Comments on: Colbert Launches "Don't Be an Ice-Hole" Letter Campaign

By: Sheila Owens

Sheila Owens — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:30:41 +0000

UP YOUR ASS, MATT TOBEY. OUR VANCOUVER OLYMPIC COMMITEE DOSEN'T NEED TO DEAL WITH ALL YOUR SH***. why dont u tell viewers to fax/send ur precious retarded petition to ur own house? u can take them and go up to ur room to read. get a life.

By: proud2be CANADIAN, BABY!!

proud2be CANADIAN, BABY!! — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:25:29 +0000

CANADIANS RUUUUUUUUUUUULLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. cant believe what an ass stephen is. stupid guy has canadian roots, how dumb can u get. and i would rather be canadian than american anyday if i looked at all this colbert crap. and even if i didnt know about all this colbert controversy, id STILL BE CANADIAN!! vancouver 2010 rocks your socks. this campaign thing is worthless. what u gonna do?

By: CANADIAN PRIDE!! ;]

CANADIAN PRIDE!! ;] — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:11:17 +0000

stephen colbert is just mad cause the usa team wasnt allowed to use our oval for skating practice. i dont know the full details to this, but hey. You people wanna go at it this way? Thats pretty sad. but anyway, i dont blame him…if i were an american person, i guess id be pretty touchy bout that too. anyways, just to point out; "Dear Stephen,

You should make sure that the people writing these letters for the campaign are writing them on American-sourced and American-made paper. Otherwise, your viewers may be supporting Canada's pulp and paper industry, which ships thousands of tonnes of pulp and paper products to the U.S. each year. Moreover, they may also contribute to creating more jobs for Canadians by giving more money to the paper industry! Just a thought!
Thank you!
Sincerely,
A polite and concerned Canadian
Posted by Meaghan on November 12, 2009 at 11:55 pm" this is not a canadian, its someone pretending to be to make canadians look bad. GG, nice try. ahahah canadians are wonderful. dont hate. they might be wrong for not letting them skate, they might be right. but u dont know the circumstances, so either side could be right. Dont judge canada like that. VANCOUVER, RANKED THIRD BEST PLACE ON EARTH. ;P BEAST!!!

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By: See you in Vancouver

See you in Vancouver — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:57:44 +0000

I can take a joke as good as anybody else, eh, but this is too pucked up.

But you are right, Mr. Colbert. In all truthiness, we are ready for these Games…

From That Canada Song, my gift to the world, which you can download FREE at the link below:

"Welcome to this house of the Strong and Free
Here in 2010 at the VBC
Let's get started..
S'il vou play
Break the ice with some Canadians, eh?
You better bring your game
When you come to this town
Cause we're gunning for the Gold
And we're gonna get down
Truth be told
We've come ready to play
Make things right in a Canadian way"

Download'er free at
http://thev.ca/artists/mark.htm

Mark Grant – proud Canadian

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:03:21 +0000

Good Idea. Let's not use paper. To Meaghan and other Canadian posters on this website: Dear Canada, Don't Be an Ice-Hole, signed Dane, a Proud Member of the Colbert Nation.

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By: jack ruault

jack ruault — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:53:13 +0000

Stephen Colbert a Canadian?

Canwest News ServiceDecember 3, 2009
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Comedian Stephen Colbert has Canadian roots, according to a new report.Photograph by: Alex Wong, Getty ImagesThe comedian who has labelled Canada "Obama's America" and Canadians "syrup suckers" and "iceholes" may be in store for some self-loathing: Stephen Colbert has Canuck blood.

Colbert, who portrays a satirical, right-wing pundit on The Colbert Report, has ancestors who lived and died north of the border, according to research by Ancestry.ca.

The faux-pundit has been attacking Canada in recent weeks on his show, accusing the Canadian Olympic Committee of not giving the American speedskating team enough access to their training facilities. Colbert is sponsoring the American speedskating team at the 2012 Olympics.

But the joke could be on him. Colbert has maple syrup in his veins.

James Quinn, Stephen's great-great-grandfather on his father's side, was born in Ireland in 1830 and immigrated to Canada. According to his 1851 Census record, Quinn lived and worked as a labourer in Frontenac County near Kingston, Ontario. James' daughter Angeline Quinn married George William Colbert, Stephen's great-grandfather.

