excerpt: " The anti-civil-rights groups of the religious right recently launched an ad campaign warning that gay people were going to somehow convince all heterosexuals to get divorced. Not that Newt Gingrich or Dennis Prager need any help in that regard.

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The Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer confrontation on The Daily Show is being widely compared to that between Edward R. Murrow and Joe McCarthy over alleged Communist subversion in the Army. The analogy is considerably less crazy than it first appears...

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TheDudeDean wins SecondBrain Contest for a Macbook Air

TheDudeDean, aka "The Greatest Living American Dude" has come in 1st Place in SecondBrain.com's "Top SecondBrainer" contest and won a MacBook Air by a mear 15 votes. Not only did Dean have the most positive votes, he also garnered the most negative votes.

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Very interesting video. Very cute dress.

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Geraldo v. Colbert: Geraldo hits the panic button—Cry me a river; see Gerry run.

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Comedy Central just announced that The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will return with new episodes on January 7. The shows will return without writers.

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Last night's "Colbert Report Live" packed in staffers, friends, and family, as well as a few lucky ticket holders to the small Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, site of the previously staged "30 Rock Live" and "SNL Live".

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Presidential hopeful Stephen Colbert, who has declared that Doritos chips are supporting his campaign, was recently the target of populist John Edwards' sole campaign tactic: That everyone except John Edwards takes donations from evil corporations.

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This prompted the Edwards campaign to send out to the media the following: "RHETORIC VS REALITY: STEPHEN COLBERT - PLAYING LOOSE WITH THE FACTS. "CLAIM: Edwards abandoned South Carolina when he was one year old.

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As of this posting there are 1,041,219 members in the group - after only 10 days. That's 100k people per day. Anyone else still shocked that Microsoft paid a quarter billion dollars for a 1% stake in facebook?

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The funniest bit of non-news in recent memory. Look out, America!

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Would you vote for a Stewart/Colbert ticket in '08?

Months ago, my wife was the first person I heard who wished Jon Stewart would run for president. I think I said something profound like, "That's nice, honey." Ok, so maybe I didn't hear here the first time she said it.

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Given Bill'O's characterization of Daily Kos as "Nazis," the "Klu Klux Klan," and "a hate group" Colbert's point is.... rather poignant and surprisingly relevant. For the historical record - here it is, vile and disgusting hate speech, right on Daily Kos!

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Review - Dropping a Bombadil on Fox News

I'm really ticked off at Fox News. Across the leftist blogosphere, I can hear many teeth dropping already. "What? Tom Bombadil, THE Infamous Tom Bombadil of Newsvine isn't kow-towing to the Murdoch company talking points? Whassup with that?"

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Ron Paul: Daily Show and Colbert Report

Ron Paul has done the Comedy Central late night rounds and I must say - he's done a great job on both of the shows. Appealing to the younger consitutency is something that presidential candidates must face, and overcome at every election.

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To promote her book, Full Frontal Feminism. I hope it's a good show, you know that Colbert has a way with the feminists!

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Considering he's already pranked Wikipedia and weaseled his way into online polls aplenty, here at News.com we're actually kind of surprised that Comedy Central talk show host Stephen Colbert took this long to instigate a self-promoting "Google bombing" campaign.

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"Truthiness" coined by Steven Colbert's political satire show has won the word of the year at dictionary.com. And the Contest Organizers are none to happy.

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