Nation Editor Back for Seconds on ‘Colbert’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 11, 2007 Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation's editor and publisher, Tuesday night braved a second appearance on "The Colbert Report," where she was congratulated by Stephen Colbert for her "courage to come back, since I handed you your ass last time." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert Endorses Child Labor

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2007 The pseudo-pundit argues that the best way to leave no children behind is to put them to work. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Author Schools Colbert on Race

Staff / Truthdig Mar 16, 2007 In this recent clip from "The Colbert Report," author Michael Eric Dyson instructs the show's self-professedly "colorblind" host about the differences between race, bigotry and racism. Displaying his keen sense of racial sensitivity, Stephen Colbert claims that the only way he knows he's a white man is "because I have a late-night talk show." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Viacom’s $1B YouTube Smackdown

Staff / Truthdig Mar 13, 2007 YouTube, you're on notice! Viacom put a damper on the Google-YouTube honeymoon by slapping the online video giant with a $1-billion lawsuit Tuesday. The suit follows YouTube's previous tussles with Viacom, the parent company of the MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central networks, over unauthorized Web use of clips from shows such as "The Colbert Report" and "South Park." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Colbert on Journalistic Ethics and the Anna Nicole Story

Staff / Truthdig Mar 2, 2007 "The Colbert Report" eats the press alive for its treatment of the Anna Nicole Smith story and total failure when it comes to covering, well, just about anything that actually matters, especially the Iraq war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

More ‘1/2 Hour’ Conservative Political Humor

Staff / Truthdig Feb 17, 2007 Here's another clip of Fox's right-wing answer to "The Daily Show." As the clip's YouTube poster wrote of the show's creators: "Conservatives again prove they are adept at torture." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hedges Explores Colbert’s Alternate Reality

BLANK Feb 12, 2007 Here at Truthdig, we can't get enough of Chris Hedges and his takedown of the radical Christian right. (See our interview with him.) So here's the "American Fascists" author (No. 29 at Amazon.com) holding his own against Stephen Colbert's absurdist onslaught. Jump for videos. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Colbert’s Iraqi Democracy Formula

Staff / Truthdig Feb 9, 2007 Applauding America's failure to even hold a debate on Bush's troop escalation, Colbert says, "It seems the only way we can bring democracy there is to silence it here." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Colbert Forces Conservative Author to Stand By His Title

Staff / Truthdig Jan 18, 2007 While out on the warm and fuzzy interview circuit, right-wing authors far too often get away with making an outrageous claim without so much as a legitimate follow-up question. In this clip, Stephen Colbert refuses to let his guest, Dinesh D'Souza, back away from the assertion that tolerance and liberals are in some way responsible for 9/11. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Factiness’

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2007 Adjusting to an altered political landscape, the "Report" host has been forced to craft a new word for his growing arsenal: "Now, since the beginning of my show, I've led a crusade against facts. Too often, they upset the truth that's in your gut. But that was when the Republicans were in power. Their version of reality was worth ignoring facts for. Now the Democrats are running the show, and their version of reality is, unfortunately, based on reality." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Colbert Skewers Ploy Against Unions

Staff / Truthdig Jul 19, 2006 Pseudo-pundit Stephen Colbert uses his nightly "The Word" segment to satirize labor relations. The word is solidarity, "as in me and all my management buddies are in solidarity about hating unions." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Time of Salvation? Uh, Maybe Not

Staff / Truthdig Mar 5, 2006 Stephen Colbert tells us that Bush is a lot like Jesus, and that the recent crop of political sinners could see that if they just had a little faith. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )