I see a Colbert Report mention in this stories future.

CNN.com - Bears eat monkey, visitors shocked

Visitors reported that the grisly scene began as several bears chased the monkey, a macaque, onto a wooden structure at Beekse Bergen Safari Park.

They said a bear tried unsuccessfully to shake the monkey loose, ignoring attempts by keepers to distract it. The bear then climbed up and grabbed the monkey, mauling it to death and bringing it to its concrete den, where three bears ate it.

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My tiny school gets some lame bureaucrat for my commencement--Condi Rice.  Knox College in Illinois scores Obama last year and the king of "Truthiness," Stephen Colbert this year.  I knew I should've transferred.

Colbert Tells College Graduates: Get Your Own TV Show

...Colbert considered the immigration debate: “It’s time for illegal immigrants to go — right after they finish (building) those walls." People keep saying immigrants built America, “but here's the thing, it's built now. I think it was finished in the '70s sometime. From this point it’s only a touch-up and repair job."

He added that the border with Canada also has to be secure so Canadians cannot bring their "skunky beer" into the country. He backed English as the official language of the United States — “God wrote (the Bible) in English for a reason: So it could be taught in our public schools.”

At the beginning of the speech Colbert admitted he played a right-wing character on TV also named, "Stephen Colbert," who "...looks like me, and talks like me, but who says things with a straight face he doesn’t mean." Later he offered some real Colbert wisdom. Me likey!

"Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. Yes is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

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Who are these people that would actually donate to Delay's defense fund anyways?  I guess they are people so out of touch that they think a satire interview from the Colbert Report that ultimately mocks Delay, actually vindicates the crook.  Bush will kick it around 30% simply because there are that many Americans who will support these guys no matter what.  They are faith-based in their political support...loyal beyond reason.

Think Progress » Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert

DeLay thinks Colbert is so persuasive, he’s now featuring the full video of the interview at the top of the legal fund’s website. And why not? According to the email, Greenwald “crashed and burned” under the pressure of Colbert’s hard-hitting questions, like “Who hates America more, you or Michael Moore?”

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So great to see someone finally lay out so much truth about this Administration. The fact that he used satire made the critique all the more biting. Much too biting infact for the press corps. They don't like people asking Dear Leader questions like, "Why did we go to Iraq?"

Go here to watch the rest and thank Stephen if you feel so inclined.
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/

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Don't get me wrong, I usually dig on "Daily Kos":http://dailykos.com, but Kos missed the mark and the joke on this one. In his "Midday open thread":http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/19/12814/2654 Kos writes

bq. Not only does the Oregonian editorial board not seem to realize that the Colbert Report is a satirical show, but they purport to speak for the entire media. Hilarious. Did they really need to telegraph to the world how out-of-touch they are?

Kos is referring to an "Oregonian editorial":http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1137547509218520.xml&coll=7 about the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year for 2005, "truthiness":http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/07/word.contest.ap/. Somehow Kos missed that the editorial, The declineness of political thought is itself a bit of satire containing this gem:

bq. In a moment of what may not have been truthiness, Colbert claimed to have pulled the word of the year "out of my keister." Call us old-fashioned, but we don't think it's right to pat him on the back for such an anatomically unlikely performance.

Maybe, that type of humor doesn't translate south of the "Siskiyous":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siskiyou_Mountains.

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