Stewart-Colbert ’08
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the American financial crisis.
EW: There are a lot of issues in this election. The biggest one right now is the economy.
STEWART: We were in this huge credit crisis, out of money. Then the Fed goes, We’ll give you a trillion dollars, and all of a sudden Wall Street is like, “I can’t believe we got away with it!” Can you imagine if someone said, “I shouldn’t have bought that sports car because it means I can’t have my house,” and the bank just said, “All right, you can have your house. And you know what? Keep the car.” [He throws up his arms joyfully and shouts] “Yeaaaaah, I get to keep the car! Wait, do I have to give the money back?” “No, it doesn’t matter.” “Yeah, I’m gonna get another car! I’m gonna do the same thing the same way, except twice as f—ed up!”Â
COLBERT: The idea that Lehman Brothers doesn’t get any money and AIG does reminds me very much of “Iran is a mortal enemy because they have not achieved a nuclear weapon. But North Korea is a country wecan work with, because they have a nuclear weapon.” The idea is, Get big or go home. How big can you f— up? Can you f— up so bad that you would ruin the world economy? If it’s just 15,000 who are out of jobs, no. You have to actually be a global f—up to get any help.
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September 30th, 2008 at 09:11
YES PLEASE. Or put in Michael Palin and we’re in business. Whatever happened to the Colbert in ’08 campaign?
I miss them on cable.
September 30th, 2008 at 09:47
Seen the Stewart-Colbert ’08 T-shirt yet? (Shameless self-promotion alert: it’s a 2006 entry in my blog.)
http://inrandommode.blogspot.com/2006/10/stewartcolbert-08-t-shirt.html