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Comedian Stephen Colbert had barely seated himself at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing this morning when US Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, asked him to leave. Conyers said the committee had not seen so many reporters at a hearing since presidential impeachment proceedings in the late 1990s, and he wanted Colbert to leave so that the committee could carry on with its work.
Colbert, however, did not budge, saying that he was present at the invitation of the hearing chair, US Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California. But Colbert said if Lofgren wanted him to leave, he would.
Lofgren said she wanted him to stay, and a good portion of Capitol Hill was glued to broadcasts of the hearing.
The hearing was about illegal immigrants and farm work. Colbert, host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, recently spent one day working on a farm.
Colbert, who got five minutes to share what he called his "vast knowledge" of farm labor, began by touching on the effect of his presence.
"I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-SPAN1," he quipped.
OMG, what a humiliating embarrassment for the democrats. What in the world were they thinking?
Colbert embarrasses Dems; Conyers asks comedian to leave | Washington Examiner (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Colbert-embarrasses-Dems-Conyers-asks-comedian-to-leave-then-withdraws-request-103712949.html - broken link)
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"This is America," Colbert said. "I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican." It was a strange and awkward moment, and one that could come back to haunt some of the Democrats on the panel in the campaign ahead.
I like Stephen Colbert, but I think he could have actually spoke as himself than as the comedian. It was embarrassing to hear some of what he said. Sure, it would have been funny on his show, but not at a judiciary hearing.
Is it funny or pathetic that Colbert knows better how these meetings work than Conyers?
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