Comments on: Late Nite FDL: Why We Will Beat Them in the End http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:51:42 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Bullitnutz http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-119354 Bullitnutz Fri, 26 May 2006 14:21:20 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-119354 <p>Yet they still get all pissy about “those hollywood types thinkin’ we’re all country bumpkins.”</p> <p>Not all of them, just the vast, vast majority of them. </p> <p>Must amount to roughly 27 percent of Americans if you ask me…</p> Yet they still get all pissy about “those hollywood types thinkin’ we’re all country bumpkins.”

Not all of them, just the vast, vast majority of them.

Must amount to roughly 27 percent of Americans if you ask me…

]]> By: Bink http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118570 Bink Fri, 26 May 2006 00:11:14 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118570 <p><i>sowing mistrust of intellectuals</i></p> <p>They have taken the Pol Pot strategy and run with it. What’s next, shooting people who wear eyeglasses?</p> sowing mistrust of intellectuals

They have taken the Pol Pot strategy and run with it. What’s next, shooting people who wear eyeglasses?

]]> By: slim http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118382 slim Thu, 25 May 2006 22:39:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118382 <p>Jane -</p> <p>Best to Kobe. Our greyhound Boomer came through a retroverted stomach about 2 months ago and is back to his fighting weight, though the week of fevers and barfing had us scared to death. I’m sure Kobe will come through, too. Sending best wishes from SW Washington.</p> Jane -

Best to Kobe. Our greyhound Boomer came through a retroverted stomach about 2 months ago and is back to his fighting weight, though the week of fevers and barfing had us scared to death. I’m sure Kobe will come through, too. Sending best wishes from SW Washington.

]]> By: biz http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118377 biz Thu, 25 May 2006 22:33:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118377 <p>One the surface, this may seem funny, but the gambling that their veiwers will not understand it as irony (either?).</p> <p>They have done this before - it’s just a variation on the ‘bigger lies are more believable’. Take him at face value, and gamble that your listeners won’t bother to scratch deep enough to see through it.</p> One the surface, this may seem funny, but the gambling that their veiwers will not understand it as irony (either?).

They have done this before – it’s just a variation on the ‘bigger lies are more believable’. Take him at face value, and gamble that your listeners won’t bother to scratch deep enough to see through it.

]]> By: John Williams http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118344 John Williams Thu, 25 May 2006 22:07:23 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118344 <p>Someone should point them to:</p> <p><a href="http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/">http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/</a></p> Someone should point them to:

http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/

]]> By: brian http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118302 brian Thu, 25 May 2006 21:40:57 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118302 <p>yea baby!</p> yea baby!

]]> By: richard mann http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118248 richard mann Thu, 25 May 2006 21:02:42 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118248 <p>“Now, why would a bunch of crony-sucking Repug thugs suddenly rush forward to embrace a known liberal satirist? BECAUSE THEY DON’T REALIZE HE’S A LIBERAL!”</p> <p>Rather, I think the part Repugs don’t get about Colbert is that it’s satire. They don’t get the plot twist. Republicans generally are not stupid, they just like wearing blinders. Blinders to the truth, blinders to the suffering, blinders allowing intolerance. AND in this case, blinders to “irony.”</p> “Now, why would a bunch of crony-sucking Repug thugs suddenly rush forward to embrace a known liberal satirist? BECAUSE THEY DON’T REALIZE HE’S A LIBERAL!”

Rather, I think the part Repugs don’t get about Colbert is that it’s satire. They don’t get the plot twist. Republicans generally are not stupid, they just like wearing blinders. Blinders to the truth, blinders to the suffering, blinders allowing intolerance. AND in this case, blinders to “irony.”

]]> By: theberle http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118173 theberle Thu, 25 May 2006 20:09:52 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118173 <p>We here in <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/CAsCA">California’s Canada</a> are glad that Delay’s supporters have removed that traitorous Colbert’s video from their site, as Colbert has continually encouraged his viewers to think of us Oregonians as non-American. We are glad that the Delay supporters eventually saw through his faux-patriotism, and now see him as the lying blowhard he really his.</p> We here in California’s Canada are glad that Delay’s supporters have removed that traitorous Colbert’s video from their site, as Colbert has continually encouraged his viewers to think of us Oregonians as non-American. We are glad that the Delay supporters eventually saw through his faux-patriotism, and now see him as the lying blowhard he really his.

]]> By: xoff http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118153 xoff Thu, 25 May 2006 19:52:54 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118153 <p>That video is “no longer available” at the DeLay site.</p> That video is “no longer available” at the DeLay site.

]]> By: LAPDOG » Blog Archive » “Why We Will Beat Them in the End” — Great Article http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118123 LAPDOG » Blog Archive » “Why We Will Beat Them in the End” — Great Article Thu, 25 May 2006 19:31:02 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/24/late-nite-fdl-why-we-will-beat-them-in-the-end/#comment-118123 <p>[…] The good folks at Firedoglake have an excellent article explaining why people of common sense will triumph in the end against these lock-and-step right wing fundamentalists. A lot of the text brings out the fact that most Bush apologists really don’t like independent thinkers, intellectuals… y’know… smart people. Progressives like us are evil because we actually try to figure things out, ask questions, and try to come to conclusions using logic and common sense. Bushies depend on ignorance and following talking-points. They don’t want you to think for yourself. You’re supposed to trust Big Brother without question and get all of your daily information from Fox News (and nothing else). […]</p> […] The good folks at Firedoglake have an excellent article explaining why people of common sense will triumph in the end against these lock-and-step right wing fundamentalists. A lot of the text brings out the fact that most Bush apologists really don’t like independent thinkers, intellectuals… y’know… smart people. Progressives like us are evil because we actually try to figure things out, ask questions, and try to come to conclusions using logic and common sense. Bushies depend on ignorance and following talking-points. They don’t want you to think for yourself. You’re supposed to trust Big Brother without question and get all of your daily information from Fox News (and nothing else). […]

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