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By Jabari Asim
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By Andy Borowitz
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Linguists beware; Stephen Colbert has invented a new word: “democrazy.” As the host explains, “there was a time when I thought the key to Middle East peace was representative government, but then democracy gives us a prime minister who sides with Hezbollah, an Iranian president who wants to go nuclear, and a Palestinian government controlled by Hamas. So, now, I’m thinking maybe we did the wrong thing.”
Posted on Jul 27, 2006
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Lewis Black was back on the “Daily Show” on Wednesday satirizing the debate over gay marriage. After playing a clip of Congressman Phil Gingrey, in which the lawmaker said, “In my opinion, marriage isn’t just any kind of love. It’s a love that can bear children,” Black quipped, “Hey Congressman, take my word for it. A one-night stand with no love, a Quaalude and three beers can also bear children.”
Posted on Jul 27, 2006
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William Donohue, executive director of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, began his appearance on “The Colbert Report” on Tuesday by swiping at the host with a ruler. After Colbert confiscated the ruler, Donohue went on to hit a home run for tolerance by challenging the nativity of Native Americans and the motives of Hollywood Jews.
Posted on Jul 26, 2006
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The “Daily Show” host tells the Arizona senator, “President Bush has been very clear that through his leadership, he made the world safer.... My question to you is this: How much safer can we afford to have him make us?” When McCain wouldn’t answer straight, Stewart chided him, saying, “Don’t dodge the question.”
Posted on Jul 25, 2006
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The “Colbert Report” host rips Ralph Reed, who recently lost the Georgia Lt. Gov. race. When a wave of mock sympathy ran through the audience over Reed’s demise, Colbert said, “Send [Reed] your strength. He’s like Tinkerbell.”
Posted on Jul 25, 2006
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Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell challenged Tony Blair’s stance on Lebanon during the last “Prime Minister’s Questions.” Blair defended his government’s position regarding the conflict, despite growing pressure in Europe to take a harder line toward Israel.
Posted on Jul 25, 2006
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NBC’s Tim Russert grilled White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten on Sunday about an Oval Office press release that praised an L.A. Times Op-Ed calling for Israel to attack Syria. Watch as Bolten tries to prevaricate his way out of it. (h/t: Alternet, Think Progress)
Posted on Jul 24, 2006
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As the conflict in Lebanon continues to develop, Terry Gross brings context to the names in the news. Here are two interviews by the “Fresh Air” host that offer some insight into Hezbollah.
Posted on Jul 22, 2006
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What do you get when you put Stephen Colbert in a room with a congressman facing an uncontested election? Television magic.
Posted on Jul 21, 2006
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“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart seized upon Bush’s stem cell veto to explore the president’s “culture of life” inconsistencies.
Posted on Jul 21, 2006
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Pseudo-pundit Stephen Colbert uses his nightly “The Word” segment to satirize labor relations. The word is solidarity, “as in me and all my management buddies are in solidarity about hating unions.”
Posted on Jul 19, 2006
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“The Daily Show” host offers a roundup of Lebanon reporting and confronts the media’s seeming inability to process the crisis.
Posted on Jul 19, 2006
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As violence once again wracks that troubled region, “The Colbert Report” host reminds us that the 2006 Miss Universe Pageant is this weekend. “Let’s forget about the conflict between Israel and Lebanon, and focus instead on the competition between Miss Israel and Miss Lebanon.”
Posted on Jul 18, 2006
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“The Daily Show” host was just being playful last night when he joked that President Bush could have been caught on the open mike talking about German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “camel toe” (a lewd sexual reference). But in light of the just-publicized unsolicited massage Bush gave to Merkel, Stewart is looking prophetic all of a sudden.
Posted on Jul 17, 2006
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At the G8 summit for world leaders, President Bush was caught on a live microphone telling Tony Blair that he held Syria accountable for Hezbollah’s actions against Israel.
“What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over,” Bush told Blair while chewing on a buttered roll.
Important: This is not a hypocrisy alert. Bush’s unguarded statements were for the most part consistent with his public ones. But it’s still a fascinating glimpse into his manner of interaction with America’s closest ally.
Article
Best video/audio/transcript combo: CNN.com (The video link “The sh_t hear ’round the world” in the center of the page--not linkable)
Blogger reaction:
The Carpetbagger Report: “The president often comes across as an unsophisticated simpleton in public...but incidents like this...suggest Bush is even less impressive in private.
Juan Cole: Bush’s comments “astonishingly simple-minded”
Posted on Jul 17, 2006
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After conservative pundit William Kristol argued that Bush’s “coddling” of Iran had “invited” the latest outbreak of violence, and that the United States should join in the new fighting, Juan Williams pegged Kristol for what he is: a warmonger. Kristol’s stunned expression is priceless.
Posted on Jul 16, 2006
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President Bush told President Putin that America wants to see Russia develop a free press and free religion--like Iraq. Putin responded: “We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, quite honestly.” (watch it)
Posted on Jul 15, 2006
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Stephen Colbert focuses in on the kiss that President Bush planted on the cheek of Sen. Joe Lieberman, and muses: “You know, Mr. Bush has such soft hands. I can only imagine what his lips are like.”
(full transcript: Enigmatic Paradox)
Posted on Jul 13, 2006
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Stephen Colbert tells author Ron Suskind that Vice President Cheney’s so-called “One Percent Doctrine"--whereby a one percent chance of terrorists obtaining WMDs must be treated as a certainty--is “soft on terror.”
Colbert: “One percent? Shouldn’t it be a zero percent doctrine? I mean even if there’s no chance that someone’s a threat to the United States, and they just look at us funny, shouldn’t we just--[beats a fist into his palm]--tag ’em?”
Posted on Jul 13, 2006
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“The Daily Show” host pointed out the hypocrisy in Sean Hannity’s double standard on the ethics of leaking classified information, and slammed Robert Novak for making light of destroying CIA agent Valerie Plame’s career.
Posted on Jul 13, 2006
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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) showed off to Congress a model of an electric fence he designed for America’s southern border. He said its nonlethal current works fine with barnyard animals.
Watch the video
It’s a tough calculus these Republicans are facing: wondering whether they’ll lose more conservative votes by appearing soft on immigration or more Hispanic votes by lumping Latinos in with livestock.
Posted on Jul 13, 2006
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CNBC Host Donny Deutsch gave Ann Coulter the Joe McCarthy treatment ("Have you left no sense of decency?") over her vitriolic attack on the 9/11 widows. Deutsch also questioned whether Coulter’s liberal boogeymen even exist. (A really long interview--a great way to see what Coulter is all about)
Posted on Jul 13, 2006
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“Your state is one of the few that has a medical marijuana program,” Stephen Colbert said to Congressman Rick Larsen of Washington.
Larsen: Uh-huh, that’s right.
Colbert: Are you high right now?
Posted on Jul 12, 2006
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“The Daily Shows” host tees off on Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens’ instantly infamous speech about Net Neutrality--which Stewart likened to “something you’d hear from a crazy old man in an airport bar at 3 a.m.”
Posted on Jul 12, 2006
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Testifying before Congress yesterday, the Justice Department’s top lawyer had a succinct answer to a question posed by a senator about whether Bush was wrong or right in his interpretation of the Supreme Court’s Hamdan case: “The President is always right.”
Posted on Jul 12, 2006
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Snapshots of Life and Death in Baghdad
