Discussion: Fox News Host: Stephen Colbert Owes His Success To Us

Why should stupid be paid for being stupid? Isn’t that kind of like endorsing and encouraging stupidity?

Don’t Limpbah and Faux Snooze sponsors already do enough of this?

Colbert’s last show was a doozy wasn’t it? I especially liked his torturing the old guy who wanted to pay by credit card

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Maybe grain of truth in that? Maybe some Fox viewers viewed Colbert out of curiosity?
Who knows? Da Shadow do.

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Jesus. The Foxbots are so stupid they don’t even realize that they were the butt of his jokes.

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Excellent generalization. They just don’t get nuance at all. Just try having a rational discussion with that crazy uncle at the Thanksgiving dinner if you don’t believe it.
Their brains are wired differently.
i recall years ago trying to explain to my brother in law that my objection to the death penalty was pragmatic, not philosophical. I might as well have been speaking Sanskrit.

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And is Gutteld’s clueless ignorant jackassey the most pitch perfect coda to Colbert’s sign off or what?
Oh please proceed Mr Guttreld. Please proceed.

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How about you guys first pay what you owe Obama for all the “success” your network has achieved from making him your raison d’être the past 6 years?

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Colbert owes his success to Fox like physicians owe their success to illness.

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They still don’t get it.

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Go ahead, we aren’t polite company.

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It’s true, DeLay thought Colbert was serious and it was a joke on liberals. My conservative stepmother loved Colbert until I pointed out he was mocking her.

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What I like about that “joke” is that it implicitly confirms that Fox pays it’s sources. So as a “journalism” outlet Fox is saying that they have to rely on paid, tainted sources.Kinda like MO had to rely on Witness 40’s testimony because it was the only one that said what they wanted to hear…

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I would gladly exchange FOX deciding to actually conduct the practice of journalism for Steven Colbert’s success, much as I so much respect and admire him.

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Well, it’s Fox News. Self-awareness isn’t exactly something thats held as a virtue over there.

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A conservative who thinks he’s funny, unaware that “conservative” and “funny” are mutually exclusive. Unless you include “unintentionally.”

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Practicing journalism requires a modicum of grey matter in functioning condition. Something not common over at Fox. So, hoping for actual journalism from them is an exercise in futility. Which would mean Me Colbert’s abilities at sarcasm and parody are all the more precious.

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My over riding memory was Henry Kissinger’s complete inability to keep the beat of the song. He was consistently missing the down beat.
I’m going thru Colbert withdrawal. Thank the Maker for youtube.

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Fox demographic of old white men is not exactly the demographic watching Colbert. By several decades.

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The Teabaggers ,Right wing Nuts ,Ditto heads and Fox Noise Junkies loved him because they were to dumb to get the Joke

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"“He should write an eight-figure check to Fox News,” Gutfeld said, “because all of our gaffes, that we never admitted were gaffes, made that man’s career.”
FIFY

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How about spending less time on monetizing bullshit, and a little more doing the job you are currently overpaid for properly.

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