Stephen Colbert for Senate?
December 8, 2012
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as posted by the channel"Thursday's surprise announcement that Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) would be taking his leave of that body and moving to a slightly different part of Washington, to run the Heritage Foundation opened up an unexpected power vacuum in the Senate. And, as the state of South Carolina was involved, it didn't take long before everyone realized that one of the first things to fill that vacuum would be the comic stylings of noted Palmetto State pretend-pundit, Stephen Colbert. (The way it worked was that first, everyone on Twitter made the requisite Alvin Greene jokes, before moving on to talking about the Comedy Central host's certain riff on the matter.)"*
Stephen Colbert joked he should replace outgoing Senator Jim Demint (R-S.C.) and that he should be appointed by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's (R). But is it really that crazy of an idea? Cenk Uygur, Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) mull over the possibility.
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