Daily Stewart 2010

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01/12'10 Intro: Instead of a little fight, interviewing John Yoo was like interviewing sand.
01/12'10 "Let me get this straight: The only people that have fully recovered from the financial meltdown, are the ones that caused the financial meltdown.
And by recovered, I mean, apparently, redipping their balls in gold." [...]
Spitzer) "Goldman Sachs will have a profit that we'd estimated about 12 a billion dollars last year. That is precisely what tax payers gave them to help them get bailed out from their AIG exposure. It is all tax dollars."
Stewart) "That's Eliot Spitzer saying we just paid a lot of money for someone to fuck us. How did we get here?! How?! Why?! How did we get to the point where companies that we had to bail out with billions of dollars get to use that money to reward their employees with billions of dollars?
Well, that journey is documented in our new segment 'We Had To!'" [...]
Henry Paulson) "The markets are fragile – we have a serious situation: We're not doing this to protect our financial institutions in and of themselves, we are doing it to protect the financial institutions because that's what is needed to protect the American taxpayer."
Stewart) "Oh right, we had to: We had to give them billions of dollars to save ourselves ... we're so selfish."
01/12'10 "Sodomy promotion is from Satan's Jews."
01/12'10 "I'm getting a crimp. I'm so not understanding this."

01/13'10 The year in preview, Ann Mack's false smile and trends in trendwatching
"Luckily, television news programs have access to experts who can remove the uncertainty for an anxious world."
Brit Hume) "Well, I think terrorism returns as a major political issue this political season."
01/14'10 The Man of God: It's a true story.
Pat Robertson) "And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.' True story. And so, the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal.' Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other."
01/18'10 "If this lady loses, the health-care reform bill that the beloved late senator considered his legacy will die. And the reason it will die ... Let's get deep ... the reason it will die is because if Coakley loses, Democrats will only then have an 18-vote majority in the Senate, which is more than George W. Bush ever had in the Senate when he did whatever the fuck he wanted to do. In fact, the Democrats have a greater majority than the Republicans have had since 1923. But for Democrats apparently a majority of 100 ... is 60. I need my inhaler."

01/25'10 Supreme Corp. "That means our future looks bright."
01/26'10 Michael Scheuer (SJ) & Elizabeth Warren
01/27'10 Ethan Watters – Crazy like us. The Globalization of the American Psyche
"Japan is actually a very sad culture. It embraces sadness [...] almost like a religious state. [...] But when it comes to science behind anti-depressants, it's really quite problematic: Drug companies are creating this science to a huge degree. They are not valuing these drugs but they're creating and marketing the science. Then we get it over to another country, it looks like science, but the truth is that it's much more problematic than that."
01/28'10 "What about the people who watched the speech but found it too straight forward and understandable? Well, there's always CNN. [...]
I've never seen a Situation Room where more information helped me understand less. I'm sorry, you were saying Twitter was fascinating. I've been on Twitter: it's not. But you know what, I'll let you prove it's not ..."

02/01'10 Q & O) Last night, Jon Stewart sat in awe of President Obama's smack down of the GOP during a Q&A session, saying "it's like he's seeing their talking points in bullet time."
Stewart also slammed Fox News for cutting off coverage of the event early: "We're gonna cut away because this is against the narrative that we present."
Faulty Powers – Neo-Catholic Bliar and Goolsbee again – typical Bonesman like the Bushs

02/03'10 Sam Bee) Something puss-related

03/04'10 "OK, I can't wait to hear what that was." "It was a cock." ("five cock-filled chambers")
Olberman) "Bearing witness to the new era of communication, Jon. It is Orwellian, sir. It is Big Brother and Big Brother is none other than each of us. The Bush Administration Warrant-less Wire-tap Search Society at T1 speeds. The Surveillance State, gone viral. At long last, sir, have we no shame?
I think one of us is supposed to take our pants off, now." [...] "I hate Chat Roulette!"
03/04'10 Scott Patterson – The Quants: "Who are 'the quants'? Who are these cats?
Patterson) These are mathematicians, physicists, super geniuses who have figured out, using their math skills and computer skills, ways to price securities in the stock market, make big bets, and unfortunatley frequently cause big blow-ups.
Stewart) So the idea that generally a stock's price would be reflective of a value created by what the company makes, they look at that and thought, 'that's a sucker bet.'
Patterson) Right.
Stewart) Let me create an equation that has no real bearing in that [...]
They're making products out of stocks. Like for instance, if there's a stock from a company, they would take that stock and say, 'let me make that a stock daiquiri of some sort. Just blend it together with other ingredients and then make people drink it.' Do they share these profits with regular people or is it only amongst quants?
Patterson) Well, all of Wall Street is controlled by quants, in my opinion. So everything that people are investing, hedge funds ... hedge funds have pension funds money in them, so the money is being spread around. But I think what people don't understand is that this started decades ago and all these guys, they completely revolutionize the way Wall Street works, using their skills. You would not believe how many physicists are at these banks in hedge funds.
Stewart) Now, doesn't it seem like they are running an express lane?
That there's a Wall Street that is for general traffic, and then there is this express lane where these guys are making billions and billions and billions of dollars and kind of capitalizing gains and then when shit hits the fans, for lack of a better word, socializing their losses amongst the slower lanes.
Patterson) That's what happened on Wall Street, yeah.
Stewart) That doesn't seem fair.
Patterson) The banks, they're run by these guys and they realized that, because Wall Street was implicitly supported by Washington D.C., they could make bigger bets in using this quantitative strategies [...]
They thought they could make bigger bets and they proved to be wrong.
Stewart) Right. True. Here is my favorite thing that they did is, the quants came up with a Hippocratic oath after they started losing a lot of money in 2007 and in 2008 when apparently the stock market began not to defy the laws of gravity. So here's the Hippocratic oath of the quants: 'I will remember that I didn't make the world and it doesn't satisfy my equations.' [...]
Patterson) That goes to the hybris of these guys. They are running so much money when you think about it. You're controlling billions of dollars, you're becoming extremely rich.
These guys are very arrogant because of their intelligence and their wealth.

Stewart) Have they been humbled in any way by what appears to be a world-wide collapse of their strategy?
Patterson) I thought they would be, to be honest, after this happened and I was writing this book but ...
Stewart) They spoke with you for the book while they were winning.
Patterson) Right.
Stewart) And then when it went bad ...
Patterson) They suddenly didn't want to talk much anymore. From what I hear, 'cause these guys don't really talk to me very much anymore, they blame other people and this is endemic in all of Wall Street. Nobody really wants to takes the blame because this thing was so vast and global, really, that everybody can point the finger on somebody else and nobody wants to take responsibility.
Stewart) It seems like a lot of what these guys did was use these mathematical analyses and equations to circumvent the intent of securities law while still obeying the letter of those laws or acting in areas that were unregulated completely.
Patterson) Right. That is definitely one component of what they do in the derivatives world. These swaps, they're basically designed to get around regulations and save the company money and move it over to Greece ...
Stewart) And collapse their economy.
Patterson) Right.
Stewart) They have not been purged. They are back running Wall Street and they now do business in what they themselves call ...
Patterson) High-frequency trading in dark pools – the combination is kind of scary.
Stewart) What's a 'dark pool'?
Patterson) A dark pool is this off-exchange market where stocks trade in the dark. Regulators don't really know what's going on in these dark pools [...]
Stewart) The book is unbelievable and it talks about the real personalities.
And it shows that our money and pension funds is literally being handled be the same people who are like trafficking in stolen amputated gorilla paws like ... It's insanity! And I really hope that the book exposes a great deal of it and that they, I'm sure, figure out an equation to make you disappear, somehow.
Patterson) I think, they're working on that.
Stewart) It's phenomenal and I look forward to see the movie out of it."

