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Jane just phoned to give me the scoop on Ned Lamont's taping of The Colbert Report for this evening's show -- Jane says that Ned absolutely rocked. So set your TiVo now, kids, it's one you won't want to miss!
Stephen Colbert was completely on his game this evening, according to Jane, and told Ned that he is the story of the Democratic party right now -- and thanked him for it. Jane is on her way back from NYC, and will fill everyone in when she can in much more fabu detail.
In the meantime, though, all the cool kids will be watching The Colbert Report this evening at 11:30 pm ET/10:30 pm CT on Comedy Central. Don't miss it!
(For those of you who have to miss it, Crooks and Liars has promised some clips as soon as humanly possible after the show. Thanks, John!)
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great news!
The mark of ZERO! Um, almost.
Sweet. I will be all over ComNedy Central tonight.
Hey, that editing function just saved my bass.
Thanks, Jamie! You rock!
Me, not so much.
Ooo, I’ll need to catch Mel Gibson Driving School Puppet Theater on Countdown tomorrow night, too.
How is it possible that a search on recent FDL posts with keyword “Lebanon” comes up blank?
A curious Canadian, and regular FDL reader, wants to know?
Bush said a cease fire doesn’t stop the cause of the problem, which is armed militias. What?
Great news about Ned on Colbert. For those of us who don’t have t.v., will look forward to the clip on C&L later on.
How is it possible that a search on recent FDL posts with keyword “Lebanon” comes up blank?
*sighs heavily, straps on helmet*
Awesome.
I’ve been to a couple of Colbert’s tapings in recent months and have never been disappointed (other than the small shoddy studio sets, which look so impressive on TV, and the lack of a bar in the waiting area). It always amazes me how Colbert rides a much finer comedic line than Stewart but he’s such a genius at double-edged satire that he pulls it off. The guy’s a comedic oasis in the desert of American pop media…
Eagerly awaiting Lamont’s performance…!
Nedbert!
Rob at 6 — try clicking on the topics at right — I’d start with “foreign policy” and work your way from there. Or do a google search. We just upgraded some things today on the website and our own search has been ever so slightly wonky.
I’m assuming that you didn’t mean that in some sort of condescending tone, given that we have had numerous posts on the Israel/;Lebanon conlfict, including some fabulous guest posts, so I am responding in kind to someone who might not read here enough to know that. HTH!
Ned!
Nights like tonite is when it is worth the money for cable and the Comedy Channel. HBO, however, has been terrible lately and hardly worth the money. They play old stuff 24/7.
Rob — you should skim through a few comment threads in here — it seems the ’search’ function only covers posts per se …
Another diary based on the Melvin Lipman’s (the President of the American Humanist Association) talk in Columbus this past weekend.
Humanists and the media
Great news, Christy!!! Thanks for giving us the scoop!
I’ve been nervous for Ned this whole past two hours. :-)
Humanism just goes round and round - it’s a secular argument. :~)
What ccmask said, the idiot tube has been sub par for a couple of months and I reduced news channel viewing 98 percent a couple of weeks ago. May be the time to put the tube back in a closet for a couple of years. After Ned / Colbert of course.)
I’m verklempt!
Rob @
6
Concern troll alert
Rob @
6
Rob, you can’t have been reading too long to make that kind of a statement. Did you start today?
Hurrah, this was EPUed by the update on Ned so I can commit Mktg 101 and stay on message:
Will take off now and spread the word about Colbert Report. Just another small stone on electing one of the good guys for CT.
anybody that saw that famous dinner speech by Colbert knows his heart is in the right place — Ned seems to be quick on his feet — I did not expect Stephen to screw our Mr. Lamont — now Jane is reporting the chemistry worked.
Some LieberYouth will see the interview and be discouraged and slack off (but keep the $80/day coming!)
Cool! Can’t wait to watch it.
ps-Thanks, Jamie, these new comment features are awesome!
Thanks for the responses … my query was not intended to be condescending … consider me a citizen of the world trying to make sense of this part of it …
Pach, Would you like to elaborate?
Never mind…
Rob, if you want to comment something on Lebanon, please, by all means, what do you have to say?
Where are you from in Canada?
Pachacutec @ 20
Tawk amongst yuhselves, I’ll give you a topic: What will Lil Joey Lieberman do when he loses the election?
The great thing about both Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert is they know who the good guys are and are always going to give them a lot of slack or lead. They are both very adept at playing their guest’s best or worst traits depending on their deservability. Actually - they really do treat everyone pretty civil even if they are skewering them!
