Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Stephen Colbert's commencement address at Knox College

Stephen Colbert covered a wide variety of topics in his commencement speech, including immigration ...
... And when you enter the workforce, you will find competition from those crossing our all-too-porous borders. Now I know you’re all going to say, “Stephen, Stephen, immigrants built America.” Yes, but here’s the thing—it’s built now. I think it was finished in the mid-70s sometime. At this point it’s a touch-up and repair job. But thankfully Congress is acting and soon English will be the official language of America. Because if we surrender the national anthem to Spanish, the next thing you know, they’ll be translating the Bible. God wrote it in English for a reason! So it could be taught in our public schools. ...

3 Comments:

At 10:30 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just love this man.

 
At 2:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

John Wyclif was accused of heresy in England in the 1380s for having objectionably make the bible accessible to common people by translating it into English. So I figure before he did it the language it was in wasn't English yet. So "God" wrote it in something else. Stephen Colbert also thinks the language around Bangalore is Urdu. He has a language problem.

 
At 12:56 AM, Blogger PeaceBang said...

Anonymous, are you kidding? Have you had your humor impairment checked out lately?

:::shakes head:::

You DO know that Stephen Colbert's entire act is a parody, right? Riiiiight?

 

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