Stephen Colbert Takes On Congress, Sarcastically Argues for Farm Workers

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Stephen Colbert Takes On Congress, Sarcastically Argues for Farm Workers

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Stephen Colbert launched a comedy sneak attack on Congress Friday.He submitted serious testimony to a judiciary subcommittee hearing on the issue of farm workers and immigration, but when it was his turn to speak, the talk show host slipped into character as a satirical conservative to make his points in support of more favored status for migrant farm laborers.

"This is America," he told the panel. "I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican," he said. "We do not want immigrants doing this labor."

He tried to enter images from his colonoscopy into the Congressional Record during a riff on how Americans should eat less roughage. Then Colbert recalled his day spent picking vegetables at an upstate New York farm earlier this summer.
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