03/08'10 Harry Markopolos – No one would listen, A true financial thriller.
Headline 2000: "The world's largest hedge fund is a fraud." ("He received an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Loyola College in Maryland in 1981 and an M.S. in finance from Boston College in 1997.")
Stewart) "Are you like the MacGuyver of finance? [...]
What now, if the SEC is in bed with Wall Street and no one has been fired, although clearly this was an enormous mistake, who can effect change? What would be the organization? Would it have to be Congress?"
Markopolos) "No, I think it's got to be the American people. You can't trust either party. I think we have to vote them both out of office somehow. [...] Yes, Madoff would have had me killed if he would have figured out that I had a team tracking him across two continents – that was clear. He destroyed thousands of families already. One more wouldn't have made a difference to that man. He's a sociopath."
Mail Mary – "There was a darker side to Mother Teresa. (Beatrice: "I never expected to hear the phrase 'There was a darker side to Mother Teresa' in a non-comedic context.") She didn't really care about peace and she didn't even care about true human suffering. [...] What she primarily was – and she was good at this, with a lot of help – was a PR machine for the Catholic Church. She does not deserve the U.S. post office honoring her on a stamp."

03/09'10 Agent (intelligence officer) Marc Thiessen (journalist, torturer, blatant liar)

05/03'10 Beyond awful – Mary Landrieu) No one has ever claimed, including myself as an unabashed proponent of the industry, that drilling is risk-free. Stewart) No, you never claimed it, you emphatically stated it.
05/06'10 Jason Jones tries to spot illegal immigrants by looking for suspicious behavior on Cinco de Mayo.
05/11'10 God smacked – Christian warriors: "Jesus was the ultimate fighter. When you look at what he had to endure for our sake, he is the ultimate fighter. [...] There is no place for violence in christianity."

06/09'10 Sam Bee) "Men broke the country and now they need the ladies to come in and make it all better. Apparently, last night America, scared and with a poopy in its diaper, cried for its mommy."
06/09'10 Press you're stuck. Are you journalists or are you rushing a sorority?
06/09'10 out of the loop) What happened to Helen Thomas was disgraceful. Even more disgraceful is the current crop of 'journalists' who function as spokespersons for corporate interests.
America no longer is the land of the free and brave, but of the bought and cowed. Like lobbyists, journalists move back and forth between politics and journalism.

06/08'10 Christopher Hitchens – Hitch 22, A Memoir – "I tell you, to be honest, the most idealistic, and brave and committed and intelligent young people I know have joined the armed forces of America and then they're guarding us while we sleep in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere."
Reaganomicon: "Actually, he had already found out he had cancer a few days before this interview, which makes the obituary comments that much more interesting/poignant."

06/16'10 "That's the push we needed." Eight presidents couldn't rid the U.S. of oil addiction

06/17'10 Dr. Peter Lutz on Day 59, Judgment Day – The Strife Aquatic
"So, the marine biologist, the doctor that they say to call in an emergency, is dead, and that's his phone number."
06/17'10 Sam Bee) Holier than Dow – Goldman Sachs, The Constantinian Church and transparency
Uri Man: "In limo on way to Fox studio I'll be on Fox and Friends at 7:45 this morning thanks for tuning in!"

06/22'10 Stanley A. McChrystal – The Runaway General, MMS changes its name – "Are we really that stupid?"
"Blame for the Gulf disaster has been spreading like ... I can't think of an appropriate metaphor right now how it is spreading but one group has inexplicably escaped its fair share of impotent rage."

07/05'10 Michael Steele, the puppet – I nailed it!
"That's the one thing you don't do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan.
This was a war of Obama's choosing.
This is not something that the Unites States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in."
Stewart) "Just focus on this: This is the head of the Republican Party going against one of his party's core principles: blowing shit up in other countries. It's like Jews for Jesus."

07/08'10 Marilynne Robinson – Absence of Mind – believes the quality of science and religion determines the nature of the conversation.
Stewart) I've always been fascinated that the more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith. You know, when they start to speak about the universe as if ... Most of the universe is anti matter. Oh really, where's that? Well, you can't see it. Well, where is it? It's there. Can you measure it? We're working on it. It's a very similar argument to someone who would say God created everything. Well where is he? Well, he's there.
And I'm always struck by the similarity of the arguments at their core.
Robinson) I think you're absolutely right. [...]
Stewart) Is it that the human mind has created these two disciplines, each one sort of equally at the mercy of our limitations?
Robinson) I think that's true. I think it's also true that until quite recently many great scientists like Isaac Newton and so on were profoundly religious people.
The division is something that has come later and I don't think it was even necessary.
Stewart) Do you think it's a political division? One that's used mainly in political purposes?
Because it always feels like it has become now a very volatile conversation because it has political undertones.
Robinson) I think that's true. I think that there are political groups of attached themselves to these two poles.
But I think, it's also true that at this point in time we need the best insights from science and the best insights from religion and that, in fact, the gladiators from both sides are, I think, inferior representatives of both sides, and that's where a lot of the conflicts comes from.

07/20'10 Best leak ever
07/26'10 William Rosen – The Most Powerful Idea in the World

07/28'10 Robert O'Connell – The Ghosts of Cannae
"The one thing about Roman politics is, everybody was military."
07/28'10 Scott Lively – The Pink Swastika
Pastor Lively told Jason Jones, "open homosexuals are distinct from everybody else, men and women, in being exceptionally brutal and savage. [...] Adolf Hitler used homosexual soldiers because they were more savage than natural men. They didn't have the restraint a normal man has. It was easier for them to do some of the terrible things that the Nazis did."
Researching Pastor Lively, I discovered more interesting nuggets about Hitler and his cronies. The initial meeting of what would become the Nazi Party took place in a gay bar. Each young Brownshirt was matched up with a homosexual male adult to initiate him into the league of gay Aryan supermen. So how to explain the extermination of gays by the Third Reich? Pastor Lively has a simple answer. "The Nazis did persecute homosexuals to distract public attention away from their homosexuality."
To be honest, I was shocked at the number of sites recommending The Pink Swastika as well-supported historical fact being suppressed by gay activists and even by the National Holocaust Museum. The book is now in its fourth edition due to nice Christian groups all over the internet plugging it almost as hard as they peddle the Almighty.
Then it started to make me ill. WWJB, people? What would Jesus blog? I'm pretty sure he wouldn't take to the Web in support of a book that advocates murdering homosexuals. I'm not talking about the Nazis this time: I'm referring to Pastor Lively's book, sermons and life's work. So I'd like to let Jason Jones take over and make light of this bizarre yet influential man. [...]
Pastor, you seem to me every bit as brutal and savage as the fantasy you promote as truth. Far be it from me to suggest that you tell this story to the next guy you see with a swastika tattoo. I'm sure he'd enjoy acquainting you with your feminine side. But that wouldn't be very Christian of me, would it? Not that I'm Christian, I'm not. I just have a conscience. Since you most likely believe in an afterlife, though, allow me to paint you a picture. Fire. Brimstone. You, sucking Satan's balls for all eternity. Bon appetit!