(oh, and btw, the spellcheck for comments rocks!)
He’ll work for Halle Burton.
Take Prosac and lobby for an arms dealer.
Tawk amongst yuhselves, I’ll give you a topic: What will Lil Joey Lieberman do when he loses the election?
Defense lobbyist and part-time pretend-Democrat talking head who reliably trashes liberals.
I got a couple Tivio alerts today from some friends about this. It was very cool to see it from a couple divergent groups.
Eli @ 34
Damn fine tea leaf reading I think we have a winner here. House pays the man, 5000 atta boys!
EPU’d OT from last thread, still OT:
Happy Birthday egregious!
Prozac is an Eli Lilly of Indianapolis product — Joe will take whatever Pfizer of Connecticut doles out … but then, what’s new about that?
Kiss Float Detailer.
Pretty soon Joe’s gonna wear a baseball cap reading “I WISH I HAD A JOB TO SHOVE”
A couple of threads late, but whatever. The best part of the Salon piece on Lieberman is this:
That’s the mission, and Firedoglake is accomplishing it.
Salon on Joe
Jenny from the Blog @ 39
That’s good, I like that.
I bet Joe has nightmares about the Kiss Float chasing him down dark alleys… hee.
Millineryman @ 42
Pimp My Short Ride
My money is on lobbyist, joining Hadassah’s firm and working for Pfizer and other corps in whose service he has done wonders for. He may also land an ambassadorship or something from BushCo.
Jenny from the Blog @ 43
I really would love to see a short film of this, preferably set to the Jaws theme.
I assume everybody caught Colbert’s commencement address at Knox College a while back
Pimp My Slow Ride
You mean Pimp My Short Ride, right?
Adam & Eve Na-Gurney Hospital Escort Service
Eli @ 46
Oh my gosh, that would be funny. Think we could get Helen Thomas in on the action? She did so well in the Colbert film.
OT- Majority Leader Bonehead says that if the Repubs manage to hold on to Congress he pledges to work on privatizing Social Security. Sounds like a winner.
Stephen Parrish CPA…
If you’re around.
Thanks for directing my attention to the conservative protestant minister, Tim LaHaye. I had not seen that. And after reading the interview, you might perhaps assume, I have a view on what he had to say. Tnx again. Appreciate it.
Eli @ 48
why, yes, you’re absolutely right
Tawk amongst yuhselves, I’ll give you a topic: What will Lil Joey Lieberman do when he loses the election?
Oh - he is SO following his wife’s lead. Perhaps a viagra lobbyist or something… I’m sorry that’s mean. But you know the more I see of this guy the less I want to…
Oh my gosh, that would be funny. Think we could get Helen Thomas in on the action? She did so well in the Colbert film.
I think that would be excessive, plus she’s not really a Lieberman adversary. I think the Kiss Float is just fine all by itself, unless we could get Jane to ride on top of it yee-hawing like Slim Pickens.
Helen could be wearing Wax Lips to heighten the horror.
Wax Lips, or Lax Whips?
punaise, you make me laugh OUT. LOUD.
maybe Lieberman could end up as Ambassador to the Vatican so that Joe could lecture the Pope about morality and politics and stuff …
Dear Mr. Finito, Joe will be become W’s lawn boy. Or bushwacker. Heh.
Thanks FDLers … haven’t played in the comments before … in the past few days, have read comment threads about Lebanon in the Guardian … the Independent, Haaretz, and the Toronto Globe and Mail … and part of the U.S. blogosphere … and came away astonished again by the raw emotions this situation has generated, recognizing that for Americans, this is so divisive on so many levels. U.S. politics have enormous salience for Canadians (this one lives in Ontario east of Toronto, and on Salt Spring Island in BC) … but you have to live it … we get to watch, he says, respectfully.
Hmmm. I think I just used a banned word… sorry. Anyway I was saying I’ll bet Joe follows his wife into lobbying. Perhaps little blue pills (the word being the one that stopped my last post). A stupid pun indeed and I apologize for the small meaness, but ya’ know the more of this guy I see, the less I want to. So long Joe, don’t let the door hit you on the way out…
OT
Hate-filled Drunk Slams Hate-filled Drunk!
Hitchens on Mel gibson at www.slate.com
whats next? Bush tells another country they should try Democracy? err…oops.
or Coulter vs. Eva Braun
Errrr, I meant brushwacker. Kinda.
