In response to some media pundits’ wishes that the fictional president from Netflix’s “House of Cards” deal with ISIS instead of Barack Obama doing so, the ever excellent Frank Underwood paid his fellow South Carolinian a visit on “The Colbert Report” on Wednesday.

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