Colbert On Rand

Posted on 03/12/2009 at 12:55 pm by Bob Cesca

by Lee Stranahan

There’s a reason Ayn Rand has come up so much on the radio show with Bob and me…something in the zeitgeist because her philosophy is really behind this whole mess….right down to the Red Baiting tone that Bob has pointed out so often.

The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The Word – Rand Illusion

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  • brutlyhonest

    Colbert scores again.

    Did I miss it, or did someone here already cover his take down of hannity AND limbaugh in a Tip/Wag segment last week? The part I’m talking about starts just before the 2 minute mark. I watch the shows during the 10am repeat and nearly spit my coffee when he let loose. Listen for the words crack-licking, lard-ass, and mind corpse.

    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/220780/march-05-2009/tip-wag—rush-limbaugh

  • D. C.

    Go Galt all upper management types!!I don’t know about where everyone else here works, but I’d be ten times as productive if I didn’t have to get everything approved through six layers of management. If any of them had ever produced anything other than paperwork, I’d be shocked.

  • Lexaburn

    “Going Galt”?Blustery trendoid nonsense meant to appease pop culture peasants into thinking they’re special. These goddamn media flakes, everyone of them, aught not tamper with fate like this. It will not benefit the more prominent screechers in any way, shape, or form. These people are utter chumps, from the twerp Santelli with his Tetley’s Tea Party battle cry to the miscellaneous dorks holding up Rand’s book like they’re on an episode of Reading Rainbow. Elitist scumbags every single one of them. They need to be very, very careful.VERY careful!

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    “Atlas Shrugged” has been in need of a parody for too long.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Lexaburn -I like the way you think.Matt -Yes. I’d love to see one. I’m surprised the Harvard Lampoon hasn’t already done one.

  • D. C.

    That would be like doing a parody of Ann Coulter. Atlas Shrugged is so close to being a parody of its own ideas that few could tell the difference.

  • mmortal03

    I love Colbert, but his straw man arguments beneath the parody here are ridiculous. Let’s attack Rand when what we have in America currently is something she would despise. I heard it again on Democracy Now earlier today, with Michael Parenti saying that what we have had develop in America shows that the free market doesn’t work. What we have isn’t a free market at all. What we have is a large centralized government, which massively spends, subsidizes, and directly meddles with interest rates, whose policies have allowed for corrupt corporatism to emerge, and then we try to treat the symptoms by creating large social programs which spend even more money to try to counteract the bad things that emerge, instead of working towards fixing the economic system itself.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    mmortal -I agree with your comments. I’ll be Captain Obvious and point out that Colbert is doing comedy. His straw man arguments are to aid that goal. If he was making these same arguments for an economics term paper I would expect an F.It’s a valid point to note that Colbert’s arguments, while funny, just don’t hold water.