This is beyond cute. Would you work on his campaign? Or would you favor another celebrity for president? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...e69e4b05c37bb769320?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 COMEDY 06/24/2017 01:08 am ET Stephen Colbert Announces Possible Run For U.S. Presidency On Russian TV Amid vodka shots, he invites anyone in the audience to “please let me know” if they want to work on his campaign. By Mary Papenfuss Candidate Colbert? “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert popped up on the other side of the world Friday night to appear on a Russian late-night show — “Evening Urgant” — to throw down vodka shots in a liquid version of Russian roulette. Then Colbert got to the good part. He announced he’s considering a run for the U.S. presidency in 2020. Why not? If a reality show real estate developer with no political experience can win the White House, Colbert could very well have a shot at the top job. Just imagine. “I am here in Russia … to announce that I am considering a run for president in 2020, and I thought it would be better to cut out the middle man and just tell the Russians myself,” Colbert said to wild applause. Colbert added, in an apparent dig at possible collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign crew and the Kremlin: “If anyone would like to work on my campaign in an unofficial capacity, please just let me know.” He finished up: “A strong America, a strong Russia!” Colbert is only the most recent celeb to announce he may be throwing his hat into the ring. Last month on “Saturday Night Live,” host Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Tom Hanks teamed up in a tongue-in-cheek revelation that they’re planning to run as well. “I didn’t think I was qualified at all, but now I’m actually worried that I’m too qualified,” quipped Johnson. (A national poll actually suggested that Johnson could potentially beat Donald Trump if he ran as a Democrat in the 2020 presidential election.) It’s really happening. #JohnsonHanks2020 https://t.co/OywA29lUoT #SNLFinale pic.twitter.com/QqYO58YzLu — Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) May 21, 2017 Colbert’s no political neophyte. He announced in 2007 as his conservative “Colbert Report” character that he would run for president, and he kept up the claim for about a month. He finally dropped his plans because he said filing for the Republican primary would be too costly. Colbert is in Russia to work on material for an upcoming segment of “The Late Show,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. He has promised Trump that if James Comey tapes exists, he’ll bring them back from Russia. Trump has finally admitted that he has no such tapes but hedged that they might exist ... somewhere. ...whether there are “tapes” or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017 .@realDonaldTrump Don’t worry, Mr. President. I’m in Russia. If the “tapes” exist, I’ll bring you back a copy! pic.twitter.com/v5flvAMtFY — Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) June 22, 2017
Sure, it wouid be great. Colbert would be a Trillion times better than Trump. Then again, the average homeless bum panhandling would be better than Trump.
The homophobe racist Stephen Colbert has become just another 3rd rate actor and partisan hack desperate for any attention.
Another celebrity? You think that the problem with Trump is his celebrity? No, the problem is that he is a thieving swindler scumbag.
He is your president, thanks in part to Democrats spewing out hatred as found in your messages. Thank you for doing your part in Trump's victory.
Colbert lacks originality too. He claimed he was going to run in the last election. Nothing new or creative left in him.
I think back in 2008, he ran for a brief time halfheartedly. Considering Drumpf can be President, I don't think it would be wrong to at the bear minimum to at least hear him out. His seems like an intelligent guy. Stranger things have happened. Besides Drumpf, remember the Alvin Greene story?
Based on that LOW BAR: After Trump's election--it is clear that ANYONE (even a homeless bum who has attained the age of 35) can be POTUS.
That has ALWAYS been the case since it was written into the Constitution - Article II, Section I: "No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States." Were you under the impression that only politicians could run?
If not Colbert, I hope he talks up Senator Al Franken . Because he's good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it - people like him. Now that would be one helluva campaign acknowledging his SNL days. Back when SNL writers and performers used drugs and was funny. Not just pandering. Moi r > g Stop Creeping ism Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic, regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.
Why not? The MSM has already decided which side they are on and it's not the side of Geographic America. Let him run, nobody will care.
Colbert would not the be the first TV comic to run for president. Comic Pat Paulsen--on the old Smothers Brothers Show--ran a mock campaign for president in 1968. Colbert is stealing someone material from a dead guy.
