Not surprising: Freepers think "Colbert Report" is a real news show

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518653/posts

This is too good...

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I wont give them any hits ... even for my morbid curiosity.

Freeper is series!!!!!!! (sic) Quoting 4 paragraphs:

On the Tuesday evening edition (11/08/2005) of the Colbert Report I was surprised to see a normally super-liberal and irreverent Stephen Colbert seriously challenge Catherine Crier when she lamented that our country would soon start to 'revert' to prayer in school, public display of nativity scenes and menorahs, etc...because of the likes of the Tom Delays and others on the Christian right.

There is not transcript available but Colbert slammed her and Crier was really caught off guard. He basically stated that it was foolish to abandon our moral conscious for the 'public good' and what was wrong with a little religion/faith in public policy, wasn't our country's founders respectful of that tradition?

When Crier then started blathering about separation, he vehemently slammed her saying there was no such thing as separation, staing that it was the intention of the constitution and founding fathers to prevent the Gov't from creating a state religion but not prevent religion to be a part of society and the body politic. he was serious. I have watched this guy for years now and he wasn't setting up a gag.

It was impressive - He told her she was dead wrong and went on to another topic.

Of course there is no transcript, dingbat, it's a comedy show, a parody! Dumbass freepers...


Now it's easier to believe they are now convinced that the CIA is a rogue leftist organization out to get Bush and smear Republicans.

How long has Stephen Colbert been on? Was he on TV before "The Daily Show"? and how long has TDS been on?

I think.

:hi:

and if this freepturd doesn't get it by now, he's hopeless.

No, wait, that's redundant . . .

:D At any rate, there's not a whole lot to be done when someone has such a severe irony deficiency.

I knew they weren't very intelligent, but this is mind boggling!

is it possible they're just doing this to "mess" with us????

with Crier.

Oh brother. And what's so funny is he's mimicking rightwingers like O'Reilly. I guess they can't sense the sarcasm (on a side note I personally like Crier).

... if that poster has indeed "watched this guy for years now" then s/he must understand Colbert's gift with satire. Could s/he not be placing an exquisite irony bomb in the middle of FR? We all know that freepers have an extreme blind-spot for irony.

Maybe I see irony where it doesn't exist, but that's just the rust-coloured glasses I wear.

There's insufficient evidence to prove my hypothesis (and yours TBH, but the average freeper behaviour tilts in your favour). Despite that lack of evidence, I trust that there are brave people on teh intarweb who will wade into such a cesspool, if only to start the pump and stir things up a bit. It's a nicer thought than there being such a moron on this planet.

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Thanks for the morning laugh, I needed it! :D

fast, easy to administer, with nearly 100% accuracy. :evilgrin:

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What makes this particular humorous is that the show opened with Colbert complaining that some bloggers were confused about his "Ching Chong Ding Dong" routine and assumed that they that's how Colbert must be in real life. Colbert admonished his critics by saying, "that wasn't me. That was a character I was playing..."

This was obviously a too subtle a sketch for the freepers to understand.

What do these people do for a living?

It certainly fits them better!

Colbert smacked Crier down? Jesus. Freepers must have missed The Daily Show "this week in god" segements Colbert created.

Colbert is doing an IMPRESSION of a hard right pundit.

It's BROAD SATIRE, freepers. You know, the kind that requires no thought? Beyond them, though.

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"There is not transcript available but Colbert slammed her and Crier was really caught off guard. He basically stated that it was foolish to abandon our moral conscious for the 'public good' and what was wrong with a little religion/faith in public policy, wasn't our country's founders respectful of that tradition?"


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My mind is actually boggled. HOW do you not understand that it's a comedy show MAKING FUN of your bullshit?!

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these same people believe televangelists are sincere.

They are easily fooled.

Comedy Central. I mean, they tell you right up front what the deal is.

But you're absolutely right. It probably does come from the same nether regions of their little heads.

what's this about Santa Claus...? You know something I don't?

I KNEW IT!!

that was the the funniest thing i have ever read on that site..no one really had a clue that it`s satire...that was also the stupidest post and response i have ever read.

How stupid can you get. Its satire, you idiots, not a news show.

going over to Free Republic - would have lost my breakfast if I hadn't seen Colbert myself last night.......what absolute idiots. It was obvious it was satire because Crier didn't break a sweat. It goes to show, they will believe anything that fits their agenda.

on display. Hilarious.

You bring up a good point. Fox is SERIOUS about the news but provides 24 hour comedy.

