The Comedy Central host has created his own shell corporation to illustrate how former Bush adviser Karl Rove is able to hide donors to his American Crossroads Super-PAC.
The The Colbert Report namesake owes a lot of his late-night prowess to former colleague and boss, Jon Stewart, whose Daily Show he worked on until 2005 when The Colbert Report was created as a spinoff.
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For Stephen Colbert, Herman Cain is the gift that keeps on giving.
The late night host spent months mocking Cain, a businessman and former GOP presidential candidate, and then appeared with him at a rally in South Carolina back in January. And while the Republican contenders still in the race have given him plenty of material to work with, Colbert jumped at the chance to flex his creative muscle when Cain reemerged with a new — and unusual — commercial.
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Employing a dying goldfish, a little girl and Highlander-esque man on a mountain shot, Cain’s video attacks the economic stimulus that was rushed to save the economy in early 2009. Highlighting and one-upping various cable news hosts’ earnest attempts to describe the spot as a quasi-art film, Colbert gave his own analysis of the piece (which sounds like it was taken from a film school student’s thesis) and then presented his own, even more apocalyptic advertisement.
Included are a fierce little girl, an old man in drag, an Orwellian grandmother and Colbert, peeing off a mountain and into a hazy, wasted, bombed out steppe horizon.
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