Colbert on Morning Joe: endorses (in all seriousness) Ron Paul

[Pauls' Revere]

LOL if you guess his name he has to teach you to spin hay into GOLD !!!

So true, how many people dont realize how Ron Paul can build wealth for this nation.

 

[Darin]

It's on Reddit if anyone wants to upvote (or downvote) it.

BUT, I disagree with everyone. I think the reddit title is better. I don't think it's an endorsement. I think he, like Stewart, respect Paul... but very much disagree with him. They'll be on Obama mode in the next couple months.

The Super Pac thing makes it pretty clear that they're very much on the opposite side of the issue.

The gold joke, though, was brilliant.

- Darin

 

[NoPants]

I love Colbert, but I don't see what was particularly funny about that specific joke.

It was a reference to Rumpelstiltskin.

 

[purepaloma]

Colbert is a smart man.

 

[Maltheus]

Colbert and Stewart have always respected Dr. Paul. The Colbert Report is just a character. It's extremely rare for Colbert to ever break character (he's almost like a modern day Andy Kaufman) and so although he skewers politics quite abit, he seemed sincere when he broke character at the end.

I never doubted Stewart's respect, but character aside, I always felt a level of true hostility coming from Colbert (aside from maybe that '08 or '07 interview). Guess I was wrong. Or perhaps it's just that Colbert is so much more liberal that it was just the hostility to his views I was sensing, whereas Stewart is capable of occasionally seeing the wisdom of the other side.

 

[bbwarfield]

The joke was a reference to the fairytale "Rumpelstiltskin" (sp?)....You's get his gold if you discovered his name....meaning, Paul's name is ignored (debates/media)...some of the talking heads didn't get it. Colbert's 'endorsement' was about Paul's character, not his policies.

thank you... I got it and was waiting for the media and the rest of us too.... It was a pro Ron joke

 

[PaulStandsTall]

Lol clearly the other people there did not understand the joke.

 

[Erazmus]

Wow.

 

[randomname]

 

[blazeKing]

Ron-Paul-stiltskin

I get it now.

Haha nice...Ronpaulstiltskin will teach you how to spin straw into gold if you guess his name

That's actually a really clever joke

 

[Austin]

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ooyky/video_stephen_colberts_ron_paul_joke_rocks/

 

[Liberty4life]

Ron Paul/Stephen Colbert ? #paulcolbert

 

[agorist ninja]

Change the thread title. Was not an endorsement.

Some people...

 

[ElizabethR]

I KNEW IT. I FREAKING KNEW IT!! Go look at some of my previous posts, where I've said that Colbert and Stewart are not going to use their superpac against Ron because they freaking like him.

This is probably the first prediction I made about this presidential race. This just made my YEAR!!!!

 

[Pauls' Revere]

The joke about Ron Paul was actually funny and they were all in stitches. I laughed as well. At the end, he said positive things about Ron Paul that were very genuine.

Yes, and the subtle message is that once you understand Ron Paul you understand how we can build wealth in this country.

 

[Revolution9]

I love Colbert, but I don't see what was particularly funny about that specific joke.

Wikipedia entry on plot...

"In order to make himself appear more important, a miller lied to a king, telling him that his daughter could spin straw into gold. The king called for the girl, shut her in a tower room with straw and a spinning wheel, and demanded that she spin the straw into gold by morning, for three nights, or be executed (other versions have the king threatening to lock her up in a dungeon forever). She had given up all hope, when an impish creature appeared in the room and spun straw into gold for her in return for her necklace, then again the following night for her ring. On the third night, when she had nothing with which to reward him, the strange creature spun straw into gold for a promise that the girl's first-born child would become his.
The king was so impressed that he married the miller's daughter, but when their first child was born, the imp returned to claim his payment: "Now give me what you promised". The queen was frightened and offered him all the wealth she had if she could keep the child. The imp refused but finally agreed to give up his claim to the child if the queen could guess his name in three days. At first she failed, but before the final night, her messenger discovered the imp's remote mountain cottage and, unseen, overheard the imp hopping about his fire and singing. While there are many variations in this song, the 1886 translation by Lucy Crane reads:
Today do I bake, to-morrow I brew,The day after that the queen's child comes in;And oh! I am glad that nobody knewThat the name I am called is Rumpelstiltskin!"[SUP][1]"
[/SUP]
So it was clever in that it called them out on not "knowing his name". And that if they did he would teach them how to spin fiat "hay" into real "gold"..i.e..if he became President there would be a gold standard of sound money but they have to speak his name...The first born child is the nomination and subsequent Presidency, so within the joke is subtle sarcasm, a strike at the panelists, an evocative image of RP as an imp who can turn hay into gold as well as their narrative into pwnage and is a major cognitive loaded truth bomb. The laughs were the results of that cognitive dissonance taking many new tangents in their constructs and they couldn't contain the neurological overload. Great stuff.

Rev9

 

[1000-points-of-fright]

So it was clever in that it called them out on not "knowing his name". And that if they did he would teach them how to spin fiat "hay" into real "gold"..i.e..if he became President there would be a gold standard of sound money but they have to speak his name...The first born child is the nomination and subsequent Presidency, so within the joke is subtle sarcasm, a strike at the panelists, an evocative image of RP as an imp who can turn hay into gold as well as their narrative into pwnage and is a major cognitive loaded truth bomb. The laughs were the results of that cognitive dissonance taking many new tangents in their constructs and they couldn't contain the neurological overload. Great stuff.

The total amount of thought that went into that joke was probably "Ron Paul is a goofy little guy who likes gold."

 

[Liberty4life]

So it was clever in that it called them out on not "knowing his name". And that if they did he would teach them how to spin fiat "hay" into real "gold"..i.e..if he became President there would be a gold standard of sound money but they have to speak his name...The first born child is the nomination and subsequent Presidency, so within the joke is subtle sarcasm, a strike at the panelists, an evocative image of RP as an imp who can turn hay into gold as well as their narrative into pwnage and is a major cognitive loaded truth bomb. The laughs were the results of that cognitive dissonance taking many new tangents in their constructs and they couldn't contain the neurological overload. Great stuff.

Rev9

*****

 

[papitosabe]

So it was clever in that it called them out on not "knowing his name". And that if they did he would teach them how to spin fiat "hay" into real "gold"..i.e..if he became President there would be a gold standard of sound money but they have to speak his name...The first born child is the nomination and subsequent Presidency, so within the joke is subtle sarcasm, a strike at the panelists, an evocative image of RP as an imp who can turn hay into gold as well as their narrative into pwnage and is a major cognitive loaded truth bomb. The laughs were the results of that cognitive dissonance taking many new tangents in their constructs and they couldn't contain the neurological overload. Great stuff.

Rev9

boy, am i dumb..

so watching it again, Joe was the only one that got it..the others just laughed cuz they saw Joe laughing but did not get it either..so I don't feel so bad...

 

[randomname]

It was a reference to Rumpelstiltskin.

heh