Tonight's funny is from last night's Colbert Report. In it Colbert notes that among other states Barack Obama won Idaho, North Dakota and Minnesota, and examines what it is going to take for Hillary to beat Obama --- suppressing the white Obama vote.
Funny after the break.
Before they became famous, well more famous than they were then, the two guys in tonight's funny worked together. Together they were Even Steven. Posted by Awakening126.
Tonight's funny has a real message for young people everywhere. Watch it and after you have finished laughing, watch it again for its very serious message.
Tonight's Word "Solitarity."
Makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't it. Folks we need to get up off our asses and start doing something. Now!!!
Here is Steven Colbert's Word on September 12, 2007. Tonight's Funny.
I wonder who will win the Wurlitzer Prize Tomorrow.
My wife and I are going out tonight so I thought I would post the Friday night funny a little early. It was either now or 3:00 AM. I don't think you want to wait up until 3:00 AM. See how considerate I am.
What is it with this Michael Moore guy picking fights with all our beloved media readers. First, it was Wolf Blitzer, then Sanjay Gupta, now Steven Colbert. Who's next? Is he going to go mano-a-mano* with Candy Crawley?
Friday Night's Funny. Posted today.
* mano-a-mano is Spanish for hand to hand. I don't want to hear another word from the Candy Crawley fan club.
"Our enemies aren't respecting the laws of war, so you can't expect the President to respect any laws." Steven Colbert invents a new word--"Just-ish."
Watch Tony Snow's clip. I get the feeling the guys in the White House are close to jumping off the deep end. Fortunately at 26% I don't think they can take the country with them.
Last week Alberto Gonzales appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and announced that "the Constitution doesn't say that every individual in the United States or every citizen has or is assured the right of Habeas Corpus. It doesn't say that. It simply says that the right of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended." You can watch his comments over at crooks and liars.
The long and the short of Gonzales' argument is the Constitution says Congress can't suspend Habeas Corpus, it doesn't say the Congress can't permanently deny Habeas Corpus to some group it doesn't like. According to the A.G. none of us have any "constitutional right" to Habeas Corpus.
A bunch of us wasted a lot of time over the weekend arguing the merits of the claim. I could cite an opinion written by Justice Stevens (INS V. ST. CYR, 533 U.S. 289 (2001)) suggesting the A.G.'s argument is not particularly persuasive. I could also cite Justice Scalia's dissent in that same case giving Gonzales significant "strict constructionist" cover. There are a host of other citations floating around the web.
Tonight I watched Steven Colbert's Word segment. I would provide a link, but it isn't up on the Comedy Central site yet. Either watch the 1/22/07 episode of Colbert when it is aired or watch for it on the Comedy Central site. Colbert's analysis of Gonzales' argument is brilliant. Instead of a series of dusty Supreme Court cases, and obscure references to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries or to the Magna Carta, he brings us the profound argument of Greg Brady from an episode of the Brady Bunch and a reference to a well known "hummer." Gonzales' argument sort of reminds us all of that other univerally known "legal" argument: "it all depends on what the definition of "is" is."
UPDATE 1/23/07: Here is the link to Colbert.
