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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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Stephen Colbert has some thoughtful advice on the female quest for beauty.
Posted on Jul 11, 2006
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“The Daily Show” host uses a montage of video clips of Bush alternately dismissing and praising the use of diplomacy in dealing with WMD-bent dictators like Saddam Hussein and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il.
Posted on Jul 11, 2006
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Check out a glorious techno mash-up song of Sen. Ted Stevens’ instantly infamous speech last week on Internet technologies, in which the 85-year-old chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee--which is debating Net Neutrality--betrayed his woefully inadequate grasp of Net fundamentals.
(h/t: Crooks and Liars)
Posted on Jul 11, 2006
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The Democratic congressman from Massachusetts slams the GOP for its attempt to legislate morality in the realm of online poker (while Republicans hypocritically protect other forms of gambling). Money quote: “If we were to outlaw for adults everything that college students abuse we would all just sit at home and do nothing!”
Posted on Jul 11, 2006
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The “Colbert Report” host has a novel method for getting rid of unserviceable U.S. flags…
Watch it.
Posted on Jul 10, 2006
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Remember the unexplained shape visible under Bush’s jacket during the 2004 debates? A German TV station has solved the mystery: It’s Bush’s gas tank. Check out this very funny satirical riff on “Bush, the puppet.”
Posted on Jul 10, 2006
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Sure, the FCC may be cracking down on indecency, but if you want to see how far society has come in that department, check out this Victorian-era “bathing machine,” a hut on wheels that protected bathers from public scrutiny until they were far enough from shore to avoid being observed.
Posted on Jul 10, 2006
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The radio talk show host hung up on the right-wing hatemonger when she called in to his show late. Carolla: “I don’t have time for bitches.”
Amen, brother. Hopefully radio and TV hosts will extend this by not inviting her on their shows in the first place....
Posted on Jul 9, 2006
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Cute moment in Thursday’s debate in Connecticut’s Dem. Senate primary race: Sen. Lieberman tried to interrupt challenger Ned Lamont and Lamont silenced him by saying “...this isn’t Fox News, sir.”
Posted on Jul 7, 2006
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Check out the new movie that The New York Times calls “a prosecutorial examination of the role of oil companies, the automobile industry and the Bush administration (them again) in stymieing the development of emission-free electric vehicles.”
Posted on Jul 6, 2006
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The guy who used special computer software to catch Coulter’s pilfering said there were so many instances of misappropriations that he had to quit before his “eyes start to bleed.”
Posted on Jul 6, 2006
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The investigative journalist par excellence tells CNN that many higher-ups in the Pentagon have grave concerns about the White House’s military designs in Iran.
Posted on Jul 4, 2006
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ABC News gets an extremely rare (maybe unprecedented) look at the inside of Guantanamo Bay. Watch it.
The head interrogator denies all use of torture, and even refers to his interrogations as “custodial interviews.”
The room pictured above--which has a plush lazy chair--is supposedly one of the interrogation rooms.
This sugar-coated look at Gitmo feels sort of like the tours of North Korea that Westerners sometimes get.
Posted on Jun 30, 2006
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Colbert sums up the N.Y. Times bank records issue. This clip also contains the not-to-be-missed zinger about Brit Hume and Superman.
Posted on Jun 30, 2006
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On “The Daily Show,” Al Gore says he is giving away 100% of the profits of his book and movie to causes related to global warming. But Jon Stewart has a better idea....
Posted on Jun 30, 2006
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Questions for Hillary’s Zealots