Colbert's other Canadian ancestor is Mary Skelton (nee Mary Ann Gurry). Born in Ireland, she is his great-great-grandmother and immigrated to the United States where she would meet her husband Creighton Skelton. It is unclear when she moved across the border, but her death certificate was in Ontario. Skelton passed away on June 29, 1880 in Haldimand County, near the shores of Lake Erie.

Mary and Creighton's daughter Elizabeth Skelton married Hugh Tormey. Their daughter Mary Tormey married James W. Colbert Sr. — Stephen's grandfather.

"As Stephen himself admits, he has little time for facts, logic or information . . . he prefers to feel the truth rather than look it up in historical records," Karen Peterson, marketing director for ancestry.ca, said in a statement. "However, we are confident that if he searches his soul deep down, the truthiness of his Canadian heritage will be too powerful to deny."

Perhaps Colbert will have to tone down his anti-Canadian stance.

"This is the most unsportsmanlike conduct by Canadians since it was discovered that Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay was a moose," Colbert recently declared on his show.

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By: Johnnnymac66

Johnnnymac66 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:06:48 +0000

I printed & mailed your "Dear Canada" letter and then sent copies to my Irish Canadian in-laws. My Irish Canadian wife now has told me I must leave the house forever and go sleep in a dog house with Tiger Woods. On my way to Tiger's, I was thinking of stopping at Perkins for some pie. Which Perkins pie flavor do you think is Tiger's favorite? Please advise…

By: Dennis McCloskey

Dennis McCloskey — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:10:33 +0000

Dear Stephen,
I am the Canadian author of a 2008 biography titled "My Favorite American." You're so vain you probably think this book is about you. It's not. It's aboot…sorry, it's about a pretty, 26-year-old kidney transplant patient from Pennsylvania, Valen Cover, who thinks you're not a very nice man for making fun of Canadians. She has lots of fans in Canada and she thinks your treatment of Canadian ice-holes is cold and heartless. She thinks maybe you need a heart transplant, Mr. COLDbert. I agree, we're nice, polite people so you should just climb back into your little mice hole and cut the cheese, eh? (Sorry, I didn't mean to yell.) But you're all the time sticking your pointy little ski-jump nose in the air and criticizing us up here in the great white north. You'd think all we do is skate and play hockey and bobsled. Wrong! We like to curl, too, you know! Not all Americans like to hear you make fun of your northern neighbors. Valen may not be a speedskater but I bet she could skate circles around you, Mr.Coldbert!

You should stop mocking us. Please? We're starting to get an inferiority complex up here.

Dennis McCloskey
Freelance writer, editor
and author of 2008 biography
"My Favorite American"
43 Tomlin Crescent
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
e-mail: dmcclos@rogers.com
Web site: http://www.dennismccloskey.com

By: Ai Nguyen

Ai Nguyen — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:15:11 +0000

Dear Stephen
1. Heard on TV that you have a Canadian grand-parent. Too late, you cannot drain your blood. Give some (or all?) away to the Red Cross.
2. Great campaign. The USPS should become a sponsor. Ka-ching!
3. I am sure some Colbert Nation tribesmen don't even know where Vancouver is.
Many thanks for your great show.
Go Canada! Go! If I have some sympathy left then I 'might' cheer for your team.LOL
Ai Nguyen, proudly Canadian!

By: Barry Z

Barry Z — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:46:31 +0000

Dear Mr. Colbert

I was dismayed at your anti Canadian rhetoric last week, as we all know Canada is the superior ice nation. Our disagreement as to which of our fine nation’s rule the ice world, can and should be settled like men. We have had enough of your chirping Mr. Colbert, and now is the time to man up.

I hereby challenge you, Mr. Stephen Colbert, to a Beaver Tail eating duel to be held on February 14, 2010 in Whistler Village, Whistler BC, at high noon.

Rules:

The person who can consume the most weight in that delectable Canadian treat, the Beaver Tail, in a time of 5 minutes, will be declared the winner.

The looser will publicly announce once and for all that the winner of the contests nation, is the official Colbert Nation Ice ruler of the universe.

The looser also must face initiation rights, of the Canadian or American woman’s hockey team as they see fit.

I await your response.

By: Marilyn from Montreal, Quebec

Marilyn from Montreal, Quebec — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:37:38 +0000

Bonjour-là m Colbert!,
(Good-day Mr. Colbert!)

Pourquoi-vous fait ce campaigne-ci, contre les canadiens?
(Why are you mounting such a campaign against the Canadians?)

