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Entries Tagged as 'Stephen Colbert'

Colbert on the O’Reilly Meltdown

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 14th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

Sublime. Any comment would be superfluous.

 
And in case you haven’t seen it, the dance remix. Warning: Loud, crude, uncensored language, accompanied by a nifty techno beat. Lots of bad words that cultural conservatives might find objectionable, uttered by a conservative! Definitely not safe for work, kind of like the Falafel King himself.

 

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The War on Halloween, Anderson Cooper, and Keith Olbermann’s O’Reilly Defense Initiative

Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 22nd, 2007 at 11:58 pm

Here’s a little video roundup to keep you entertained while I try to scrape together the time to post something more substantial.
First off, Mr. Colbert points out the enormous black-and-orange elephant in the living room … the War on Halloween! That’s not going to be very popular in the candy corn belt.

 
He really enjoyed […]

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Tags: Politics · Culture · Media · Comedy · Climate Change · Stephen Colbert · Animals & Environment · Video · Muppets · Journalism · Keith Olbermann

Colbert on the Klingon-Republican Alliance

Posted by Ocelopotamus on September 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

Stephen notices the Republicans’ rhetorical reliance on the word honor, and points out who else tends to use that word a lot.

 

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Tags: Politics · Culture · Media · Comedy · TV · Stephen Colbert · Peace · Iraq · Foreign Policy · Video · 2008 Election · Elections

Video: Fox’s War Drums, Colbert’s Water Fight, and Stewart on Bush’s Magical History Tour

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 26th, 2007 at 6:26 pm

A few video clips from the past week: First up, here’s a scary video compiled by documentarian Robert Greenwald showing how Fox “News” is beating the drum for war with Iran … watch them repeatedly engaging in the same kind of propaganda and scaremongering they used during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in […]

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Olbermann on O’Reilly, Colbert on Huckabee, and Stewart on Kristol

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 17th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

Keith Olbermann explains why Bill O’Reilly is no less than two of the three worst people in the world. (Hint: It includes defaming someone as being anti-semitic … who was actually attacking anti-semitism!)

 
I Stomach Huckabee: Colbert on the Iowa straw poll. Oh, and watch for the moment when the Governor threatens to break Stephen’s other […]

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Tags: Politics · Culture · Media · Daily Show · Comedy · TV · Stephen Colbert · Iraq · Foreign Policy · Video · 2008 Election · Journalism · Keith Olbermann

Video Roundup: Colbert, Stewart, and Olbermann

Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 20th, 2007 at 11:53 am

First up, Stephen interviews Michael Moore … all the way from Brazil!

 
Next, Jon Stewart’s take on anti-gay Surgeon General nominee James Holsinger, in which he manages to reveal some surprising truths inherent in plumbing fixtures. (I previously posted Colbert’s take on Holsinger’s fixture fixation, but Stewart gets some good mileage out of it, too.)

 
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Stephen Colbert on James Holsinger and His Weird Plumbing Analogies

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 15th, 2007 at 9:20 am

Stephen Colbert dedicates The Word to Bush’s gay-hating Surgeon General nominee, James Holsinger, and shares some of Holsinger’s amazing insights into what plumbing can teach us about human sexuality.

 
(h/t After Elton)

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Stephen Colbert: Behind the Maniac

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 23rd, 2007 at 6:08 pm

For those who haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Stephen Colbert in person, this backstage video of him prepping John Kerry before Kerry’s recent Colbert Report appearance is a fun little peek behind the curtain of the character he plays on his show.
I think knowing what a charming, mild-mannered, and self-effacing person Stephen is […]

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The Colbert Report: Heated Debate

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm

“Professors are forcing our kids to submit to their pro-glacier agenda!”
Newsflash: Student traumatized when his university tries to make him learn things that don’t harmonize with his conservative worldview!
Fortunately, Stephen Colbert is here to make sense of the situation.

 
Yeah, what Stephen said! Because you should never, ever have to be taught something you don’t […]

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The Colbert Report on Intolerance Toward Intolerance

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 10th, 2007 at 3:42 am

Stephen Colbert explains why we all need to be more sensitive to the feelings of bigots. (After all, if you prick a homophobic prick, does he not bleed?)

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Tags: Politics · Culture · Comedy · TV · Stephen Colbert · Video · Civil Rights · Hate Crimes

News: Wear Sunscreen

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 16th, 2007 at 6:40 am

Worldwide, the winter of 2006-2007 has been the warmest since record keeping began in 1880, according to a new government report.
A variety of desperate schemes to save the planet from global warming are being considered by NASA and other organizations — including a man-made volcano that spews sulfur into the atmosphere; a “sun shade” […]

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