Please don’t excerpt the examiner blog. If you think the column is worth posting, just post it, for goodness sake. And if you are the author, shame on you for excerpting.
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Should Stephen Colbert be indicted for lying under oath to Congress? That’s what some observant watchers are now smartly asking after Comedy Central’s brutally unfunny comedian—but full-time and major-league clown—Stephen Colbert made a complete mockery of Congress by “testifying” in character and under oath to a House subcommittee on immigration. It was an unpardonable outrage that Colbert—and his unfunny, Bill O’Reilly-imitating schtick—would willfully make himself a party to what amounted to a waste of taxpayer money, a waste of Congress’ hearing time, and a total disrespect of the oath to tell the truth one takes before Congress.
Appearing on Fox News Channel’s Bill Hemmer- and Martha MacCallum-hosted program, America’s Newsroom, yesterday, Judge Andrew Napolitano, stalwart libertarian that he is, made the brilliant-yet-overlooked analogy to Roger Clemens’ self-incriminating lie before Congress regarding the contents in his urine. But he also went further: If Roger Clemens failed to tell the truth and was as a result indicted (rightly so), why is the same thing not happening to Mr. Self-proclaimed Funnyman himself, Stephen Colbert? After all, as the Judge so accurately explains it, Clown Colbert came into yesterday’s House hearing and took the oath to tell the truth…yet he then corrupted his oath by being in character and, through that device, telling anything but the truth to deliver his ultra-lame, comedy schtick!
Making matters even worse than Clown Colbert’s utter disrespect for the American people and Congress is the fact that his desperate need for attention—which, at best, amounted to only nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to advocate in favor of illegal, Mexican immigrants who are stealing American jobs—cost more than $100,000 per hour! Putting that into context, Clown Colbert was a party to an insensitive circus show that saw Congress wasting more of the American taxpayers’ hard-earned money…at a time when the unemployment rate is basically double-digits and when more and more Americans have stopped looking for work, discouraged at Obama’s failure to bring back jobs. Simply outrageous!
I think that Stephen Colbert ought to be indicted for lying under oath to Congress, if for nothing else than to make an example of any other brutally unfunny, liberal-advocating, Comedy Central clowns who would dare think of making themselves a part of such a shocking abuse of both taxpayer time and money in the future. You hear me, Jon “Another Unfunny Clown” Stewart?
To be sure, the culpable Democrat congresswoman—the shame-faced Zoe Lofgren—who invited Clown Colbert should face some kind of consequence also, a rebuke at the very least. More ideally, I think that Lofgren ought to take it upon herself to apologize to all Americans for wasting their time and taxpayer money, and then volunteer to reimburse the government for the wasted cost of the circus-like hearing she initiated. But with the devious Democrats still controlling Congress in their iron grip of total ineptitude and corruption, that’s almost as likely as happening as Barack Obama actually taking responsibility just one time for all his own screw-ups instead of blaming G.W. Bush.
The moral of this story is that brutally unfunny, struggling comedians—but full-time and major-league clowns—like Stephen Colbert should continue being relegated to liberal-leaning Comedy Central. In that environment, at least he can continue enjoying being watched by clueless twentysomethings who think he’s a real journalist, while still being Jon Stewart’s pet, of course
It makes one wonder whether Al Franken had anything to do with getting him to appear...
I guess the definition of shameful behavior has suffered some inflation. Shame? Seriously?