Jon checks with Doris Kearns Goodwin whether he was right about Abraham Lincoln (daring to work with people that disagreed with him), or if neoconservative ambassador Jon Bolton was.
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An excerpt from the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. Comedian Stephen Colbert made humorous remarks about various current events and the relationship between the press and the White House. He also presented a video of a mock press conference which ended in a chase scene featuring long-time correspondent Helen Thomas.
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“Iraqi ministries lacked good payroll records”
On Thursday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart lampooned former US Iraq consul Paul Bremer — who somehow managed to lose $12 billion in cash. Said Democrat Henry Waxman (D-CA) of the US effort to send so much money to Iraq, “To do that, the Federal Reserve Bank had to pack 281 million individual bills… This money, mainly $100 bills was packed into bricks and each brick was worth $400,000 each… The cash weighed more than 363 tons.”
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Bill O’Reilly (the Radio Factor, the O’Reilly factor) sees Stephen’s sarcasm flying by and misses most punchlines.
“The difference between imitation and emulation”
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Stephen Colbert explains: AT&T is the T1000 of corporations. No matter how many pieces you break it in to, it always comes back together.
AT&T = Cingular+BellSouth+SBC+Ameritech
The much feared double wag of the finger:
The iPhone has given the nerd community its hardest collective wood since Princess Leah wore a bronze bikini. But you haven’t engorged me, Apple, I’m flaccid with rage!
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