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May 23, 2013 8:18 AM
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PwnageHobo
Captions are inaccurate. Steve Colbert wouldn't fuck up the apostrophes.
mantar008
Wahoowa
chuckleheadtron
wahoowa, uni-v virginia, hoo-ra-ray, hoo-ra-ray, ray ray, UVA
Bunuka
History is a giant circle. We all just point in a direction and say "they're the point of the problem".
TomtheGrizzly
Herodotes was pointing the youth of his time as the problem. Several thousands of years ago.
TheRealLizardKing
He would have my vote for POTUS if he ran.
TomtheGrizzly
I love how this acronym sounds. It's like Hotus Potus.
TheRealLizardKing
I know, right? It's a bad ass acronym.
kcloud
This man is great.
NonsensePoopyPantss
he is more than just great. He is marvelous.
DeadyBearr
I want to hear the whole speech...
SweetChilli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNkxQKGex28 this bit is at about 12:25ish :)
FuzzyX
The Chinese Gov. used the Colbert Report to show what is wrong about the USA but this backfired when US people CAN criticise their Gov.
goaliegirl414
Oh what up UVA Valediction!!
whoopsthatwasamistake
UVA!!
Pillock
As a denizen of Dayton, A.K.A. Shithole, USA, Colbert is a visionary and I support his aquatic future.
Obi2Kenobi
I disliked it so that the no of dislikes is exactly 69. teehee!
heydiggity
who the fuck is Steve Colbert cos I have no idea. bring on the downvotes
ImageScienceGirl
This is why I love Colbert. He is not afraid to make fun of things that other people accept, in a non-offensive, even funny, way!
babycoolredhead
Thanks, Stephen.
ErrantHistoricalQuotes
I've voted for Colbert since 1980
BAMFnerd
People who call global warming an "outdated" issue are idiots. Just cause people aren't talking about much now, doesn't mean it's over!
piratey
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/9974397/Global-warming-time-to-rein-back-on-doom-and-gloom.html
BAMFnerd
Thanks for the article
sherbetty
*waves hand magestically* OHIO.
catsforme
From Colbert's University of Virginia Class of 2013 speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNkxQKGex28
TheBlueLeopard
Someone needs to teach OP how apostrophes work.
ManifestPangolin
NEED SOME ICE FOR THAT BURN, BABY BOOMERS!?
ManifestPangolin
TOO BAD, IT'S ALL MELTED.
AzaellexTytalus
Well played.
ManifestPangolin
Thanks, I worked pretty hard on it
ShhhImBatgirl
Colbert/Stewart 2016!
LaunchPad
I love this idea, but it's just too awesome to actually happen.
TomtheGrizzly
fivefingercuntpunch
They have my vote!
Herrschmidt
as non-us-citizen: i would SOOO find a way to vote for them anyways!
viperex
Stewart/Colbert 2016
thegreatgatsB
All you people who are so ready to vote him and John Stewart in as president and vp.. they do have writers.. remember that?
IfYouDontLikeItSuckMyDick
no, stop torturing the cattle with logic! it burns!!
ObiWanValJean
So does every politician.
thewhitetornado2k
yeah, the ACTUAL president DOESN'T have writers....moron...move to Canada.
Jedimika
This is pretty much how I feel. Our gen might have it's share of D-bags, but the boomers have spent half a century taking everything. 1/2
akmarksman
Thanks Obama
Jedimika
And Generation X spent all their time rebelling against the system which gave the boomer more time to fuck the world. 2/3
Jedimika
Now our generation is getting ready to get up to bat and all I can think is our grandparents,parents, and older siblings ruined it and- 3/4
Jedimika
now YOUR mad at us cause we don't know how to fix it? Wow, longer rant than I thought.
ash274
Which generation are you? Gen-Y or Millennial?
Jedimika
Gen-Y
KidOnTheCoast
The National debt is a gift from the previous generation, so they share at least somethings
CoyoteSabre
It used to be. The current generation has created a full third of it and is not slowing down. 3/4 if it is in the last 12 years.
vanishplusxzone
1) A full third of it belongs just to millennials? Where are you getting that? The Boomers and generation X are still the ones calling the
vanishplusxzone
3) that started before I even graduated HS. Forgive me for not stopping them from crashing the housing market and the world's economy.
vanishplusxzone
2) shots. They're still the ones that made and maintain the policies that fucked up everything. Forgive me for not stopping a war
WilfredPGrundlesnatch
The current generation isn't the one in power. It'll be another 20 years before the Millennials take over.
CoyoteSabre
They are in power in the sense that they are the swing demographic. They choose those in power.
vanishplusxzone
4) I mean, think for a second, will you? How much power do you think we have?
CoyoteSabre
Swing vote power.
vanishplusxzone
3) not be able to beat the candidates in the two big parties that all the boomers and Xers would vote for.
CoyoteSabre
I can't see that millennials could tell a man like that from a hole in their heads. But - same is true of boomers and xers.
vanishplusxzone
1) Ooooh, swing vote power. So we can vote for one guy who will fuck everything up, or the other. Because even if every millennial who
vanishplusxzone
2) is able to vote (some can't yet, remember) voted for one person who would actually work for change (a third party candidate) we would
therespectrum
As much as I love comedy, its ridiculous it takes a comedian to actually publicly speak any truth.