"To: Danno
I hate the Daily Show, but Colbert is really funny, and a whole lot smarter."

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That is great.

He and the other Daily Show correspondents and fake pundits NEVER break character. It's just good acting, he's not a neo-con.

Unless, Colbert is the one responding to Danno

I just reread it imagining Colbert saying it in a viewer mail segment and just about spit out my coffee. Hilarious.

but it wouldn't hurt if others did - they get so many messages one would probably go unseen.

I'll go and send an Email too! Where do you send an Email to? I don't see a link at the show's site. :shrug:

I've been a member over on that site for ages but rarely visit it so I don't even know where to send messages.

than just Free Republic posts.

that is so freakin' funny.

Ummmm... it is on the COMEDY CHANNEL freepers...

To: Danno

Wow--will try to catch the repeat.

Thanks for the info.

3 posted on 11/09/2005 5:15:54 AM PST by leezard (Eating more taxis before 9am than most people do all day!)
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They come across as absurd human caricatures of right wingers.

On edit: But they are real people! OMFG

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As discussed here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5300679

Hmmmnnn, that could be the intro to a Colbert Report segment...

"Why All The Fuss About Torturing People?
Didn't a wise man once say -- maybe it was Mohammed -- that 'what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger'? Well, you islamo-fascist rascals, you, hop on the bandwagon! Get on the greatest fitness craze since John Basedow's 'Abs in Steel Vices'! Come on! It builds character! Maybe you wouldn't be so intent upon bombing little Euro-Christian children if you felt better about yourselves!"

But then, they'd probably believe that, too.

It seems these people are so far off the deep end, satire even has a hard time keeping up.

Geez, not til 16 posts in does one of 'em show some brains:


I don't like his show. His act is clearly to be a parody of conservative talk show hosts. He's making fun of us the whole darn show.


16 posted on 11/09/2005 6:18:27 AM PST by SmoothTalker

My God, does the big screaming eagle and huge flag graphics everywhere not give them a clue?

The fact that everything on the set says "COLBERT" and he even sits in a desk shaped in a C?

The stupid things he says pretending to be a conservative pundit? (I heard the one person he is poking at the most is O'Lielly.)

Geez, Louise.

Colbert running over, hands in the air, to visit with guests. Jesus

His Words of the Day, like "truthiness." Come on, those little brain-dead bushites couldn't tell THAT was making fun of conservatives? He just MAKES UP words like someone else we know.

(I love "truthiness.")

Trusted + Prestigious

like a snake charmer's flute.. ......as Dave Letterman says, "They been HYP-MO-TIZED.......:rofl:

reeks of sincerity. Where as to the imaginative mind it is regarded in context and reeks of parody.

everywhere not give them a clue?"

Nope, it gives them a boner.

I wonder how long it will take them to figure out he is *gasp* FRENCH? Even O'Reilly had that much figured out after the first episode of The Colbert Report.

During the commercials he said "It's French bitch".

:hi:

only refers to the fact on a regular basis.

good Colbert is at his satire. It amazes me that he holds his character for the whole show like that.

I really am surprised, though, at the freepers. I mean, that's just fucking embarrassing.

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the way Colbert does.

Mighty cute. ;-)

If I were a less.....ethical person....I'd have my "ministry" up and running and raking in the dough right now. Those people can be suckered so easily it's ridiculous!

I always wondered how the religious right was so adept at gaining such a large number of followers, seeing this display of gullibility explains it.

I could be RICH!!! I could be driving a Bentley! I could be wearing expensive clothes and rolling in the money!

I could promise healing prayer and a direct line to GAWD if they would only write a check to my ministry.

But no. I have this thing about being dishonest. And using God's name to make money.

Sigh.

:eyes:

Get a brain, moran.

although there is probably plenty of room on those train tracks. www.prayerswithlove.com See, it amplifies the power of your prayers in ways a megaphone just can't!

"I don't like his show. His act is clearly to be a parody of conservative talk show hosts. He's making fun of us the whole darn show"

That darn Colbert shouldn't be makin' fun these nice folks.

Ass-covering time, since the first 6-7 posts clearly indicated that they thought Colbert was serious.

"oh he he yeah I knew he was a parosal, parudey, paro...JOKE! I KNEW THAT!!! SHUT UP!!!"

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I don't like his show. His act is clearly to be a parody of conservative talk show hosts. He's making fun of us the whole darn show.

16 posted on 11/09/2005 6:18:27 AM PST by SmoothTalker

Who can you laugh at?

