"I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument." Colbert's speech to bush.

[greyl]

*note to humor impaired CTists: Colbert is being sarcastic.

Some excerpts from the transcript:

Wow, wow, what an honor. The White House Correspondents' Dinner. To just sit here, at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close to the man. I feel like I'm dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You know what? I'm a pretty sound sleeper -- that may not be enough. Somebody shoot me in the face.
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...my name is Stephen Colbert and it's my privilege tonight to celebrate this president. He's not so different, he and I. We both get it. We're not brainiacs on the nerd patrol. We're not members of the factinista. We go straight from the gut, right, sir? That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up.

I know some of you are going to say, "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's because you looked it up in a book. Next time look it up in your gut.
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Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

The transcript
The entire video

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Why do you have to

start off your thread by insulting half the people on this forum?

It would have been a nice thread otherwise.

[greyl]

2. Half the people in this forum are humor impaired CTists? I don't agree.

I also don't agree with your implication that all CTists are humor impaired - it's just that I know for a fact that a few of them are.

Do you interpret the phrase "Red cars" to mean that all cars are red?

[Taxloss]

3. Maybe he got the idea from Nebula.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=133419&mesg_id=133419

[greyl]

4. Or...

this one
I don't see any complaints from DYEW there. ;)

But no, I didn't get the idea from anyone. My above post #2 is truthful.

[John Q. Citizen]

9. Probably. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, after all...

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[PerpetualYnquisitive]

6. Many probably just ignore your flamebait.

The only CTist to reply is a total fucking idiot, and has since been banned.

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You're disdain for those with views in opposition to your own has been duly noted.

[greyl]

7. I don't have disdain for those who disagree with me.

I have disdain for those who are dishonest and willfully ignorant.
For those that are delusional, I have empathy.

Those that present careful and cogent arguments garner my respect.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

8. He didn't attack another member

The "total fucking idiot" he mentioned is no longer a member and was TS'd for anti-Semitism. Someone who is not worth defending.