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Wednesday, May 3, 2006 12:00 AM

Making Colbert go away

The docile press corps was offended when Stephen Colbert dared to expose Bush's -- and their own -- feet of clay. But how to respond? Voilà: "He wasn't funny."

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    Colbert was funny but Ray McGovern was deadly serious with Rummy today. Notice how he did it just after Paul Pilar hit so hard yesterday? Maybe it was Colbert who started all this?

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