Stephen Colbert: ‘ISIS Has Now Attracted the Most Heavily Armed, Violent People on Earth: Americans’
The "Colbert Report" host talks about the latest threat in the Middle East, the Islamic State, as well as Fox News' weirdly imaginative (or rather delusional) responses to ISIS, all of which are so detached from reality that the comedian decides it's time to invoke ghosts to explain current events in terms that right-wing pundits can truly get their heads around.The “Colbert Report” host talks about the latest threat in the Middle East, the Islamic State, as well as Fox News’ weirdly imaginative (or rather delusional) responses to ISIS, all of which are so detached from reality that the comedian decides it’s time to invoke ghosts to explain current events in terms that right-wing pundits can truly get their heads around.
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