE people.
It's truly a shame that the left really believes the rest of us are as stupid as those who follow THEM.
…Like most Americans, I will be satisfied if Romney stanches the bleeding, and begins the slow weaning of America from Socialism – the real "New Day" will dawn when Marco Rubio is sworn in as President in 2020 after Mitt's two terms…….
….with Senators Allen West, Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin to assist….
This is actually the first time I've told it, and 'Glory days' would be a good choice….
Get lost, you pole-smoking retard.
You're an "everyday" parasite that should have been cut off from his host years ago.
So, did Colbert actually think parroting the audience's values in the opening before pushing his anti-corporate agenda would work?
Funny how you think opposition to censorship and hypcorisy is a "travesty". Of course for you, wiping your own ass is a "challenge". You're the perfect example of somebody who would see this worthless Viacom mouthpiece perform live; a deadbeat loser with delusions of intellectual grandeur despite fleeeing like a coward from every debate and exhibiting absolutley no cognitive dissonance whatsoever.
You can swing the lead but you can´t bury it.
"If we are to believe him, America will rise to it's former greatness and things will be beautiful in the USA once again. Anyone who believes that crap deserves what we get."
What I said … in 2008. You think we forgot what Obama, the great uniter, promised us? And what he actually did? It is people like you who believed and who are responsible for the crap we already got.
So life begins at incorporation then?
So the right wing crowd who think corporations are people didn't like Colbert? It's amazing the utter farce of CU doesnt cross all political sides but, it seems this right wing group has nothing but a knee-jerk reaction, no matter the issue take the opposite side if you dont like them. Libs also oppose SOPA, so get a head start and support SOPA then.
He appeals to the Homer Simpson's and Stephen Colbert's of the world. Oh, and possibly the Snooky's….
Very interesting video. The ladies are very polite by not expressing their hatred for Colbert. Mr. Colbert is a boring actor who thinks he is funny but is not. The polite ladies show proper respect to Mr. Luntz and it's too bad they had to waste their time with Mr. Colbert's ignorant speech. The woman in the photo of Mr. Colbert's mother looks 71, not 91. I don't believe a single word he says.
Totally agree with you…
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