09/13'10 Team Jesus, Team Mohammed
09/23'10 Postcards from the pledge, King Abdullah II of Jordan pt 1 and pt 2

Daily Stewart 2009

Daily Stewart lopo

And they watch it later and cry. Media is a biest. Doubt Break '09
If you can't give me any evidence, then at least do the honorable thing and confuse me!

12/10'09 Because you can't spell GOLD without GOD
12/10'09 Stephen prevaricated a mendacious falsehood

11/18'09 Winning a nation and 'Have we gotten this?'
11/16'09 Jake Adelstein's sense of scale maybe off (Boyscouts of the Yakuza, FBI delivers livers)
11/12'09 Hannity apologizes to the Daily Show
11/10'09 Papa Baer was there (for "Inside Edition")
11/05'09 But there's a larger, more serious point to be made here (Glenn Beck)

10/26'09 The theological free market in action: Anglicans switch spirituality providers
10/26'09 Stewart mocking about Net Neutrality – McCain, the "Internet Freedom Act" guy
10/26'09 Susie Essman summes up Jon's entire life
10/12'09 CNN leaves it there

09/24'09 Hassan Nemazee and Joe Biden

08/19'09 Fox News, the new liberals
08/18'09 Christopher McDougall – Born to run
08/11'09 Skull and Bones Austan Goolsbee

07/16'09 Pyramid Economy
07/14'09 "Sonia Sotomayor first graduated first in her highschool class from Cardinal Spellman Highschool.
Now, there are many more role models for a young Cardinal Spellman's student to choose from, with judge Sotomayor foremost among them."
07/13'09 Sam Bee) Half-Baked Alaska
07/01'09 Michael Scheuer (Jesuit Alumnus)

06/26'09 It really all depends on when Jesus comes back
06/09'09 Peter Schiff) He thinks he is in the House of Lords
06/02'09 GM, AIG and the people

05/21'09 Larry King on dangerours ground
05/21'09 Bush-Obama meme, no middle ground
05/18'09 Barack Obama is Cliff Huxtable
05/18'09 Barackhenaten at Notre Dame
05/14'09 In the midst of one of our own cities
05/14'09 Sam Bee) Where is my White House?
05/11'09 That was weird
05/11'09 Titanium balls

04/23'09 One-world currency government
04/22'09 Saint Dickolas
04/22'09 Statuesque pleasure creatures
04/22'09 Carl Rove, Dick Cheney now outspoken
04/20'09 We (don't) torture
04/19'09 The story that encapsulates Jon's whole life
04/15'09 Obama at Georgetown, the Goldman Sachs Connection
04/15'09 Consistent female anchor Tea Party gesture – copies of body language
04/08'09 Full metal budget
04/07'09 Original soundtrack of Skull and Bones Bush
04/02'09 Tom Zoellner: Uranium

03/16'09 General Richard Myers – Eyes on the Horizon

03/16'09 Sam Bee) Just because you robbed the grave ... "It is un-American not to short-sell."
03/12'09 Jim Cramer interview unedited

"Jon Stewart is doing what the 'real' news media should be doing: he is investigating and attempting to hold people accountable for what they say and do. Whereas, the 'real' news media is pussyfooting around and 'reporting' whatever they are being spoon-fed from others.
What I have a problem with is that Jon Stewart has to be the one to investigate people like Cramer. Where is the New York Times? Where is the hard-hitting investigative journalism? Jon Stewart does not need to adjust how his message is conveyed. He is exemplifying the art of satire." (Sarah, 03/17'09)

03/11'09 The full-blown war of words
03/04'09 The Dow knows all

02/10'09 Obama's war in Iraq may be longer than Bush's war
02/10'09 A truth and reconciliation committee
02/09'09 The News' cognitive dissonance
02/09'09 The press secretary handbook

01/20'09 Watch this!
01/19'09 Final message from the White House
01/15'09 Bethany McLean who broke the Enron scandal
01/13'09 An exercise in just plain profound weirdness
01/06'09 A certain Rupertesque quality

Daily Stewart 2008

Daily Stewart lopo

08/05'08 Sam Bee) I know how to work a source
06/18'08 Touché
05/12'08 You no longer have the authority
03/11'08 Sam Bee) My breaking of his heart to the entire world

10/31'07 Girl's outfit very risqué
09/18'07 Why do we have a Fed, Mr. Greenspan?
09/11'07 My God, the president has been right the whole time
09/11'07 It's all a matter of belief
06/19'07 Sam Bee) The only way we can lose
05/16'07 Sam Bee) I'm a NILF hunter
03/12'07 Sam Bee) Totally doing starbusiness
02/01'07 Stewart on the O'Reilly Factor

10/30'06 Sam Bee) Coming home isn't always easy
10/12'06 Sam Bee) A great deal of charisma
08/21'06 Sam Bee) Snakes on a Plane

12/15'05 Sam Bee) I am swinging for two
11/17'05 Cheney emerged from his bunker in a fighting mode
05/05'05 Catholics run Hollywood

11/09'04 The homosexuality-theatricality connection

10/02'03 Bizarre vagina request
09/10'03 Kate) I totally sold myself to Satan
09/10'03 It was on Fox News and it was sponsored by the Black Congressional Caucus
01/28'03 The Iraqi military is adorable!
"We are waiting for the smoking gun.
The problem is, when you see that smoke coming out of the gun, it's too late, the damage is been done."
On January 13) "The problem with guns that are hidden is you can't see their smoke."
01/21'03 Simon Cowell) "It's insanity! I mean, seriously, I do not understand it."

02/14'02 Your hotness is not right (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos)

10/24'01 Lewis Black) End of the Universe
10/04'01 Kate Beckinsale
10/02'01 Charming Stephen
09/25'01 Aaron Brown, "9/11" Anchorman
09/20'01 September 11, 2001
03/27'01 Richard Lewis) the dog would go ...
02/15'01 Whacking the pachyderm
02/15'01 Lobbyism

08/04'00 No to Bush Jr.
07/17'00 Ipso facto
03/09'00 Dwarf Shortage
02/17'00 Joe Lolli won't stop
01/19'00 Nut case penis cage
01/19'00 Because their genitals tasted funny
01/19'00 Osama bin Laughing
"The Pentagon's aging Nazi rocket team has their egg on its face after the latest test of a prototype anti-missile system failed Tuesday.
The Clinton administration has spent more than 12 billion dollars building a missile defense system to protect against attacks from what it calls 'rogue states' aka starving countries crushed by our economic policies."
01/19'00 Live from London
01/04'00 We scare men, we do

12/06'99 Three brand new custom-made jackets
11/02'99 I'm kind of boring
10/25'99 You're right) What better way to understand the issue than to have two pundits of violently opposing viewpoints disagree with each other.
09/28'99 Silly string plague
07/28'99 When your cat dematerialized
01/12'99 Carman slams the devil

"Some comedian": Bush isn't stupid, he talks like he's talking to someone who is stupid.
How some comedian shot down Crossfire.

