Stephen Colbert's PAC Calls Romney a 'Serial Killer'
Last edited Sun Jan 15, 2012, 07:00 PM - Edit history (5)
The Atlantic Wire
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/01/stephen-colberts-pac-calls-romney-serial-killer/47440/
If they're people, says the Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow PAC (in the voice of John Lithgow, no less), well then Mitt Romney, former corporate raider, is "a serial killer."
'Serial Killer'? - The ad is also a clever take on Ron Paul's attack ads which charge Gingrich and now Santorum with 'Serial Hypocrisy'.
NB: Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow PAC is Jon Stewart's PAC. Even that doesn't stay much because it's the manager(s), not the owners(s) who by law are empowered and responsible for expressing the PAC's personal political opinions. The manger(s) could be anyone, including Jon Stewart, but not Stephen Colbert. The Media still haven't got their heads around Citizen's United.
Mitt The Ripper
MADem
(135,425 posts)asjr
(10,479 posts)a way out of this political crap we are getting from Republican. Colbert can get the message over better than anyone.
K8-EEE
(15,667 posts)And these super PAC ads, well the whole PAC thing, TRULY ABSURD. Brilliant use of satire, hope it makes people THINK!
lololol
peacebird
(14,195 posts)Ohio Dem
(4,357 posts)Is that actually going to air, or is it online only?
denem
(11,045 posts)SuperPacs are totally opaque.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)It ticks all the boxes.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Colbert is a kind of genius when it comes to satire.
K&R
boppers
(16,588 posts)He is not allowed to coordinate with his Super-PAC. That would be illegal.
Details here:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/318814/the-colbert-report-indecision-2012-colbert-super-pac---coordination-resolution-with-jon-stewart
denem
(11,045 posts)I routinely refer to Winning Our Future as Newt's SuperPac. Even 'PAC supporting Newt Gingrich' is not fully accurate. 'SuperPacs' are a law unto themselves - a corporation exercising their personal constitutional right to express political opinions on ANY topic. AND who owns them, once again, does not matter in practice - as any shareholder knows, it's the managers, accountable to Board who by law run and are responsible for the corporations actions., and the Board, subject to corporate law, is accountable to the shareholders. THEN, the PAC could just be a holding company for a partnership.
Thank you SCOTUS!
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But it is as good as if he had done it.
Broderick
(4,578 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)I will add that to the OP.
antigop
(12,778 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)I routinely refer to Winning Our Future as Newt's SuperPac. Even PAC supporting Newt Gingrich isn't accurate. SuperPac are a law unto themselves.
antigop
(12,778 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Best PAC ad of the decade, hands down.
Bucky
(54,140 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecutionthese can lift at a colossal humbugpush it a littleweaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger (1922), ch 10
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Not locking. I saw the clip earlier today and it is quite relevant to the current affairs of the country. Al Franken won a seat in Congress and he's one of the most serious members now. What if Colbert wins? I'll still vote for Obama, but he is a real thorn in the GOP's foot right now.
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)That. is. so. awesome.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)Mz Pip
(27,474 posts)This is terrific. Satire that speaks the truth - is doesn't get any better than this.
denem
(11,045 posts)to keep the ad running. Apparently it's on SC TV.
YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)at the end the premise is to stop him from killing again wouldn't leaving him in the private sector leave him free to continue his murderous ways?
Mz Pip
(27,474 posts)He's unemployed and has been for years, as far as I can tell. He's living off his savings and running for PResident because he just loves the US so much.
high density
(13,397 posts)Hilarious!
siligut
(12,272 posts)He rocks. Both brilliant and funny, he makes me laugh everytime.
Not to jack the thread, but this is a video of Stephen dancing ballet and at @ 43, he parts his coat to display his stuff. Cracked me up!
Colbert Ballet
greiner3
(5,214 posts)Is wondering how many people in SC will actually get it.
Not belittling SCinians but the understanding of sarcasm needs to begin long before it rears 'its ugly head.'
Sienna86
(2,150 posts)Colbert and Stewart are priceless.
riverbendviewgal
(4,255 posts)I love the baby nursery....it is so right on.
This is so well done.
beac
(9,992 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)not taking it seriously for all us sinners out here.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,136 posts)Mitt is a serial killer! Brilliant.
denem
(11,045 posts)People have got a right to know whether or not their President is a serial killer. I am not a serial killer.
And let me say this, war with Iran is inevitable.
sce56
(4,828 posts)Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert declared Sunday that he believes in Super PACs because "the more money you have, the more you can speak."
Last week, Colbert turned the Super PAC that he founded over to Comedy Central host Jon Stewart so as not to run afoul of campaign laws while he considers running for the Republican presidential nomination in South Carolina.
The Stewart-controlled Super PAC released an ad Saturday attacking Colbert's potential opponent Mitt Romney as a "serial killer" for his record of destroying corporations as the head of Bain Capital. Speaking at the Iowa State Fair last year, Romney had asserted that corporations are people.
"I have nothing to do with that ad," Colbert told ABC's George Stephanopoulos Sunday, mocking U.S. campaign laws. "I have no control over that ad. If anything in that ad is inaccurate, if he did not say corporations are people, if he did not make his money cutting up corporate people -- I am not calling anyone a serial killer. I can't tell Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow what to do. It's not my Super PAC."
denem
(11,045 posts)it is to give away your baby"
denem
(11,045 posts)your daughter's corporation?
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,223 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)and somehow the ad is getting blanket coverage in SC.
aquart
(69,014 posts)Let's all give up and go home, shall we?
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,223 posts)pam4water
(2,916 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)is the view of the trailing legs and feet of a body being dragged and hidden behind file cabinets...........
So Hitchcockian!
gateley
(62,683 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Awestruck.
Skittles
(153,460 posts)yes INDEED
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)qb
(5,924 posts)Kablooie
(18,658 posts)Citizen's United has given a pack of professional comedians and writers the opportunity to create impressively entertaining political ads.
There is going to be a lot of mud, more than ever before, mixed into the soup before this party is over.
I'm just glad that some of it will be entertaining.
RockyMtnGuy
(83 posts)This was perfect, hope there are a whole lot more in production right now!
Tanelorn
(359 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,180 posts)If it was under a week, Colbert and Stewart have the best team ever.
qanda
(10,422 posts)Brilliant and oh so funny!
1monster
(11,012 posts)National Treasure.
Historic NY
(37,470 posts)where companies go to checkout.
ChadwickHenryWard
(862 posts)This all just shows how absurd our laws have become.
amuse bouche
(3,659 posts)the fact that John Lithgow narrates the ad and he played a serial killer on Dexter. Love it
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