Stephen Colbert: "Corporations are people."
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/01/15/404666/stephen-colbert-corporations-are-people/It was not until after Stephen Colbert handed the reins of the Super PAC he founded over to Jon Stewart — and the PAC was re-dubbed The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC — that it released its ad accusing Mitt Romney of being a “serial killer” of corporations, based on the assertion that corporations are people and that Romney, as head of Bain Capital, oversaw the dismantling of numerous such “people.” But on ABC’s This Week this morning, Colbert himself came out decisively in favor of corporate personhood. During a back-and-forth over the role of money in politics, Colbert pointedly asked host George Stephanopoulos if he thought corporations were people. When Stephanopoulos deferred “weighing in” on the question, Colbert responded, “Corporations are people. You won’t ‘weigh in’ on whether some people are people? That seems kind of racist, George.”
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The purpose of the Republican party is to tilt the population balance to those who don't process satire. I recently had to instruct two reactionary friends who had sent me Colbert's amazing piece on OWS as a "send up" of the movement.
They didn't get that he dressed as Che Guevara to "infiltrate" Zucotti Park, and the hilarious interview where he "took apart" the meticulously constrained, self-described "female bodied person" calling herself "ketchup." Attendants wheel in a large gourmet meal. Colbert offers some to the interviewees, which they decline, and proceeds to chow down while conducting the interview, "sure you don't want some of this? Hm-mm! It's really good!" with the subjects maintaining an earnest dignity. (I imagine that subjects for DS and Colbert interviews get at least some minor prepping, amounting to "Don't react to anything they say to you."
My correspondents saw this as skewering the Occupiers. And as I analyzed it for them, one finally admitted that Colbert is satitizing right wing pundits, the other dropped the subject. Of course I now send them the links to great Colbert clips, because they're such great fans. They never acknowledge.
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He was clearly having fun.
I am looking forward to moving into the white slavery trade. I understand it's a growth industry. We should really thank Mitt for blazing a path in the slave trade with Bain Corporation.
(Satire, for the humor impaired)
