What is wrong with Joe Lieberman?? Is he one of those drivers who ticks everybody off by constantly changing lanes?
Lieberman’s loyalties are so divided, he seems to have a case of pathological indecision. Here’s Stephen Colbert’s take on Lieberman’s vacillations…
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Could somebody please tell Jon Stewart to stop using his Jerry Lewis impression?
What a shame that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was preempted this week by President Obama’s speech at West Point, announcing the deployment of 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan.
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Russell Wiseman, the mayor of Arlington, Tennessee, was apoplectic about “A Charlie Brown Christmas” not being shown Tuesday night.
“Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it….w…hen the answer should simply be ‘yes’….”
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/dec/04/mayor-fires-at-obama-online/
But if Russell were a wise man, he would have checked the TV listings and seen that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was already scheduled to be repeated this coming Tuesday night. Not only that, a second showing has been added for December 15th to make up for the one missed this past week.
The ABC Television Network will celebrate the joy of the holidays with the classic animated Christmas-themed PEANUTS special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, created by late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, airing TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 (8:00-8:30 p.m., ET) and TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET).
“It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” was aired twice in October by ABC. I wonder what Mayor Wiseman thinks of Linus’ singular belief in the Great Pumpkin?
Two of my all-time favorite entertainers, Elvis Costello and Stephen Colbert, together again (extra credit if you know the lyric in this song that Costello first used on his second album)…
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..and here they are last year in “A Colbert Christmas.”
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Comedy Central splits this video into two parts, and the sound is muffled, so I made my own transfer. This sort of thing, from Thursday’s show, repeating tomorrow, is why I enjoy watching Stephen Colbert so much. Unfortunately, later in the show he had Woody Harrelson as a guest, who I can’t stand.
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I’ve already said something about Michael Moore’s latest outraged assertion, that Capitalism is evil. One bit of confusion that many people, including George Bush, seem to have, is equating Capitalism with Democracy. China is proof that the former does not imply the latter.
The shout-downs against health care regulation at the so-called town hall meetings reminded me of Moore’s ambush tactics, except a lot less clever than driving an armored car to AIG and demanding the bailout money be given back to the American taxpayers. Moore was on The Colbert Report last night. Regardless of his politics, the man simply has to drop a hundred pounds.
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