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judy

(1,942 posts) Sat Dec 20, 2014, 01:32 PM Dec 2014

What the Colbert Report taught us...

This article has a link to Stephen's appearance at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2006...a study in talent and courage...especially at the end, when he applies for the job of Press Secretary, and has to deal with the late and great Helen Thomas

http://www.thenation.com/blog/193281/what-colbert-report-taught-us-about-psychology-conservatives

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What the Colbert Report taught us... (Original Post) judy Dec 2014 OP

Love this line about how RWers dig in... Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2014 #1

It was indeed courageous. Bush was a dictator. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #2

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,835 posts)

1. Love this line about how RWers dig in...

Reply to judy (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 03:40 PM

Dec 2014

If they stop clapping, Tinker Bell will die. If they stop nodding in agreement, or step off the reservation of Tax Cuts, Guns, and Built It Myself, they could get Other-ed. If you stop stampeding in one direction, you get trampled.

True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)

2. It was indeed courageous. Bush was a dictator.

Reply to judy (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 03:55 PM

Dec 2014

Of course, by 2006 he was a pretty weak dictator. If Colbert had said the same things in 2003, his life might have been in danger.

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