{"id":13965,"date":"2010-10-29T14:34:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T20:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=13965"},"modified":"2010-10-29T05:10:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T11:10:35","slug":"keeping-fear-alive-stephen-colbert-2006-presidential-dinner-vs-stephen-colbert-2010-congressional-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/keeping-fear-alive-stephen-colbert-2006-presidential-dinner-vs-stephen-colbert-2010-congressional-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Fear Alive: Stephen Colbert 2006 Presidential Dinner vs Stephen Colbert 2010 Congressional Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Stewart and Stephen T. Colbert’s The Rally to Restore Sanity and\/or Fear<\/a><\/strong> is barely a day away. Here we sit. Sad and disturbed about not being able to go. <\/p>\n

It’s a fact that we can’t walk amongst our fellow sanity restorers<\/a> in Washington D.C. tomorrow. But we sure as hell can Keep Fear Alive<\/a> by bringing up old shit. <\/p>\n

Let’s stir a pot of old beans, yes?<\/p>\n

Stephen Colbert then:<\/strong> 2006 Speech at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colbert was a young pup. Still a babe in the eyes of the half-hour cable TV show satire gods. Also, still very much in the shadow of The Daily Show. That’s when Stephen T. Colbert stood up at a White House dinner, in front of then president George W. Bush and did not hold back one inch.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Colbert now:<\/strong> 2010 Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security Opening Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the month of September 2010, Colbert <\/a>was called before Congress<\/a> to “describe his experience participating in the United Farm Workers’ “Take Our Jobs” program, in which he spent a day working alongside migrant workers in upstate New York.” <\/p>\n

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\nStephen Colbert gives his opening statement during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security (from C-SPAN 9\/24\/10 coverage<\/a>). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both Colberts spoke from the humerus and the heart. Both are dangerously fearless.<\/p>\n

There is no physical difference between them. Except that the latter has an extra 4 years of comedy seasoning.<\/p>\n

Aftermath<\/strong>
\nHe was asked to leave the hearing. A few congressmen thought he was wasting taxpayer money. We immediately consider the amount of time Congress has burned on whether a few guys juiced playing a game of baseball. Others(Jon Stewart) have noticed <\/a>this in a handy montage:<\/p>\n

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart<\/a><\/td>\nMon – Thurs 11p \/ 10c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Truthiness to Power<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
www.thedailyshow.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\nPolitical Humor<\/a><\/td>\nRally to Restore Sanity<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

After all is said(zod knows no one could shut up about it for weeks) and done, we’ll just call this hooha over Colbert “ruining Congress” a wash.
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Bonus!<\/strong><\/p>\n

All 2 hours and 10 minutes of the hearing is available for watching<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bonus bonus:<\/strong><\/p>\n

On October 8th, 2010, Colbert mocked his appearance on David Letterman. Huffington Post has video of this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nColbert acknowledged the critics who asked why he was allowed to testify by making fun of it himself. Letterman broke the ice by asking if “anybody with a TV show [can] go down and testify?<\/a>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Reddit: The clip from Colbert’s testimony that the media is not showing. <\/a>, cspan video<\/a>, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Stewart and Stephen T. Colbert’s The Rally to Restore Sanity and\/or Fear is barely a day away. Here we sit. Sad and disturbed about not being able to go. It’s a fact that we can’t walk amongst our fellow sanity restorers in Washington D.C. tomorrow. But we sure as hell can Keep Fear Alive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,73],"tags":[1067,1790,3324,3408,3409,3381,941,3328,33,3329,3548,1863,553],"class_list":["post-13965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa","category-versus","tag-1067","tag-1790","tag-colbert-rally","tag-congress","tag-cspan","tag-fearless","tag-jon-stewart","tag-march-to-keep-fear-alive","tag-politics","tag-rally-to-restore-sanity","tag-rally-to-restore-sanity-andor-fear","tag-reddit","tag-stephen-colbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13965"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14434,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13965\/revisions\/14434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}