Thread: Comedian Stephen Colbert testifies before US Congress

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US satirist Stephen Colbert has appeared before a Congress committee discussing immigrant farm workers.

Why the hell was Stephen Colbert called as an expert? Why the hell was Elmo called as an expert?

Watch it, it is funny as hell.........

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4348642/s...ration-hearing

With Congress's approval rating at an all time low, the economy in (or...recently out of) a recession, unemployment at nearly 10 percent and a couple wars going on, I'm thankful that the geniuses in charge decided this...this would be a good way to spend some valuable law-making time. But hey...he painted a lovely caricature of republicans before the democrat dominated congress. Yes, bring in the court jester...why not. We have nothing better to do.

What a bone-headed decision this was...

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Basically, he has a segment on his show called "fallback position", where he does other jobs for a day or so. I'm not exactly sure why he has to appear before Congress, but it probably has something to do with him working with some migrant workers..

hilarious, though.

CONGRESSWOMAN JUDY CHU: Mr. Colbert, you could work on so many issues, why are you interested in this issue?

COLBERT: "I like talking about people who don't have any power. And this seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are migrant workers who come and do our work but don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave. And, you know, whatsoever you do for the least of my brothers, these seem like the least of our brothers, right now. And I know that a lot of people are the least of my brothers because the economy is so hard, and I don't want to take anyone's hardship away from them or diminish it or anything like that, but migrant workers suffer, and they have no rights."

and

COLBERT: "Maybe we can offer more visas to the immigrants who, lets face it, will probably be doing those jobs anyway. And this improved legal status, might allow immigrants recourse if they are abused. And it just stands to reason to me that if your co-worker can't be exploited, you're less likely to be exploited yourself, and that itself might improve pay and working conditions on these farms, so that eventually, Americans may consider taking these jobs again."

Useless to even have this man give testimony to Congress about his experience working that one day with the migrant workers, I mean how can his one day working with those people give him any more insight than those congresspeople that never lifted a finger in their lives as much as those workers have done in one day.