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 ‘Colbert Report’: The Demise of Another Nocturnal, Burrowing DictatorPosted on Oct 21, 2011
What’s the protocol for making jokes about dead dictators—is the same day too soon? Stephen Colbert throws propriety to the wind and takes on not just Col. Moammar Gadhafi himself in this clip from Thursday’s “Colbert Report,” claiming that losing the Libyan leader is like losing “Yves St. Laurent, George Burns and Pol Pot all on the same day,” but also riffs on the predictably goofy media coverage of same. —KA Colbert Nation: The Colbert Report Advertisement TAGS:
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By skimohawk, October 21, 2011 at 5:24 pm Link to this comment
thanks, blogdog….
without reading that post, I never would have stumbled across this:
http://truth-out.org/libya-all-about-oil-or-all-about-banking/1302678000
... the plot thickens…
Report thisBy blogdog, October 21, 2011 at 3:34 pm Link to this comment
correction:
After the 1969 peoples revolution, Libya was never propped up by any western
nation. Before the 2011 NATO bombing campaign it owed nothing to the IMF /
World Bank and was literally the leader of the African Union.
As for the cute little Comedian Colbert, the criterion for his being permitted to do
this stick is to correctly answer this question:
What is the Great Manmade River, and why is it called the Eighth Wonder of the
Report thisWorld?
By sofianitz, October 21, 2011 at 11:40 am Link to this comment
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Colbert a true proto-fascist.
Report thisBy lasmog, October 21, 2011 at 11:39 am Link to this comment
Tony Blair just lost one of his best customers.
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