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Okay, I realize that the Democrats are in something of a panic. They have every right to be. But what could possibly have possessed them to schedule Stephen Colbert as a witness before a House Judiciary Subcommittee? Colbert "testified" Friday on "the plight of migrant farm workers".

Politico notes:

David Corn, who writes for the liberal Mother Jones magazine, tweeted "Colbert is making a mockery of this hearing."

Well, duh. Mockery is what Stephen Colbert does for a living. He does it well, and can be very entertaining. If he does anything else well or has any other expertise, he has managed to conceal it.

You can imagine how this got brewed up. A room full of Democrats with long faces ponder what to do now that Barack's mojo doesn't seem to be animating the youth vote. Then someone hollers: "I've got an idea!"

In the committee room, Colbert did just what he does before a microphone.

Colbert delighted in asking whether he could "submit video of my colonoscopy into the Congressional Record," talking about getting a Chilean to give him a "Brazilian" wax — a delicate-area hair-removal procedure. And he apologized to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) for using the term "cornpacker" because it is "an offensive term for gay Iowans."

Congress can't manage to pass a budget, but they've got time for this? So what if the ship is sinking. At least there is a mildly funny comic still working the stage.

ps.  All of the above notwithstanding, Colbert's monologue was very funny.  "My grandfather didn't come all the way from Europe just to see this country overrun by immigrants."  Too bad the venue was so inappropriate. 

Comments

[Miranda]

I don't know! I thought he fit right in!

[dhmosquito]

This was also a means of obscuring the very serious testimony of Mr Chris Coates about the voter intimidation on election day 2008 in Philadelphia by the New Black Panther Party and the prejudicial Obama DoJ decision not to prosecute those clowns. I was surprised to see that the Coates testimony actually made the front page of today's Washington Post. Amazing. Supposedly C-SPAN televised the hearing (I watched it on PJTV). Here's a significant quote by Mr Coates from the Post story: "I had people who told me point-blank that [they] didn't come to the voting rights section to sue African American people," said Coates, who transferred to the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina in January. "When you are paid by the taxpayer, that is totally indefensible." And while that was ongoing, the MSM focus on the antics of this jackass Stephen Colbert. Guess they're catering to obviously uninformed Americans who voted for this lousy president.

[duggersd]

I must have missed some of it when I watched it online. I thought there were a few chuckles, but funny? Sorry, that guy was not funny today. I would give him a slightly amusing. I have seen him be funny, but this was not his A-game.

[KB]

Miranda: maybe that's the trouble.

dhm: The press is resolutely ignoring the Coates testimony. Go figure. If the Republicans control the House, it will come back.

Dugger: Colbert was indeed a bit off his game. He stumbled reading his text. But the text was very funny.