JupiterWhistles
Fuck off
notjjsboat
Only the jester dare speak the truth.
boxtoppled
Reminds me of the Fool from King Lear.
ProfessorStephenHawking
Comedians are always the forefront of the truth.
HeeHeeHeeHoHoHoHaHaHaHaHa
Isn't that how it's always been?
AttilaTheChris
I was about to say that. Comedians make jokes by pointing out the absurd. Politics have always been the best source of content.
localvagrant
As time goes on, I become more and more certain that that's the function of the comedian: to speak the truth
babycoolredhead
That's exactly why comedy has always been magnificent.
babycoolredhead
(RIP Lenny Bruce)
cattaclysmic
See: Sascha Baron Cohen's speech in the dictator.
SoLongSaulGood
a comedian is the guy who is looking the opposite direction of the crowd
TheChampionOfDeath
Bill Hicks & George Carlin are two other great examples of this truth.
TrapsAreIllegal
The best comedy is always social commentary
SomeReallyBoredGuy
Comedians have been the only ones speaking truth for decades now. I felt this way ever since seeing a George Carlin special in 1990.
xbxoxy
In Mexico one of the best anchormen is this guy http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/img/2010/10/Soc/brozo_int.jpg
TwoUsernamesInATrenchcoat
A giraffe in a suit on a tightrope--ridiculous. Pointing out otherwise hard to swallow truths using comedy--makes perfect sense.
Zappers42
There's a whole research about this. It's not new, comedians always speak for that which is usually taboo.
silentgeorge
Why I love IMGUR: clicking on a post to make a point, only to find it's been made and amplified in dozens of interesting ways.
iamireland
When I see Jon Stewart on TV being serious, it sincerely scares me. I wouldn't wish his wrath on my worst enemy.
GIsLife
Well they do a pretty damn good job.
theManTheyCalledJayne
*It's sad that the speakers of truths are considered comedians
vauhtihirmu
False: It takes a comedian to get media attention while speaking the truth.
SuchDoge
I don't think being labeled as a comedian is enough to say he can't be influential; anyone has that ability.
JCLII
Comedians are the last truly honest social commentators.
MyrnaMaeve
I had an essay prompt on that topic.
flashjohnson
Long tradition of satirists speaking the most truthfully about society (eg. Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"). Nothing new here.
RoySydiaha
Not ridiculous: historically correct.
emeraldcocoaroast
Sometimes, it's only when making fun of ourselves that we can acknowledge our shortcomings.
WellThenThisIsAwkward
This is the most brutally honest quote I've read... "It takes a comedian to actually publicly speak any truth"
hungrybear
Best way to get people to listen, besides fear mongering.
SirQuaffler
It's why I was seriously hoping he was running for President a few years back even though he announced it in jest.
opad
Steven Colbert - Correspondence dinner with Bush gave me chills. I was witnessing live something braver then I could have imagined.
captainron042
because "It's funny, cause it's true"
CarryOnMyWaywardTardis
lol George Carlin said something like that a while back
BananasaurusRex
The lunatic, the lover, the poet and the prophet.
LongNamesAreStillCoolRight
Colbert is so much more than a mere comedian.
youaregoingtohavesomenewclothes
you downplay comedians, sir
LongNamesAreStillCoolRight
I don't mean to. The word just has a conotation to it which doesn't seem sufficient to describe Colbert's influence. (:
opalorajones
Yeah, he was on Whose line is it anyway.
AnarchistAbe
He leans very heavily into satire in all his bits.
PiTimesEisPie
Yeah... he's a satirist. That's kind of what they do.
ImVeronicaCorningstone
my grandpa doesn't understand why anyone would "accept an unpaid internship"....ummm because this isn't 1960 with people throwing jobs at me
Leithoa
It's called satire, which is based almost purely on societal commentary. Been around since Aristophanes, Horatio and Juvenal made it cool.
ForgottenHam
Why was this at 0? This is what I was about say too.
Leithoa
probably cause it was fact mixed with sarcasm. And someone read it as condescension.
zasta
Ivan Illich: "Poets and clowns have always risen up against the oppression of creative thought by dogma...
zasta
...Their intimate wonder dissolves certainties, banishes fears, and undoes paralysis...
zasta
The prophet can denounce creeds and expose superstitions and mobilize persons to use their lights and wits."
zasta
...They expose literal-mindedness with metaphor. They demonstrate the follies of seriousness in a framework of humor...
FrankenMountain
UPVOTE ALL THE ZASTA COMMENTS!!!
snarker
Are people STILL going on about global warming???
GabrielTrottier
Yeah seriously global warming? Who cares, I mean, its just the future of our planet, we'll be dead by then wont we!
Celt
Well it is STILL happening
snarker
No it isn't. You can have your own opinion but you can't have your own facts.
Corsair212
They say that buoy temps are more accurate, but then decide to use ship engine intake temps, and their statistical analysis lacks accuracy.