(Papist) Punditocracy

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09/01'10 Daily Colbert 2008
09/02'10 Daily Colbert 2009
09/08'10 Daily Colbert 2010
04/15'11 Nobody fucks with the Jesus
04/15'11 Daily Colbert 2011

05/01'06 Matt Stoller: Elizabeth Bumiller's Disconnect from Reality)
Stephen Colbert's incredible roast, where the room of pompous DC-tards wasn't laughing but everyone else was, has been seen several hundred thousand times on Youtube. The stupid and hackish Bush impersonation, replete with such witticisms as Laura Bush is "hot", isn't even listed. The people choose Colbert.
And on cue, Elizabeth Bumiller's article on the evening in the New York Times doesn't even mention Colbert, and talks about how Bush stole the show. Amazing. Ridiculous.
In a few months, the insiders at the dinner will be claiming that they thought Colbert was terrific, that they were the only one laughing. That's how these people work. They'll hear about the legendary Colbert performance, and they'll rewrite history to make themselves seem savvy enough to "get the joke".
Anyway, it doesn't matter. This is the gasp of the royal pretensions of the punditocracy. And Colbert laid them bare, brutally. Thank you, Stephen.

06/16'10 "Like my colleagues in the punditocracy I too had a problem with Obama's lack of specificity."

01/24'10 Jon Stewart, conscience of the punditocracy, nudges Keith Olbermann back in line
In the cable news game, there is rarely any reason to stand down. The more the fight, the better the ratings. But there is one guy that television gasbags cannot defeat, no matter how they may exclaim, proclaim or defame. That guy is Jon Stewart.
On Friday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann bowed before the master, and apologized.

01/07'07 "These folks might still have the job titles they do, but I think, more and more people are tuning them out."

Daily Trojan

06/08'10 "It breaks my heart:" M. Frauenfelder's Made by Hand – "Searching for meaning in a throwaway world:
From his unique vantage point as editor-in-chief of Make magazine, the hub of the newly invigorated do-it-yourself movement, Mark Frauenfelder takes readers on an inspiring and surprising tour of the vibrant world of DIY.
The Internet has brought together large communities of people who share ideas, tips, and blueprints for making everything from unmanned aerial vehicles to pedal-powered iPhone chargers to an automatic cat feeder jury-rigged from a VCR.
DIY is a direct reflection of our basic human desire to invent and improve, long suppressed by the availability of cheap, mass-produced products that have drowned us in bland convenience and cultivated our most wasteful habits.
Frauenfelder spent a year trying a variety of offbeat projects such as keeping chickens and bees, tricking out his espresso machine, whittling wooden spoons, making guitars out of cigar boxes, and doing citizen science with his daughters in the garage.
His whole family found that DIY helped them take control of their lives, offering a path that was simple, direct, and clear. Working with their hands and minds helped them feel more engaged with the world around them.
Frauenfelder also reveals how DIY is changing our culture for the better. He profiles fascinating 'alpha makers' leading various DIY movements and grills them for their best tips and insights.
Beginning his journey with hands as smooth as those of a typical geek, Frauenfelder offers a unique perspective on how earning a few calluses can be far more rewarding and satisfying than another trip to the mall."

06/09'10 Sam Nunn on the "nuclear tipping point":
Colbert) If any nuclear bomb goes off from a terrorist organization, we just automatically nuke North Korea. Without even investigating: We just say, boom, tag, you're it. And that will encourage those countries to try to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists even harder than we do. Because they know if anything happens, we pull the plug on them.
What about that?
Nunn) Stephen, I have to confess, I hadn't thought of that.
Colbert) You surprise me, sir. Sam Nunn was always known as being a democrat you could trust on defense: Head of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Have you gotten soft with your peace nick friends putting your flowers down the barrels of the guns?
Nunn) Well, I would not think that George Schultz or Henry Kissinger or the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of State are in that category.
Colbert) Those are all members of this initiative?
Nunn) That's what the nuclear tipping point is all about.
All of us are talking about how to protect America. We all believe in a strong national defense.
Colbert) So, where can you see this movie?
Nunn) We would love for people to order this movie, we give it away free.
Colbert) Wait a second, you give this away for free?
Where do you make money? On like concessions? Popcorn? Soda?
Nunn) I'd say popcorn, soda: Warren Buffett and Ted Turner.
Colbert) You got a sugar daddy.
Nunn) We have some very generous support and George Russell helps us a lot, too.

07/01'10 "Happiest fangirl ever! [...] And then, OMFG, Stephen mentioned my question on air!
'Folks ... what a beautiful day in New York this was, you know it's on days like this when I'm just caught up with the beauty of the world that I ask myself the eternal questions ... like ... if Dan Rather were a fruit monument [cue crowd going WILD] ... what would his favourite band be? I don't know ... Bananarama, I'm guessing!'
You know that feeling when your brain just freezes up and goes numb because you can't believe something this awesome could actually happen to you? Yep, that's what it felt like, I couldn't even move for a couple of seconds and then of course I started cheering with everyone else! I couldn't believe Stephen actually mentioned my question – in the first line of the show no less! *happy fangirl tears*
I thought that there was still a possibility that it might get cut in editing later, so I didn't want to get my hopes up, but was over the moon nonetheless!"

08/02'10 Stephen might be gay
08/03'10 "This writing is terrible." (Laura Ingraham, Joe Bidens favorite in TV punditry)
comments)
"Brilliant irony. Another great demolition job."
"Colbert is remarkable. His stiletto was so sharp, I do believe she never felt a thing.
Only when Ingraham saw her own blood pouring out she realized what was happening, but by then it was too late. Death came quickly, and it was a blessing for all."
"In addition to my amazement that he finally got a true wingnut to come on his show, I always am amazed that they agree to play along. I'm always half expecting one of his guests to turn to him and say, 'Oh cut the crap, Stephen. We know you're not a real conservative, but are just playing one to make fun of us.' You'd have to be an awfully bad sport to say something like that, but I've never seen a wingnut come off well on his show.
He's got a little Sacha Baron Cohen in him, the way he draws his guests into his ridiculous little world."
"Wow. I've never seen Colbert go for anyone's jugular like that! Of course, Ingraham deserved it."

08/17'10 Newsweek ranks The World's Best Countries – Fox News TV Show Star Sean Hannity:
"America is the single greatest nation that God ever gave man on this earth."
"We say it's the greatest country God gave men ... We live in the single greatest, best country God gave men"
"The single greatest, best, freest country God ever gave men."


10/14'10 Horny goats doing the landscaping job
"When unemployment gets very high, people look for scapegoats. They want to blame, or place major blame, on immigrants ..."
"This is for people who think the controversy about undocumented immigrants is all about economics. The truth is, it's about scapegoating. Or landscape-goating ..."
"If they renege on their employment contract, they can be eaten after they're fired!"
"Owning goats made this segment a hundred times funnier for me, and as I'm sure it was hilarious to everyone else when I say that I mean I was literally rolling around on the floor, especially after Gino's John Goat comment. If that dude loses his landscaping job he can always go into comedy."


