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Stephen Colbert Has Kind Words For Romney on ‘Meet The Press’

Oct. 14, 2012 9:15pm Mytheos Holt

Stephen Colbert, like his counterpart Jon Stewart, is often seen as a potent irritant by conservatives. The fact that his comedic schtick frequently apes conservative discourse by presenting the most blatant straw man versions of conservative arguments around no doubt contributes to this perception. However, one factor generally complicates the denunciation of Colbert that does not exist with Stewart – namely, that unlike Stewart, Colbert is playing a character for maximum entertainment value. The politics of the “real” Colbert are usually shrouded in mystery.

But not as of this week, when NBC Anchor David Gregory visited Colbert in his Comedy Central office to interview the fake pundit about his new book, his process, and his own politics.

Colbert’s answers may surprise his Republican detractors. For instance, unlike openly liberal comedians like Bill Maher, Colbert admitted to being pleased by GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s surge in the polls, because a resurgent conservative makes his job as a comedian easier. Also, unlike Stewart, Colbert offered no media criticism of any kind, instead saying that his job is only to “falsely reconstruct” the news for comedic effect, and admitting his deep-seated respect for people who report the news.

“I’m interested in the news, so people often think that I’m an ideologue or that I have a political intent,” Colbert said. “But I comment on things that are in the news. I do not imagine that I am a newsman, I really admire newsmen. I really enjoy good news. And I’m not a politician. But I like playing political games to see what really happens.”

On the note of these “political games,” Colbert admitted up front that his testimony before Congress last year absolutely should not have been taken seriously because he – both as himself and in character – had absolutely no qualification to be testifying before Congress. Nevertheless, Colbert argued that he was only there to show the absurdity of Congress, which he likened to an eighth grade recess.

“They’re so nasty to each other,” Colbert marveled.

He also threw barbs at Rachel Maddow, saying in character, “I just come in around 6:30 and say the opposite of what Rachel Maddow said the night before. And I’m usually good.”

But the biggest surprise came at the end, when Colbert evinced no strong feelings either way about which of the two candidates for President would be better for the country.

“I’m not Ralph Nader, you know what I mean, I don’t think that there’s no difference. There is a difference. I don’t know what the difference is, though, because I think that there is a possibility that Obama would be say, a more aggressive reformer in the second act of his presidency, and I don’t really know–I also don’t know how Mitt Romney would govern,” Colbert said. “He might govern as a technocrat. That sort of seems to have been his career as like, the guy from Pepsi who comes in to run GM. You know? He can’t tell us what he wants to do because he hasn’t seen the books yet. But we don’t know, because he seems absolutely sincere as a moderate, and he also seems pretty sincere as a severe conservative, so that’s not a dig, it’s honest confusion. ‘Cause he’s got a good shot at winning, and if he does, I hope he’s a good President, and if Obama wins, I hope he keeps some of the promises he didn’t keep the first time, but I have no idea how it changes for us, but I know that there’s gotta be a difference between these two men, or we’re all part of a huge, cruel joke.”

Not exactly the words of a committed partisan Democrat. Watch Colbert’s by turns bizarre and thought provoking interview below:

(H/T: Mediaite)

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barbiegirl ny
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 8:29pm
Oh, you can bet that if Obama is re-elected he will be a more aggressive reformer in the second act of his presidency……just ask Vladimir.

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focusonquality
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 2:32pm
i have never watched colbert

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ameritocracy
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 11:41am
I can’t believe how many people were fooled by this guy. His whole schtick mocks people who love their country. I only watched a few times and had to turn it off because of the hatred in his demeanor.

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- DeniseR55
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 1:03pm
  Nothing Colbert said supports Romney, all of it mocks him. I don’t understand why people think he is supporting him in any way? I don’t read it that way.
  
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- ocrick
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 1:31pm
  My favorite Willard Joke is the one he told during the 1st Debate regarding him having No knowledge of the
  
  TAX BREAK for Outsourcing Jobs.
  
  Wait, that was no joke, it was a flat out LIE from the Earl of Outsourcing.
  
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HellAndBack
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 11:24am
I Love Comedy… Its the only venue of truth without consequences and can be more powerful than ACTUAL Truth. It has made sane men ask insane questions generation after generation and never grow weary of asking them. Like:

Why did the chicken cross the road? (who cares as long as he’s back for dinner).
Knock Knock… … …???

