Colbert Testifies Before Congress 9-24-10

Stephen Colbert testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Security. An expert witness after working one day in the field, he provided valuable insight into the conditions faced by farm workers. He was a participant in the United Farm Workers "Take Our Jobs" program. More information can be found here: http://www.ufw.org/toj_play/TOJNEW_12_JAL.html

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[Joerexia]

Note the only thing the House laughs at. It will make you cry inside.

[LittlePikachu]

COLBERT! COLBERT! COLBERT! About time they had someone sane up there!

[mondezdurden]

that was the best thing I've ever seen. So DAMN FUNNY!

[landrover1515]

I am a "conservative' of sorts... And as I understand it, Colbert does everything in character - that of a "conservative free-market" guy - which he personally is not. He's patterned his tv-persona after Bill O'Reilly and according to Colbert, he's acting in character. He does it so well, people can't tell whether he's playing himself or his spoofed O'Reilly character. This is what makes this testimony ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!!! Major kudos to Colbert for pulling this off in character!

[7rancisco1]

3:50 that girl... She's learned something in school.

[TheDetoX]

HES RIGHT, Y CANT THE LAND BE WAIST HIGH?

[ThunderheadNebula]

3/3 C SPAN “Black Republican Forum” Session 2 (begin at 11:30) West said one of the 1986 caveats was to secure our borders, enforcement our laws, but we’re still talking about new amnesty like DREAM Act. We can’t allow local cities to make sanctuary cities policies, because they will bring our inner city turf wars to epic proportions by bringing in the drug cartel and Columbian gangs. (Mexican Gangs don’t recognize our borders established by the Treaty of Guadalupe)

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Allen West 2012

[ThunderheadNebula]

2/3 In November 2010, the unemployment rate was 9.8% with 15.1 million unemployed. (15.1 million/9.8%) = 154 million are able to work in the workforce. 11,941,812 (or 11.9 million) skilled jobs provided to illegal immigrants. GOOGLE “illegal immigration counters”, the 15.1 million unemployed could take the 11.9 million available jobs. The unemployment rate could be reduced to 2.1% {{15.1-11.9)/154}

[ThunderheadNebula]

1/3 Immigrationcounters com 97% illegal immigrants are from Mexico. Illegalimmigrationstatistics org $1117 - The average amount you and your family paid in taxes this year to support illegals. 51% - The percentage of Mexican immigrant households that use at least one major welfare program. 28% use more than one.

[rabbitwithaglock]

@zacmustbuild thats because you brain is just too small. im sorry. its satire and sarcasm. it take an intelligence level slightly higher than that of a chimpanzee to understand and appreciate this speech. and you, my friend, should be out picking out ripe cantaloupes for me to eat.

[zacmustbuild]

this motherfucker is just not funny

i think i hate him

[ZeDingoBlag]

@jchizick22 I think his point was to show everyone how wasteful Congress is while still bringing attention to immigration reform.

Like "HAHA THEY'RE WATCHING YOU NOW! Now you HAVE to get something done!"

Honestly if he hadn't been in character, he wouldn't have been able to say half the things he implied by being in character.