GREAT NEWS….I can’t wait to see it!
JftB - :~)
ummm… Eva Braun was a rightwing party-girl but at least she got married !
Ambassador to Finland would equal Joes level of enthusiasm.
Ambassador to Oceania
Fini Finito @
30
Be all the bestest bust buffer he can be
;>)
Tune in the Daily Show half an hour before. We owe the comic/talent genius of Jon Stewart bigtime for M. Colbert….
They are pimping the Joe as Rumsfields replacement again…. Ya know how great Short Ride Joe is about bipartisan cooperation and all.
Somewhere I read (think Huffpo) about a great campaign commercial with just Rumsfields quacky quotes one after another and ask “Do they know what they are doing?”
Ambassador to Finland would equal Joes level of enthusiasm.
Lieberia is the only choice.
meta @ 60
Heh indeed. And please by all means, don’t be so formal with the Mr. Finito stuff, you may refer to me as Your Excellency or Monsignor will do *g*.
I think Holy Joe should apply for CDarth Cheney’s Chief of staff. He hs all their disgusting tactics down to a tee.
Maybe he could move to Texas and run for Delays seat.
I just finished working on my motion. Hope to get out of the office by 9:30-10 PM. WooHoo willbe home in time for Stewart AND Colbert AND Ned.
A just reward for a hard day’s work.
Yes.
lhp, did Mittens make it?
darkblack @ 70
Dude, that is some inspired work there! Most excellent as usual.
OT…but Tropical Deprtession#3 just formed off of Islands….all Floridians keep an eye out. It might not develop more than a Trop Storm, just a heads up!
Satire aside, Colbert usually does not lob softballs. If anything, he’s harder on his liberal guests than on conservatives. The interview with Scarborough, for example, was curiously flat and unfunny (had Scarborough been a Democrat, Colbert probably would’ve asked him about his murdered intern…).
Colbert isn’t hard on the liberals because he hates ‘em (if anything, he seems to be much further left than Stewart). I think he wants to see if they can rise to the challenge (plus, it makes for better comedy). We NEED smart, funny, dedicated candidates who can go on Colbert, take a “nailing” graciously, and fight back. We DON’T need appeasing wimps with a closet full of skeletons.
If you can pass the Colbert test, you’re good to go.
katymine @ 72
Gee, Isn’t that how Ashcroft got to be AG? Lost an election (in Ashcroft’s case to a dead guy) so Shrubby made him AG in a show or “loyalty” (read here cronyism).
Thats the Bushco way, lose and election, gain a cabinet post.
hey, it works (snark)
I also made a promise (to someone) that the Ned clip from the show would be online by 12:30 east coast time–at YouTube.
Fini Finito, why yes. You are most excellent.
Eureka — the tea-leaf-readers at the court discerned that the judges did not seem to take kindly to the Texas GOP arguments about Delays residency. The Republicans are likely to be stuck with Tom on the ballot in November.
FDL and Kos have done a super job with the netroots on the Ned campaign. So I would toss out the question to those in the field… how much of an impact DID the netroots make? Was it like the spark that started the conflagration… or was Ned going to happen regardless of the netroots?
My sense is that the netroots CAN spread the word and fire up interest… but Joe was a loser waiting to lose… despite his money and his incumbency or incompetancy as I prefer it. After all he was not representing connecticutarians as much as joe.
What is your sense about how much the net roots can fire up the grass roots?
Yes Eli.
Earlier thread lhp, mentioned the vet said if it weren’t for the bubble gum flavored medicine, Mittens might not have made it. Still weak,… but we all remain hopeful.
all of Joe’s chickens are coming home to roots.
lhp, congrats! It’s Calvin Klein slingback flippin’ time.
meta @ 84
[blushing] Awww jeez, thanks. I was just joshin’ [/blushing]
Eli,
So far so good, We pump her full of puppy anti biotics (which came in bubblegum flavor, just like for real kids. BMittens loved and took ALL her medicine)
So we mega dosed her every 4 hours. This AM the vet said that probably saved her life.
She is much better, but will need to continue anti biotics for a full course.
Thanks for asking
the best recent Colbert interview was with Eleanor Norton Holmes, the Congressional Delegate from DC. At first she was flabbergasted by his questions but then she got into the groove and slammed replies back hard at Colbert. Two experts sword-playing! Most memorable!
Thanks, John!
