Discussion: Colbert: FREEDOM! I Stand With My Scottish 'Secessionist Brothers'

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You’d think with all the royal coverage this potentially major shift within a major ally, if only for the national security implications, would have gotten more attention before now from our media.
By the clock, Colbert’s segment likely surpassed the major network ‘focus’.

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Problem is, we no longer have journalists who understand issues outside of 'Murkuh. We have communications majors who get a migrane when asked what the capital of Massachusetts is.

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This is serious. Scotch Whisky exports will be curtailed

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Wait, wait- Plymouth, right? Bunker Hill?

Springfield- that’s it!

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“But Rabobank estimates a newly independent Scotland could be shut out of the EU for at least two years after a formal split from the rest of the UK in March 2016.”

That’s alright. “10 year-old” just becomes “12 year-old”, and so on. In the mean time, there’s always Irish Whiskey, or Bourbon. :wink:

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I think he heard the word secession more than once growing up in Charleston, South Carolina. The reference to slaves ties it all together. It will be interesting if the Scots do vote for Independence and find out that the accompanying costs of separation show that being Free Scots doesn’t mean that they get out Scott free.

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It’s been closing for a while, but, yeah, our press being our press, it took what might well be an outlier poll to get its attention.

It does remind me a lot of the way we treat even Quebec secession votes as being something happening in some benighted distant land unknown and unrelated to us where the picturesque inhabitants wear quaint native garb and live neck deep in mud, though.

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Proof of U. S. media ignorance: An AP report out yesterday wrote of how Queen Elizabeth is in Scotland to “sway the vote.” Such sinister doings until you realize that every British Monarch since Victoria has spent September in Scotland.

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And whose concept of journalism is to take what the RNC spoon-feeds them and trumpet the propaganda as news. Several examples of that here at TPM over the past years.

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most importantly, what will happen to the price of single malt scotch?

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Depends on Scotland’s stand on NATO. Hagel has already said that Scottish products could face huge import duties if Scotland goes independent and neutral.

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I am dubious of secessionist movements in general in the absence of actual systemic discrimination or political oppression or mass murder by the majority, but if there’s one thing I’m certain of, it is that, even if an independent Scotland never managed to obtain entry to a single other trade agreement or gain entry into a trading bloc generally, the world’s elites will do whatever is necessary to ensure unimpeded access to the preferred whiskey of the world’s elites.

Bourbon drinkers like the occasional splash of Canadian or will condescend to drink Tennessee or rye from time to time, and Canadian drinkers might like the odd nip of Irish, but Scotch drinkers are less like rational consumers in a market with price constraints and openness to substitutes than members of a damn cult.

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Harrumph, harrumph. I wear my cult membership with pride! Thanks for the memory jar, though. Need to go to Spec’s today and pick up a couple of cases just in case.

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I don’t know what all the fuss is about. The Scots already have their own football league. What more could they possibly want?

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If other cults caused people to spend entire nights puking and wishing for death after their first exposure, they’d be a much smaller problem.

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Scotch is for sipping and getting a light buzz. I’ve never had the upchuck evening with it (except for that one night in college when I drank Rusty Nails - the Scotch didn’t cause it, the Drambuie did)

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Going from Bourbon to Rye is not condescending, it’s ascending.

There; I’ve said it. Let the flaming begin.

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The entire cuisine of Scotland was based on a dare.

–Mike Myers

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Roger that – but neither can hold a candle to Scottish barley.

There was a time when Irish might be an acceptable substitute,
but not anymore. They’ve watered every dram down to 80 proof.

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