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Colbert Super-Pac Ad: Big Picture 01/17/12
A few days after announcing his candidacy for president of the United States of South Carolina, Colbert's "former" Super-Pac delivered an ad around Romney's comment that corporations are people and his experience with Bain Capital. The ad suggests that if corporations are people, then Romney should be considered a serial killer because of his experience running down corporations for profit with Bain Capital.
Email this pageGRITtv: Making You Laugh at Politics
"I think a comic's job is always to question authority and question the status quo," says Kelly Carlin, daughter of famous political comedian George Carlin. Now, with more Americans trusting Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to provide not only information, but even political rallies, it seems that political comedy is more relevant than ever. Kelly joins GRITtv contributor John Fugelsang and comic Lee Camp for a discussion on the place of political comedy--when your guy is in the White House, when the subject is popular and when it's not, parody and satire and the difference between, and much, much more.
Democracy Now! Mon., Nov. 1, 2010
We air parts of Jon Stewart’s keynote speech on fearmongering and the corporate mediaat the Rally to Restore Sanity, as well as an exchange with basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Islamophobia. Actor Sam Waterston also reads a poem by Stephen Colbert. A prominent leader of the Tea Party movement recently said he was working to unseat Minnesota Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison in part because he is a Muslim. Judson Phillips, the founder of the Tea Party Nation, urged Minnesota voters to elect Ellison’s independent challenger, Lynn Torgerson, on Tuesday. "A majority of Tea Party members, I suspect, are not fans of Islam," Phillips said. Rep. Ellison, the first Muslim congressman, responds to these comments and ongoing attacks against Muslim and Arab communities.On Tuesday, voters in thirty-seven states will confront 160 ballot initiatives on issues ranging from healthcare reform to reproductive rights, to rights to unionize, to climate change legislation. For a summary of these initiatives, we talk with Justine Sarver, the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. We talk with Michael Fox, an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker based outside Porto Alegre. "She’s a fighter," Fox says of newly elected President Dilma Rousseff. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
GRITtv: Media Panel: Obama's Press Conference, Handling Torture Under the Bush Administration, and Walter Cronkite
Journalists at President Obama's press conference Wednesday asked about his current plans for health care reform as well as his thoughts on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. What implications are there for health care reform now that he's admitted not everyone would be covered by a single payer system, and did he skirt the issue of race when it came to Gates?