Hooray for bubble-gum-flavored medicine! Hooray for Mittens! Hooray for lhp!
Personally I’d like to see Lieberman appointed as Ambassador to Iran.
Delicious on so many levels hehe.
“They are pimping the Joe as Rumsfields replacement again…. Ya know how great Short Ride Joe is about bipartisan cooperation and all.”
Gahhhhhhh, are you serious? Yeah, put Short Ride in the gunner’s seat. Let him run the damn war. That’s rich.
G’night all. Time to end my 13 hour workday and go home and kick off the pumps, crack opena cold one and watch Colbert.
How much do you love “get to know a District?”
My favorite segment. Well, not tonight of course, tonight the specail guest will be my favorite segment
After listening to Ned’s two radio interviews today from the earlier threads I’ve had a calmness all day that he would do great with Colbert. Only 2 hours to go here at EDT, will have to pop some bubbly for the occasion!
Fini Finito @ 78
Ta, FF…Bit of a stretch with the ‘kiss float’ statues for ‘Joe’s Senate post-partum possibility’, I’d already used the ‘Jaded Joey’ today.
New thread gang — Howie’s in da house!
If there is a humorous God Lieberman will become Ambassador to Thailand, the most sexually permissive society on the planet IMHO. He will go insane living there.
Entrepreneurship?
Fini Finito @ 99
or retail associate at Tile-Land, right next to the Home Depot. Don’t miss today’s seminar: “learning to love grout”
DefJef, I hope Jane might do a piece on that very question. It seems to me it’s about so many things, some of them idiosyncratic and some of them strategized. Joe is begging to be beaten. He’s seriously out of touch. I think blogtopia (yes, that would be you, skippy, thank you very much!) lifted Ned up and psyched him. The money came along, too. And, honestly, it’s all about the float. And those TV ads. Infectious because they weren’t formulaic-patriot-boy scorched-earth crap. Really fresh approach. And then there’s Ned.
Great- now I have to stay up way past my bedtime. Don’t they know that I’m moving tomorrow?
DefJef @ 86
My take is the most important and unlikely event was that Ned decided to run at all and to invest his own money. Back in January when he decided, his name recognition was in single digits and Iraq had just had “successful” elections and was at the “turning point.”
Looking back, getting 15% of CT Dems to vote for a primary must have looked like Mt. Everest. I think the early net roots contributions, probably played a big part in that.
Jane spotted Ned’s ability early and went with it. It was right around the time we were trying to help Ciro Rodriguez in TX and got thumped. It’s not like Jane was looking to jump on a bandwagon in January, she bet on Buster Douglass to beat Mike Tyson. Lotta people in Vegas wanted that action before the fight.
punaise @ 88
birds of a feather….chicken hawks
Can get his show on iTunes for $1.99 for your very own - also the white house dinner - tho no video of that
Joe’s future employment:
flipping off bloggersflipping burgersSpencer Abraham, current EnergySec, was also a Senate loser, in Michigan I think, before his gig now.
Finland would never welcome Lieberman as ambassador. They would much rather have Conan O’Brien. Now there’s a guy Joe could take campaigning lessons from.
Spoiler alert:
Bwahahahaha!
Colbert and Lamont have something in common…
The humorless, clueless response to Colbert’s brilliant roasting of George Bush a few months ago reminds me of the same mindset that had Lieberman clueless about the depth of opposition in his own party and his home state. They just didn’t get it when Colbert spoke, and Lieberman and his ilk just don’t get why there will be a Senator Lamont.
Fini Finito @ 30
Joe’s getting Bob Dole’s viagra spot.
Ned was fantastic! A little nervous at the beginning but he hit all of the major points and the audience clapped and hollered. Could not have been more of a success.
I know, self commenting…
From Joe-mentum to Joe-rection, Lieberman to loverboy!
LoneStarLiberal @
114
Wow. Ned was great tonight. And, I loved how Stephen asked so many “leading questions” that allowed Ned to give his views.
C&L direct link to Ned on TCR:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....rt-report/
GO NED GO!
http://nedlamont.com/blog/667/.....sphere-day
*thru 8/8
Enjoy the carnage over at LieberDem, not affiliated with any campaign or candidate since 9:22pm this evening. But Jane is dishonest… just ask them!
Fiengold Lamont 08
I was afraid to watch this because, frankly, I didn’t like the first Lamont commercial. I didn’t like him all that much. I would support Maynard G. Krebs over Lieberman, but the idea of poor Lamont being sliced and diced on Colbert was not something I thought was a good idea.
