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Stephen Colbert Mocks ‘Days of Rage’ Protesters

The Days of Rage protest to “occupy Wall Street” has been starting to garner more headlines as of late. But those headlines may not be what the protesters had in mind. Not only has Gawker mocked the gathering, but now even Stephen Colbert has started panning the protests.

During a segment on his show last night, Colbert tried to make sense of it all. But really couldn’t.

“Because if there’s one thing New Yorkers never ignore,” Colbert quipped, “it’s people sleeping in a park.”

He went on to mock the group’s “one demand” of Barack Obama, since a blog post associated with the group didn’t really know what its one demand was.

Still, as with all Colbert and Jon Stewart clips, Colbert was able to take some digs at conservatives, and he did by delving into corporate greed during a segment where he interviewed some protesters. But those interviews also included a man who wears a fur hat and does puppet shows on the subway. Seriously.

You can watch the segment below (which does include a few curse words):

(H/T: Gawker)

Comments (52)

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  • mdlwoods
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:30pm

    Here’s the main difference between the TEA Party members and the Day of Rage nuts: TEA Party people HAVE JOBS! It is quite obvious that, since this “Day of Rage” started on Saturday and it is now Thursday, these people HAVE NO JOB and probably NEVER DID HAVE A JOB (except for lazing in their mommy’s basement in front of their computer monitor.)

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on September 24, 2011 at 1:57pm

      Michael Moore thought they were importent.

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    • BruceyBanner
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:12am

      Did not have a hard time finding an article disproving your Tea Partiers have JOBS argument:

      http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html

      and another:

      http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/08/19/of-the-tea-party-by-the-tea-party-for-the-tea-party/

      just one more for good measure:

      http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/baw_commentary_news/17515

      Now I am sure that you have many other capital letters to throw out in order to get your point across to these numbskulls protesting what they see to be an unfair system,but to claim that one group of angry people is somehow categorically better than another group of angry people is preposterous. They are both out there to speak their mind and thus should be applauded for exercising their rights instead of demonized because of their inability or lack of desire to find work. As a matter of fact, if these kids truly believe what they are saying, none of them should be working. That is the only true way that they will be able to achieve their anarchist master plan.

      Also, hanging out in the park beats getting blisters from a fryer any day.

      Sorry if that sounded a bit incoherent, but I just finished a 12 hour workday of manual labor.

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    • mullikrk
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 3:39am

      I agree with you. The 70 and 80 year old people drawing social security checks at the last Tea Party rally I went to on Friday at Noon clearly were all fully employed.

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:23pm

    Acts 13:41 ‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’

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  • Thomas Paine
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:44pm

    Does Stephen Colbert always send his joke writers to these liberal Nazi events so they can be interviewed as participants ?

    Just asking!

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  • johnj1952
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:14pm

    Ho Hum.

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  • SnowKalBebes
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:43am

    Colbert and beck are both hilarious…the only difference is that colbert tries to be funny

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    • Brizz
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:01pm

      And Colbert has 16 writers, but that’s not important.

      I wonder how many people they had to interview to get a 2:1 example of seemingly reasonable to nutjob. The edit makes you think that only 1/3 of the demonstrators are nuts. Hmm?

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  • JeffScism
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:33am

    Colbert needs to quit his day job, and go back to hunting for Mr. Goodwrench.

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    • JeffScism
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:37am

      GM, also, needs to find Mr. Goodwrench.

      Perhaps dumping Mr. Goodwrench was what caused GM to become Government Motors.

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  • nonametina
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:25am

    Uh, he’s dumb. His audience is dumb. And the people he “interviewed” were dumb. Who cares about any of it? And seriously, how did he select the interviewees…? Why didn’t they interview the “Listen don’t look (sic)” girl whose chest was blurred out? She wanted to be listened to… and it probably woulda made for a more interesting segment.

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  • urrybr
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:25am

    I heard that a village has lost it’s idiot. Does anyone know where he is? He‘s also another of Hitler’s useful idiots.

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    • KYHighlander
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:26pm

      The useful idiots was Kruchev, Lenin and Stalin phrase for those who did these things, Hilter would have just shot them. LOL

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  • tom
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:38am

    First Lady and her pricy jewels. Good example in horrible times????
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/michelle-obama-air-_n_975587.html

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 11:09am

      The H-Po is blocked by my router. Got tired of google search results sending me there.

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  • grudgywoof
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:32am

    This is rage? It reminds me of when I lived in DC during the Vietnam war and the hippies hung out in the park in Georgetown. A bunch of drop outs and losers looking for a way to be relevant and failing. They would bathe in the fountains, pan handle, and generally just be a nuisance. I like puppet boy though, crazy people can be very entertaining just watch one flew over the cuckoo’s nest. I guess nurse Ratchet is out of work since they closed all the looney bins.

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    • robert
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:36am

      Stephen Colbert is about as funny as lung cancer.

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    • RavenGlenn
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:45am

      Yeah…Colbert really isn’t funny. At least Jon Stewart has his moments and can really get some good chuckles in. Colbert though tries for this dry British-style comedy that just simply doesn’t work. Even his own audience sounds like they are snoozing during his segments.

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  • weneedrubio
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:16am

    The furry hat guy nailed it, liberals have no hope for the future that is why it doesn’t matter what they do to destroy things now. It‘s also why they don’t know what they will do if they ever do get control, there is no need to know what to do if everything will suck. Ironic how this lib philosophy fulfills itself isn’t it. The question is how do they get the rich Holliwood and related wealthy people to view life this way, I would think that a pampered Holliwood elitest would like the future.

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  • DanWesson455
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:04am

    The guy’s shtick is for the under 25 crowd. They laugh if he pulls a knife and sticks it in a cat. Idiots and DIP WADS!

