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A Famous Conservative Edits Romney's "Inelegance"

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"Money Equals Speech" -- So There!

Apparently, it takes a public clown to highlight the idiocy and corruption of our political process, the Citizens United, corporations-are-people, money-is-speech rabbit hole that our democracy disappeared down some time ago.

Thank Gawd Stephen Colbert is willing to go where no actual politician will tread (except for Elizabeth Warren!).

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It does take some quite-change ventriloquism to adequately capture the Herman Cain Philosophy! Might we call it The Herman Cain (Self) Mutiny?

Colbert Mocks Wake School Board While Kissell, Shuler Mock Kissell, Shuler

Stephen Colbert used the Wake County Board of Education as the main object lesson in a segment on The Colbert Report last night -- "The Word -- Disintegration." And the N&O duly covered it.

And Dem Reps Larry Kissell and Heath Shuler announced that they would not vote to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act today, despite the fact that they both voted against it originally. "Back then we were dorks," they said. "Now we're not dorks." The N&O duly covered it.

Colbert Takes Washington

Not sure which was actually funnier, Stephen Colbert's 5-min. statement this morning before the House Judiciary subcommittee on immigration ("I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American. And sliced by a Guatemalan, and served by a Venezuelan, in a spa, where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.") ... or the looks on the faces of the Republican members of the committee, particularly Steve King (R-Iowa).

At one point Colbert requested that a video of his colonoscopy be submitted into the Congressional record. Congressman King at that moment looked as though he were having a colonoscopy, without benefit of fentanyl.

Despite his deadpan delivery as a blowhard Bill O'Reilly (but I repeat myself), Colbert's satire highlights the human cost of the mixed messages on our southern border: Stay Out! and Please Come Do Our Field Work!

Who's In?

Dueling D.C. rallies/marches on Oct. 30th ... Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" (a.k.a., "Million Moderate March") or Stephen Colbert's rival "March to Keep Fear Alive."

This just may be the ONLY place to be on October 30th.

First one to organize a bus from Watauga County will get ... let's see ... something moderately frightful, just in time for Halloween.