Corsair212
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/06/05/science.aaa5632.full Read the report and note the poor analysis of temps.
snarker
Actually, it stopped 15 years ago.
piratey
No it's not http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/9974397/Global-warming-time-to-rein-back-on-doom-and-gloom.html
Corsair212
The error range in their stats and measurements is larger than the adjustment they made to 'eliminate the hiatus'.
Corsair212
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/06/05/science.aaa5632.full please read the actual report and look at their poor statistics
CaBarefoot
No, only 97% of climate scientists. http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-intermediate.htm
snarker
Science isn't an opinion poll.
CaBarefoot
Doesn't mean it's NOT a major issue still.
Corsair212
Yeah, 97% believe warming is happening, a much smaller percent believe that man has a significant influence on it. misleading stats.
DillonYouSonOfABitch
He should be a world leader.
AzaellexTytalus
They would have him killed. None of them stand a chance against him.
AgamemnonsMemes
He sort of already is.
wearywanderer
He, himself, has said that he, unlike his character, is quite apathetic to politics and is not interested in political office of any kind.
dtdelah
*THE world leader
aristech
If he is to be world leader, no one will take him seriously anymore...
Folken
I voted for him for president as a write in for the past two elections.
ProfessorMosby
Clicked next. Then did a comeback to make sure you got upvoted
trustmeimascientist
Stewart/Colbert 2016, we could make this happen, we have the technology.
SalsaRice
His sister is actually running for office in South Carolina.
MrRogersDestroyerOfWorlds
She WAS running for office. She lost to the guy who lied about using public funds to pay for a trip to visit his South American mistress.
SalsaRice
I've prepared this statement after a moment to research the facts: MURICA!!!!!!!!
JonathanTaylorThomas
haha could you imagine him as a senator...he'd get my vote
CFC44
COLBERT FOR PRESIDENT!!
DoodGai1
Why? He's a great speaker, but that doesn't mean he'd be a good leader.
alloyedclavicle
He is already.
terrasono
I want him to be, but the world would try to kill him because he's not Muslim or a female or of a certain decent etc.
nomon
Since when did the "world" ever want a female leader?
AllOfYouSuperciliousImguriansThinkThereIsHonorToBeHadInDuty
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Venus_von_Willendorf_01.jpg/200px-Venus_von_Willendorf_01.jpg jkjk
monod
Too cool for the job.
Axlhgl
Here in video : http://viewrz.com/video/stephen-colbert-and-the-me-me-me-generation
siraxta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNkxQKGex28 ...
btjX
Link the yt vid and not this crap site. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNkxQKGex28#!&t=12m25s
MrMunchie
Thanks, viewrz always fucks up my pc
SerenityStarCraft
I live in Ohio....this state would benefit greatly from an ocean coastline...Global Warming seems awesome now!
adyer06094
But then you would be too busy going to your brand new coastline to prepare for the next election and all the political ranting you observe!
Marscountry
I think the rising level of acidity in the ocean that accompanies the carbon will make those waters less than pristine.
TheOriginalPiehole
Yeah, we already have a lake coastline, and river coastlines, where is our ocean coastline?
SaintMaceToTheFace
Welcome to the pristine coastline of Marietta
ITryRealHard
I live in Ohio too and I've always thought "...you know what this state is missing? An ocean."
Myonlyfriendsarecats
Always a pleasure to see other Ohioans on imgur.
fishly
I know a lot of people in this state that could identify with your username....
utgort
Ohio already has a coast line. It is called "The mistake on the lake".
aychland
Cleveland's not a coastline, love.
utgort
Although I understand that you are thinking that coastline normally refers to an ocean or sea (rightly so), google lakeshore coastline
KaizerXi
As a Michigander, piss off, I'd rather not drown so you can go sailing.
tatarhater
Anything that's not mother nature's period would greatly benefit Ohio.
IDontRememberIfItWasATelecasterOrAStratocaster
I know this is a downvote waiting to happen.... but Ohio does things to people.... dark, foreboding things.
EricMatthews
So true.... Led to my love of country music oddly enough
Pyrohawk
Like what? I've always lived here.....I like Ohio....
SaintMaceToTheFace
Me too. If you think about it it's the only sane place to live
SaintMaceToTheFace
Go West there's tornados farther west earthquakes and volcanoes south hurricanes east ice storms
IDontRememberIfItWasATelecasterOrAStratocaster
Not sure if serious... or seriously trolling
Pyrohawk
No....I'm serious. Maybe I just haven't been to enough other places? I've been all over the US, never abroad though....
SirenofTitan
Yeah that's what our state needs, ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM.
jaypod
I love you for this comment. I agree completely with your sarcasm hahaha.
Myonlyfriendsarecats
I went from swimming to dodging hail in less than 24 hours up here in cleveland.
klinger
as a Broadview Heights resident, YES! all the time
wender216
I live in Cleveland. last year It hailed on a hot sunny day while the sun was still out. It only lasted a minutes but it was still odd.
wellarentyouspecial
In California a few months back I was getting hail, while my friends in the next city over had a light drizzle. Weather is strange.