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Hey, we’re late in reporting The Colbert Report’s coverage of the candidates mentioning Israel 31 times in the foreign policy debate last Monday night, but it’s great comedy.
Beginning at 1:45 in the video, after flashing robo ‘Israel’ replays, Stephen Colbert:
I was playing a drinking game last night where I took a shot of Manischewitz every time……every time someone said Israel and by the end of the debate I was totally diabetic.
What stood out most for me in the debate was the constant condescending no nothing smirky half grin spread across Romney’s face whenever Obama was speaking. It did more to sink Romney than anything either of them said, not presidential. Colbert zeroed in on that smile and I loved it. He picked up Brit Hume calling it an “attractive default expression.”
5 minutes into the video Colbert remarked:
That reminds me of a benevolent angel watching me shower.
Colbert signed off the night taking a shot of … you guessed it, Manischewitz.
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(Hat tip Karen Platt)
Why can’t we have Colbert for prexy? At worst incompetent governance would be funny. At best, it might (here and there) not even be incompetent. Oh, furgat, two-party system. Quite a system! Makes the work of the oligarchs so much simpler.
And Colbert’s career comes to an end in 3…2…1…
Ordinarily, subjecting someone to 31 shots of Manischewitz Concord Red would be a major crime against humanity. I hope that Colbert was using some liquid with approved food coloring instead. I must say that I was shocking enough to drive his point.
PS. Colbert did run for President at some point, conveniently enough, this is his real name, I do not recall what happened. Perhaps we should organize a “super-PAC” “Steve Colbert for President. Seriously.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/iran-military-action-downing-street
Iran military action not ‘right course at this time’, Downing Street says
Government reiterates its current opposition to military action against Iran after revelation US has requested use of UK bases
British reluctance to be a conduit for a US military buildup in the Gulf seems to have taken Washington by surprise but it demonstrates the lessons of Iraq are deeply etched in Whitehall. This time the UK is making clear it will not write blank cheques and will take its own decisions on what is legal and what is not.
@Annie Robbins: What stood out most for me in the debate was the constant condescending no nothing smirky half grin spread across Romney’s face whenever Obama was speaking. It did more to sink Romney than anything either of them said, not presidential.
Beg pardon???? Fair and balanced, not.
Would you care to comment, however briefly, on the vice-presidential candidates’ debate and Biden repeatedly grinning like a brain-damaged chimp with a new dildo every time Ryan criticized the administration? If Romney’s grin sank Romney, then Biden’s grin surely sank the entire Democratic party for generations to come.
You’re too young to remember, but the Temptations checked in here about 40 years ago:
“Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes — they don’t tell the truth.”