By
James
Hirsen
Stephen
Colbert and Jon Stewart recently scurried to the defense of the wily Harry
Reid. With late-night humor as a cover, the Comedy Central hosts parroted the
themes of the left-leaning news media regarding the senate majority leader's
unprecedented move to exercise the so-called nuclear option, which in one
fateful stroke changed the more than 200-year-old procedure for filibustering
presidential nominees.
With
tongue solidly in cheek, Colbert, portraying his faux conservative character,
referred to the day of the Reid bombshell as "the last day of America"
and announced that he was leaving the U.S. to go to a little known foreign territory
called "South Carolina." Colbert’s late night persona then expressed
mock worry as he somberly proclaimed the following: "We have just
witnessed the death of an American institution." [more...]
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