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The Democratic Caucus chairman, Rep. Rahm Emanuel from Illinois, has cautioned freshman legislators to stay away from Stephen Colbert. Emanuel’s concern, apparently, is they’ll be made to look ridiculous. Keith Olbermann comments, and provides a bunch of sample interviews lifted from ComedyCentral.com.
With Captain America now deceased, who gets his shield? Stephen Colbert!
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Some of the pass-offs from Jon Stewart to Stephen Colbert are real gems, even when they manage to flub it. This one from a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t find on Comedy Central, so I’ll resort to posting it myself. Colbert provides some bedtime reading from Ayn (A is A) Rand.
I went through an Ayn Rand period in college, when I read both “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged”. Like the science-fiction writings of L. Ron Hubbard, I genuinely enjoyed Ayn Rand’s novels. If nothing else, they’re solid romantic soap operas. But as I did with Hubbard’s Dianetics, I decided Rand’s Objectivism wasn’t for me.
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My father’s cousin Lawrie pointed out this in-the-field interview from 2004, with Iraqi insurgents that were loyal to Saddam Hussein. This video is everywhere, yet I haven’t been able to determine who produced it.
Comic book fan Stephen Colbert comments on Marvel Comics killing off, for now, Captain America.
What a week, seeing so much truth and reality in the news.
