Best of the Week: The Colbert Report on Wall Street, Santorum, and more

March 18, 2012 by 4 Comments

MONDAY (March 12, 2012)

The guest on Monday was Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity. I was struck by one of her comments, which points out how regressive our political culture is when we’re not even trying to get rid of poverty.

I come back here and I think “Oh, if we were really serious about fixing poverty, we could do it in like, half a second.”

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Best of the Week: The Colbert Report on Limbaugh, Romney, and more…

March 10, 2012 by Leave a comment

MONDAY (March 5, 2012)

After all the commentary on Rush Limbaugh’s misogynistic attacks on law student Sandra Fluke, Colbert came up with an insight often missing from the conversation…

I don’t understand why this man has gone through four wives.

…adding…

I don’t think that Rush should have apologized for calling her a prostitute. I mean, it takes one to know one. And remember, he only apologized to keep his advertisers, proving Rush will do anything with his mouth for cash.

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Best of the Week: The Colbert Report on Santorum, Shatner, and more…

March 3, 2012 by Leave a comment

MONDAY (Feb. 27, 2012)

Stephen Colbert deconstructed the campaigns of Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney as they battled over Michigan, including Romney’s “speech of a lifetime” at Detroit’s Ford Field.

Mitt really connected with those empty seats by also being plastic and uncomfortable.

Obama thinks everybody should go to college like he did. Well, pardon me, your highness, but some of us weren’t handed a ticket to Harvard by being the biracial son of a single mother on food stamps. Must be nice. Rick Santorum understands the real American Dream, that if you work hard enough, your children can have fewer opportunities than you did.

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Best of the Week: The Colbert Report with Platchett, Pelosi, and more…

February 25, 2012 by Leave a comment

MONDAY

Stephen Colbert returns to the airwaves after his absence due to his mother’s illness.

I just want to address my recent absence from the national conversation. As the hub around which the Republic turns, I can understand why the machinery of this great nation ground to a halt last week when you were denied this. Now I’m sure you felt the same way that I do when I’m in a room with no mirrors.

His guest is Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto, who makes a strong argument for why independent bookstores can succeed where chain bookstores have failed. Patchett’s Nashville bookstore is Parnassus Books.

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Best of the Week: The Colbert Report on Keystone XL, the Catholic Church, and more…

February 18, 2012 by 2 Comments

MONDAY (Feb. 13, 2012)

The guest was activist Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and one of the forces against the Keystone XL pipeline.

I love that Stephen Colbert manages to regularly include activists in his entertainment.
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Daily Show / Colbert Report: Week in Review

February 4, 2012 by 6 Comments

Monday

On The Daily Show, the guest was Lou Dobbs. Mr. Dobbs showed himself to be all suit and no brain, as he tried to argue that the Texas redistricting found to disenfranchise minority voters was actually a case of activist judges, and he dismissed Occupy as a movement because he hasn’t seen big enough rallies yet.

On The Colbert Report, Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe spoke of having taught Constitutional Law to both Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts. Of Roberts, Tribe showed wit and wisdom when he said:

I’m not sure how much I taught actually made a difference.

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Friday Night Video – Colbert’s Continuing SuperPAC Awesome

February 3, 2012 by Leave a comment

In which Stephen Colbert reveals the biggest Super PAC donors.

 

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Thursday Night Video – John Paul Stevens with Stephen Colbert

February 2, 2012 by Leave a comment

One of the great Supreme Court justices tells Stephen Colbert about the absurdity of equating money with speech.

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Maurice Sendak on The Colbert Report

January 28, 2012 by 7 Comments

Was Maurice Sendak’s appearance on the Colbert Report the highlight of the week?

Maurice Sendak, author of the children's book,...

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I remember loving it as a child when authors did not talk down to me. I could handle the nudity in Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen or the gruesomeness of the original Grimm’s Fairy Tales, even if the grown-ups couldn’t.

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Tuesday Night Video – Colbert SuperPAC update

January 24, 2012 by 1 Comment

Stephen Colbert announces the re-suspension of Herman Cain’s suspended campaign.

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Colbert Takes On Obama’s Detention Policy

January 14, 2012 by Leave a comment

Stephen Colbert and his writing team turn their incisive comedy eyes on the National Defense Operations Act and how it strikes at…what did we used to call it? I got it! Liberties.

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