Thread: Colbert asked to leave Judiciary hearing

Colbert asked to leave Judiciary hearing

By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff

At least one lawmaker was not amused.

Comedian Stephen Colbert had barely seated himself at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing this morning when US Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, asked him to leave. Conyers said the committee had not seen so many reporters at a hearing since presidential impeachment proceedings in the late 1990s, and he wanted Colbert to leave so that the committee could carry on with its work.

Colbert, however, did not budge, saying that he was present at the invitation of the hearing chair, US Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California. But Colbert said if Lofgren wanted him to leave, he would.

Lofgren said she wanted him to stay, and a good portion of Capitol Hill is now glued to broadcasts of the hearing on the Internet, awaiting Colbert’s testimony, which is expected shortly.

The hearing concerns immigration and farm work. Colbert, host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, recently spent time working on a farm.

Donovan Slack can be reached at dslack@globe.com.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/pol ... ked_t.html

Oh yeah ....great propaganda mixed with comedy.........it just never ends............

You'll laugh until you cry.

Here is the video of the hearing...good stuff!! one of his comments was something like....not too worry about a shortage of workers because soon their will be alot of out of work Democrats I was busting up but I don't think the Dems appreciated it!!

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295639-1

I heard his skit cost the taxpayers over $100,000.

From the Floyd Reports Sept. 24, 2010 video and other links


Democrats, Not Colbert, Make a Mockery of the Border

Stephen Colbert’s testimony before Congress this morning was less wasteful, farcical, and costly than Democrats’ claims they have secured the border. Colbert’s six-minute shtick consumed far less time, money, and patience than the expensive charade the Obama administration is carrying out along our southern border and in immigration courtrooms all points north. Although Colbert is a buffoon, he is easier to believe than Secretary Janet Napolitano when she claims “the border is as secure as it has ever been.â€

I am completely disgusted that Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, Peliso and the rest of Congress would waste a dime of taxpayers money to pay this pathetic clown of a comedian to appear in front of congress and make a mockery out of our government by appearing as an "expert" witness. Just more big government wasteful spending of our tax money.