11/02'10 "Welcome to where rumor undergoes a fact-change operation and becomes analysis."


12/09'10 "Before you accuse the sharks of any wrongdoing in these shark attacks, I think it's only fair to ask:
Could it be the Jews?"
comments)
"The 'Could it be the Jews?' line freaking cracked me up!" "Yeah, and he seemed genuinely excited by the idea of Shakespeare character superheroes hunting down their creator, and when he said 'I got your lead right here,' I was like, perfect! That really would be the greatest part for Stephen ever ... :-)"
"The whole shark thing was brilliant: 'Israel working with sharks? It just makes too much sense!'
The Steven Spielberg and Jaws/Jews jokes were perfect.
Seeing Daniel Ellsberg was great, as I'm always interested in people who help uncover conspiracies (goes back to when I watched 'All The President's Men' with my dad and he taught me about 'Watergate').
It was really interesting to hear someone who's been in a similar situation to Assange speak about it. He seemed a really good sport, playing with the noose."

Daily Colbert 2010

Daily Colbert lopo

01/19'10 Trijicon's "Jesus rifles" ... (Lebe lieber oberflächlich!)
01/20'10 Speedskating for Vancouver (Olympic Games) against the champ (Shani Davis)
01/21'10 John Farmer on the responsiveness of the national command structure on "9/11"

02/08'10 "Boom! Boom! Boom! And the nailing kept on coming ...
The blogochatosphere. This fleshy thing. Sarah Palin is a fucking retard."
02/08'10 Jonathan Safran Foer – Eating Animals: U.S. farm system perfectly antithetical to American values.
"We eat tortured flesh."
02/11'10 Homoerotic use of male imagery

03/02'10 Kwedit: Play now. Pay later. "We laughed our tailfeathers off."
"Folks, I think Kwedit could be the next economic bubble. Because instead of relying on adults to spend money they don't have on things they don't need, now we'll have kids spending money on things that don't exist."

03/03'10 Jim Bunning ends filibuster:
"It's hard to be universally reviled as a half-witted, egomaniacal sociopath, but doing the right thing is never easy.
What if Rosa Parks had said: 'Ey you know what, the back of the bus is fine?' What if Neil Armstrong had said: 'The ladder is close enough?' What if Ghandi had said: 'Fuck it, I'm gettin' a Meat Lovers Pizza?'
There's nothing, nothing to believe in anymore – I just don't even see the use of going on."

03/03'10 Lloyd Blankfein – Goldman Sachs: "Doing God's work."
"One thing I feel great about, folks, is the self-destruction of Europe. See, for years, the European Union has been luring their precious Euro over our Dollar just because it still 'has value'. [...] they're pointing their fingers at benevolent cleptogarchy Goldman Sachs just because in 2001 Goldman helped hide billions in Greek debt which was 'key to Greece joining the Euro'. [...] I am just so damn proud that an American company is the one flushing Europe down what passes for a toilet over there. Even I've had never understand how they did it."

03/03'10 Gary Wills – Bomb Power

03/08'10 Tom Hanks – "History Maker", Papist
Tom Hanks and the Borg Agenda)
"The plot of the movie Angels and Demons centers around a young Irish priest dressed in a black cassack – giving the appearance that he is a Jesuit, the 'Demon' of the movie. Priest Patrick McKenna the Illuminatus, holding the office of 'Camerlengo', officiates on behalf of murdered Pope Pius XVI, secretly the biological father of McKenna who in fact poisoned his father, the pope. Escaping to reality, the Camerlengo must always be a Cardinal: He oversees the administration of the properties and revenues of the pope's International Vatican Empire – in other words, the Camerlengo is an agent of the Jesuit Superior General because these properties and revenues belong to the Society of Jesus alone!
So the young, Jesuit Camerlengo dressed in black (the Demon), while instructing the red-dressed Cardinals in Conclave deliberating over the election of a new pope (the Angels), must be very entertaining to the top Illuminati Jesuits overseeing the Vatican from Borgo Santo Spirito, their military headquarters in Rome. (Yes, the Jesuit Order is 'the Borg' of Star Trek!)"

"If we know true history, we will know who rules today."
Greg) "When you read some of these encyclicals, you'll understand why people like Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Bono, a number of these people, are no more different than what my guest the other day said about Mozart, how Mozart really didn't write all of those concertos, and how the Vatican was behind it. How the Jesuits were behind it to create an idol man, to create nothing more than idolatry in the music business.
It's a great story, go read it. Eric, how are you today?"
Eric) "The Beatles, too. You're absolutely right on, Greg, and I first discovered this in a tremendous work called Power and Secret of the Jesuits by Rene Fulop-Miller. It was written in the 30s, and he showed in there how the Jesuits were in control of the theatre, especially in Austria, and that they were bossom friends with Mozart, and that Mozart used to compose for them, and one of his compositions was The Magic Flute. That was composed for freemasonry, so Mozart himself was a Freemason, so you have the Jesuit Freemasonic connection in Mozart."

03/09'10 Annie Leonard – The Story of Stuff. Story of Stuff, The Critique
03/11'10 "I love Karl Rove." Courage and Consequence
03/15'10 Robert Baer – Georgetown SJ, CIA, self-declared "major critic"
03/18'10 Glenn Beck's attack, the plus sign and James Martin SJ: "The Jesuit Guide To (Almost) Everything"

"That is journalism I can get behind."

04/12'10 WikiLeaks – the "Squeal-stapo", Julian Assange himself

"Wow, that is the first time I have seen Colbert do an interview where he didn't just get really into character and fuck with the guest. Probably the first interview I've seen that was worth watching." (fireburt)
theeloquentbaby)
"It was the most sobering interview that I have ever seen Stephen do.
It was done well and was much food for deep thought."
Robyn Witt)
"Stephen did an amazing job interviewing this guy, far better than anything I've seen on those 'real' news programs. This, right here, is why we need Jon and Stephen. They have the balls to tell it how it is because they're 'not real news anchors' so there's no fear of retribution.
America is a better place because of their de facto policing of morons like this. Never stop, Stephen!"

Assange) "Free speech is what regulates government and regulates law. That is why in the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights says that Congress is to make no such law abridging freedom of the press. It is to take the rights of the press outside the rights of the law, because those rights are superior to the law, because they, in fact, create the law.
Every constitution, every piece of legislation, is derived from the flow of information.
Similarly, every governments is elected as a result of people understanding things."
Colbert) "Governments are elected based upon what people know about the politicians. Or what they know about what the government does. If we don't know what the government is doing, we can't be sad about it.
Why are you trying to make me sad? Because you are: You're trying to bum us out about the world, aren't you?
All these terrible things happen behind closed doors and you've decided that I need to know about it?"
Assange) That's just an interim state, Stephen, you'll be happier later on.
Colbert) I doubt it. I will be angrier later on.
Now, let's talk about this footage that has gotten you so much attention recently ...

