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There is a Thank You, Stephen Colbert site at the blog, dailykos. Anyone who wants to register support can go there and sign on. I e-mailed Comedy Central to thank them as well, and I am recommending stories about the lack of news coverage to keep them in front of reader's eyes.
I am thoroughly ashamed, as I was in the 1950s with Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and a few other comedians being the only persons willing to criticize what our McCarthyite nation had become. I never thought I would live long enough to see it happening all over again, and even worse. Who can sensible people rely on these days? Not the corporate media. Not our elected leaders. Only our satirists like Colbert and Jon Stewart, and a few songsters and rappers. And the media will do their best to suppress any opposition.
Thousands dead and maimed, and our president makes jokes about it and smirks. The world has gone ape. I hope to live long enough to vote in November of 2006 and 2008. It's all I have to give.
