I love Colbert. He’s a funny, smart, insightful comedian despite the fact that his politics go a little too far left for my tastes.
That having been said, I don’t know whose idea it was for him to testify in front of a Congressional committee on immigrant farm workers this morning, but as far as I’m concerned his presentation bombed … and not because many of his lines weren’t funny.
What works on the Colbert Report sounded inane in front of the House Judiciary subcommittee.
Stephen, what were you thinking? Hello! Earth to whoever thought this was a good idea. Did you think because so many of the 30 and under crowd get their “news” from the Colbert Report and The Daily Show that this “testimony” would be taken seriously. Were you really so full of yourselves?
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According to the Globe’s Political Intelligence, Colbert was asked to leave:
Colbert asked to leave Judiciary hearing
Comedian Stephen Colbert had barely seated himself at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing this morning when US Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, asked him to leave. Conyers said the committee had not seen so many reporters at a hearing since presidential impeachment proceedings in the late 1990s, and he wanted Colbert to leave so that the committee could carry on with its work.
If this was an attempt to embarrass those who want the illegal immigration problem to be handled smartly and effectively, it backfired … BADLY! Y’all embarrassed yourselves.
