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A group of New York City communist writers came to Washington the other day, looking for a handout and complaining about capitalism, as usual. The “limousine liberals” from teevee’s Comedy Central want the government to crush free enterprise and “help workers.” We asked Daily Show writer and striking laborist Jason Ross to tell us exactly what happened on Capitol Hill. MORE »

Just like Andy Rooney had a good point that Barry Obama shouldn’t be president because he has a black-sounding name, the counterpoint made by labor-hating scab Andy Sullivan last night on Colbert was equally brilliant. Baldilocks spent a good chunk of his four minutes pushing for Barry, sharing with Comedy Central viewers the great insight the world will stop hating us if our president is brown and named “Obama.” Thank you, Andy. And thanks for saying it on teevee and not on your blog, where we wouldn’t have understood on account of we don’t know how to read..

New episodes of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will start airing on Monday without the help of their starving writers, but plenty of writerly guests are lining up to promote themselves on the teevee shows. First up for Colbert: Andrew Sullivan, who may try to explain just what was going on in this creepy Iowa fantasy he posted yesterday. MORE »