Colbert schools Media Matters on free speech.
By on Oct 9th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Colbert schools Media Matters on free speech.
After Media Matters recorded Rush Limbaugh calling service members who support withdrawal from Iraq “phony soldiers,” the right-wing has mounted an all-out assault on the media watchdog. On The Colbert Report last night, Stephen Colbert sarcastically addressed the right’s complaints about Media Matters:
Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended. Because the Constitution gives us broadcasters the right to say anything we want but that doesn’t mean that just anyone has the right to listen.
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Another classic!
Republicans are afraid of Media Matters because they don’t want anyone to be able to replay the nonsense they spew. Look at O’Reilly’s 5 days of ranting after his excursion to Sylvia’s was revealed.
BTW…O’Reilly is literally descending into madness.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:46 pmAlright, Colbert. You go guy!
October 9th, 2007 at 3:49 pmI love The Colbert Report…
October 9th, 2007 at 3:53 pmColbert is pure gold. And all the ranting about Media Matters will elevate them to the same level ranting about Daily Kos did. Turning them both into household names. Keep it up righties.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:53 pmWho you going to believe?
Me, or your damn lying ears??
To paraphrase what seems to be the conservative take on sites like Media Matters…..
October 9th, 2007 at 3:57 pmbut the most important point is MEDIUM MATTERS…
specifially right, left or center…
i just re-read limpballs words on a preceeding thread, and
it was such a classic case of PROJECTION…
“They can’t rely on truth to make their case for their cause.
They have to lie.” -r.l.
EVERYbody knows that is what the right is all about…
poor, stupid gits…
colbert is so far about their heads, they can’t even see it…
October 9th, 2007 at 3:59 pmmuch less GET it…
poor stupid gits…
…
Liberty U grad, Friend of Falwell, Minister dies in bizarre sex play
Some days the world is too weird.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:00 pmColbert is way more facetious than the NASCAR crowd can figure out, they actaully think he’s being complementary to their cause.
In fact I have a friend who is a Republic666an (a likable guy other than being an idiot) and he thinks Colbert is conserv666ative.
Anywho, gotta love that Colbert. i wish he’d change his shtick though so the morons among us could get the point.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:06 pmcomment by Paddy
Just when you think you’ve seen/heard everything…..
October 9th, 2007 at 4:29 pmGather round children, so that I may explain it to you again:
MoveOn.org intentionally published a statement in the NY Times calling the commander of Iraq forces a traitor. Congress voted and passed a condemnation of that statement. NO ONE said that MoveOn.org and the NY Times couldn’t print it, they merely condemned them for saying it.
Rush Limbaugh made a reference to individual soldiers about which he had been speaking for days, weeks and months, calling THEM phony, and the reference was taking out of context and distorted to make Rush sound like he doesn’t support the troops. Congress, as a whole, would NOT condemn the reference, although some congressmen were trying to use the issue to push their agenda to control radio content / free speech.
Libs explicitly attacted our commander in Iraq as a traitor and Congress only condemned the statement. Rush’s words were taken out of context and twisted, and some in Congress pushed to control free speech, while the rest ignored it.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:36 pmI love it when Colbert’s point is so brilliant that his audience goes quiet because they are thinking about what he’s saying. And he really knocked it out of the park on this one.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:38 pmThanks Paddy, great link.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:45 pmPaddy,
I read the link, and it’s associated link, and can’t dismiss thoughts that something is wrong with that scenario. It seems too excessive, as if someone was trying too hard to make the tragedy appear to be an accident, as opposed to foul play.
It seems that there are too many fetishes piled one on top of another, for it to be legitimate. Latex fetish, bondage fetish, asphyxiation fetish, etc. – just seems far too elaborate. I don’t doubt people’s desires to do each of these, just not all of them at once – two wetsuits, too much.
Perhaps they need to find anyone (else) who did engage in this type of activity with this individual to come forward and confirm it, before I would believe it. Not saying that it couldn’t be true, just seems too excessive to be believed at this point.
October 9th, 2007 at 5:04 pmLiberty U grad, Friend of Falwell, Minister dies in bizarre sex play
Some days the world is too weird.
Comment by Paddy — October 9, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
Too weird?!?! Not for a Liberty U grad and friend of Falwell! Remember, you’re talk’n an evangelical, conservative republican.
