The Mitt Romney Channel otherwise known as Fox News has a new excuse to denigrate Obama's killing of Osama Bin Laden: accusing him of politicizing a national security event. It's infuriating to hear Fox News complain about anyone else politicizing anything but one big comfort is how Stephen Colbert (also Jon Stewart) can perfectly nail it, cut it down to size and make us laugh, all at the same time.
In this case, Colbert caught six different Fox News talking heads who just happened to use the same phrasing (including at least one supposedly objective host) - that President Obama had "spiked the football."
I'd say that Colbert took control of the game and scored a touchdown after that.
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doors17 commented
2012-05-02 19:01:24 -0400
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This “Spiked the Football” talking point just reeks of Rove to me. It’s his style to attack an opponents strength and using a football reference to obviously score points with males who like to hold on to the fantasy of only Republicans being victorious on foreign policy matters.
They can relax, memories are short and this will soon be forgotten since the new unemployment numbers will be released on Friday morning and will dominate the news, which the R’s will be rooting for negitive numbers so they can be positive.
They can relax, memories are short and this will soon be forgotten since the new unemployment numbers will be released on Friday morning and will dominate the news, which the R’s will be rooting for negitive numbers so they can be positive.
truman commented
2012-05-02 16:16:28 -0400
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I had almost forgotten the image of Chimpy McFlightsuit (with the large codpiece….obvious overcompensation for another deficiency) strutting about the aircraft carrier flightdeck almost as if he had done something. Thank you Steve Colbert for reminding me.
Kevin Koster commented
2012-05-02 13:08:23 -0400
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I’m glad he threw in the footage of Bush on the aircraft carrier. Interesting that the whole carrier thing is okay by Fox News, but Obama raising the killing of bin Laden as an issue is not. Of course, if a GOP president had been in office when the kill happened, they’d be jumping up and down about it. When Obama says anything about it, even to point out that Romney opposed it, he is told by Fox News that he should “be quiet.” Right.
It’s similar to Cal Thomas on Hannity trying to get on a moral high horse to be shocked, shocked that Obama would mention the Secret Service scandal during the Correspondents Dinner because “this is disrespectful to the men. These men have wives and families and it isn’t funny to them.” Guess that means he was equally shocked by GW Bush joking at a Correspondents Dinner about his search for WMDs while troops were dying in Iraq.
It’s similar to Cal Thomas on Hannity trying to get on a moral high horse to be shocked, shocked that Obama would mention the Secret Service scandal during the Correspondents Dinner because “this is disrespectful to the men. These men have wives and families and it isn’t funny to them.” Guess that means he was equally shocked by GW Bush joking at a Correspondents Dinner about his search for WMDs while troops were dying in Iraq.
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Colbert caught six different Fox News talking heads using the same phraseology to criticize Obama - and then stole the meme.