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TESTIMONY:
Stephen Colbert Invents New Gay Slang in Testimony to Congress
Stephen Colbert Invents New Gay Slang in Testimony to Congress
9/24/10 at 12:41 PM
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Like some Republican lawmakers and Fox News anchors, we never understood
the rationale for inviting comedian Stephen Colbert to speak about farm
labor before the House Judiciary Committees subcommittee on immigration.
He worked on a farm for ten hours recently for a bit on his show. Okay ...
and? But waste of taxpayer money or not, it turned out to be a fantastic
idea.
Colbert storms Capitol Hill for migrant workers
By Alan Silverleib
CNN Politics
September 24, 2010 3:46 p.m. EDT
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/24/colbert.house.immigration/?hpt=T2
Washington (CNN) -- There's nothing funny about the issue of migrant farm
labor -- unless Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert is discussing it.
Colbert, accompanied by a media swarm, sarcastically testified on Capitol
Hill Friday about the conditions facing America's undocumented farm
workers. The popular host of "The Colbert Report" told members of a House
Judiciary subcommittee that he hoped to bring attention to the workers'
hardships.
"I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up
to C-SPAN 1," he joked.
"America's farms are presently far too dependent on immigrant labor to
pick our fruits and vegetables," he told the subcommittee, keeping in
character with the arch-conservative he plays on television.
"Now, the obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and
vegetables. And if you look at the recent obesity statistics, many
Americans have already started."
Colbert told the panel that "we all know there is a long tradition of
great nations importing foreign workers to do their farm work."
"After all," he said, "it was the ancient Israelites who built the first
food pyramids. But this is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a
Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan, and
served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian."
"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the
Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants," he declared. "He
did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
Colbert appeared before Congress the day after "The Colbert Report" showed
video of him packing corn and picking beans on a farm as part of a
challenge from a pro-immigrant-labor group.
The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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