Can someone explain to me why Colbert said Bushco is like the Hindenburg

[Mr_Spock]

:D

[KeepItReal]

1. Instead of a sinking Titanic, he said Bush Co like a rising airship...

One that later burst into flames....

In reference to rearrangeing the chairs on the Titanic in its cabinet shuffle, Colbert said it was like rearranging chairs on the Hindingerg.


http://www.vidicom-tv.com/tohiburg.htm

Hence the qoute "Oh, the humanity"

[BeyondThePale]

6. um, skewering satire!

[KeepItReal]

8. Roger that!...Secret Service should have escorted Colbert out!

Bush & Co. were taking some licks!

[Danieljay]

2. He's not a sinking ship, he's going down in flames! n/t

[BeachBuckeye]

3. The Hindenburg went down in a ball of fire in New Jersey

Bushco is doing the same, only not just in New Jersey.

[90-percent]

4. uhhh?

as in soaring into the sky instead of sinking.

but then going down in a ball of flames.

the best technology the nazi's of the time had to offer and it goes down in flames in front of the whole world?

-85% Jimmy

[TayTay]

5. Ahm, it is a giant floating gasbag

with a fatal design flaw that will cause it to go down in flames when it hits the inevitable obstacle. Oh the humanity!

[Dunvegan]

11. Touche, TayTay.

[Oversea Visitor]

7. What you doing on the Enterprise

if you dont know history of airship and space ship :rofl:

Captain Kirk ... over and out

[hatrack]

9. Could it have to do with Bush's repeated hydrogen-related photo-ops?

:evilgrin:

[sam sarrha]

10. when it went down, it went down QUICK..!!

[0007]

40. Faster than Monica Lewisky?

[sam sarrha]

41. Even Faster... as fast as Jeff johnny james gannon gosch guckert

that is like warp 4

[Gabi Hayes]

12. jesus....how about the NAZI reference?!?

that's the first thing I thought of, aside from all the other interps here

too bad nobody in the media are talking about THAT one

[Media_Lies_Daily]

15. Bingo! Colbert's comment was devastating on a number of levels...

...not the least being the Nazi reference.

[malaise]

18. Exactly n/t

[goclark]

30. It was an awesome STICKIE, one that educates

Colbert is a GENIUS with visuals for the brain.


I love the way he THINKS.

It can sock you with words and you don't really understand all of it unless you have a really wired brain.

[Eric J in MN]

21. If they DID talk about it, then

it would be in the context of "How dare he use a Nazi reference!" and so it's just as well that they're not.

[Gabi Hayes]

22. they wouldn't DARE give it the legitimacy of even a comment.

to get the idea out there would be too subversive

it's the word that dare not be spoken, even though it's the, uh, elephant in the room thats loomed over us, ever since 12/12/00

[zippy890]

Fiery Wreck of a Presidency!

Soaring to new heights of destruction

[Media_Lies_Daily]

13. The Hindenburg was the flagship of Nazi Germany's zeppelin fleet....

...an airship that burst into flames and crashed in 1937 while approaching an airship docking tower in Lakehurst, NJ.

Like the Titanic, the Hindenburg was believed to be a very safe mode of travel.

The comment has been made that among the most useless things anyone could do is to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic as she sank. Rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg would serve the same useless purpose.

Links on the airship and the disaster:

<http://www.nlhs.com/hindenburg.htm>

<http://www.nlhs.com/tragedy.htm>

<http://www.otr.com/hindenburg.html>

[Gabi Hayes]

17. yep....I didn't bother with the other ways of seeing it, but another thing

that's obvious is the way he nailed the unimaginative jerks who just followed the other herdbots in using the hoary Titanic cliche

talk about turning that one on its ear with a VENgeance!

pretty cool when one little phrase by a "comedian" can be dissected in so many ways, yes?

wonder if he'd considered all these angles as he wrote it "with Bill Kristol"

[MikeDuffy]

14. Maybe to remind people of the recent joke:

"What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?"

The former is a flaming Nazi gasbag.

