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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Watch Colbert Tonight

posted by on January 16 at 20:56 PM

Right-wing jackass Dinesh D’Souza has a new book out: The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. You see, it’s all our fault. If only America—the most religious country on earth after, say, Saudi Arabia—weren’t so damn secular and tolerant! Then Osama bin Laden wouldn’t have attacked us on 9/11! He would’ve attacked, oh, Canada or Luxembourg or Sweden.

D’Souza’s book is blames Hollywood, fags, feminists, and atheists for 9/11. It’s very Jerry Falwell, very September 12, 2001.

I just watched Stephen Colbert absolutely destroy D’Souza on the Colbert Report tonight by—what else?—agreeing with him. Violently. The video isn’t up on YouTube yet, but as soon as it is we’ll post it here.

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I can't wait to see D'Souza self-implode at the hands of Colbert!

Posted by Jim Demetre | January 16, 2007 9:45 PM
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It's 1:30am here in Boston and I am staying up for it!!! THANKS!

Posted by StrangerDanger | January 16, 2007 10:31 PM
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AWESOME!

Speaking of awesome, Obama declared! Well, practically: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/16/obama.papers/index.html

Posted by catnextdoor | January 16, 2007 10:45 PM
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That. Was. Awesome.

Posted by Mac | January 16, 2007 10:59 PM
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That guy was f***ing idiot.

Posted by Sean | January 16, 2007 11:17 PM
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OK, he said that FDR "gave away" Eastern Europe at Yalta. Yeah, right, he "gave away" the land that was occupied by the USSR or was about to be. That says everything about this twerp's intellect.

Oh, wait, he just said something about "blue America" and "eating maggots..."

Posted by Matt from Denver | January 16, 2007 11:55 PM
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Sorry, it was more fun watching Spock and Sulu on the Daily Show tonight ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | January 16, 2007 11:56 PM
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That was utterly fantastic and completely worth being tired tomorrow. Colbert just handed him his logical fallacies on a platter.

The best was at the very end, after the interview when they cut to the distant-shot in the studio -- Colbert tries to shake his hand, and D'Souza totally pulls away. Knew he was beaten.

Posted by Juris | January 16, 2007 11:58 PM
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We did it, all our terror problems are our fault?!! It's begining people. The madison ave total awarness campain is here. Barara Boxer can use herself as an example and include Condi Rice as an example of TWO people that won't be affected personally by the war. And all the right wants to twist and bloviate about Boxer's comment being an attack on childless single women! Absurd! Trivial!! Here we go again, the madison avenue style sell the war ( and a new one with Iran ), and blame the Democrats. This is the beginning, they have the Corporate media machine to shove whatever twisted spin on events they want, real or imaginary.
At least we have the internet, and word of mouth.
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Posted by what now toons | January 17, 2007 1:18 AM
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I just downloaded it from iTunes and can hardly wait to see it! This guy attacks FDR??!!! I want to find him and kick his AS*!!!! No one attacks my political hero without a fight on their hands!!! "Four more for FDR!!"

Posted by Andrew | January 17, 2007 5:31 AM
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The videos are up at the Comeday Central website.

Posted by Gabriel | January 17, 2007 6:27 AM
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It's amazing that this guy is a Stanford fellow. It's one thing hearing it from a loser like Falwell, quite another coming from someone who should be educated and who is associated with a distinguished institution.

Posted by Gabriel | January 17, 2007 7:01 AM
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I just watched it and died laughing on the bus on the way into work. Colbert completely used the guys own logic to make him look like an idiot. And the right wing talking heads need to start bringing up that the sinking of the Lusitania was Woodrow Wilson's fault. I mean Wilson was a Democrat.

These idiots like D'Souza I would love to just laugh at but they control too much of the country not to take seriously. BTW, 9/11 happened while GEORGE BUSH was the President. Just in case the Republicans forgot that little fact....

Posted by Andrew | January 17, 2007 7:26 AM
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It may be time to introduce another new right wing loon-inspired word into the language - the verb "to d'souza." Definition: to eat maggots at a gay wedding.

Posted by kaley | January 17, 2007 9:30 AM
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Finally I got to see Dan Savage on Colbert too. He didn't eat maggots though.

Posted by brian | January 17, 2007 9:32 AM
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Posted by steven | January 17, 2007 11:04 AM
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Colbert's a Genius! The American Taliban was exposed for what it is. These freaks want a theocracy just like the Saudis. Colbert made him say the words!

Posted by j cat | January 17, 2007 11:30 AM
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“The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well.” (from D’Souza’s book, The End of Racism)

“If America as a nation owes blacks as a group reparations for slavery, what do blacks as a group owe America for the abolition of slavery?” (from The End of Racism)

More here.

BTW, instead of combing YouTube you can get caught up with Colbert (and The Daily Show) at Comedy Central

Posted by Joe | January 17, 2007 12:24 PM
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Colbert vs. O'Reilly

This Thursday:

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=80897

Can't Wait!

Posted by Clark | January 17, 2007 1:34 PM
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Posted by Jamie | January 17, 2007 1:39 PM
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The Hoover Institution at Stanford has been the source for most of Bush's closest foreign policy and economic advisors. The irony of their name is awesome! Stanford is neo-con breeding ground. Condi Rice is a Fellow. http://www.hoover.org/

Posted by Morgan | January 17, 2007 3:58 PM
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I am in total shock after folling Joe @18's link. I had no idea how bad D'Souza was from the Colbert interview. It makes me really angry that he could be published by a "respectable" publisher.

Posted by Papayas | January 17, 2007 6:03 PM
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Gawd, that man is a genius. A couple more interviews like that and I'm gonna make him my babydaddy instead of Stewart.

Posted by Violet_DaGrinder | January 17, 2007 6:22 PM
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The interview was priceless, thanks for the heads up. Thon Hartman had him on his Tuesday show on Air America, he laid into him as well, however Colbert really delivered the knock-out punch.
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