Between July 1 and Dec. 31, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow collected more than $825,400, ending the year with nearly $674,000 cash on hand, according to disclosures filed over night with the Federal Election Commission. – Stephen Colbert’s FEC report: Big money!
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Stephen Colbert is the only man anywhere near politics that has political ads worth watching today.
Chuck Todd got bent out of shape about it last week.
“He is making a mockery of the system… Is it fair to the process? Yes, the process is a mess, but he’s doing it in a way that feels like he’s trying to influence it with his own agenda and that may be anti-Republican.” – Chuck Todd, NBC News
Twisting himself into a knot to be fair and balanced, Todd sounded uncharacteristically dense.
The bookend is reading Mark Halperin’s debate scorecard that isn’t really about the debate, as he admits. Halperin’s grading farce is geared to assessing an evening’s performance with how it could impact the horse race, but always with an eye toward his own access to the politician.
If there’s anything we should all agree upon is that the cesspool of payoffs to candidates through Super PACS locks Americans out of the process, while exposing television viewers in states where the primary season passes to mind-numbing ads of irrefutable charges. The sheer density makes it so.
Stephen Colbert has done more to expose the Super PAC sickness than Obama, Romney, McCain, Feingold, Gingrich or Chuck Todd and Mark Halperon combined.
Looking at Stephen Colbert, watching and listening to him, I’m not at all convinced we’d be worse off with a regular stiff, even a comic, at the helm. They at least might know how unseemly it is to pack your administration with Goldman Sachs cronies while railing about big bank and Wall Street influence.
Some Americans get how totally screwed up our political process is today and they’re laughing at all the insiders through their wallets. In a tough economy that’s quite a message they’re sending.
This is the second time I have heard someone in the media say that Colbert was making a mockery of the system. I could have sworn I stopped dropping acid years ago but now I’m not so sure. I can’t possibly be seeing and hearing what I think I am. What is there to make a mockery of? The whole process seems like a combination of American Idol, Access Hollywood and Fear Factor. It is people like Todd who are making a mockery of the system; another one of our millionaire reporters defending the rich and corporate elite.
Sweet JEEBUS CRISPIES onna POPCICLE STICK! That is the funniest add I have EVER seen!!!!!!!!
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Sure, what Colbert is doing is brilliant, however, I have mixed feeling for a different reason; every moment he consumes airtime in the MSM with “legitimate” news programs such as, ABC’s This Week, with the tiny Greek or NBC’s Beat the Flesh, or CBS’s Screw the Nation, the media are stealing 3 to 5 minutes from a Rocky Anderson, or a union leader, or even Ron Paul. There are people trying to make a real difference that would that type of exposure.
Do you really think there are citizens out here that are still unaware that our system is corrupt and broken? This is less of a public service and more camouflage for the networks for not doing their job An already diluted and whoring cable and broadcast media should not have the luxury of contributing precious airtime to comedy skits when events are unraveling domestically and around the world.
Let’s get the economy leaning forward again before we rest awhile.
P.S. get off my grass and keep the noise down