Colbert) And you have edited this tape. And you have given it a title called 'Collateral Murder'.
That's not leaking. That's a pure editorial.
Assange) So, the promise we make to our sources is that not only will we defend them through every means we have available, technologically, and legally, and politically, but we will try and get the maximum possible political impact for the material that they give to us, and ...
Colbert) So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?
Assange) Yes, absolutely. And the material – our promise to the public is that we will release the full source material. So, if people have a different opinion, the full material is there for them to analyze and assess.
Colbert) Well, actually, then, I admire that. I admire someone who is willing to put 'Collateral Murder' on the first thing people see, knowing that they probably won't look at the rest of it. That way, you properly manipulated the audience into the emotional state you want before something goes on the air.
'Cuz that is an emotional manipulation: 'What you're about to see is collateral murder. Now, look at this completely "objective" piece of footage that you're about to show.' That is journalism I can get behind.
Assange) That is true: Only one in ten people did actually look at the full footage. However ...
Colbert) So that's 90 percent of the people accept the definition of 'Collateral Murder'.
Assange) Yes. And ...
Colbert) Congratulations.
Assange) Thank you.

Colbert) Do you believe it was collateral murder?
Assange) Yes.
Colbert) You do?
Assange) Absolutely.
Colbert) Did you make get that call? Did you put the words 'collateral murder' up?
Assange) Yes.
Colbert) You did?
Assange) That was our fault.
Colbert) Really? I want the Pentagon to know that he is actually not in my studio right now.
He is thousands miles away via satellite.
How can you call that collateral murder? What branch of the service did you serve in, sir, huh?
Assange) Well, I'm an Australian, actually.
Colbert) So what branch of the barbie did you throw your shrimp on?

Colbert) What is the purpose of letting the public know? It's like you're saying it is better to know than not to know. Have you not heard 'ignorance is bliss'?
Assange) All too frequently.
Colbert) Aren't you stuck in a bit of a bine?
You got a lot of attention for showing death. Do you have another video showing death?
I understand you have a video of a tanker being attacked in Afghanistan. How many people die in that one?
Assange) The military says 97.
Colbert) 97, okay. Don't you kind of get caught in sort of the 24 trap which is you got to make every single episode about violence and death or else no one's gonna watch anymore?
Assange) Just as long as we don't have to increase the numbers every episode, I'd be happy, Stephen."

Hoover Institution boy and antiwar.com-CIA agent Henderson:
"Some lines Colbert used that are obviously setups to make Assange look good, not bad."

WikiLeaks and Defining 'Journalism' (September 3rd)

goodsensecynic) "Why do people take Beck seriously, while they regard Colbert as entertainment? The answer is simplicity itself! Beck takes himself seriously, and fulminates at will about his paranoid delusions. Most people who watch him are similarly delusional, some watch in order to mock him. Colbert also takes himself seriously – but as a satirist. His project involves mocking the likes of Beck. Most people watch him to see him 'send up' the ridiculous, religious, right-wing ranters, some (like the dolts who invited him to perform before ex-president Bush II), are just too dumb to know that the joke is on them. Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe Beck is a self-satirist (in which case he is brilliant). Or, maybe he's just making pots of money by cashing in on H.K. Mencken's ancient dictum: 'Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.'"

09/04'10 Es gibt keine Journalisten, nur Politiker. Und der Glaube-Liebe-Tod-Tatort von Michi Riebl hatte Kinoqualität. Ich finde ihn um Klassen besser als die Scientology-Schmonzette von Niki Stein.
09/07'10 Vielleicht haben Sie etwas anderes besser verstanden, verehrte Frau Ex-Spitzenfunktionärin: Was ist dieser Glenn Beck oder besser sind diese Fox-News-Clowns vom Schlage Hannity, O'Reilly, Carlson und wie sie alle heißen Ihrer geschätzten Meinung nach? Journalisten oder Politiker?
Was sind Ulrich Wilhelm und Steffen Seibert?

Für Berufsjournalisten ist alles, was sie veranstalten, schlicht Business. In dem Sinne, dass Journalisten eine Art "vierte Gewalt" darstellen, die "demokratische Verhältnisse" garantieren würden, gibt es im Grunde genommen keine. Es mag Journalisten geben, wie es in Ostdeutschland Journalisten gegeben hat, aber mehr auch nicht.

Nichts wird durch das Schlaglicht, das der Doppelschlag der Life-Pulverisierung von Bürohochhäusern zur Jahrtausendwende auf die solidaristisch verfassten westlichen Staatsgemeinden wirft, kontrastreicher ins Bild gesetzt als genau diese Tatsache und folgender Zusammenhang.
Wo es keinen Journalismus gibt, gibt es auch keine Verständigung. Weder innerhalb von Meinungs(haupt)strömen noch dazwischen. Nirgends. Einfach deshalb, weil es dann nur Prediger gibt.
Ich meine, wenn selbst unabhängige "Blogger" (scheußliches Wort) versuchen, ihren Glauben und ganz persönlichen Memestream durch Zensur abzuschotten ...

[Danke für die Bestätigung – wer auch immer hier herumadministriert in seiner "majestätischen Weisheit".
Und? Wie fühlt sich das an, unangenehme Kommentare in den Skat zu drücken? Als hätte das Thema nichts mit King und seiner Ermordung zu tun bzw. mit Käßmann und ihrer spirituell-politischen Ausschaltung ...
Aber was will man von grundsätzlich Gläubigen, existenziell Gläubigen, von nichts anderem als Hoffnung getriebenen, amtlich vergatterten Geisteskriegern, wie es alle Christianisierten sind, auch anderes erwarten als Heuchelei, nicht wahr?
Und jetzt brav die Hände zum Gebet gefaltet und dem Kurztrip in die Ewigkeit der "Übernatur" ein pharaoeskes "Amen" hinterhergehaucht. Genau so sieht die Realität nämlich aus: konzertierter Schwachsinn, nonstop.
("This is my perspective on this subject. I apologize if I am wrong. God will judge them if I am right." shaunaci)
Ich fasse es nicht, Beck überhaupt eines Kommentars gewürdigt zu haben! Bye bye.]

04/14'10 David Shields – The book is Reality Hunger

Shields) "And you, Mr. Colbert, your persona is derived directly from your Fox News counterpart. All art is theft.
Colbert) Sir, I would disagree with you but a) I don't know what the word 'persona' means and b) if you're saying that I have achieved anything like the greatness of my friends Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, well, then I am flattered, but every single word on my show – except for the video that we steal from other people – every single word on my show is created by me and then when the show is over my writers write down what I said."

04/19'10 "Risqué investments are like risqué sex, it's more exciting. If you make the banks wear a condom they won't be able to feel it when they are fucking us over."

Truly a man of his convictions. Once you tell him what they are. The original too-big-to-fail firm
Why are government employees filing a civil suit against Goldman Sachs? That's just gonna be embarrassing in a few years when they'll all go back to work at Goldman Sachs.
"A great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity." Wrong, Matt.
Goldman is not a vampire. It also feeds during the day.
Ali Velshi, CNN's business reporter from our raceless, hairless future explains.

"What's the problem? There is nothing illegal about selling costumers a product designed to fail.
The Chicago Cubs do it every year. Are they going to jail? No, I do not think that they are.
Anyway, here is how it allegedly worked. Allegedly.
An independent hedge fund manager named John Paulson created an investment made up of mortgage bonds he believed would fail. Goldman agreed to sell this to investors, like German banks and pension funds, without telling them it was crap. Meanwhile, Goldman bought insurance betting against the bonds, and when they failed, like they knew it would, Goldman and Paulson cashed in and then celebrated by stepping on a baby's throat.
It's okay. They also took out insurance on the baby. [...]
Even better: It was one guy and it was everybody. How many explanations do they need?
Here to tell me how many explanations they need is New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin."

