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Stephen Colbert Gets Cold Reaction From South Carolina Mothers At CafeMom Town Hall (VIDEO)

Posted: 01/16/2012 8:03 pm

Comedian Stephen Colbert may be convinced he can run for president in South Carolina, but mothers of the Palmetto State don't appear to agree. At a recent town hall sponsored by mother-centric website CafeMom, South Carolina matriarchs weighed in on the entertainer's upstart bid to shake up the state's Republican primary and decided, rather overwhelmingly, that he should butt out.

Asked by pollster Frank Luntz to describe Colbert, mothers characterized him using such words as "very liberal," "wacky" and "Charleston dandy." The town hall attendees were then asked to respond to a taped statement by Colbert in which he repeated GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's refrain that "people are corporations."

(Watch the entire CafeMom segment above)

Colbert transferred control of his super PAC to his Comedy Central colleague Jon Stewart last week in anticipation of forming of an exploratory committee to investigate a potential presidential run in South Carolina. While state GOP officials have insisted that Colbert's late entrance and the lack of write-in ballots in presidential primaries will make it impossible for him to mount a run, Colbert has remained defiant.

"They say I can't get on the ballot in South Carolina?" he said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it."

Earlier on HuffPost:

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Ann Joyce
Already going to hell, just pumping the gas
06:47 PM on 01/19/2012
and their opinions matter why?
12:49 PM on 01/19/2012
Those mom's love Frank Luntz. He's tubby, he's funny, he's the kind of boy a mom could be proud of. They don't like Stephen Colbert. He's a wise guy who thinks he knows everything. And he talks back. Good moms like Frank.
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valluhree
A progressive in Texas.
12:26 PM on 01/19/2012
And this is relevant because? Do they have a particular impact on anything? I've never even heard of them before.
12:18 PM on 01/19/2012
What was frank lutz doing at a cafemoms townhall mtg? It seems odd.
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Jack Jackson
Life's tough, It's even tougher if you're stupid
10:58 AM on 01/19/2012
time for SC cafe moms to pull there heads out of the sand.
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JrayTo
10:47 AM on 01/19/2012
Could someone please tell these south carolina moms that their cousins are "off limits".
09:47 AM on 01/19/2012
daaaaaaaang they really ripped him a new one ....
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phantom power
my patronus is an x-wing
09:31 AM on 01/19/2012
Really, South Carolina? These are your "Mom" representatives? A bunch of Waspy, old white people? I keep thinking to myself "there is no way this state could get any worse" but then I'm proven wrong. Thank you for this insight, Frank, so I know to avoid this state at all cost.
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Zacky Ahmed
Astro-physics, Science, Politics
08:32 AM on 01/19/2012
It is terrifying the staggering amount of ignorance, only one lady made sense
when she got informed about the Super Pac´s power on the politicians.

Everyone else the satire went completely over their head, that sums up the reason
why we are in this mess, these people are seriously gonna vote, for the most powerful man
in the world, they are gonna contribute to that vote.
I might as well drink myself to death now.

Are you kidding me, these people are gonna vote wow !.

We dont like him, when asked why, no one really answers cause the satire went completely over their head. is there anything these moms know ?.
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phantom power
my patronus is an x-wing
09:39 AM on 01/19/2012
The nail was hit on the head when Luntz asked them who Bain is and no one knew.
"Well then, you're not watching the news" These people just aren't smart, so it's no wonder they con't like Colbert.
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Calvin Garner
07:58 AM on 01/19/2012
I have never seen a diverse room of frigid white women before.....
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Rimser
07:02 AM on 01/19/2012
No sense of humor.
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RitaS
05:18 AM on 01/19/2012
"Charleston dandy"

Is this the 20 th or the 21st Century???
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07:20 AM on 01/19/2012
1890. That makes it 19th Century.
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Counterglow
Werner Heisenberg may have been right.
05:06 AM on 01/19/2012
So the same welfare state moms who helped give the world eight long years of George Bush don't like being made to look a bit foolish. Can't blame them. But I can see why they might be especially cold to Stephen Colbert. He's so much smarter than they are.
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02:12 AM on 01/19/2012
Semantics? I'm always up for semantics...

Court reporters should be more careful making summary records of court findings. --Especially if they are former CEO's of...wait for it...corporations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad
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youngrasc
I don't do micro bios.
02:00 AM on 01/19/2012
If he ran in Australia, he'd totally get in.
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sioux01721
03:29 AM on 01/19/2012
Because Australians have a great sense of humour.