Buy the Book, Buy the Book

In a real change from tradition, when the show started, the audience chanted, "Buy the book. Buy the book. Buy the book. Buy the book. Buy the book. Buy the book."

Nah, I'm just pulling your leg. They chanted "Stephen. Stephen. Stephen..." as usual. However, the reason I'm saying this is that Stephen's latest best seller (of course it will be a best seller) went on sale on October 2. So, go out and buy "America Again: Re-Becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't", or just go over to Colbert Nation and you can order it there.

Stephen explained to his younger viewers just exactly what a "book"is. "A book is a blog for people with attention spans." Okay. Now I'm offended. I am writing this blog. And you should be offended too, because you are reading this blog. I doubt that any of us have short attention spans. In fact, I am so offended I am not going to buy his book - today. I will wait until tomorrow. That sends a very clear message to Stephen. I hope he has learned from this whole unpleasant episode.

But anyway, Stephen reminded us that there are only 35 shopping days until the election, so there's a good reason to buy the book. The Koch Brothers are smart. They bought their candidate early. Buy the book. Buy the book. It makes great gifts for friends and family.

Coming up this Sunday, because of a law passed in 1954, (wherein churches can't be politically active), a whole gaggle of preachers, or is it a flock of preachers... no that's the people in the pews, so yeah, gaggle of preachers are going to give a sermon and get all political just to irk the IRS. Mike Huckabee calls it Pulpit Freedom Sunday. Wow, they are going to preach and then violate the law by endorsing one of the candidates, either Mitt Romney or Not Obama. They'll record their sermons and then send them to the IRS.

Here to speak to the issue is none other than Dr. Jim Garlow. He explained that he wants freedom of speech. Stephen explained to him that he wants in on the sweet deal to have his speech subsidized, tax free!, by the government. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin's names were dropped and yet they weren't men enough to come on the show like Dr. Jim Garlow was. Stephen explained many reasons why he agrees with the pastor. For one thing, Stephen has always supported Mitt Romney, but it is in conflict with his (Stephen's) Catholic faith. He (Romney) is in a cult, he is an apostate heretic, and therefore should not hold the office of President.

There was a little bit of awkwardness when the pastor questioned whether Stephen was a preacher. Duh. His congregation is sitting right there. Double Duh.

Stephen believes there is not enough politics in our religion. If his preacher says vote for a certain candidate and the candidate loses, Stephen knows he's got a loser God. Or if the preacher is corrupt, Stephen knows his God is false and he can move on to another God. Amen brother.

This discussion was very helpful. Yahweh surely is pleased.

Everything to be changed!

Wednesday is the first debate. Everyone says the debates could change everything. The Romney Campaign is heaping praise on the ability of of President Obama to speak, to debate, to thrill audiences. The only defense available to Mitt Romney is Zingers. He has been practicing ever since August.

Additional punctuation is needed for tonight's guest, Jorge Ramos. Stephen assured us that he will begin every question with an upside down question mark. First question was that age-old conundrum, Hispanic or Latino. Jorge Ramos told him that it is sort of an east coast, west coast thing. Hispanic on the east coast and Latino on the west coast. It's not mandatory or written in stone, but probably similar to pop vs. soda debate.

Polls have been consistently giving Mitt Romney about 21% of the Hispanic vote even though his Mitt Romney's father was born in Mexico. The two discussed the two candidates and self deportation. Jorge Ramos has talked with thousands of immigrants and none of them have said they will self deport. Part of the reason, a big part, of why the immigrants are here is because people in the United States hire them to care for young children, to do the yard work, to build houses, etc. Stephen and Jorge Ramos went on to talk about George W. Bush who got about 44% of the Hispanic vote. Jorge Ramos said that George W. Bush was the first American president who thought that he spoke Spanish. Stephen reminded Jorge Ramos that George W. Bush thought he spoke English too.