NBC's 'Today' Touts Colbert Spoof Calling Mitt Romney a Serial Killer
At the top of the 8 a.m. ET hour of NBC's Today on Monday, fill-in news anchor Tamron Hall promoted a fake campaign attack ad created by comedian Stephen Colbert which argues that if Mitt Romney believes corporations are people, "Then Mitt Romney is a serial killer. He's Mitt the Ripper." The ad follows with a woman screaming. [Audio available here]
Hall explained to viewers: "Colbert is using his fake bid for the White House to call attention to unlimited spending by anonymous super-PACs." After the news brief, fill-in co-host Natalie Morales declared: "I love Colbert. What he gets away with." Weatherman Al Roker joked: "He's a great American." Co-host Savannah Guthrie argued: "...it's only slightly more over the top than some of the ads we've seen." [View video after the jump]
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Here is a transcript of the January 16 news brief:
8:05AM ET
TAMRON HALL: And this political attack ad spoof by Stephen Colbert's super-PAC is a top search on Google
JOHN LITHGOW: If Mitt Romney really believes...
MITT ROMNEY: Corporations are people, my friend.
LITHGOW: Then Mitt Romney is a serial killer. He's Mitt the Ripper.
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
HALL: Colbert is using his fake bid for the White House to call attention to unlimited spending by anonymous super-PACs. It is now 8:05. Back to Savannah, Natalie and Al.
NATALIE MORALES: I love Colbert.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: I know.
MORALES: What he gets away with.
AL ROKER: He's a great American.
GUTHRIE: I was going to say, it's only slightly more over the top than some of the ads we've seen.
MORALES: Exactly.
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What's Obama Super PAC called?
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:31am.
The US Treasury, I suppose?
bkeyser,
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:46am.
Main Stream Media
Here in NC our governor has a
Submitted by ricklail on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:53am.
Here in NC our governor has a super PAC. They call it the Department of Transportation. Anytime she needed some campaign cash she dialed up the heads of the DOT an viola there it was.
BK, I do believe one of his Super PAC's is
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 6:42pm.
called Hamas, another is Hezbollah. After all, that's why the security feature on his donation page was disabled back in 08.
Isn't it amazing what NBC has
Submitted by kg on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:46am.
Isn't it amazing what NBC has to resort to in their effort to create news. Of course they refuse to report on Obama's job performance.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
too bad viewers dont love him
Submitted by merly1 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:46am.
What's he get, about 1 million in the land of 312 million.
I think even god-awful "Work it" was getting a few million and was instantly cancelled
Talk about irony ;o)
These media talking heads really are so out of touch--> it is stunning........
stupid is as stupid does
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:47am.
Liberals have an advantage over Conservatives. Liberals have no problem with comedians as spokesmen for their positions. Tearing down normal Americans is a big joke to them.
It's all funny
Submitted by Franksam on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:02pm.
Last week I got into a discussion with a liberal young woman who thinks Bill Maher is funny. We talked about the 'Lyin' Ass Bitch' intro that Michelle Bachman received on Jimmy A-hole's show. She liked it. I asked her if she had heard joke wherein Hillary is compared to a used feminine sanitary product and she thought I was being gross.
Why don't they air
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:54am.
some kind of spoof on Obama? Here's a few things I just made up that they could try:
1. A skit about Obama buying and using illegal drugs as a yout'.
2. Meeting a married couple that advocated and actually participated in building and deploying bombs for the purpose of terrorism.
3. Attend a church for many years, listening to a white hating, America hating, Jew hating preacher.
4. Surround himself with outright socialist and communist radicals.
5. .....what's that? He has actually done all thos......sorry. Never mind.
Did you see the link Obama is now attending church
Submitted by merly1 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:02pm.
Must be an election year.......owebama is an endless parody, but the media loyalists refuse to
even barely scratch the surface of his hypocrisy. Genesis's Land of Confusion video should be redone with
Obama's face-->I mean his supporters must be 100% baffled: church is back in, Gitmo going, Patriot act, warrantless droning, rogue Afghan kill teams, Taliban bodies approved as urinals, 5 trillion new federal debt, no jobs, etc etc and etc.
I think Mitt should run with
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:59am.
I think Mitt should run with this! What conservative doesn't want to take a rip saw to entire bloated bureaucracies of the federal government?
great bumper sticker
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:10pm.
concise and to the point...
"FIRE OBAMA"
I'm "clicking"
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 3:57pm.
The LIKE button!
So true!
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:06pm.
Fire Obama. I'm Mitt Romney, and I approve this message.
Works for me.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Serial Killer? That these
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:08pm.
Serial Killer?
That these baby-killing devils fail to see the irony is not a shock.
Libs
Submitted by angelann1 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:24pm.
Liberals have no ethics and know no shame!!
by their own double standards
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:38pm.
ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN and especially MSNBC are all superPACs.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
mass murderers are those who support-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 3:49pm.
abortions.
Baby killers.