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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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Saturday, May 13, 2006 08:15 PM

colbert was amazingly daring and funny

Very funny ! Colbert was great! and brave!

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