These and thousands like them have been asked over and over again and people care more about THESE answers than they do about any other subject.

Know why?

Because Life is a Tragic Comedy.

Remember, Civilized discourse ends when one stops being Civil.

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loneindividual
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 8:27am
He knows what this system is….and he himself thinks that this system is a cruel joke.

I know what the system is too.

I can say that It’s not meant to be cruel….it just ends up that way when people use liberal logic….the sort that Lucifer/Prometheus used….and his defenders.

I hope everyone reads into all the Good God vs Bad God in the worlds Mythology….and look at the different logic.

In the “last supper” in Norse Mythology….it’s hilarious how Loki is actually telling the Truth about everyone being failures as Gods….and then Ragnarok ensues.

Norse Mythology. Treat the “Gods” as the worlds leaders….and that there is no actual GOD.

You really begin to understand Masons if you study the logic that all Masons (Ben Franklin and his “moderation of virtue is best” as well as Socrates being a Gadfly aka Accuser = Satan)

This world is more ****ed up than people realize.

Everything is a lie…including Love.

This world really does need God the more I witness all the lies, thefts, murders & betrayals….

The Fate of the World….is to die a horrible death caused by betrayal, annihilation of life & virtue, and the despair that fills the soul….causing the Second Death….the Death of the Soul….where people actually ask why they were ever born.

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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 11:06am
  You live in a dark world.
  
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- loneindividual
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 11:29am
  Was born into it….no matter how much light anyone may shine….all light to mortals blinds & in the blindness, darkness will fill the mind.
  
  Be Ok. Do No Harm. Be Free. Keep Good Company. Have Faith. Remember.
  
  Follow the Light of your own Spark…and try to remember if there is a Father of Fathers.
  
  Death is Truth & only God can Conquer it.
  
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- fire_fighter557
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 5:03pm
  He lives in a REAL world where power was given to Satan by man until Christ returns.
  
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slaytan
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 7:46am
Colbert is playing the classic propagandist’s game: establish plausible deniability so that your propaganda will be more potent.

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- Wango
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 9:05am
  “plausible deniability” = established under Reagan, along with “blame the media”
  
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- BenInNY
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 11:01am
  @wango guess you weren’t around for Nixon, or about 15 (or more) presidents, not to mention every other politician before him. Common theme, and only half were correct.
  
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genius.bate
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 1:52am
Not one person in America is stopping you to create wealth and success in this country except for yourself. It’s one’s incompetence and lack of new skills that are impeaching this and are damaging our country. Tax cuts cannot and never will be able to overcompensate this simple fact.

Most of the readers here are stuck in dead end jobs with absolutely no new added value to our economy. Those jobs cannot and will not create prosperity.

You prefer to be here talking about a possibility that you yourselves are not able to create than blame the government about it. That’s pure and simple communism.

Hence, you only need to ask yourself one question: how can higher tax rates under Clinton create more jobs than lower ones from 2000 to 2012 ?

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- dc21
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 7:20am
  We had 99 cent a gallon gas and 99 cent a pound ground beef in those days, it was the low energy costs that led to prosperity and enabled people to withstand higher tax rates
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 9:09am
  GENIUS BATE . . . you’ve hit on the real bane of conservatives . . . when their business thrives, “they built that” . . .when it fails, it’s the government’s faulty . . .truth is, they’re too fat lazy and stupid to “build” anything.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 11:17am
  Wangless, we know you’re not very bright. So read this very slowly. We conservatives take responsibility for our actions. I realize this is something anathema to liberals, as you don’t believe in personal responsibility. If our business thrives, we built that. If our business fails, we look at what we did wrong, do research, take a new approach and try again. You libs, however, cry “Govt come save us!”. Now, go on back to your mother’s basement to your Hot Pockets and Dr Pepper. Grown ups are talking.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 1:46pm
  BI MAN . . .At least you’re smart enough to admit government isn’t strangling small business.
  
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- genius.bate
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 5:20pm
  You’re right, energy price are higher!
  
  However, the reason lower taxes will not be able to tackle any of that is clear. Our economy is not the same that it was even 20 years ago. Back then, a lot of low value job we’re right here in America. Today, those same low value jobs are in China. Hence, you need something more. Lowering taxes by 20 even 80% will not get those jobs back. Why?
  
