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Current National Threats, According to Colbert

Jul 24, 2009
Stephen Colbert walks us through the top three threats of the moment: Harvard professor and criminal mastermind Henry Louis Gates, Bill Gates and his weather-controlling madness, and an unemployed Wilford Brimley, who breaks into Colbert's house in search of food. Check out this clip from last night's "Colbert Report."

Rebels Among the Civil War Rebels

Jul 24, 2009
Jon Stewart interviews Sally Jenkins, author of "The State of Jones," about a Mississippi county that seceded from the Confederacy during the Civil War and the ensuing insurrection it led against the Confederate army. Later it battled the KKK. Check out this clip from last night's "Daily Show."

Barack Who?

Jul 23, 2009
As Barack Obama begins his seventh month in office, mainstream news anchors still can't seem to figure out the president's citizenship I mean, was this guy even born here? Jon Stewart examines how this mystery man got to be the American president in the first place Check out this clip from last night's "Daily Show".