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  • ramburner
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:40am

    Isn’t it great to live in a country where we can openly mock the leaders of the country, Congress and the protesters for any cause? I only wish we understood that these protesters are serious and they have only just begun to do their dirty work! Let them gather some steam and work together long enough to learn how to seriously affect our culture, and THEN watch the BIG GOVERNMENT response; taking away ALL of our rights to protest and have free speech. Won’t that be nice?

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:16am

      Some time? They’ve been at this for decade after decade after decade after decade. Let them gather some steam and work together long enough to learn? They must be incredibly stupid if they have not learned by now. I know these people. They can’t think past their next high.

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  • MUDFLAPS
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:34am

    how is it that we give this clown any coverage? Hes a village idiot.

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:10am

    I don’t get it, the day of rage protesters elected this freakshow we have as a president, are they raging because of the stupidity they helped cause? I don’t get it!

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    • TrueColours
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:47am

      Arsonists apparently like to come back to the scene of the their crime to watch and participate after they’ve lit the fire.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:09pm

      GMoney – like your photo.

      True colors – the “leaders” of this kind of demonstration incite a bunch of clueless kids and then disappear, they only resurface when its over to assess the damage they caused. They are cowards and won’t be ther for the hard stuff.

      OMG – Psalm 109:8

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  • ares338
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:04am

    The guy is a comedian and I don’t EVEN care what any of his political views might be!

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:00am

    Both Colbert and Steward have missed the main point across the board completely — the days of rage have only just begun, and this one for Wall Street was just a test, a demonstration to see what is still needed to let people know they are there and for the nation to start getting accustomed to their presence until all hades is unleashed.

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    • icer22x
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:20am

      Oh I know. I totally agree. Once all these hippies amass in our cities and start sleeping in all our parks, ALL HELL WITH BREAK LOSE! I’m so afraid guys.

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    • chipmunk
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 10:38am

      It will be interesting to see if they care. Both Colbert & Stewart retreat to their cozy mansions tucked far away from angry protesters..

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:11pm

      Chipmunk: not just Colbert and Stewart but the organizers of the demonstration.

      OMG – Psalm 109:8

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    • cknapp
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:00pm

      I like it when te$$orists and idiots congregate in one place…makes it easier to “weed them out”.

      These “ragers” are just parasites, jobless, listless, non-tax paying people…they cannot even “get their rage on”…no drive and follow through…who would hire them? They are just “eaters”, part of the 42 percent who pay no Federal Taxes yet have “Representation Without Taxation”.

      Craig Knapp
      Age 50

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    • Smoovious
      Posted on September 23, 2011 at 6:20am

      @Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      > Both Colbert and Steward have missed the main point across the board
      > completely — the days of rage have only just begun, and this one for
      > Wall Street was just a test, a demonstration to see what is still needed to
      > let people know they are there and for the nation to start getting
      > accustomed to their presence until all hades is unleashed.

      Ok, I can buy that… a test to see what is still needed… so… for starters they need 4 P’s…

      a Point…
      a Purpose…
      a Plan…
      and some more People…

      The one guy with the sign about capitalism working for his parents, so they can give him money so he can stand there and be upset…

      yeah… that pretty much sums up this gathering… (I won’t give them the respect of calling them protestors… they aren’t worthy)

      – Smoov

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:51am

    The Day of Rage is for people who have nothing better to do. They listen to people that have only one agenda and that is to destroy AMERICA. They can’t stand it and now we have them in the White House. Obama should have been dropped before he was ever elected when his wife said that she was proud of AMERICA for the first time. If you aren’t proud of AMERICA no one is forcing you to stay here. You are free to leave and soon.

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    • marhee9
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:57am

      Right on, very well said. I think it comes down to a choice at this time. Do we want an America where you can suceed beyond your wildest dreams? Or do we want a society where the laziest amongst us makes sure that nobody suceeds? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HPgnuiPGLM

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  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:49am

    ‘
    The ‘Day of Rage’ has in common what every liberal demonstration has in common.

    Nobody really has any idea why they are there or what they hope to accomplish.

    They are simply summoned to gather their stinky selves together and drag their drug-riddled azzes to a location and start making poetic grunts that must rhyme with “1-2-3-4“ or ”5-6-7-8″.

    They are everything the media claims to make of the T.E.A. Party Patriots.

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on September 22, 2011 at 9:49am

      1,2,3,4
      Days of Rage
      Are a bore

      5,6,7,8
      We’re doing this for credit
      so we can graduate
      ———————————————————–

      yawn…..

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:42am

    Yuck it up Stephen, riots start small and build, ask Mubarak. We have these communists in New York and then suddenly we have people all over the world protesting the guy in GA that was executed last night after everyone from the S.C. on down looked at the case and saw no problem with proceeding. There are a lot of fires being stoked and if they converge, we have a real problem on our hands…especially considering the D.O.J. and the executive branch are sympathetic to all these liberal causes.

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  • ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:41am

    HAHA stupid hippies, take a shower, cut your hair, get a damn job!

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  • alina.bolero
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:33am

    STEPHEN! STEPHEN! STEPHEN! STEPHEN! oh … sorry … LOVE COLBERT!

    Even when he had Al Gore and Paul Krugman on the show THE SAME DAY it was still entertaining. I loved seeing how incredibly uncomfortable Krugman was.

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  • TriforcePlayer
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:31am

    It’s definitely a freakshow

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  • wisehiney
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:20am

    Those weasels remind me of when I was young and my daddy would ask me “Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion”.

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  • rdietz7
    Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:13am

    The next Tea event is going to knock them for a loop. Bring it Glenn. It’s going to happen anyway.

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