[h3]Ten Commandments Congressman can't name the Ten Commandments [/h3](//vny!://westmoreland.house.gov/UploadedPhotos/Thumbnails/025c8572-4754-4aad-b1fa-cbbdec057945.jpg)
In this video, Stephen Colbert [em style="font-weight: bold;"]nails[/em] Georgia Representative Lynn Westmoreland, a Congressman who's co-sponsored a bill to require the display of the Ten Commandments in the House of Reps and the Senate. After bantering with Westmoreland for a couple minutes, Colbert says, "What are the Ten Commandments?"
Stephen Colbert: What are the Ten Commandments? Lynn Westmoreland: What are all of them? [/p] SC: Yes. [/p] LW: You want me to name them all? [/p] SC: Yes. [/p] LW: Uhhh. [/p] LW: Ummmm. Don't murder. Don't lie. Don't steal. Ummmmm. [/p] LW: I can't name them all.
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Yeah, I saw this the other night. I'm not sure I could name all of them, but I know I could get more than this guy. I noted that he totally left out the seventh Commandment. Wonder if that's ignorance or a matter of convenience?
For those of you who didn't go to Sunday school, the seventh is the one we had to have explained to us at that tender age because we had no idea what the word "adultery" meant.
As a very young child I was led to believe that it referred to milk that had been watered-down!
Yeah, I've gotten into the habit over the years of referring my preference for black coffee as "unadulterated".
Imagine a few years ago when I offered to pick up coffee for a co-worker I was pretty sure made a hobby of messing around on his wife—and I asked if he adulterated his (meaning his coffee, of course). To his shocked expression I responded, "or do you take it black like me"?
For some reason, he was still speechless. Goodness knows what was going through that man's mind.
Well, that little anecdote almost puts you in the same league as Dorothy Parker. Brilliant!
Why thank you, Gopher—could I but aspire to one-tenth that woman's brilliance I would consider myself fortunate indeed.
These days, I just think that the bar has become so low in our culture that it's easier to coin the bon mot. That's why Stewart and Colbert can skewer so many ignoramus politicians, after all.
No the best at it is Ali G. He basically got one congressman to say something anti semitic once and got an entire group of rednecks to sing 'kill all the jews' in a bar once.
Bravo, Sascha Baron Cohen!
(Back to the game . . . )
Yeah, that was Cohen as "Borat" singing "Throw the Jew Down the Well", and getting all the rednecks to join in, which they did, joyously. Got them to show their real face. Funniest part is, if you throw somebody down a well, you've poisoned the water supply.
Here it is. Cohen is a f*cking genius!
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