To be fair (and balanced), it's difficult to satirize something as self-parodying as Fox. Hopefully, in some future and saner time, a compendium of Fox News broadcasts will have folks rolling in the aisles.

To: TNCMAXQ

She really has gone over then - she was very radical and aggressive in her statements on the report last night. I guess she and Ariana Huffington were targeted by the same Pod people...

13 posted on 11/09/2005 5:37:30 AM PST by Danno

I must be leading a sheltered life. . . . .

kinda. . . . not really. . . .

"Talking Point" that he is acting the role of one of their minions. stupid is as stupid does says the Bubba Gumps of the world.

HA!

Naive

Freepers...You're on notice! :P

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I bet I could sell one to 99% of the people in that thread. I'd even roll back my every day low price to $4000.00 a pop.

I bet I could sell one to 99% of the people in that thread. I'd even roll back my every day low price to $4000.00 a pop.

James Brady a coward for wanting to control guns. He said he doesn't know what made this guy such a p*ssy, but he is a coward.

Got to love satire. It really exposes dumb-asses. :)

"...great president? Or the greatest president?"

I love that bit!

Now he has Democrats "on the record" that Bush is a great president. :rofl:

they all seem to know that Colbert is making fun of them during most of his show. They just thought that that one particular interview was on the level. And maybe I'm an idiot too, but I wasn't exactly sure if it was on the level either. Colbert didn't have his typical pompous ass tone when making his points. And they were more or less exactly the points right-wingers raise. He usually adds something to make it clear it's satire. For example, he'll say about intelligent design and the big bang, "C'mon, isn't it just easier to believe that the universe was breathed to life instantly by an all-knowing, all-good, omnipresent being. You're 'theory' makes my head hurt." You'd never actually hear someone saying that on the level (though it really is the essentials of the ID belief). Apart from his "public good" comment, which ironically the freeper quoted, and his "you're wrong" line, it didn't seem like satire at all. At best, it seemed like he was playing devil's advocate (no pun intended).

in a truckload of deceptions

I've often thought his show would appeal to wingers who in the process might occasionally glimpse the ridiculousness of their positions

drawing them in.

Hey Freepers, next year when you repeat the 8th grade again, maybe you oughta stop making paper airplanes and shooting spitwads and actually pay attention!

leaned the meaning of "irony".

i can never force myself to go, but i love Colbert so i had to read this.

Did my sister design this page for her 7th grade computer class? Are those really their sig lines?

always proud to be a dem.

I think it was started in 2000, but it looks more like 1995...
There was a bunch of stuff about the fundraising and the amount of $$$ raised vs. what they must seem to actually spend on it.

Like the time they gave a pro-war rally and nobody came?

so it doesn't surprise me that they consider "The Colbert Report" to have any modicum of seriousness. Didn't Colbert himself say he was parodying Bill O'Reilly?

1 posted on 11/09/2005 5:09:18 AM PST by Danno
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To: Danno
"Hmmm.
I catch snippets of his show every now and then.
Guess I'll tune in more often"

it is a farce of O'Loelly

It's on "Comedy Central" for a reason.

This just proves how fucking stupid these people are!

And it shows me why I LOVE the Colbert Report. :D

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You think I'm kidding?

works for me!!!

working to make "Slumpy" look good.

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Someone should email that to Colbert. He'd love it.

didn't really have time to study the site to find it. But I sent it to the 'Feedback' with Colbert Report in the topic line.

:)

What I don't understand is when she was on Fox she was very conservative, now she's the polar opposite. Maybe this is why the MSM's credibility is at an all time low with the public.


11 posted on 11/09/2005 5:32:06 AM PST by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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well imagine that???!!! Conservative on FOX. Polar opposite afterwards. How fishy!

And nobody in like 4 hours of freeping has the sense to come along and say "COLBERT. DOES. SATIRE."

they think it's real. I guess they never saw 'Strangers with Candy' where Steve played a gay teacher. Freepers, wake the fuck up! It's a gag.

show ala Larry Sanders, i was pretty horrified when i found out it was actually a morning show.

He said a couple of dead-pan lines, but now next time they watch they're going to get a rude awakening.

"I had a feeling it would just be a continuation of Jon Stewart's junk..."

Yeah. I had that feeling, too.

They think he's one fo them.

This was telling:

"He portrays a sort of conservative, an arrogant always-right bombastic O' Reilly guy. I'm not so sure he wasn't just in character.'

So this is what they think of the guy they get all their bullshit talking points from? Hmmm.