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Colbert Comes Clean About Emails To Sanford Staff

by Sara K. Smith  11:00 am July 16, 2009

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Here, watch this while the News Trolls come up with “actual reporting” for us to make fun of. Why was Stephen Colbert sending emails to Mark Sanford’s spokesman when he knows that Keith Olbermann’s mother recently died? The man has no shame. [The Colbert Report]

{ 26 comments }

finallyhappy July 16, 2009 at 11:03 am

Maybe David Brooks sat next to Colbert and got confused?

BillyClubb July 16, 2009 at 11:04 am

Colbert Comes Clean
The last thing you get after a “literal” stroke job is clean…

tootsieroll July 16, 2009 at 11:05 am

I saw this last night and wet myself laughing. “Stroke Job!”

hobospacejunkie July 16, 2009 at 11:05 am

Stephen Colbert: Worst Person in the World or The Worstert Person in the World?

paintitblack July 16, 2009 at 11:07 am

Seems like KO & SC are giving each other a stroke job. Still: WIN!

hobospacejunkie July 16, 2009 at 11:10 am

[re=363862]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Oh for fuck’s sake. Can’t even get a bad joke right. WorsteSt you moran.

finallyhappy July 16, 2009 at 11:12 am

I have a question. why do people sign onto a thread and say “I’m first” as the whole message. I mean besides being a moran- or is that the whole thing?

x111e7thst July 16, 2009 at 11:27 am

[re=363869]finallyhappy[/re]: They do it for Jeebus and to keep Amurrica safe!!

Lascauxcaveman July 16, 2009 at 11:34 am

[re=363869]finallyhappy[/re]: Because being first commenter on any given thread is so incredibly awesome!

I mean, personally I worship these people. Doesn’t everybody?

Gorillionaire July 16, 2009 at 11:35 am

There is no way that Colbert is not the funniest freshly GI haircutted man in the world.

Internally valid July 16, 2009 at 11:37 am

[re=363869]finallyhappy[/re]: FIST! ROTFLMAOXYZ!!!1!!2

TowerOfBabble July 16, 2009 at 11:39 am

Ok, I’ve been stuck in Germany and haven’t been keeping up with the Report. What did Stephen do to his hair?

Bronkers July 16, 2009 at 11:40 am

[re=363862]hobospacejunkie[/re]: No, no — Worstert plays into Colbert. No take-backs. Right and humorous the first time.

hobospacejunkie July 16, 2009 at 11:41 am

[re=363879]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Nailed it! I’m still kicking myself over my pathetic 4th in this thread. That fucking Wheaties box lied to me.

hobospacejunkie July 16, 2009 at 11:43 am

[re=363886]Bronkers[/re]: Yeah, I meant it the first time!

Thanks for the save.

Pickle July 16, 2009 at 11:45 am

Jake Tapper is mad because he offered a literal stroke job as well, and no one laughed.

tootsieroll July 16, 2009 at 12:03 pm

[re=363885]TowerOfBabble[/re]: Oh you must look it up on his archives. He went to Iraq and did the show there for the troops. They gave him a military cut right there live. He’s a good egg.

SayItWithWookies July 16, 2009 at 12:17 pm

So you can say stroke job on TV but not blowjob. The complexities of American prudery continue to elude me.

twowheeljunkie July 16, 2009 at 12:52 pm

[re=363922]SayItWithWookies[/re]: How about Buff my Helmet?

CorkPopper July 16, 2009 at 12:58 pm

[re=363861]tootsieroll[/re]: I preferred “teach his taint to tango”, myself. Comedy GOLD.

WideStance July 16, 2009 at 1:43 pm

Colbert’s point behind the “comedy gold” is that it was appropriate for him to promise Sanford “a friendly place to make light of what I think is a small story that got blown out of scale” because he’s not a real journalist.

I call bullshit. I don’t have TV, but it’s my impression that the Colbert show touts itself as one of the few television outlets that is not a propaganda outlet for the neocon agenda. (The media is one of the “seven mountains of culture” that Sanford and the rest of the C-Street Family is busy “reclaiming.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/ensigns-c-street-house-ow_b_230015.html). I don’t see the humor in Colbert’s emailed promise to make an asshole like Sanford look like a hero for agreeing to appear on the show.

Lionel Hutz Esq. July 16, 2009 at 3:05 pm

Colbert has far more journalistic credibility than Fox News. After all, he has actually won a Peabody.

[re=363869]finallyhappy[/re]: [re=363879]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: [re=363887]hobospacejunkie[/re]: And, if you post first while you are masturbating, you will have the best orgasm ever. Try it!

Brendan M. July 16, 2009 at 4:19 pm

[re=364008]WideStance[/re]: Ugh, and Wonkette touts itself as the leading voice of the progressive blogosphere. STFU.

WideStance July 16, 2009 at 5:00 pm

[re=364202]Brendan M.[/re]: I read Wonkette not only because it makes me LMAO, but because I often get an insight into the ugly underbelly of politics that I don’t find anywhere else. So, yes, I’d be pissed off if I found out Wonkette had entered into some kind of back-room deal with a politician in exchange for favorable coverage, just as I’m disappointed in Colbert. STFU yourself.

Brendan M. July 16, 2009 at 5:58 pm

[re=364268]WideStance[/re]: If you are admittedly ignorant about the subject (Colbert’s show), it is pretty asinine to be so strident about it. By which I mean you’re a stupid asshole, so STFU. I insist.

LoweredPeninsula July 17, 2009 at 2:32 am

Are some of you serious? You think Colbert was really going to play softball with Sanford if he’d had been able to get him on his show? Are you fucking kidding me?

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