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Stephen Colbert: Romney’s singing ‘outsourced most of those notes to India’
Stephen Colbert opened up Monday’s episode of “The Colbert Report” by chiding Barack Obama for “running scared” from his presumptive challenger Mitt Romney’s business record as head of Bain Capital. “It’s like he is hellbent on making the word Bain synonymous with ‘a source of harm or ruin,’” Colbert said,…
Colbert to CNN and Fox: ‘You suck at news’
On Thursday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert took cable news networks to task for jumping the gun and mistakenly announcing that the Supreme Court had struck down the bulk of the Affordable Care Act. On Thursday morning, as the world looked on, both CNN and Fox…
Colbert: ‘Gay’ Oreos are for ‘homo-snacks-uals’
On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert lamented the fact that America’s culture wars have made their way even into the world of our most innocuous snack foods. Earlier this month, in observation of LGBT Pride 2012, Oreo cookies posted a message on its Facebook page…
Colbert scolds Pixar for its ‘blatant rainbow agenda’
Tuesday night on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert dedicated part of his “Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger” segment to the film and multimedia company Pixar, over what he called Pixar’s “blatant rainbow agenda.” Pixar just released the feature film, “Brave,” which tells the story…
Colbert: Only bad economic news is good news for Romney
On Monday night’s episode of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert presented an edition of his recurring “The Word” segment devoted to Republicans and their desire to see the economy fail in order to improve Mitt Romney’s electoral chances in November. The economy, Colbert said, has been “as sluggish as…
Colbert reveals the threat posed by ‘stoner babies’
On Thursday night’s episode of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert addressed a series of new threats facing our country in an installment of his series “Threat Down.” British naturalists, he said, have revealed a previously hidden archive of writings that tell of penguins’ total sexual depravity. In another story,…
Colbert: ‘Fast and Furious’ is biggest scandal ‘I forgot to ever talk about’
Wednesday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert took on the burgeoning “Fast and Furious” scandal, in which Republicans have charged Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. with contempt of Congress. Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) are accusing the Attorney General of blocking their investigation into the…
Colbert unexpectedly endorses John Kerry for president in 2012
Tuesday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert opened by reminding us (as if we could forget) that the 2012 presidential election is just around the corner, and that this election is going to come down to a clash of ideas. “Do we want bigger government, gay marriage and…
Colbert: I was the real Rose Garden heckler
Monday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert took on Friday’s Rose Garden fracas, in which President Barack Obama was giving a formal presentation regarding his executive decision to change the immigration policy as it relates to the children of immigrants, and got heckled by a staff member from…
Scientists use touch-screen computers to catch bears ‘counting’
It appears that U.S. political pundit Stephen Colbert was right to be worried about the rising threat posed by your run-of-the-mill bears: As it turns out, they’re much smarter than previously thought. A study published earlier this month in the scientific journal Animal Behaviour revealed, for the first time ever,…
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