Yesterday, in the United States House of Representatives, the number of jokers usually there  increased by one.

Appearing in his role as a Comedy Central news commentator, Stephen Colbert was invited to the House hearing to share his “vast” knowledge, drawn from spending a single day on a New York farm as a guest of the United Farm Workers.

The union launched its “Take Our Jobs” campaign to back up its claim that few Americans would do the work of farm laborers, the vast majority of whom are in the U.S. illegally. Only seven people accepted the jobs, the union claims. 

Who did they ask?

Colbert actually was there at the invitation of subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.  And, after asking him to leave initially, Rep. John Conyers later gave him the go-ahead, apparently hoping that the so-called comedian’s performance would counter the testimony of a political science professor who said illegal immigrants were competing with black and Hispanic citizens for jobs.

Colbert performed his pretentious routine, demanding that lawmakers do something about the agriculture industry’s dependence on immigrant labor.

Lord, how I miss Red Skelton and Flip Wilson.

Colbert opined:

I’m not a fan of the government doing anything.  But I’ve got to ask, Why isn’t the government doing anything?

Colbert’s humor drew laughter from the audience and several Democrats on the subcommittee. But most of the Republicans were not entertained.

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa said:

Maybe we should be spending less time watching Comedy Central and more time considering all the real jobs that are out there.

 At the close of the hearing, Colbert dropped his TV persona and turned serious, claiming that he was using his celebrity to bring attention to farm labor because “these seem to be the least of my brothers.”

Colbert said:

Right now migrant workers suffer and have no rights.

It might be because they are in our country illegally, Colbert.

By the way, this lame comedy routine cost us American Taxpayers $125,000, due to the cost of holding a committee hearing.

While we’re on the subject of Liberals, television, and the American people, let’s talk about cable news.

Everyone knows who the leader in cable news is, it’s Fox.  Their overwhelming dominance of the industry can be contributed to the leadership of Roger Ailes.

Just as Ailes has succeeded, others have failed.  Yesterday, it was announced that the heads of CNN and MSNBC have been shown the door.

Jonathan Klein, the president of the rapidly tanking CNN/U.S. cable channel, is being replaced by Ken Jautz, the head of the tabloid-oriented sister channel HLN, the company said Friday.

The change is effective immediately.  Klein was fired earlier this week by his boss, Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide. According to Klein,  Walton “told me they wanted to restructure things this way, and thank you very much, and good luck.”

Klein was in charge of CNN for nearly six years.  During that time, he tried to convince the public that the Liberal-viewpoint that they were hearing from his news channel was actually a “Moderate” viewpoint and that CNN was actually the news channel that was “fair and balanced”. 

The American public did not believe it.

The timing of Klein’s firing shocked CNN employees because the channel, currently ranked third in the prime time ratings behind Fox News and MSNBC,  is about to undergo a reinvention that he organized. The commentators Eliot Spitzer  (Client 9) and Kathleen Parker (noted Faux Conservative pundit) are scheduled to replace a news program at 8 p.m. next month, and the talent show judge and journalist Piers Morgan will replace Larry King three months after that.

It’s brilliant programming decisions like those that caused Klein to be “future endeavored”.

Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal, e-mailed the company’s employees on Friday morning that he would step down from his position upon the completion of the takeover of NBC by Comcast.

The fate of  Zucker, the longest-serving senior manager at NBC, had been the subject of a lot of rumors since Comcast agreed in December to purchase 51 percent of NBCU from its long-time corporate owner, General Electric. The deal is expected to close at the end of the year, following regulatory approval.

Zucker’s, who is 45, fate was sealed after a meeting two weeks ago with Steve Burke, Comcast’s chief operating officer.

According to Zucker:

We had both gotten to the same place.  He made it clear that they wanted to move on at the close of the deal and I was completely comfortable with that.

Uh Huh.

In his e-mail to the staff he spoke about the “ups and downs” the company had experienced. Zucker said he did not detect “any particular reason” beyond the broad desire for new leadership for Comcast’s inclination to make a change.

I dunno, Jeff.  How about the whole Leno/Conan fiasco? Or the unwatchable news channel known as MSNBC? Or (shudder) the Rosie O’Donnell Variety show?

In their zeal to demonstrate their intellectual superiority and indoctrinate the American people with their enlightened ideology, Liberal politicians and the sycophants in the Main Stream Media have grossly underestimated the discernment, patriotism, and moral fiber of the public.  As we head into the Midterm Elections, they are all beginning to reap what they sowed.

Klein and Zucker should go to California and become farm laborers.  They might actually be good at that.