Stephen sends up the Fox “News” Channel pundits for their idiotic equating of recent heavy snowfall with “proof” that climate change isn’t happening.

FNC really must hold their viewers in the lowest intellectual regard.

Sadly, it takes a satirist to illustrate how pundits have framed Obama as both, a tyrant bent on the destruction of America, and an inept president who was unable to accomplish anything during his first year in office.

Of course, neither assessment is correct.

Again, Stephen Colbert displays why satire is the perfect lens through which to analyze the Republican Party.  Playing on comparisons of the RNC’s 10 requirements — of which potential candidates must adhere to eight to receive funding — to the Biblical Ten Commandments, Colbert listed some of its strict conservative prescriptions and noted, “They’re just like the 10 Commandments, if one of the tablets said ‘F’ and the other said ‘U.’”

(more below the clip)

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There is one bit of irony I wish Colbert would have touched on.  As I noted recently on Care2, the RNC’s decission to name their test after Ronald Reagan seems curious considering he — nor any other modern president — could have passed.

From the Care2 post:

What struck me most about Bopp’s memo was not its requirements, but its invocation of Reagan.  Employing his name becomes more significant when paired with first item on the purity list:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;

That they have chosen to emphasize this economic platform along with its patron saint is certainly no coincidence.  Reagan’s conservative economic prescriptions have been touted as the height of Republican fiscal discipline so frequently that they’ve achieved commandment status within the party.  That this commonly held notion is demonstrably false speaks volumes about what this “purity test” represents… (Read More)

Should we feel sorry for the Republicans?

Stephen dismantles right wing efforts to “rewrite history” in an effort to portray the GOP as hapless victims of bully Democrats.

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From the September 3, 2008 Colbert Report on Comedy Central:

Author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Colbert discuss past political conventions while touching upon this week’s Republican National Convention.

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No one mixes high and low brow humor quite like Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert.  His satirical caricature of right-wing pundits brilliantly illustrates the seemingly tragic state of political affairs in America while making his viewers smile.  For if we weren’t laughing, we should certainly be crying.

The below video is from Colbert’s Wednesday, August 13, broadcast, and it brings us an update on a previous post regarding an internal Department of Justice report detailing the illegal activity within the department, under the Bush Administration.
Earlier this week, Attorney General Michael Mukasey declared that he or the DOJ would not pursue the matters outlined within the above mentioned report.  Mukasey reasoned, “Not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime. In this instance, the two joint reports found only violations of the civil service laws.”

This from the highest ranking legal officer in America.  Again, if we couldn’t laugh we would have to cry.  View the clip & have a laugh.