Open Wide Baby Bird, Mama's Got A Fat Nightcrawler Of Truth

To say that "The Colbert Report" has exceeded my expectations would be an understatement. Stephen Colbert's completely in-character take on O'Reilly and all the other partisan pundits of cable news is just pure genius, and "jujitsu satire" (as the NY Times said). From the opening 'The Word' take on the news to recurring segments like the "Threatdown" (bears, you're on notice), "Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger", and his 435-part "Better Know A District" series, it's non-stop laughter.

Mr. Colbert may be getting his most press yet because his use of the word "truthiness" on his show, which the American Dialect Society named word of the year. The AP article about that didn't mention Colbert and so, good news bears, Colbert informed the AP that they are now the "No. 1 threat facing America". Colbert has been leading a mock, O'Reilly-esque crusade against the AP. Some may note that the term had been in the dictionary before Colbert used it for his show, but as he said- "You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut."

Proving they do have a good sense of humor, the AP has picked up the story:
Colbert: AP the Biggest Threat to America

Stung by a recent Associated Press article that didn't credit him for coining the word "truthiness," Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert has struck back...

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("A Glaring Omission" is the original segment on this)

Hopefully his phone call to professor Michael Adams will be up soon.