and if you look at the recent obesity statistics, you will see that many americans have already started. do i get paid by the bean or the hour? by the hour. how many hours have i been working? about 12 minutes. please don t make me do this again. it is really, really hard. for one thing when picking beans you have to spend all day bending over. it turns out, i did not know this, most soil is at ground level. mr. colbert you can work on so many issues, why are you interested this issue? i like talking about people who don t have any power. and this seems like one of the least powerful people in the united states are migrant workers who come and do our work but don t have any rights as a result. yet we still invite them to come at the same time ask them to leave.
vegetables. now, the obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables. and if you look at the recent obesity statistics, you ll see many americans have already started. this is a america. i don t want a tomato picked by a mexican. i want it picked by an american, then sliced by guatemalan and served by venezuela in a spa where a chilean gives me a brazilian. gregg: i am sorry. but that s funny stuff. like we said, not everybody was laughing, especially some of the people behind there. i wonder if they could really hear. some republicans even self professed fans of his say his appearance was one big joke at the taxpayers expense. julie: the chairman of the federal reserve admitting the economy still needs help. ben bernanke saying the economy is recovering from the recession more slowly than anticipated and saying the feds efforts to pump
didn t get the joke. democratic chair of the house judiciary committee initially tried to get him to leave. you run your show. we run the committee. but comedianstein colbert speaking in host of comedy central colbert report says he was invited to the hearing on illegal immigrant farm workers and offered his take on the matter at hand. america s farms are presenty far too dependent on immigrant labor to pick our fruit and vegetables. the obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables. and if you look at the recent obesity statistics you see many americans have already started. he recently took up the farm challenge to work in field like a day like an immigrant laborer, told the committee he s qualified to speak on the topic. i believe one day of me studying everything makes me an expert. celebrity are not unheard of promoting a cause or
obesity statistics you ll see that many americans have already started. i think there are way too many undocumented mexican workers in the united states doing jobs and i think we ve ignored the issue too long and it s time to roll up our sleeves and face this issue mano and whatever the spanish word for mano is. and stephen colbert putting it front and center and the there are americans are in need of jobs, what does it mean, all this attention on illegal immigrants. it s astonishing they would be pushing this agenda right here, right now when we have unemployment in this country at close to 10% with this so-called dream acts that the congress woman was referring to that would give legal status to people who go to college here and lets people who came here illegally and are in this country illegally
to offer testimony on the american farm industry, in particular the illegal immigrants on which it relies. take a look at this. this is america. i don t want a tomato picked by a mexican. i want it picked by american. then sliced by guatemalan and served by a venezuelan in a spa where a chilean gives me a brazilian. america s farm are too dependent on immigrant labor to pick our fruits and vegetables the answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables. if you look at the recent obesity statistics, you will see many americans have already started. i started with preconceived notions of my good labor. after working with these men and women, picking beans and packing corn, hours on end side by side in the unforgiving sun, i have to say and i mean this sincerely, please don t make me do this