  Number 1: You need education to bring you something new. Education takes times. It has become so expensive in the last 20 years that people are not able to go towards their full potential.
  
  Number 2: Except for the people in the middle class, nobody really pays the real rates. If you, as a big company, pay those rates then change accountant. As simple as that. I repeat nobody. Most companies pay close to nothing. Not only in America, but all over the western world. Loopholes and lobbyists are to blame.
  
  Number 3: Currently, big companies have high reserves of cash and record profit. However, they don’t create jobs. Giving them more money won’t solve that problem. The reason is that the demand is not here. For the demand to grow, you need better paying jobs. Better paying jobs need education. Steve Jobs said it best:”It’s not our job to create jobs in America”.
  
  Hence, tax cuts is only an easy excuse. It won’t solve any problem.
  
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Cruelnunusual
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 11:48pm
God, that one guy is so fake. As if he’s “nice” LOL. I didn’t realize ABC is still on the air.

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BatesclanMary
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 11:30pm
Dreams from my real father is on Netflix .

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BIGWUN
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 11:11pm
Why would Colbert have anything to say about an American who has already created thousands of jobs and will make America free to create wealth and success once again? Colbert is a miserable Leftist who is for destroying producers and impoverishing everyone except him and his friends who are so much “wiser” than we, the people.

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- genius.bate
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 1:48am
  Not one person in America is stopping you to create wealth and success in this country except for yourself. It’s one’s incompetence and lack of new skills that are impeaching this and are damaging our country. Tax cuts cannot and never will be able to overcompensate this simple fact.
  
  Most of the readers here are stuck in dead end jobs with absolutely no new added value to our economy. Those jobs cannot and will not create prosperity.
  
  You prefer to be here talking about a possibility that you yourselves are not able to create, than blame the government about it. That’s pure and simple communism.
  
  Hence, you only need to ask yourself one question: how can higher tax rates under Clinton create more jobs than lower ones from 2000 to 2012 ?
  
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Inlightofthings
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:49pm
Colbert trying to be objective and sincere had me laughing so hard I had to go watch an hour of the Daily Show to stop laughing. Both are hack clowns with lousy writers. But hey, they have their audiences….

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Gregb
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:39pm
go to Amazon. com and join the
Amazon Prime for the free 14 day trial

and watch “Dreams from my real father”.

This has to be the very best one put over the
American sheeple yet
http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-My-Real-Father-Deception/dp/B009C1FOUE/ref=sr_1_1_vod_0_pri?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1350236582&sr=1-1

The birthers were asking the wrong question… not where he was born, but who is his real father!

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- SistaTriscuit
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 12:40am
  It’s also on Netflix, for those who are already subscribers.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 9:10am
  Yeah, the “where was he born” thing didn’t work out so good, eh? This “father” thing is equally ridiculous. Have you no shame?
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 11:18am
  Wangless, what are you doing out of the basement? Get back down there. Grown ups are talking.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 1:47pm
  BI MAN . . .Is it the grown ups who are talking about Obama being some other nationality, and his father some other man? You mean those grown ups?
  
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ehbardin
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:34pm
I never have, nor ever will, like this man…

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 11:05pm
  You said “man”, I thought the article was about Steve Colbert, a transvestite, Hermaphridite, cross dresser.
  
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jungle J
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:28pm
Another degenerate speaks fluff..before he savages someone. The sane understand.

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- Fla.Patriot
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 11:55pm
  I think you missed the point he was trying to make. That being that he is a comedian and people should’nt take what he says seriously. Anymore than they should take what Jon Stewart seriously. One thing I can say for Colbert is that he is an equal opportunity offender…it’s satire. Saw a bit he did with some of the OWS crowd and laughed my a** off. Seriously, I know this election is the most important one in our lifetime. I know what’s at stake, been around since LBJ. Seen some good ones (Reagan) and some bad ones (Carter), but never anyone as hell bent on the destruction of America as Obama. Which is why I appreciate Satirists like Cobert. If I thought about the truly precarious position that the nation is in 24-7, I’d loose my mind
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 11:19am
  The sad thing is, we know he and Jon Stewart shouldn’t be taken seriously but so many liberals actually take it as real news, as fact. I have a friend who claims he is center left, but it’s obvious he’s a hardcore lefty who does actually get his news and current events from The Daily Show. Yes, liberals are this stupid.
  
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