Tuesday Night Remembrance – R.I.P., Ham Rove

November 13, 2012 by Leave a comment

Stephen Colbert is shutting down the Super PAC he founded to highlight the slimy nature of Super PACs. Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow is now yesterday’s news. And, presumably due to the spectacular fashion in which Karl Rove’s facade of competence crumbled on election night, Colbert has also announced the sad passing of Ham Rove. A moment of remembrance, please.

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Polentical: Quote of the Day: Stephen Colbert on Ham Rove

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Sunday Night Videos – Stephen Colbert Interviews Steven Morrissey

October 14, 2012 by Leave a comment

How did I miss Morrissey’s appearance on The Colbert Report? I have to stay in more often.

Here’s the interview…

…and the song…

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Friday Night Video – Stephen Colbert on Romney’s Poll Numbers

September 28, 2012 by 3 Comments

Have you seen how well President Obama is doing in the polls, historically speaking? Have you seen how Republican media outlets such as Fox News have argued that the polls are skewed? Yesterday, Stephen Colbert gave a comedic rundown of the conservative takes on polls.

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Friday Night Photo – Stephen Colbert Takes Down John Roberts

June 29, 2012 by Leave a comment

Echoing the sentiments of millions of conservatives across the nation, yesterday a disillusioned Stephen Colbert went over to his high school locker in order to take down his Tiger Beat poster of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

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Paul Krugman Visits The Colbert Report

June 20, 2012 by 3 Comments

On Monday night, two of my worlds came together when Don Draper emerged from the Tardis Paul Krugman visited The Colbert Report. One of the few mainstream voices we have speaking about the economy from a progressive point of view met with the man who should have a Nobel laureateship in satire. And I gotta say, while Krugman’s points are as valid as ever, it wasn’t as magical as I had hoped it would be.

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Thursday Night Quote – Stephen Colbert

May 3, 2012 by Leave a comment

I believe in traditional marriage: one man and one woman and her dowry of cattle.

– Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report (April 30, 2012).

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Quote of the Day: Stephen Colbert

April 21, 2012 by Leave a comment

Who can Mitt Romney find who won’t overshadow him? Wait! That’s it! The perfect ticket! “Romney / Romney’s Shadow 2012.” And, the best part is, it will change positions every time he does.

- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, April 18, 2012

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Thursday Night Video – Jonah Lehrer on Creativity

April 19, 2012 by 3 Comments

When I teach creative endeavors (usually some sort of theater-making) to kids, particularly those of high school age, one of the biggest gifts I can give them is to undermine the myth of genius and allow them to simply create. Too many of them get stuck on the desire to be brilliant, which actually tends to be counterproductive. Jonah Lehrer was on The Colbert Show on Tuesday hawking his book Imagine: How Creativity Works, and he spoke eloquently about creativity.

LEHRER: One of the themes of the book is that these ideas that we assume people just invent out of thin air, that they’re really just new connections between old ideas.

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The Colbert Report on Rep. Steve King and Obamacare

April 11, 2012 by 2 Comments

On Monday, Stephen Colbert noted that the Republican primary contest is coming to a close.

COLBERT: After a bruising Republican primary season, the foreplay is over, and like all Republican foreplay, it was expensive, vindictive, and ended with something pretty predictable.

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Quote of the Day: Stephen Colbert on Ham Rove

April 9, 2012 by 3 Comments

Ham Rove. He has all the brains of Karl Rove, with half the sodium.

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Polentical: Quote of the Day: Carrie Brownstein

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The Colbert Report on Pink Slime and Super PACs

April 5, 2012 by Leave a comment

MONDAY (April 3, 2012)
It’s a new week, and Stephen Colbert’s mind turns to thoughts of government regulation. This includes air pollution and food pollution.

Everybody knows, liberals have a long history of slandering good American industries with hurtful names. Sure, these days everybody hates “air pollution”, but when I was a kid, we celebrated it as “bonus clouds”.


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Best of the Week: The Colbert Report on Charles Murray, flying deathbots and more…

March 31, 2012 by 2 Comments

MONDAY (March 26, 2012)

Stephen Colbert segues from President Obama’s words about Trayvon Martin to Geraldo Rivera’s nonsense about blaming the hoodie.

At first I naively thought that the President was expressing a moving sentiment to a troubled country, but then I learned better….Now, it would be very easy to blame the shooter or blame the law that let him off or blame easy access to guns or blame our nations borderline pathological distrust of young black men. Luckily, a top legal mind has fingered the real culprit.

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