November 7, 2011 — Niall Ferguson

EPISODE NUMBER: 8017 (November 7, 2011)
GUESTS: Niall Ferguson | Trevor Potter
SEGMENTS: Colbert Super PAC- Issue Ads | Colbert Super PAC- Issue Ads - Trevor Potter | Blood in the Water - Larry Taylor’s Anti-Semetic Slur
SUIT REPORT: Navy Suit | Striped Grey Shirt | Mustard Tie
VIDEOS: Monday, November 7, 2011

It’s becoming more and more difficult not to just sit back and say “Wow” with the continued development of the Super PAC. How Stephen and TCR crew run so closely to the actual, delicate legal events unfolding in the FEC, illuminating, but not interfering in the process, is at times breathtaking.

We at CNH applaud you, Stephen, as well as the writers and staff, for continuing to amaze us with this organization. We are not even well progressed into the campaign yet, and Karl Rove is already hard at work at his master craft of media spin. But anything Karl can do Stephen can do better.

Be sure to check out once again the new Super PAC ad featuring friend of the show (and non-coordinating candidate, nudge, nudge) Buddy Roemer.

*Post Updated*

Nice to see the new “Bigot-o-Tron 9000” being fired up for its maiden voyage. Somewhere, Roger Ailes is getting inspired and making set changes in Fox News studios. Just a joke, haha. Ha.

The interview with Mr. Ferguson became hilariously contentious, with Stephen’s disdain for British imperialism clashing with Ferguson’s alarming view that the West’s salad days are over.

Be sure to share your thoughts in the comments!

Quotables

From CSPAC-Issue Ads:

Wow! Who is going to dislike Perry after that ad? I am pretty sure that old lady is Barbara Bush, whispering, “I wish you were my son.”

I am sure they are not coordinating on that tiny island there. I am sure they are doing something innocent…like hunting man.

It turns out, I did not know this, that $600,000 is more than $240,000. So I may have overbid on that rare penny where Lincoln’s head was printed upside down.

In this case, the Democrats are not a really political party, something I think we’ve all suspected.

Of course, every Lewis and Clark needs their Sacagawea; in this case, it’s Karl Rove. Who is clearly a sack of something.

From CSPAC- Trevor Potter:

Just because someone is in my ad doesn’t mean that we are coordinating with their campaign. (Stephen then goes on to describe in slow, deliberate detail sexual intercourse.)

As long as at the end I scream “I approve this message!!!”

Trevor Potter: You like to have these conversations on national television?

On basic cable!

TP: There may not be a majority to approve his request.

I understand that you might have some sort of ethics or values. Is there anything we can do to get rid of those?

TP: A little more money maybe.

So you are a lawyer.

I want Karl to win. What can I do to help him?

TP: Well, you could submit a letter to the FEC urging them to approve his request, explaining why it would be a good thing for other Super PACs like yours.

Now this gets sent to the FEC, and this is then attached to [Rove’s] request.

TP: It would be part of the public record, and when they’re looking at his request, they’d be reading your comments.

When they consider that case, my comments will be part of that case.

TP: That’s true.

Wow. You’re welcome, Karl.

From the new Super PAC ad:

No money was harmed in the making of this ad.

From the Larry Taylor - Blood in the Water segment:

Release the tapes. I want to see the chunks of Colmes he’s got up there.

The latest Republican found bobbing in a pool of his own chum….

If a Republican wants to criticize in a way that’s acceptable, don’t say “jew them down.” Say “muslim them down,” or “gay them up,” or “mexican them sideways.”

I am not defending what Rep. Taylor, but there is no need for the media to pile up on him like a bunch of Cherokees on a bottle of firewater.

Welcome to the “Bigot-o-Tron 9000,” where nothing is black and white; it’s “negro” and “cracker.”

Now Larry Taylor will be represented by this photo of him.

The right side of the brian houses the ethnic stereotype lobe, where the left side contains the knowledge that there is a camera pointed at him. Apparently, the connection between these two sides was at some point severed. One imagines during an industrial accident, where, let’s say, a saw blade, went out of control and penetrated his skull, cutting the corpus collosum. When he said the probably bad term, “jew him down,” over here, this side didn’t know and could not stop it from emerging from his mouth, whereupon it entered his left ear, thus triggering the medulla “I f***ed up alotta.”

Also, I know how to draw Snoopy. And that is the miracle of biology.

You see, he inadvertently used a phrase that many people find offensive, meaning that some people enjoy that phrase, and he simply assumed he was talking to those people.

Interview Quotables

Niall Ferguson: I am not a doom cryer.

I say you are a doom cryer, you say that we can pull ourselves out a death spiral in the West, but that is unlikely that we will.

NF: Yeah.

The question is when will we all be locked in a factory making iPads for Chinese children?

NF: So the U.S. economy has been the biggest since about 1872, and the IMF says it will be overtaken by China 5 years from now. 2016.

(Audience gasps, groans.)

What if, and I am not suggesting this, what if we attack them? We still make weapons, my friend. What if we blow them up real good? I would be a monster to suggest that, but, if?

NF: This thought did cross Douglas MacArthur’s mind during the Korean War. I doubt that we’ll do it now, for the obvious reason that we owe them about 2 trillion dollars.

That’s the perfect reason to attack them. Eventually they are going to come for their money, and we’re gonna say, you and what army?

(Interview concludes with bickering over the true origins of Charleston, (South) Carolina.)

NF: If we [Brits] didn’t come the Spainards would have come, and we would be having this conversation in Spanish. So you do owe us something.

Gracias.