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Thursday, May 4, 2006 12:00 AM

Colbert: Not just a flop, but "rude" and "a bully" too

The Washington Post's Richard Cohen says that Colbert should have used his shot to tell Washington things it needed to hear.

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  • Thursday, May 4, 2006 05:12 PM

    I love it

    Colbert has done something that Richard Cohen and most others have not, as a fake reporter/pundit (if you will) he has done a better job than most of the press staff combined. I'm happier than shit on a tulip! Finally, somebody said something to the P(resident) that won't go away, that sunk in to his pep squad and provided a terse and unkind wake up call to the press (corpse). If they want to live in la-la land so be it but don't expect the rest of us to be spoonfed by dimwits with a guilded sense of accountability far and away less binding than that of Stephen Colbert insulting the Chimp god and his cheerleaders.

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