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Showing Original Post only (View all)Stephen Colbert's PAC Calls Romney a 'Serial Killer' [View all]
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/
Just days after Stephen Colbert formally turned over control of his Super PAC to Jon Stewart (so Colbert could "explore" a run for president in South Carolina despite the fact that he cannot legally get on the ballot there), the PAC is up with its first negative ad, a hit on Mitt Romney and his infamous "corporations are people" remark.
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."
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.
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Satire is a great learning tool, to make fun of something it has to be truly absurd
K8-EEE
Jan 2012
#2
Absolutely correct - The article is quite clear about that and the headline is wrong BUT
denem
Jan 2012
#33
It's not Colbert's PAC -- pls change your title. He turned it over to Stewart. n/t
antigop
Jan 2012
#12
If you were a corporation, you could give unlimited recs. Cause you'd be a Super-Person
Bucky
Jan 2012
#25
The "Bain Capital" woodchipper with companies going in and money flying out is brilliant
high density
Jan 2012
#27
Absolutely Brilliant!b Colbert: 'The More Money You Have, the More You Can Speak'
sce56
Jan 2012
#39
Brilliant as it seems, the GOP ("mass murderers") will use this to benefit Romney somehow.
SleeplessinSoCal
Jan 2012
#42
I refuse to give up. But when you don't care about the truth, so long as you win, be prepared.
SleeplessinSoCal
Jan 2012
#54
He should do "Mitt Bates"....Psycho Corporate vulture of the "Bain hotel"...
Historic NY
Jan 2012
#61
They seem eternally amazed and delighted by what they can get away with.
ChadwickHenryWard
Jan 2012
#62