The biggest names in fake news give it to you straight. Get a taste of Maureen Dowd’s probing piece — and tune in Wednesday for a peek at the cover image and an excerpt of the full story, in the issue that hits stands nationwide Friday.
- Colbert on truthiness: “I make up facts left and right . . . Liberals will come on the show and say, ‘Well, conservatives want this to be a theocracy.’ And I’ll say, ‘Well, why not, the Founding Fathers were all Fundamentalist Christians.’ And they’ll say, ‘No, they weren’t.’ I say, Yes, they were. And, ladies and gentlemen, if I’m wrong I will eat your encyclopedias.”
- Stewart on taking political satire too far: “Here’s the way I look at it. Bush has uranium bunker busters, and I have puns. I think he’ll be okay.”
- Colbert on Watergate: “I have tender feelings for Nixon, because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn’t like the Watergate trials ’cause they interrupted The Munsters.
- Stewart on the ease of riffing on earnest politician Barrack Obama: “His dad was a goat herder! I’d rather make fun of somebody who is wearing their humble beginnings on their sleeve than somebody who has created a situation where casualties are involved.”
- Colbert on meeting Bill O’Reilly: “He was very nice. He said, ‘I like you. You know why? You’re not mean-spirited like most of ‘em.’ And I thought, ‘Take me now, Jesus.’ I was so thrilled.”
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