Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert played it up before Congress Friday, speaking at a hearing on immigrant farm workers.
The hearing was called Protecting America's Harvest, and Colbert appeared with United Farm Workers (Ufw) President Arturo S. Rodriguez before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law to debunk the theory that undocumented immigrants are taking jobs away from American citizens.
Watch Colbert's testimony!
The hearing was called Protecting America's Harvest, and Colbert appeared with United Farm Workers (Ufw) President Arturo S. Rodriguez before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law to debunk the theory that undocumented immigrants are taking jobs away from American citizens.
Watch Colbert's testimony!
- 9/24/2010
- Extra
Filed under: TV News
Depending on your political perspective, seeing Stephen Colbert, a faux pundit, testify before Congress is either completely surreal or just about right. But that's where Colbert was today, sitting next to United Farm Workers President Arturo S. Rodriguez and giving his opinion on jobs and migrant farm workers. The story was reported by The Huffington Post, with video of Colbert's testimony (see video below).
Colbert started out in character, saying he hoped his star power would give the issue enough of a boost to make it to C-Span 1. He drew a few smiles but most of the gallery did not seem amused; some appeared bored, others even hostile.
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Depending on your political perspective, seeing Stephen Colbert, a faux pundit, testify before Congress is either completely surreal or just about right. But that's where Colbert was today, sitting next to United Farm Workers President Arturo S. Rodriguez and giving his opinion on jobs and migrant farm workers. The story was reported by The Huffington Post, with video of Colbert's testimony (see video below).
Colbert started out in character, saying he hoped his star power would give the issue enough of a boost to make it to C-Span 1. He drew a few smiles but most of the gallery did not seem amused; some appeared bored, others even hostile.
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- 9/24/2010
- by Nick Zaino
- Aol TV.
From its mass murderous macabre opening, to its bloody, sex laced and blatantly explosive ending, Machete delivers one potent, thought provoking, and tantalizingly delicious adrenaline ride.
Thought provoking? We’ll get to that in a minute. The film follows Machete Cortez, an on the edge cop – hell bent on bringing down Torrez, a notorious drug dealer and crime lord. Double-crossed by his fellow men in uniform and forced to watch the execution of his wife and unborn child – you start to understand his motivation for revenge. After being left for dead and somehow surfacing year’s later, he gets embroiled in a plot designed to bolster a local bigoted politician while simultaneously leading a revolution to fight the illegal and immoral ways the United States borders are policed and controlled. All of this while maneuvering through a bevy of women who all want him, despite his looks, which border on ‘rugged’ to be kind.
Thought provoking? We’ll get to that in a minute. The film follows Machete Cortez, an on the edge cop – hell bent on bringing down Torrez, a notorious drug dealer and crime lord. Double-crossed by his fellow men in uniform and forced to watch the execution of his wife and unborn child – you start to understand his motivation for revenge. After being left for dead and somehow surfacing year’s later, he gets embroiled in a plot designed to bolster a local bigoted politician while simultaneously leading a revolution to fight the illegal and immoral ways the United States borders are policed and controlled. All of this while maneuvering through a bevy of women who all want him, despite his looks, which border on ‘rugged’ to be kind.
- 9/3/2010
- by Rock Young
- Atomic Popcorn
Remember that crazy funny fake trailer for the nonexistent 70s Mexploitation flick Machete that preceded the Planet Terror segment of Grindhouse a few years back? Gonzo indie filmmaker Robert Rodriguez whipped up that two-and-a-half-minute bit of ultraviolent fluff, and then he kept whipping, and now it’s a two-hour, crazy-funny-violent Mexploitation feature that couldn’t be more terrifyingly timely. I can’t wait for the right-wing windbags to begin decrying Rodriguez and Machete -- oh noes! he’s trying to ignite a class war! As if class warfare hasn’t been the status quo, coming from the other direction, for decades. Oh yes, there is revolutionary rage in Machete, and Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly and the “we’re not racist, honestly” Tea Partiers are right to be afraid that this not-so-silly silly movie may touch a nerve among audiences. And not just among Hispanic moviegoers, either. Yeah, it...
- 9/1/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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