09/16'10 March to Keep Fear Alive announcement – Freaking out for Freedom: the fear industrial complex
"It's just plain rude. If you take the Big Bang away from God, what does he have left?
Oh, he burned a bush and got a girl pregnant. Great! He's a high school junior."
vzon17) "Yes, Big Bang and God do go hand in hand.
They both promote the idea to "create" something from nothing.
Those laws of physics you quote always have exceptions to them. Perpetual motion is useless except as a novelty. However, free energy is quite useful and available.
Let go of all that bull they taught us in school and college, because it is mostly false and deliberately designed to keep us in ignorance so we keep paying for our electricity like good little sunday school boys."
"I will not take it down a notch," Colbert declared in response to Stewart. "I will notch it up a scotch!"
09/28'10 chosen by a higher power

Daily Colbert 2009

Daily Colbert lopo

12/16'09 CFR Director Tom Brokaw
"What happened? Ten years ago in 1999, I mean, we were the Rome that Rome should hoped to be:
We had all the money, all the power. Ten years later, our country might be destroyed by Acorn.
What happened in those ten years?"

12/16'09 America from Freedom to Fascism – the Colbertnation up to date
12/08'09 The best of the public. Socialism and Distributism. Then a puff of smoke comes out of the Fed chimney,
announcing whether the economy has seen its shadow. Fumata Nera or Fumata Bianca?
12/07'09 Sean Hannity's "ironic" [iconic] T-Shirt: "Fox, what you're doing? You are 'fair and balanced':
To be fair you have to balance every fact with corresponding bullshit." G. Edward DeSeve – Second Round
12/01'09 Guy Consolmagno SJ and G. Edward DeSeve – special adviser to whom?

11/25'09 Dolly Lama
11/19'09 Elvis Costello plays, Stephen sings "Cheap Reward"
11/18'09 Are you a Christian?
11/17'09 I didn't hear most of that 'cause I don't agree with you. I don't listen – just a fair warning.
11/17'09 Where is the line? Free the children!
11/11'09 Goldman Sachs does God's work
11/05'09 I would love to get Guy-Fawked
11/04'09 Formidable Opponent Albert Gore Jr.
11/03'09 Andrew Sullivan: Obama Superstar. This is the House of the Lord.
11/02'09 Alpha dog Schwarzenegger

10/28'09 The "God Particle" out of the Swiss collider
10/28'09 Pre-existing conditions, the punchable face, and DNA-holes
10/27'09 Bush II motivated millions
10/27'09 Cute Catholic priests hitting. Sweet Catholicism openly taking over U.K.
10/15'09 Don't be a Miracle Wimp!
10/13'09 Changing the lactation game. The Cross Symbol
10/08'09 Bend it like Beck

09/30'09 Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth
09/28'09 Electric Avenue. Nothing stops me from edutaining you
09/24'09 Ken Burns – The National Parks. Declaring War on Pieps
09/24'09 Larry King: "I'll keep the seat warm for you, kid."
09/15'09 Shooting horses out of cannons for recreational purposes
09/15'09 Corporations are legally people
09/14'09 Barry's Hope Hammer

08/18'09 Robin Wright: The Evolution of God – Survival of the Jesusiest
08/17'09 "Must-be TV", putting words in mouth
08/05'09 They have to top the terror
08/04'09 Non-corporate pharmaceuticals

07/29'09 Glenn Beck's logics
07/28'09 No matter how flooded the city got
07/21'09 If you could guarantee me that we could keep this debate off of television
07/21'09 Backstage with Douglas Rushkoff
07/20'09 "We didn't do that."
07/16'09 Edmund Andrews – Busted
07/15'09 Douglas Rushkoff – Life, Inc.
07/02'09 Ban de Soleil

06/24'09 Matthew Crawford, philosopher and mechanic
06/15'09 Skull and Bonesman Austan Goolsbee
06/04'09 Bible Illuminated. Our loving God who destroys us

05/21'09 You look great with a little pitchfork
05/20'09 She said, CIA said – Bob Graham. John Yoo (torture)
05/19'09 Rumsfeld's cover letters with Bible quotes
05/18'09 Jesus in Jeans – War or Sex
05/14'09 Catholics with options are called Protestants
05/11'09 I would rather count the wrinkles on my dog's balls than sit on a jury.
05/07'09 Hannity's Liberty Tree

04/28'09 Hail Bush! Daniel Gross – Dumb Money
04/23'09 Fox News anchor Shephard Smith: "We. Are. America. We don't torture!"
04/16'09 Douglas Kmiec: Can a Catholic support him? The winds will be blowing each other
04/15'09 Obama helps America escape from the Bill of Rights lovers who keep humping the leg of Habeas Corpus
04/09'09 Bart Ehrman: Jesus, interrupted
04/08'09 Stephen frees his Jews. Somewhere around here ...

03/31'09 Glenn Beck: "It took me about a year."
03/12'09 The craziest fucking thing I've ever heard
03/11'09 A nation of self interested Type-A Me-Firsters
03/04'09 Crank up the crazy and rip off the knob. The CFR and the Koala Pox epidemic

02/26'09 Celebrating the birth of Mitra
02/25'09 The Empty Platitude Hall of Fame – I am so sorry for slavery
02/23'09 James Martin SJ on freedom
02/12'09 The Obama poster debate threesome
02/11'09 Jesus Christ and Hitler had a lot in common
02/05'09 From charioteers and elephants (Jonah Lehrer)

01/20'09 Skull cult reference

Daily Colbert 2008

Daily Colbert lopo

12/10'08 You're like the Illuminati or the Masons ... CFR CEO Richard Haass
(Erin Burnett: "They can be honest about what they think, and that's very difficult to achieve in a public forum.")

11/19'08 Moneytheism
11/18'08 The fightin' vetters
11/06'08 Colbert 007
11/04'08 Mainstream, I can paddle a canoe in you! From a truthbank!

10/28'08 Sherman Alexie: Diary of a part-time Indian. Lick everything you own
10/21'08 Battle of the Gods
10/14'08 Joseph Stiglitz: We haven't seen the worst by far
10/06'08 Steinbrück's balls
10/02'08 Shakespearean Candidates – "Don't fuck with me!"
10/02'08 Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" – The Rise of Disaster Capitalism ("no risk capitalism")
10/01'08 If you're old enough to vote ... Campbell's Soup

09/30'08 This financial disaster is like painting the whole floor
09/25'08 Reptiles
09/24'08 Ivy League intellectual Bill Bennett slams intellectualism
09/18'08 AIG too large, endangering the entire world
09/17'08 A giant fresh pile

08/11'08 The Catholic Latino wave. Medical Marijuana. Joe Biden 2,7 %, Colbert 2,3 %

07/30'08 Hand gun freedom. Crappy Canton
07/28'08 Heroic decision to not talk (incl. shot)
07/24'08 AstroWristStrong. First openly gay bishop
07/22'08 But I appreciate your obedience.

