From The Colbert Report Feb. 10, 2010:

Based on the latest data from the Dopplest 9000 radar, Stephen can only assume that the sun has been destroyed.

From The Colbert Report Feb. 9, 2010:

Chris Dodd proposes a constitutional amendment to prevent elections from becoming the Super Bowl of advertising.

This story reeks of "I'm on deadline, I don't feel like working that hard so I'll just expand this handy list of Republican bullet points and then call a few Democrats for 'balance.'" But then, maybe it's just me:

WASHINGTON — When Republicans take President Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month, they will carry with them a fairly well-developed set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely available and affordable, by emphasizing tax incentives and state innovations, with no new federal mandates and only a modest expansion of the federal safety net.

Umm, excuse me, Mr. Reporter? What do you mean by "fairly well-developed"? And why are you just taking their word for it that their ideas will make health insurance more affordable? Did you, you know, ask any experts?

It is not clear that Republicans and the White House are willing to negotiate seriously with each other, and Mr. Obama has rejected Republican demands that he start from scratch in developing health care legislation.

But Congressional Republicans have laid out principles and alternatives that provide a road map to what a Republican health care bill would look like if they had the power to decide the outcome.

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were writing a press release!

[...] The Republicans rely more on the market and less on government.

Ha ha ha! Oh, I get it now: It's a parody of a press release, like Stephen Colbert!

All kidding aside, is this really journalism? Not by any stretch of the imagination. There's no new information, there's only the Republican insistence on their far-fetched version of reality - which we could just as easily get from Fox News. New York Times, maybe you should put some actual work into these stories if you plan to charge us for them.

Harold Ford Jr. has the musky sack to not only change his address but also his political views.

From The Colbert Report Jan. 18, 2010:

The Massachusetts Senate race is the kind of national election Stephen loves -- the type that gets decided by one state.

From The Colbert Report Jan. 14, 2009:

Your honor was so precious to the banks that they bundled it with other people's honor and sold it to Wall Street honor speculators.

John Heilemann defends his gossip book "Game Change" to Stephen Colbert. Colbert did something I haven't seen anyone in our mainstream media do, which is point out how poorly sourced the book is before Heilemann came on the air.

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Thanks to Harry Reid's comment about Barack Obama, Stephen gets to chant the word "negro."

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Stephen shows how easy it is to connect the dots to the underwear bomber on his T.G.I. Jihad's placemat.

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Every time a young Muslim man arrives at the airport, the TSA should respectfully take him aside and give him an involuntary colonoscopy.

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If Congress doesn't reauthorize the Patriot Act, America's corporations are ready to step in.

TPM has more--How Easy Is It For The Police To Get GPS Data From Your Phone?:

Police can in some cases track cell phone location by merely telling a court that the information is relevant to an investigation, a legal expert tells TPM -- a fact that may partly explain how law enforcement racked up 8 million requests for GPS data from a single wireless carrier in a year.

An increasingly popular and easy-to-access surveillance tool for police, GPS data is not currently protected by the Fourth Amendment, and the standards for gaining access to the information are murky and highly variable. That's partly because one of the statutes that bears on the issue was passed in the mid-1980s, before many of the technologies involved were invented. And Congress hasn't done much to update the law since.

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From The Colbert Report:

Colbert: It takes true political courage for Joe Lieberman to oppose a Medicare buy-in option when he doesn't know what's in it.

Stephen Colbert talks to Matt Taibbi about his reporting on the Wall Street bailouts and Goldman Sach's unprecedented access in Washington. Matt's latest article at Rolling Stone is available on line now--Obama's Big Sellout The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway.

Here's Taibbi discussing his article.

Update: Well this is disappointing. Looks like Taibbi needs a fact-checker.

From The Colbert Report:

The GOP must put moderate Republicans in situations that reveal their true beliefs, like in the movie "Saw."

From The Colbert Report--Bernie Sanders, wonderful as always.