NAACP Chairman on The Colbert Report
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(Thanks to Ariah for this tip!) Julian Bonds, Chairman of the NAACP, made an appearance on The Colbert Report last Thursday. I guess I found this clip to be mildly amusing, but at the end of the day, kind of useless and pointless. But hey, at least Colbert acknowledges that people of color exist — which is more than I can say for The Daily Show.
Ok my attempt at embedding the video totally messed up the whole blog, so never mind. Here’s the link to the Colbert video if you want to check it out.
SF wrote:
I am no fan of Greg palast..way to left field for me ..I’ll pass on that.
I think Pres Bush did fine in his speech to the NAACP.
Posted 26 Jul 2006 at 7:19 am ¶
brad wrote:
SF,
Bush did a good job of admitting some of the sins of the GOP. However, he pushed the Estate Tax/Death Tax nonsense. Of the 38 million African Americans, only 59 are affected by the Estate Tax. So, it’s of no concern to the majority of African Americans. Then again, since 98% of all Americans aren’t affected by the Estate Tax, its repeal is a crime against them since the 98% will have to make up the lost tax revenue–which will have a negative impact!
Overall, the Bush Administration’s policies have not been good for the U.S.’ middle and working class, which is the majority of all people of color.
Posted 26 Jul 2006 at 9:17 pm ¶
dcase wrote:
It looked to me like Julian Bond was like the proverbial fish out of water in that interview. However, I don’t blame him; he still got his point across. Maybe I spend too much time in the world of academia or I’m just getting old ( I’m 27) but it seems to me that during interviews, the often sophomoric nature of the humor on both the daily show and colbert is a little irritating.
I know that this is just their attempt at satiric humor but sometimes it just falls flat like a pancake. It saddens me that so many young people use these two programs as their primary news sources instead of reading and attempting to think critically about their world. Instead, many will adopt the same cynical worldview portrayed in these shows and continue withdraw in to ipod land.
Posted 26 Jul 2006 at 10:54 pm ¶