Stephen Colbert strikes again...

[segovius]

I became a massive fan after his hilarious Press Association speech ripping into Bush and his cronies - comedy gold, the man's a genius.

Now he's asked the Congressman who sponsored the disgraceful and notorious 'Ten Commandments Bill' to name them.

Unfortuantely he couldn't do it! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=veIU0Jwu54w)

:lol:

[segovius]

Ooops .....umm.....err....I have NO idea why this is in FH.

Mods - do something......

[Aquatic]

That's great. I want to have a threesome with Colbert and Jon Stewart. And I say this as a completely straight man.

Maybe he wanted 'em posted so he wouldn't FORGET!!!

[audiopollution]

Originally posted by segovius
Ooops .....umm.....err....I have NO idea why this is in FH.

Mods - do something......

Moved.

[Outsider]

Of the 3 he DID name, one is not even a commandment (Thou should not lie). I think he meant you should not give false witness against your brother/neighbor. Not the same as lying. Try again!

[Aquatic]

See, I think this is a great thread. In general, I believe Democrats/Liberals research more, and their beliefs are more grounded. They have reasons for their beliefs. Information. Passion. Republicans have "faith." As someone once here said, faith is for the intellectually lazy. They don't care, they don't research, perhaps because they think more short-term vs. liberals and long-term. Iraq for example. This is of course just miscellaneous musing on my part. But I mean come on. This is ridiculous. Someone who wants the 10 Commandments in Congress and can't remember more than 2. It's just...US politics from the last two decades in a fucking nutshell.

[Carson O'Genic]

I'm glad someone started a thread on this. I was shocked by the sheer stupidity of this guy. I was curious how this was being viewed by his constituents and did some googling, without really knowing anything about his district. What i came up with was almost as pitiful.

Check here:

http://www.thecitizen.com/node/7602

Someone named Peter Pfeifer had this to say:

"I’m a little unsure about how to say this. I’ve been trying to be a better person and a better Christian. I’ve been trying hard to be less sarcastic.

Now, It’s possible that I am being too serious and that I am not seeing it if you are pulling my leg. If so, it’s ha ha on me. But I’ll play along.

One show is on Fox NEWS Channel (O’Reilly). The other is on COMEDY Central (Colbert). Other than the duplication of some guests and topics, they are not the same.

O’Reilly is generally about HARD news, although there could be some amusing moments. Colbert has a laugh track..."

To the credit of most people posting, Peter's views were not in the majority (O'Reilly Hard news -pleeeze.)

However this site caused me to shake my head a bit:

http://www.covnews.com/show_story.php?storyID=6667

"The freshman congressman for Georgia’s eighth district — which includes large portions of Newton County — recently survived a grilling from political comedian and cult icon Stephen Colbert on a taped segment for Colbert’s nationally televised late-night satire, “The Colbert Report.”"

In my view, I wouldn't call his performance "surviving." What I found more shocking was that this appeared to be a local news source and they had nothing to say about hia comments that he was a 'do-nothing' congressman, that he couldn't remember more than 3 of 10 commandments, couldn't think of any place suited for posting the comandments other than congress and court houses. Where is the outrage? If he was the congressman in my district I'm sure there wouldn't be such a cover-up.

Is there anyone from Georgia around here that knows better links to news outlets from Wetmoreland's district? I'm just curious as how this is being taken. I can't believe they're just shrugging it off.

[Frank777]

Originally posted by Outsider
Of the 3 he DID name, one is not even a commandment (Thou should not lie). I think he meant you should not give false witness against your brother/neighbor. Not the same as lying. Try again!

Perhaps you could be so kind as to explain the difference.

[e1618978]

Originally posted by Frank777
Perhaps you could be so kind as to explain the difference.

False witness is lying in court - you are allowed to lie about your other stuff ("does my ass look big in this dress?", etc). If it is not an accurate enough answer to get points in a game show, I don't see why it should count for him either.

"Then there is the question of just what “bearing false witness” is supposed to entail. It seems as though it might have been originally intended to prohibit lying in a court of law. For the ancient Hebrews, anyone caught lying during their testimony could be forced to submit to whatever punishment would have been imposed upon the accused — even including death. It must be remembered that the legal system of the time didn’t include a position of official state prosecutor. In effect, anyone coming forward to accuse someone of a crime and “bear witness” against them served as prosecutor for the people."

http://atheism.about.com/od/tencommandments/a/commandment09.htm

When you break one of the ten commandments, do you go straight to hell? Karl Rove might want to go to the confessional or something.

[shetline]

For anyone who cares, here's a nice analysis of the oft-claimed relationship between US law and the Ten Commandments:

http://www.xtianlies.info/Laws10Cs.html