Saviez-vous que en Québec-ci on avait une équipe de hockey dans la ville de Montréal qui est nommé "Les Canadiens"?
(Are you aware that here in Québec, we have a hockey team in Montreal called "Les Canadiens"?)

Qu'est-qu'les chances que les membres de votre Nation Colbert avaient un petit coup de la confusion entre la ville de Montréal, Québec puis Vancouver, Colombie Britainique en Canada?
(What are the chances that members of your Colbert Nation get a bit confused between Montréal, Québec and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada?)

C'est-pas juste monsieur!
(That's not right, Sir!)

S'il-vous-plait, peut-vous réconsiderer la campaigne-ci avant de vous incitez une incédente multi-intérnationale? Je vous plaides!!
(Would you please reconsider this campaign before you incite a multi-international incident? I plead to you!!)

J'inclus le translation en anglais pour vous, si vous ne comprenez le français, comme une signe de respect à vous.
(I'm including a translation in English, should you not understand French, as a sign of respect to you.)

l'Amour, toujours,
(Love, Always,)

Mille. Marilyn Dickie
Montréal, Québec
(Miss Marilyn Dickie
Montréal, Québec)
.

By: donna leach

donna leach — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:47:22 +0000

Hey you sawed of little pecker head, perhaps u should get your facts straight. The olympics does not require the host committee to allow other athletes onto their venues until a certain time before the olympics, the same as you did at st.lake. Why we would we spend all our taxpayer money to give every other nation the same advantage. You are doing your speedskaters a disserevice with your ignorant attitude.This is an honorable sport and you as a sponser should recognize that. By the way, if you weren't so ignorant you would know that Saskatawan is in central Canada and the Olympics are in B.C. on the west coast. but that is typical of ignorant Americans who don't give two shits about any body but themselves. That is why your own president didn't know that we are your biggest trading partner. But I digress, you are ignorant and you are bringing shame on all those wonderful athletes you have in speedskating who would probably prefer that they didn't need your money.
so get your head out of your ass and learn something about the great sport of speedskating and about the wonderful country of Canada and quit being your typical american asshole.

By: terry

terry — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:02:35 +0000

No wonder the united states is one of the most hated contrys in the world having loud obnoxious a holes like this idiot he is not even funny .He is probably one of those complete morons that sat there and cried asking why why did anybody bomb us after 9/11 and then thinks it's the reposabilitity of every other nation to jump into there fight .Because UNITED STATES IS A BUNCH OF LOUD MOUTH IGNORANT SELF CENTERED A-S HOLES THAT HIDE BEHIND CANADAS MAPLE LEAF WHEN THEY TRAVEL .SO SUCK ON MY SUP YOU IGNORANT LOUD OBNOXIOUS IDIOT

By: Big Al

Big Al — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:34:25 +0000

Good day;
I do not see what the problem is. I understand that as a nation with a greater population you are much more boisterous than us. However, Canada is bigger than that, both morally in action and geographically speaking so we should not let it bother us. While I can understand the need to select a focus of attack to draw attention to the needs of your Olympic Speed Skating Team, I wonder why you would pick on your neighbour to the north. Although we probably comment more about the actions of your nation than you do of ours, it would make more sense to choose a more threatening opponent. Picking on Canada in a fight is just as exciting as trying to get Switzerland to attack you in a war. Since the Red Menace is no longer the threat it used to be, it can be hard to find a target to rally your people against. May I suggest Pitcairn Island as a suitable target. While it is a British Protectorate, and attacking it may raise the anger of the Britsh, it is populated with the descendants of mutineers from the HMS Bounty and is not a major trading partner with you. Mutineers or Canadians, which one sounds more exciting to take on? Heck, there is even the added bonus of using pictures of Mel Gibson from the last remake of Mutiny on the Bounty (depending upon his current popularity in the press) in your propaganda posters.
I continue to be a fan of the show. I can not say that I am a member of the Colbert Nation as I am a citizen of Canada. However, I would like to point out that if you immigrate and become a Canadian citizen you would have a better chance of becoming Prime Minister than Arnold Schwarzenegger has of becoming the US President. If you did this and did become Prime Minister then I would truly be a proud member of the Colbert Nation.

Yours truly,

Big Al

Ps – I hear that the citizens of Pitcairn Island are even more straight laced than Canadians, but I doubt anyone will travel there to prove it.

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