. EMPLOYMENT: MIGRANT WORKERS : AGRICULTURE: FARM WORKERS AND MIGRANT LABOR : ENTERTAINMENT: COMEDY AND COMEDIANS : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: CONGRESS : 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 New York News and Features Daily Intel [Videos] http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/09/ stephen_colbert_creates_new_ga.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h5 A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/28c2vllLike 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 workersBy Alan Silverleib CNN Politics
September 24, 2010 3:46 p.m. EDT http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/24/colbert.house.immigration/?hpt=T2Washington (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.
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