[kineneb]

20. You forgot the first part

of the punch line:

One is a Zeppelin, and the other is a flaming Nazi gasbag. :)

[eppur_se_muova]

42. Backwards!!! One is a flaming Nazi gasbag...the other is an airship. nt

[shance]

16. In 1933, Hindenburg appointed Hitler to become Chancellor.

Along with the Hindenburg crashing, there is the obvious Hitler connection along with the fact that when Hindenberg died, Hitler became the Supreme Commander of the German Armed forces.

When Hindenburg "crashed" the onset of Nazism was complete.

Also something interesting about the Hindenburg zeppelin (blimp*).....

"Nor was the Hindenburg immune from controversy. Adorned with swatztikas, the ship was initially used as a propaganda vehicle, dropping leaflets that expressed support for the Third Reich as it flew over German cities. Hugo Eckener, head of the Zeppelin Company, vehemently objected to using the Hindenburg for political purposes and maintained an uneasy relationship with the Nazi party. Even the vessel’s moniker became a source of contention. The Nazis objected to the name Hindenburg, and ordered the German media to simply refer to it as LZ 129. "

http://www.failuremag.com/arch_history_hindenburg.html

[Eric J in MN]

19. Quote

"Because really, what
incentive do these people have
to answer your questions, after
all?
I mean, nothing satisfies you.
Everybody asks for personnel
changes.
So the white house has
personnel changes.
Then you write they’re just
rearranging the deck chairs on
the Titanic.
First of all, that is a
terrible metaphor.
This administration is not sinking.
This administration is soaring.
If anything, they are
rearranging the deck chairs on
the Hindenburg."

[MiniMe]

23. Because the administration isn't sinking, it is crashing and burning

[Whoa_Nelly]

24. Am sure most of the H-Burg metaphorical reference flew right over *'s head

:rofl:

[Gabi Hayes]

25. he just SAID It on CSPAN rerun! they showed the audience barely

responding....

BUT Jake Tapper had his fingers over his mouth, with a wry little smile as he said it.
right at the end Tapper shook his head almost imperceptibly

what did that mean, Jake?

were you AFRAID to laugh, or did you think it inappropriate for somebody to dare compare this regime with the Nazis?

love to hear what these aholes had to say at the afterparties

[Evergreen Emerald]

35. I caught that too.

Almost as if it was inappropriate to laugh.

[Ian David]

26. More like re-arranging the chairs during The Reichstaag fire, IMHO n/t

[pitohui]

27. it went down in flames EOM

.

[Catherine Vincent]

28. I didn't get the joke about McClellan spending more time with Card's kids.

:shrug:

[eleny]

34. I think it was a pedophilia reference

A jab at the dark underbelly of the Republicans who have been caught committing it.

[Mr_Spock]

37. I though that was a very uncomfortable joke

pedophilia - :rofl:

[Gabi Hayes]

38. I wonder if he meant it that way, cause Card was the last resignee

to use that hoary cliche. when I heard it, that was all I thought: Snotty didn't have his own kids to play with, and Card was the most recent rat to shipjump

even if Colbert DIDN'T intend it to sound pedophilic, that's the way it can be interpreted, which is fine with me.

pedophilia is one of of MYRIAD crimes on the repuke list of depredations. how funny would it have been if he'd mentioned that Homeland Security PR guy that just got busted!?!

[eleny]

39. They e-e-e-e-arned it!

(In the best John Houseman voice)

[Buns_of_Fire]

29. "Let the prezint SOAAAAAARRRRRRR........

Like he's never soared befoooooooooore..."

"Oh, my God!
Get out of the way, please!
Oh, the humanity!"

(It works on SO many levels... :evilgrin: )

[sheelz]

31. Anybody got the actual quote...

I believe it was rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.

[rocktivity]

32. When a pair of financially troubled ad agencies anounced their merger

someone came up with a brilliant joke: "That's like the Titanic merging with the Hindenburg."

:headbang:
rocknation

[Mr_Spock]

33. Wow, this got a lot of reply's for a copy-cat thread!

Bush is sailing into the sun :rofl:

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

36. Oy! Oh the humanity!!! n/t