Colbert makes a complete mockery of Congress (Pelosi’s Reply: “Of Course It’s Appropriate”)

The Blaze ^ | SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 | Meredith Jessup

[RobinMasters]

When I saw the news that Stephen Colbert was going to testify before Congress to talk about the one day he spent working on a farm, I was ashamed. After his testimony today, I’m not only ashamed, I am angry. But my anger isn‘t so much directed at Colbert as the politicians who thought it’d be a good idea to put on a committee comedy spectacle in the halls of Congress.

While some criticized Colbert’s appearance earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she thought it would be a great idea for the Comedy Central star to give his “expert” testimony. “Of course I think it’s appropriate,” she said. “He’s an American. He can bring attention to an important issue. I think it’s great.”

[RobinMasters]

Note: She mumbles “I think it’s great” at the very end.

[NonValueAdded]

Zoe Lofgren should be censured.

[Michael.SF.]

I wonder if there was a two drink minimum during this all important and enlightening discussion.

[The Great RJ]

Who invited this nitwit to appear before Congress? They should be censured.

[Ann Archy]

He made them ALL seem FOOLISH and CHILDISH.....hope the public WAKES UP!!!

[tanknetter]

His testimony can be seen in two lights.

First, his back-handed defense of immigrant labor using argumentum absurdum.

Second, tho, was his slam on the kind of celebrity testimony that has become all-too common on Capitol Hill. His comments about having vast experience from a single days work, using his “star power” to get the hearing knocked up to C-Span 1 and the rest actually resonated with me, and I see them as being completely aligned with the “Shut up and Sing” perspective.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Since good Democrats run Congress, I’m sure that a good Democrat congressman/woman thought up the idea, and got approval from the chairman/woman, and gave permission for Colbert to appear in Congress.

[rovenstinez]

It was all a SHAM, a mockery, he goosed them all.

[dead]

I have no problem with what Colbert did. Much like the Howard Stern prank calls of old, it serves the purpose of showing what idiots we have running things in this country.

It was quite the tensis.

[An Old Man]

There are not many things that nancy and I agree on. This may be the single exception. If any group of people deserve to be ridiculed for their actions, the current democrat members of the U S Congress have to be high on the list.

Colbert makes a complete mockery of Congress (Pelosi’s Reply: “Of Course It’s Appropriate”)

Maybe she is right on this one.

[Michael.SF.]

“He’s an American. He can bring attention to an important issue."

Well if that is the criteria:

O. J. Simpson to discuss the importance of DNA evidence.

Pee Wee Herman on personal privacy.

Barry Bonds on improving integrity in sports.

Charles Manson on ways to rehabilitate criminals.

Bob Dylan on the importance singing lessons to children.

[traditional1]

"politicians who thought it’d be a good idea to put on a committee comedy spectacle in the halls of Congress."

The same kind of spectacle that occurs in every Senate Session, with the asshat Al Franken posing as a Senator from Minnesota?

[hometoroost]

He made a mockery of something that is already a mockery. These jackasses dragged themselves down below where he is about 50 years ago.

[evad]

He and that other numb nut should be quite a show at their Restoration of Sanity March

[linn37]

Colbert didn’t help much. He mocked the losers who allowed him a platform.

[a fool in paradise]

Next they will bringing in Pigasus to tesify on behalf of the Yippie red diaper doper baby DemocRats.

and then Incitatus, the horse that served in the Roman Senate.

[madinmadtown]

I grew up on a farm and I find this whole episode wildly offensive. How come when leftists are offensive, it is supposed to be comedy? And when a rightie causes the least bit of offense (unintentionally), it is a horrid and hand-wringing, heart-wrenching affront of all that is good and just in the world and should be punished loudly and publicly with as much vitriol as possible?
The Republic is facing grave, serious, extraordinary issues and the Democrats find that after Labor Day, they should make a mockery of the whole system. It is beyond the pale. What complete and utter jerks and nincompoops.

[RichInOC]

He did? How could anybody tell?

[dr_who]

Democrat priorities on display for all to see.

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

I feel EXACTLY the same way.... ashamed. I can’t think of many times that I have felt this way about our government. I have felt many other emotions, but those are expected with the ruling class that no longer even pretends to care about “We The People”. But what happened this morning is as sickening as having a President make a national address to admit having non-sex with a young woman not his wife in the Oval Office.

Elected officials think this is a joke. At least some of them do. Enough of them think so little of their positions, and the processes of our government, that they let it come to this today.

No one stepped up to stop it. Today’s “testimony” not only made a mockery of a very real threat to our national security, but mocked our system of Government as a whole. That, in my opinion, is a travesty and because of that I am ashamed.