Watching that video one wonders if Americans can say anything without making fun of the most serious things. Talk, Talk , Talk.
That lady was saying some very serious and sensible things, but that idiot in charge of the programme made fun of her. It is no wonder there is such anti-American feeling in the world today.
Johanna Moren

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reminds me of what Ann Coulter would look like if she were human.

Cheap shot, but I couldn't resist;)

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Mudwrestling, of course, in slick neoprene bodysuits - with the umpire as moderator. Here's how it will work: moderator asks a question, and the competitors fight to see who gets to answer it.

Here's the tentative list of questions:

1) When do you see the last U.S. troop leaving Iraqi soil?

2) Who would you blame for the subprime and credit market collapse? Was it a failure of government regulation, a result of criminal activity in the housing loan sector, or what?

3) Candidates, your finance records all show close ties to the Wall Street finance industry, including companies involved in the subprime scandal. This is true for Obama, for McCain, and for Clinton. Do you see a conflict of interest here?

4) What is your opinion of the $200 billion bailout for Wall Street, in comparison to the lack of programs to prevent home foreclosures?

Those are questions worth asking. Too bad Edwards is no longer in the race - at least he would have been focusing on the real issues, not on all this B.S. about race and gender, i.e. Hillary's desperate campaign gamble. When was the last time that a Democratic candidate claimed that the Republican candidate would be a better choice than another Democratic contender? Lieberman is our campaigning for McCain... when Hillary loses the primary, will she be joining him?

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Colbert seems to be having a problem. On the one hand his schtick is to trivialize everything and on the other his guest MsPower seems to be without a sense of humor. Added to that you seem to have an audience that is either laughing on cue or is actually a laugh machine because none of this was really funny. Pathetic.

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was when he said, "John McCain is a Minotaur."

Keep on making me laugh, Stephen, because without you it would be a dull and even more frightening world!

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It always amazes me how otherwise intelligent people can swallow state generated propaganda wholesale.

I would suggest she look into the research done by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed and Michel Chossudovsky to get a clear picture of the reality behind the fraudulent "war on terror".

Stephen Colbert is the court jester for the corporate capitalists, just more distraction for the masses.

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

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**yawn**

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THE TORRES-VIGNALI CONNECTION is explored in detail in a congressional report that resulted from Pardongate, when revelations surfaced that President Clinton granted clemency for Carlos Vignali Jr. — convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in 1995 — along with other convicted criminals and one-time international fugitive Marc Rich. The granting of clemency occurred after payments were made to Clinton’s brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, the brother of former first lady, New York state senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Released in March 2002 by the congressional Committee on Government Reform, “Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House” details Hugh Rodham’s involvement in the Vignali affair, as well as the long business history Vignali once shared with George Torres.

The report takes to task top L.A. elected officials, including county Supervisor Gloria Molina, then–state Senator Richard Polanco, then–state Assemblyman Antonio Villaraigosa and U.S. Representative Xavier Becerra, among others, for lobbying on behalf of Vignali Jr., in light of his drug conviction and the fact that DEA agents long suspected Vignali Sr. to be involved in drug trafficking — along with Torres. While a member of the California state Assembly, Villaraigosa wrote the first letter on Vignali’s behalf on May 24, 1996.

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The "Al-Qaeda" deception that Samantha Powers repeats ad nauseam in her tacit defense of completely phony "war on terror" is the most glaring propaganda garbage of this sick little comedy clip.

Such disinfo is pure poison in service of multinational Fascists that run Amerika.

Al Qaeda is a proven hoax originally cooked January of 2001 at a Manhattan courtroom by corporate crime FBI stooges and one Jamal al Fadl (a hophead Sudanese Militant thief who looted money from CIA asset Bin Laden and is still taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from American taxpayers for spreading lies). The name “Al-Qaeda” was only pumped and dumped on a gullible western population by corporate media after an ongoing and criminal 9/11 cover-up used to promote equally phony “war on terror”.

This was all brought out in the BBC documentary "The Power of Nightmares" among other sources including Webster Tarpley (author of “Synthetic Terror”), Michel Chossudovsky (author “American’s ‘War on Terrorism’”) and Jason Burke (author of “Al-Qaeda”).

Good luck to anyone who actually believes S. Powers does not know she recyces the most toxic lies imaginable.

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