BTW, there was a glaring mistake in the police report. He could not possibly have been “normocephalic”. Again, you’re talk’n an evangelical, conservative republican.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:00 pmThe progressive preoccupation with convincing themselves how they are smarter than conservatives and attributing the difference in ideologies to the ignorance of conservatives, seems quite contrary to the old sterotype of liberals as open minded. More and more, it seems as though liberals have tolerance for only one point of view – their own.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — October 9, 2007 @ 5:12 pm
Hey, how can you blame us? The right has been proven so completely wrong on so many issues that it really becomes difficult to ignore the reality of our obvious intellectual, spiritual and political superiority. It isn’t our fault; it’s your side that has f*cked up so repeatedly and foolishly. Look to your own, rather than engaging in blame and projection. the people of the world hate America dna Americans because of rightwing stupididty and immorality. You can look it up.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pmThe progressive preoccupation with convincing themselves how they are smarter than conservatives and attributing the difference in ideologies to the ignorance of conservatives, seems quite contrary to the old sterotype of liberals as open minded. More and more, it seems as though liberals have tolerance for only one point of view – their own.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — October 9, 2007 @ 5:12 pm
Well, look at it this way: you go to school where some math teacher teaches you that 2+2=4 (using the decimal system) and then you learn the mathematical proof as to why this is so during your higher education, the theory behind it, and all sorts of other implications of this simple equation in the grand scheme of Mathematics, Logic and then their further implications for Physics, Chemistry etc. In short it is a component of a world-view based on rational, empirically verifiable models of the Universe we “liberals” tend to adhere to.
Then a bunch of home-schooled clowns show up, convinced that the Universe is 6 thousand years old and that for most of that time the Dinosaurs were present as a mode of handy locomotion for humans and wore saddles, and on an on goes the cretinous drivel untill finally amongst all of the untold volumes of certifiable idiocy, in which the clowns demand that we submit to their nearly unlimited ignorance in all things, they end up insisting that 2+2=7 on Tuesdays and 3 on Sunday for all intents and purposes. And then they proceed to make laws and start wars based on this world-view. Not forgetting of course in the process to loot the public purse to give generously to all of their lunatic friends.
And we refuse to accept this “phillosophy” as valid not because we are a bunch of “elitist snobs” but because, you see, there are limits to “open mindness” beyond which lies “uncritical gullibility”. Open minded we still are but jaw slacked drooling dupes, who you so desperately want us to be, we are not. We will not accept monumental, towering stupidity as having the same weight as rational thought, just because a tool like you might accuse us of being “intolerant” … of utter, complete and empirically demonstrable imbecilism.
As a matter of fact, we take it as an unintentional compliment from the likes of you.
And so thank you very much! And you are welcome!
October 10th, 2007 at 5:05 amI don’t believe in God, but I’m open minded enough to respect the people who do.
Right, so explain again how is a belief in a some kind of creative entity behind the origins of the Universe in any way related to a 4000 year old Dino with a saddle strapped on? Ignorant, malignant, fundamentalist stupidity is just that. There is no redeeming value in self-absorbed, authoritarian, vicious medieval religious nutcases, be they from Alabama or Afghanistan. And saying so has nothing to do with “respecting other people’s opinions”. Respect requires a modicum of sanity in the ideas to be respected.
This may be hard for you to understand, but some people homeschool, because they don’t have much faith in the public school system.
They also do not have “faith” in science or education in general. What they do have “faith” in is indoctrination in some far out religious (or in your case greed-based/anti-government/anti-social) nuttery which the secular school system is likely to interfere with by teaching kids to ask inconvenient questions.
That is why you and your fellow accomplices would prefer complete destruction of the public system and that is why you were working to this end for many decades. And then you use the results of your own handiwork in under-funding, subverting and near dismantling of that system as a “justification” for your actions!
The lie is of course made crystal clear by the patently obvious fact that the public education is the only equitable and effective basic education in every other advanced country on the planet. Except the USA of course, where wackos like you managed to get to run the show and have near achieved their goal of replacing public education with a system of Madrasahs and family-compound brain-washing operations.
My 8 year old is homeschooled and I just gave him this quiz
Putting aside the obvious and laughable nature of such “proof” in an anonymous, unverifiable post on the Internet, your “test” only goes to show the extent of your self-centered, narcisstic world-view: you believe that you can do a better job, haphazardly, in your spare time, then professionals who deal with thousands of kids throughout their career can during the course of a properly planned education schedule in a controlled environment, complete with proper lab equipment and other prohibitively expensive for a household educational aids. Something only a religious nut or a megalomaniac “Libertarian” greediot would ever believe.
I believe you generalization of homeschoolers is a further idication of your narrow view of anyone who disagrees with your
positions.
See above. Simple logic, coupled with global statistical data, clearly indicates that “homeschooling” is a predominantly American aberration popularized there by an unprecedented concentration of antisocial nutjob parents with a desire to make their kids wallow in their own ignorance and pet religious or economic woo-wooisms.
It is one of the reasons behind the free-fall of scientific standing and rapidly deteriorating general respect for the USA. It is also the reason behind another disturbing statistics: in the dwindling number of still respected technology Universities in the USA, a majority of engineering and science students are now foreigners, most of whom will carry their knowledge back abroad with them. And I assure you, none of them were homeschooled. Not one.
October 10th, 2007 at 11:50 am