Stephen Colbert Super PAC Releases Ad In Support Of NBA Owners (VIDEO)

Stephen Colbert is out with a new advertisement focused on the ongoing NBA lockout. Colbert, who recently won approval from the Federal Election Commission to set up his Colbert Super PAC, used the newly-formed organization to jokingly throw his support behind the NBA owners in the league's labor dispute.

In the ad, entitled "Foul Balls," Colbert paints a grim picture of a country without NBA basketball. An ominous voice-over explains that "the NBA players will stop at nothing to get all the cheese." The narration continues, "With unemployment at an all-time high, the players are demanding more millions."

Eventually, the spot takes on a much more hopeful tone when the voice-over says, "the NBA owners are on your side. They're working hard to save the season, so Americans don't have to watch hockey."

The video ends with a plea to viewers: "Call your local sports radio show and yell….we want our NBA."

Check out the video above (via Comedy Central)

Comments

[All Seeing Guy]

05:21 PM on 10/10/2011

Chocolate Salty...

[westytx]

04:39 PM on 10/10/2011

Colbert had a hard job satarizing this dillema. Get the Republicans to side with "working jobs" of the NBA players (they are a UNION, that awful,dreaded word) or side with the Owners who want their TARP-like agreement which QUARANTEES them a profit no matter WHAT they pay in salaries. Hmmm....I think the Republicans will protect the owners. After all, next to Bank of America and JP Morgan/Chase, who else has that much money?

[Daniel Zook]

01:51 PM on 10/10/2011

Wait a minute. Why is the NBA demanding more money to give to their players because of our high unemployment rates? So they want more money while we still don't have jobs??? Gee I wish I could whine about not getting paid enough when I'm already getting paid millions to play a game and have everyone else not have an income.

[DarkandStormyNight]

01:43 PM on 10/10/2011

Colbert takes no prisoners. He is the dark night of snarks against hypocrisy regardless of where it comes from.

[GeorgeBurnsWasRight]

12:16 PM on 10/10/2011

Political ads have become so removed from reality that it's getting difficult to satirize them.

[sackman]

12:14 PM on 10/10/2011

Job creators my a..

[Estreet1964]

12:42 PM on 10/10/2011

That's just completely un-true.

Just look at tall the jobs they create in Mexico, Indonesia and China. And then they wonder why sales are down and Americans are not buying the stuff they make like they used to.

[TruEngineHearing]

02:49 PM on 10/10/2011

...yeah, they start to wonder, but then they suddenly remember, "I forgot, I don't need no stinking gringos - most of my workers - and my customers, are in other countries!"

So, the middle-class is losing even that card that we used to play so effectively.

[Nick Lahanas]

12:07 PM on 10/10/2011

Looks weirdly like the one Karl Rove's PAC put out about Obama supposedly "raising your taxes".

[wonderYrednow]

11:28 AM on 10/10/2011

F'ng BRILLIANT !

[DarkandStormyNight]

01:37 PM on 10/10/2011

Absofnlutely!

[wonderYrednow]

02:13 PM on 10/10/2011

Said it, wed it, bred it and led IT !

[Shashi0224]

11:14 AM on 10/10/2011

The problem with most sports is that the media focuses so much attention on them, as if they matter.

[WOODSTOCKER60]

09:43 AM on 10/10/2011

.HE HAS NOW SURPASSED JOHNNY CARSON AS "MR. TONUGE-IN-CHEEK".........

[InsideBrooklyn]

09:43 AM on 10/10/2011

Commenters and posters, you need to familiarize yourself with satire. Colbert as usual pokes everyone . . .he's not taking sides. . . . Colbert is the sharpest satirist with a national audience to come along in a long time.

[DarkandStormyNight]

01:39 PM on 10/10/2011

LOVE Colbert. He's so good, he might even fool himself ;-)

[ahoyhoy]

02:27 PM on 10/10/2011

Sometimes it's the JESTERS who speak the clearest truth. As it's always been. God bless Stephen Colbert! f/f

[Massconfusion]

09:39 AM on 10/10/2011

Stephen, you are brilliant!

[nixthetrix]

02:41 AM on 10/10/2011

That's just tacky . Colbert broke his funny bone ? And the FEC let him form a super pac ? What is this country coming to ?

[brianwjones]

09:19 AM on 10/10/2011

If they let Palin and Newt form a Super PAC, he's more realistic than they are.

[DarkandStormyNight]

01:39 PM on 10/10/2011

For sure. No contest.

[Anthony Joseph]

09:54 AM on 10/10/2011

Pretty sure him forming a super pac was just him pointing out how ludicrous they are.

[Shashi0224]

11:11 AM on 10/10/2011

That point is lost on most republicans.....they just don't get it if it isn't spoon fed to them in the form of slogans and easy to grasp hate.

[tinarm]

12:21 PM on 10/10/2011

Yes, and yet the still don't seem to get it. Heck, republicans watch his show and think he is talking for them. They just don't get it at all. Anyone with a brain should be able to see, and hear him laughing at them.

[larmarch5]

01:53 AM on 10/10/2011

I don't care if they don't have a season. I like college BB better anyway.

[wonderYrednow]

11:34 AM on 10/10/2011

Having been courtside for dozens of the UCLA games during the streak, including the loss to Notre Dame and for several of the streak by the Lakers way back in the early 1970's, I have to say I would miss either if there was none to see....

[NoSandwiches]

11:33 PM on 10/09/2011

I just can't be a fan of a professional team. They are a business. I don't root for WalMart or Fred Meyer or Godfather's Pizza, why should I root for a Basketball business just because it is located in my town? And why do I as a taxpayer, have to fund their stadium? Love sports? Root for your local public school team. The players make outrageous amounts of money because it is a business. They have short careers. They peak and fade away. They are used, traded, and booed as well as cheered for. Whatever. Think I'll call into a local sports show and rant anyway....