Stephen Colbert stole Rush Limbaugh's act

Seriously.. I useto listen to Rush Limbaugh's like 3 times a day (once on TV and a couple times on the radio) while I was in jr high and High school.. I thought it was the funniest shit i ever heard... That guy could keep me laughing for a while.. (This apparently makes me an idiot)

Stephen Colbert pretends to be Rush Limbaugh and everyone thinks its funny.. (What the hell is the difference?)

If anything the fact that Rush takes himself seriously makes it far more hilarious... Right?

 

Its comedy central, everything is a lie. You watching public media....

 

I think it makes him more hilarious, but more dangerous to support by listening.

But Stephen Colbert has been funny maybe twice this whole administration.

 

Supporting him might be dangerous if anyone could actually take him seriously, but he doesn't even help himself in that regard... He's been busted for drugs (opiates) more than once, and i think I heard something about soliciting sex before too..
He is little more than a joke and the way be takes himself so seriously only makes it that much more amusing...

I have always liked listening to radicals and people on the fringe, if you can understand their propaganda you can understand everything that lies in-between. But not many people like that are so easily found and laughable.. Some are just to scary to laugh at...

 

I suppose I can agree there =)

 

someone listened to rush limbaugh?

 

What is frightening is the fact that so many regular folks take Rush so seriously. It would be the epitome of comedy except when one stops to think that such rhetoric on all ends of the political spectrum is designed specifically to keep the population divided against itself with each camp looking for a left or right leaning political organization to protect them against the supposedly un-American neighbor and the corporate shill or socialist politician he supports.

These same people, whose judgment are so easily compromised, vote and sit on juries... they can decide whether an innocent person rots in prison. Colbert is funny but at the same time makes light of a situation that ought to be looked at with a greater sense of urgency because we're collectively being fooled into willingly handing over freedoms on the premise that a political machine, which couldn't be less concerned about our welfare, will be looking out for us.

 

I agree with you for the most part (people tend to be much like sheep.. fanged sheep) but division is far more easily fostered than unity.. People just seem to like the "Us against them" attitude.
A good example would be that nobody seems to fully embrace the bill of rights our country was founded on.. Conservatives tend to be a little stingy with their interpretation of the first amendment as liberals tend to be with the second..
Though these sheep tend to just regurgitate the same dated propaganda as their shepherds, they do so quite viciously..

I have been pretty unsuccessful arguing a perspective that the centralization of power and authority in this country goes against the 10th amendment, (it seems to be perceived as a right wing perspective here on this forum). The irony being that it could allow for local socialized communities to exist (be recognized and represented) as well as capitalist shill industrial ones (until heir lower class migrate away of them anyway)..
Oddly I suspect I would meet as much resistance from a more right wing forum as being less conducive to big business and capitalism..

Though you do need a counter for every argument, make sure that no one perspective dominates all around (especially if it may be repressive toward another group of people)..

I also agree that people don't have much a sense of urgency as things like patriot act weren't only allowed to exist in the first place but subsequently renewed.. We have clearly been conditioned to quietly accept the stripping of our rights as well as the big business agendas that are eroding our economy and special interests that erode our societies..

 

I can certainly empathize with a view that the central government should have limited function as the local infrastructure and its administrators and custodians have a better sense of what its particular neck of the woods will need from season to season; year to year. Unfortunately we are set up to be thrown to the "mercy" of economic tides which will expose certain localities disproportionately depending on the nature of whatever created the issue... it is often these things that are either exploited to either characterize one side as heartless elitist and the other side as socialist. Anyone believing that only Rahm Emmanuel and Hillary Clinton look at a crisis as an opportunity to be taken advantage of then they are deluded.

Listen to Limbaugh enough and one might begin to wonder if Obama himself didn't commission a submarine to deploy a charge beneath the Deepwater Horizon to shore up the numbers opposed to offshore drilling. You might also wonder if the Democratic Party didn't somehow conspire to bring the economy down for the purpose of furthering their "socialist agenda" ad the ready answer. Of course one might conclude that the original domino was toppled by the Gipper in a deregulatory gesture that essentially unleashed the banking industry on the consumer market and to begin concocting a toxic mix of artificial stimulation of the housing market toward people who had not business signing mortgages and stock derivatives known as mortgage backed securities.... the scheme taking a couple decades to get off the ground with government sponsored corporations creating and marketing those toxic investments- which were central in inflating the housing market bubble to the point that its collapse took out a sizable chunk of the economy.

The United States federal government was in on that mess from the ground floor but if we keep people fat and happily infighting they will probably be too busy to notice and failing that our "educational" system will churn out a culture populated by people incapable of comprehending when their government is tying them to bedposts $pread eagle, face down so the banking sector can have its way with them.

Oh, and when asset sheets, on which an institution's eligibility to have access to prime rate money from the treasury, were shown to reflect a large number of these real estate swindle ridden security packages the resulting card house banking industry began to collapse- thanks in no small part to Reagan's selective downsizing plan. so in an orchestrated panic the larcenous, enabling, aiding and abetting co-conspirators in both houses of congress rushed into law the cleaning out of our solvency- all this unfolding in a time that saw seven presidential elections and a number of power switches in congress... We had no choice but to watch our government hand over close to a trillion dollars while doing nothing to help the retiree whose savings were all but wiped out or the displaced would-be taxpayer and participant in the economy otherwise known as the unemployed.