06/03'08 Hayden, Cheney, Chertoff
06/02'08 Scott McClellan's Media Culpa
"It's hard to get a read on this guy.
One the one hand, he sold out the president, stabbed him right in the gut where the president makes his desicions. But on the other hand, he did have the courtesy to do it too late to change anything. [...]
In his book McClellan takes a brake from bashing the president to bash the Washington Press Corp: They were 'complicit enablers' of the Iraq War, and adding their primary focus was on 'covering the campaign to sell the war, rather than aggressively questioning the rationale for war or pursuing the thruth for war or pursuing the thruth behind it.' I have to give Scott credit:
It takes balls to blame the press for swallowing the crap you personally shuffled them.
It makes me very excited for his next book 'Why did you buy my first book?'"

05/29'08 Watching the report from orbit
05/29'08 "These are shocking revelations, in that is shocking that McClellan thinks that are revelations.
We've heard this crap for years, folks!
Did he write this book or just lift junks up from
Richard Clark's book Against All Enemies
Georg Tenet's book At the Center of the Storm
Paul Bremer's book My Year in Iraq and Barney the dog's book 'Who Let the Dogs of War Out?'"
05/14'08 Grover Norquist – Leave us alone
05/14'08 Who plays Jesus? Declaration of Warming
05/08'08 Colbert goes intergalactic
05/07'08 33° Freemason – "I know what's that like." Hasan Elahi, my favorite terrorist

04/30'08 The church has its own processes
04/28'08 Feist – I Feel It All and As Long As You Call Me
04/22'08 Elitism and truthiness
04/21'08 James Martin SJ – Ratzinger, the Pope's Rottweiler
04/08'08 You really can feel the original sin

03/31'08 Intellectual vitamins
03/20'08 Water is Life. When water burns
03/19'08 You helped this happen. Shame on you, soldiers!

02/28'08 William F. Buckley Jr. and Richard Brookhiser
02/11'08 Philip Zimbardo: The Lucifer Effect
02/05'08 Torture is chic now) John Galliano turned Abu Ghraib into Abu Grabulous.

01/31'08 Andrew Napolitano – A Nation of Sheep
"I am Freedom! [...] Sheeps aren't so bad as long they have good shepherds: people like you and me, and the folks over at Fox tell them what to do, what to think, and what to feel. And then they live their live peacefully without thinking about facts or logic, God help us. Look how happy my sheep are! [...]
A Nation of Sheep. And proudly so."
01/28'08 Obama just like JFK. POp(e)rah
01/24'08 Bill Clinton is acting like a sphincter

10/02'07 John Mearsheimer – The Israel Lobby
09/19'07 Naomi Wolf – The End of America
08/22'07 Richard Branson, British billionaire, and the Colbert Army
08/16'07 Gossip demeans us all
08/16'07 Andrew Keen – Cult of the Amateur (Internet has replaced professionals with amateurs)
08/14'07 3 out of 4 European subgroups Jewish
08/14'07 Free after 26 years guiltless in prison
07/18'07 John Mellencamp ("I'm authority and authority always wins.")
06/27'07 Daniel Gilbert – Stumbling On Happiness
06/21'07 Vincento Bugliosi – Reclaiming History
06/11'07 Michael Gershon – Your gut has a mind of its own
06/07'07 Cullen Murphy – Are We Rome?
05/09'07 Fantasies renoticed (Jane Fonda)
04/24'07 Four decades of solid research of mind-body interactions. Andrew Weil: House too cynical
04/24'07 Fox – a Disney movie about the news. The Secret
04/18'07 Paulina Porizkova
02/08'07 Debra Dickerson gets confused
02/05'07 Teach for America (Wendy Kopp)
01/18'07 Papa Bear Bill O'Reilly

12/14'06 Daniel Pinchbeck – Quetzalcoatl Returns
12/07'06 God's plan for giving upgrades
10/30'06 Duet with Barry Manilow
10/10'06 Ariel Levy – Female Chauvinist Pigs. Cooking with Jane and Gloria
08/14'06 Walking a mile in Geraldo's mustache
08/09'06 Jesuitism at work (Alexandra Robbins)
06/28'06 Armor of Belief (Robert Baer, Jesuit Alumnus)
06/20'06 Bart Ehrman – Misquoting Jesus

No Fact Zone, Colbert at the O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly at the Colbert Report, The classical press
Stephen Colbert groks the Viacom vs Google suit
04/26'06 White House Correspondents Dinner. A conversation with Stephen Colbert
04/03'01 Semantics

10/01'08 Stephen) Tonight: Is the news media too aggressive?
Anybody accuses me of that I will punch them in the throat!
Then: Voter registration is up among young people who thought they we signing up for X-Box Live.
And my guest Dave Levin runs some of the highest performing public schools in the country.
Huh, I always though that was pronounced private school. I think, therefore you are. This is the Colbert Report.
[...]
Luckily there is a new way to report the news and it's tonight's Word: Future Perfect.
Last week folks, China launched its third manned space mission, but hours before the Chinese shuttle even left the ground, the Chinese state news agency called the mission a major success reporting that: "The ship disappears below the horizon. Warm clapping and excited cheering breaks the night sky ..." Well done China! For one thing, reporting a successful space mission before it happens is a lot easier than building a soundstage in Arizona. (Soundstage actually made in China) But more importantly, reporting on future events is a giant leap for mankind. (To journalistic integrity and beyond!) You see folks, we can stay ahead of the bias mainstream press by reporting the facts before they actually exist.
John McCain is already on board. Last Friday, hours before last Friday's Presidential debate began, the McCain campaign posted this ad on WallStreetJournal.com: McCain Wins Debate! He was able to get his version of the story out before the press could mangle it with what happened ("Winner fakes all" has been censored).
You see it's not just John McCain, last Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson also made pre-history when he explained who put taxpayers on the hook for this Wall Street bailout.

They got put on the hook by the system we have, the system we all let happened, the system that Congress, the administration, future administrations let exist ...

See! Secretary Paulson and the Bush administration are only slightly responsible. (And even less effective) Really, in actuality folks, it is not them, it is future administrations who are really to blame for this mess, which reminds me.
Breaking News: It's official, Hillary Clinton's 2012 Presidency is responsible fore destroying the economy four years ago. But the best thing about before it happens reporting is the outcome can be anything you want. (Cubs win! Cubs win!) After all, if anybody out there says: Hey, you're lying! I can just report another story from the future: Federal investigators have discovered that people who called me liar are terrorists who are also fat.
Now, tomorrow night is the big Vice Presidential debate, by the way: Breaking News: Sarah Palin gutted Joe Biden and wore him like a pantsuit. Wow! That is big news, I cannot believe I am the only one who reported that.
Now we all know Governor Palin has a lot of foreign policy experience, because from Alaska she can see Russia. (But not evolution) More to the point, Russia is on the other side of the International Date Line from Alaska, it's tomorrow there. So when Palin looks at it, she's actually seeing the future. (Where she got her kids' names) This is just more proof that in this new golden era of tomorrows news today, Palin has the experience we need, (Or will later) because if pre-reporting the future works, we can base opinions and decisions of today of facts that don't exist yet and build our own bridge to the future. (Nowhere)
And that's the Word.