BUT … I was blown away. He’s was unflinchingly on the money. He not only didn’t make a fool of himself (almost impossible on TCR), but he gave several answers which were better than anything I could have come up with if I’d had a week to prepare. I’m sold. Clicking off to donate more money.
Just saw Ned on TCR here on the West Coast, and he did very well indeed.
I would say he came across as a bit earnest, but not at all ingenuous, and he had a sense of humor that I could tell he was trying to rein in to stay on his message. He took the loaded questions and answered them with intelligence, and not with sarcasm. He showed some wit and ability to think on his feet to get his message across. Under the circumstances, I’d say this was a stand-up triple with 2 RBI!
[eta] I used to live in Norwalk, CT. Ned would be a big step up for the people of CT. :)
Oops, meant to say Ned was not at all disingenuous. It’s late here. ;)
It all sounds so exciting back in CT!
The Netroots is huge in Lamont’s success. Not because it neccessarily directly drives individual votes.. but rather because sites like FDL bring candidates like Lamont to the attention of Colbert, The Daily Show, Hardball and Dobbs. And the networks and Drudge then pick up on what those guys are doing. I mean didn’t one of the national morning shows recently show a Colbert clip?
My guess is that Colbert is a FDL lurker
DefJef @
86
Lieberman was already a disaster readu to happen for DC Democrats — Netroots served to produce a viable opponent, raise interest and money, and CT Democrats took it from there.
Next step — Assuming Lamont wins next Tuesday, the bloggers have to produce the energy that forces every possible elected Democrat to endorse his General Election Campaign. The Schumers, the Clintons, the Boxers and all the rest have to bow to the will of the CT Democratic voters, and cut off any hope Joe has of support and money for an independent race. Remember, this is always about power, and forcing them to bow is part of accumulating power.
Obviously, should Lamont be the Nominated Democrat, we have to make certain that all the progressive interest groups that make campaign donations (i.e., have PACS) — contribute to Ned’s campaign. We also have to make it clear to Elected Dem’s that they should not use their leadership PAC’s to support a Lieberman Independent run. Again — the way one gets a mite of power is about knowing how the system works, and making it work for you. Joe has to be cut off from the mother’s milk of politics which is PAC donations controlled by other democrats.
I fully expect the Republican PAC’s et. al., to try to come to the rescue of Joe should he run as an independent. We have to be prepared to spell out what that really is all about. It is not enough to just condemn how this money game plays in politics — yes, I want to see it outlawed, but it is right now legal, and we have to use this opportunity to spell out to voters why it is the enemy of real democracy. It is an opportunity to get voters to see how this system disguises their own interests, economic or otherwise, and gets them to vote against their own interests.
Lamont was perfect on Colbert. He came off as a player, but not someone playing above the grade of Junior Senator Status. That’s fine. Part of the point of all this is electing someone who will pay close attention to the requirements of CT, and not a national candidacy. We can take down a dozen Republicans in the Senate on the same essential theme.
Just finished going through my New Deal Library on Thomas Lamont and the New Deal Era, and it looks like the most important contribution Tom Lamont (JP Morgan officer) — Ned’s Grandpappy, made to the early New Deal was creating support on Wall Street for FDR’s taking the country off the Gold Standard, and putting all the gold at Fort Knox. It was a very critical part of the Banking Reform during the early New Deal. Apparently it was done through meetings that Walter Lippmann organized in the spring of 1933. Tom Lamont in particular was concerned about the various farmer revolts then in process, essentially about ag commodity prices, viewing such revolts as likely to lead to much more dangerous political instability. Taking domestic commodities (such as milk and pork) off the gold standard and regulating prices so as to provide a fair return to the producer, (Parity is the term,) could in Lamont’s conversations with Lippmann, minimize the potential of a farmer’s revolt. FDR did take the country off the gold standard. I’ve yards more of FDR and Depression Economics books to consult for connections — but this one is clear. Thomas Lamont was a JP Morgan Partner who when the chips were down, enabled the New Deal. Yea, it ain’t 1933 anymore, but one thing I wish someone would get across in CT is that Ned has some most interesting historic roots through his family. It isn’t just about money. His grandpappy seemingly was interested in Dairy Farmers and Pork Producers not becoming revolutionaries, and he supported regulation so that they got fair prices. That is a nice base to build on.
I’ll add more New Deal Research in later threads.
C&L seems