For me, once any candidate becomes endorsed by either major party then he or she loses all credibility. I can be motivated to actually vote but these days that is voting against a particular candidate rather than for one. I often ask myself, is this the campaign of someone who takes his/her constituency seriously or is this someone who expends little effort to conceal their general contempt for our intelligence and better interest- and uses out of context factoids if not out-and-out lies to cultivate irrational hatred for the other name on the ballot.

It's really remarkable they they found time and resources to wage illegal wars as well... with such spunk and a drive to overachieve it's the most profound mystery to me why the rest of the world doesn't just think of the United States as the best thing since sliced bread, guns, and butter.

 

The decentralization of power and authority would eliminate (or at least cripple) the power of Corporate America. Without all their special tax breaks, bailouts, and considerations in regards to environmental or foreign trade issues would likely fail or rely heavily on American resources and labor. At either rate stimulating the National economy..

I don't think any intelligent person can listen to enough Rush Limbaugh to actually accept his rhetoric as thought changing unless they are prone to buy into conspiracy theories to start with...

The realestate bubble was obvious and predictable the moment property values began to inflate in response to "new money for the housing market".. Its a good example of something that wouldn't have happened with a more localized government.. Localized economies will have local banks.. Though a national treasury would be necessary, you would not have cooperate banks overextending credit for housing (or anything else for that matter)..

I agree that for the most part the government is trying to distract us from the reliant issues (education being a big one) public mass media does little to help.. We are breeding ignorant flocks that serve only to hand over their power to the government machine for the power and profit of the few.. Slowly being conditioned to silently accept the changes as they come about, and labeling those that speak out about it as radicals or extremists..

Unfortunately without a major party endorsement politicians are not taken seriously as a whole... Its a shame because partisan politics are never going to get us anywhere we haven't already been, only keep us moving in the same direction...

Its more disappointing that we cant appreciate the perspectives the rest of the world that doesn't see us as the greatest thing since sliced bread, guns, and butter.

Most of this is a product of ignorance and excess, simply opening our minds and becoming more efficient (collectively) would work wonders for not only our international reputations but for our communities as well... I argue that when you take the power out of the hands of the few and disperse it back amongst the many they will become individually important again, I only assume that this kind of empowerment would lead to self investment by way of education and open-mindedness and a desire to make a productive impact on their local environment and community... The next age of enlightenment..

 

Im writing this 15 min into the family guy episode about Rush Limbaugh and just want to point out that my thread is unrelated.... It is coincidence... commercial over... (yeah I watch cartoons...)

 

You're lucky you lived to tell about. How you avoided suicide is beyond me.

 

Its amusing....
Like the props in early Star Trek episodes.. They are meant to represent something serious but are otherwise mundane things thinly despised to create an illusion...

 

How about combining Rush Limbaugh with a Star Trek episode. Let's see.

The Enterprise is inadvertently sent back in time and into the Rush Limbaugh era. It finds out that if Rush continues with his rhetoric and agenda, NASA will be shut down. This would set forward a chain of events where the Enterprise and its crew would never come to be. Therefore, they have to kill Rush to save their own rear end when they return to the future.

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Show ending:

Although Kirk has a scheme for killing Limbaugh, fate takes its own course, While trying to cross a busy street, a series of electromagnetic pulses by terrorists intended to jam the IRS computers temporarily disables Rush's cochlear implant. Not hearing the hippie VW bus hauling down the street, Rush steps out and is run over and killed by the bus. McCoy in a fleeting instant tries to save Rush, but Kirk says, "No Bones. Don't do it!" It is never known for sure if McCoy could have saved him.

The events of time occur as they should with the Enterprise and its crew back in the future and in existence. Kirk and his crew have managed to save their rear ends once again.

The end!



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Only if it was done with the same camera work, special effects and props of the early episodes .. William Shatner has to be in it too..... Maybe we could find a role for Bruce Campbell (he could ware the red shirt)...

 

I've met far too many people that actually take rush limbaugh seriously, and that is why I cannot find him amusing.

Of course, I've met people before who didn't really get the joke with Stephen Colbert either, and I find that a little scary.

 

I am willing to accept that i have an odd sense of humor.. Awkward and sometimes even tense situations amuse me in the most unusual way.. (assuming its not a dangerous or repressive situation of course)

So I am like the only one that finds this guy amusing in his absurdity?
I actually haven't listened to him in years, I was surprised when I found out he is still at it... I might have to give'm a listen again see if its still as funny as i remember it....

 

nah i can definitely understand the humor. I get a kick out of a lot of those conservative talk radio hosts. But Rush's celebrity is too big. Hes a huge joke to me but I live in the south, I have to deal with people that practically worship this guy and believe everything he says. Although that in itself can be funny, or tragic, depending on how you want to look at it.

I tried to have a nice intelligient albeit drunken political debate just last night, and someone brought up rush limbaugh. I gave up at that point. I said something about Rush Limbaugh just being another political pundit whose opinion really means nothing to me, and he started ranting about how Rush Limbaugh is right about everything he says. I just stopped talking at that point lol

 

I live about as far north as you can get in this country (without crossing Canada) We have a fairly liberal atmosphere (some of the best pot laws in the country). Still intelligent political debates are hard to come by (often drinking only serves to improve that, or at lest make it more tolerable)..
I have a really hard time dealing with anyone ignorantly regurgitating propaganda so I am sure the moment someone started actually quoting Rush in support of their argument I would walk away too (its just nicer than chuckling and snickering at them from that point on)...