• jeremy

  

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  Re: rushkoff on colbert

  Thu, July 16, 2009 - 12:27 PM

  it's funny, but this idea of spending money is good for the economy never struck me until Rushkoff said it... I was always like duh, of course I'll spend money, I need food and gas and occasionally beer (okay, often beer) and sometimes movies and new shoes.
  But when you contextualize it like he does it's just down right creepy that people actually buy into that bullshit.

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    Re: rushkoff on colbert

    Thu, July 16, 2009 - 1:03 PM

    i totally expected him to go off on the shrub's morning after 9/11 pep talk...spending is patriotic! wal-mart is terrorism proof! bundle up the kids and credit cards, get out there and spend, spend, SPEND!
    
    but he didn't.

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      Re: rushkoff on colbert

      Thu, July 16, 2009 - 2:02 PM

      I'm absolutely positive though his book won't gloss over that. I'm actually more surprised he didn't call Obama and his advisers to the mat for this current round of economic crisis and stimulus; basically propping up the pillars of failed capitalist greed. Then again those pillars just might own his publishers...

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        Re: rushkoff on colbert

        Thu, July 16, 2009 - 2:14 PM

        i swear i've seen him hit that online already...
        
        i want a leisurely, full course dinner with this man in the adjoining chair. with ritalin spritzers and cigars in the lounge afterwards. i never get tired of him.

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      • • Trixie

          

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          Re: rushkoff on colbert

          Thu, July 16, 2009 - 6:17 PM

          Rushkoff was ~okay~ but Colbert was fuckin' on FIRE!! Yeow!!!
          
          I saw this on one of those late-night TV ads for gold:
          
          "BUY GOLD!! IT'S NEVER WORTH NOTHING!!"
          
          oh shit.

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            Re: rushkoff on colbert

            Thu, July 16, 2009 - 6:37 PM

            and by "nothing" we mean "until things are so bad we're cutting each other's throats for half a bottle of dasani".
            
            good times.
            
            colbert has just steadily ramped up for years and years now. i'd love to see the pie chart of people who get him vs. people who don't.

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          • • Trixie

              

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              Re: rushkoff on colbert

              Thu, July 16, 2009 - 6:44 PM

              re: Cobert ramping up.
              
              I KNOOOW! I was only mildly impressed by his first few episodes. I figured his schtick would run out and he would flop.
              
              I now think he is one of our generation's noblest men and greatest geniuses.
              
              present company excepted.

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                Re: rushkoff on colbert

                Wed, September 2, 2009 - 10:48 PM

                or would that be included?

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