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Newsweek has a great profile of Stephen Colbert and the "Report" (it's French, bitch)-

The Truthiness Teller-

Stephen Colbert loves this country like he loves himself. Comedy Central's hot news anchor is a goofy caricature of our blustery culture. But he's starting to make sense.

He's becoming quite popular:

And Colbert—a man who once declared, "Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you"—has become the age's semiofficial pundit. A congressman from Georgia asked him to be his guest at the State of the Union address. (He declined.) Someone at the Pentagon just invited him to lunch. (Ditto.) That's heady stuff for a guy whose show reaches just 1.1 million or so viewers a night—and stuff's about to get even headier. In April, Colbert will perform at the White House correspondents' dinner, where he'll stand next to—and poke fun at—the president himself. "I'm so excited," Colbert says, "I'm going to levitate." Which is exactly what you'd expect from someone filled with hot air.

Apparently, GOP Rep. Jack Kingston even sent a memo after his interview telling fellow Republicans to do the show.

And what does 'Papa Bear' think of the show?:

Even Colbert's most obvious targets don't mind being mocked. "He does it without being mean-spirited, which is a refreshing change," says Fox News anchor O'Reilly. "Ninety percent of them are just vicious and they use their platform to injure people, but it doesn't seem that Colbert does that." Does he see himself in Colbert's character? "Yeah, sure," O'Reilly says. "The formula of his program is, they watch the 'Factor' and they seize upon certain themes that work for him. He ought to be sending me a check every week, 'cause we're basically the research for his writers. I feel it's a compliment."

Now that's surreal.

And this picture is just amazing-