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POPSObamaCare Opponents News Round Up One day after announcing a challenge to U.S. Senate fixture Arlen Specter, Congressman Joe Sestak faced another tough cookie: Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert. Colbert asked if military people were unaware of this because of secret experiments. Sestak explained he meant that members of the military make great use of their health-care and educational benefits. To access article click on title
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POPSObama Erases Pro-Democracy Money for Iran One key opponent of the funding, who weighed in at meetings to block specific grant requests aimed at helping pro-democracy groups inside Iran, was Suzanne Maloney, who is now at the Brookings Institution. Speaking at a Washington forum that the National Iranian-American Council sponsored Wednesday, Maloney applauded President Obama's do-nothing policy. The best thing we can do for Iranian democracy is sit back and let Iranians fight it out for themselves, she said, echoing the president's own words from a brief press statement the day before. These programs reached a limited number of people in Iran and that would indicate that their effectiveness was limited. When reporters asked White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Thursday about the president's hands-off approach, Gibbs said there was no debate in the White House over how to address the events in Iran. Everybody is on the same page. There's no difference of opinion.
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POPS Stephen (No-Hair) Colbert Is A Patriot! The four shows are to air this week starting Monday on Comedy Central. For Colbert in Iraq, tonight's Word is `haircut' CAMP VICTORY, Iraq -- Wearing a camouflage suit and tie, Stephen Colbert took his show to Baghdad to entertain U.S. soldiers in Iraq. For openers, President Barack Obama appeared by video to thank the troops. "You're welcome," the mock pundit answered. "I wasn't talking to you," the president deadpanned. To the roaring approval of hundreds of troops at Camp Victory, on the western edge of Baghdad, Colbert taped the first of four episodes of "The Colbert Report," in which he plays a pompous, blustering conservative TV host. His first guest was the towering, bald Gen. Ray Odierno. When Obama and the U.S. commander suggested Colbert had to look like a soldier in order to be a soldier, the general took an electric razor to Colbert's perfectly parted cable-news coif. http://www.heraldonline.com/wire/world/story/1393928.html
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POPSWhy Do Conservatives Like Stephen Colbert?
Confirmation bias is likely to be especially pronounced in satire because one of the things about satire — especially the deadpan, bald-eagle satire of Colbert — is that it is chock-full of ambiguity and uncertainty. This leaves lots of opportunities for a viewer to fill in the blanks — a kind of choose-your-own-truthiness, if you will. "The nature of satire, when you boil it down, is that messages are to varying degrees implied messages," explained Lance Holbert, a professor of communications at The Ohio State University who studies the intersection of entertainment and politics. "It requires the audience to fill in the gap, to get the joke. And it requires a certain bit of knowledge to fill in the gap. ... Certain types of humor are much more explicit. In satire the humor is very complex." LaMarre got interested in the question of how audiences interpret Colbert back in 2007, when she started puzzling over how several appearances by Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckab
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POPS Stephen Colbert POed At NASA & Iran NASA said it reserves the right to choose an appropriate name. Agency spokesman John Yembrick said NASA will decide in April, but will give top vote-getters "the most consideration." The video doesn't "clip" Colbert is quite amusing, of course. Check it out. http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/23/colbert-wins-iss-naming-contest/
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POPSOnline store for Obama Bar Soap These are cool bars of soap and they are giving a portion of the proceeds to the Yellow Ribbon Fund, supporting injured war veterans. This is the fund that Stephen Colbert is a big fan of.
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POPSJon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: Mock the Vote So what do you think is the issue that people will end up voting on? STEWART: Whatever happens that week. It all depends on when that Michelle Obama ''I hate whitey'' tape comes out. If it comes out now, it could dissipate by the election. But if it comes out a couple days before, that could be dangerous. COLBERT: Jon? I have it.
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