by Erik Kain on February 16, 2012
Updated Below What’s happening at Comedy Central? Stephen Colbert’s popular mock-talk-show The Colbert Report has abruptly cancelled taping of this weeks episodes. No reason for the cancellations has been given. A spokesman for the subsidiary has said that “due to unforeseen circumstances, the show will air repeat episodes on Wednesday, February 15 and Thursday, February 16.” [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 18, 2012
According to the Google Politics & Elections page on Google Plus, Colbert is seeing a big spike in search traffic lately. “Over the weekend we posted that searches for Stephen Colbert of the +The Colbert Report saw a 189% jump in South Carolina traffic, while +Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, +Mitt Romney and +Newt Gingrich all saw declines during the [...]
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That’s the premise of my latest piece at The Atlantic: Colbert’s stunt is designed to underscore the problems with these ads and the super PACs funding them, and to point out how the controversial Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, is undermining democracy. In a 5-4 decision in January of 2010, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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