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Now here's a potential Senator from South Carolina I could support: Stephen Colbert to America: I'm "Honored" and Ready to Serve in the US Senate:

Stephen Colbert has his opening. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), the tea party icon, announced Thursday that he will retire from the US Senate in January, leaving Republican Gov. Nikki Haley the task of handpicking DeMint's immediate successor. A Colbert for Senate Twitter account, @ColbertforSC, sprung up almost immediately, and fans have called for Colbert, the author of such classics as I Am America (And So Can You!) and America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't, to replace DeMint in the hallowed halls of Congress.

Brace yourselves, Colbert Report fans: Colbert, who has made no secret of his desire to hold higher office, says through his publicist that he's ready and willing to step up for his home state. "Stephen is honored by the groundswell of support from the Palmetto State and looks forward to Governor Haley's call," his personal publicist, Carrie Byalick, writes in an email to Mother Jones.

Colbert asked his viewers this Thursday evening to tweet @nikkihaley with the hashtag #SenatorColbert and let her know why she should appoint him to replace wingnut Sen. Jim DeMint. It sure would be nice if he were serious, but I can't imagine Colbert wanting to actually subject himself to the putting up with the idiocy he mocks on a daily basis.

And if anyone wasn't sure what was up with the foot, it's "Hobbit Week" on the Colbert Report.

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Stephen Colbert had a bit of fun with Fox's resident fearmonger-in-chief Glenn Beck on his show this Monday.

TPM has more -- Colbert Pokes Holes In Beck's Egypt Conspiracy Theory With A Mummified Penis (VIDEO):

Stephen Colbert struggled last night to pin down a conspiracy theory good enough to explain the uprising in Egypt. Was it a digital revolution or, as Glen Beck has warned, the first stages of a looming Islamic caliphate?

Or perhaps most sinister of all, was it caused by the curse of King Tut's stolen manhood?

Colbert rolled a clip from Beck's program last week in which the Fox News host used Egypt as a launching point to argue that the Middle East and then ultimately the world would be brought under a new communist Islamic world order. Though Beck hedged that he couldn't say for sure if or when that would all happen, Colbert said that made the theory even more dangerous.

"The conspiracies that we know are coming but might never happen are the most dangerous," Colbert said, "because if they might never happen, how will we know if we stopped it?"

Not to be outdone by Beck's theory, Colbert then introduced one of his own. Linking the uprising to the legendary curse of King Tut, Colbert speculated that it was really a huge cover up initiated by the same dark forces behind the mystery of the "pharoah's pilfered phallus."

My favorite lines from the clip.

And sure Occam's razor says the simplest answer is usually correct. But fortunately, Glenn Beck isn't allowed near razors.

O'Reilly doesn't buy Beck's conspiracy. To him, this situation is understandable, unlike the tides. But, if in fact, if it's not Code Pink and Islamists and Communists, then who is behind this uprising in Egypt?

From The Colbert Report April 12, 2010:

Stephen wants to know where the WikiLeaks guys are located and how soon the Pentagon can reach them with a Predator drone.

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Senator Max Baucus will pay for your medical bills from the $3.2 million he's received from the health care industry.

September 15, 2009 Comedy Central The Colbert Report

The Word - Let Freedom Ka-Ching

Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

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Barney Frank has no interest in arguing with a dining room table, but he can't stifle the voice of American furniture on Stephen's watch.

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Stephen thanks Orly Taitz for being one of the few people willing to compare the Obama administration to Nazi Germany.

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From The Colbert Report April 15, 2009.

Stephen Colbert takes President Obama to task for his decision to preserve the habeas corpus policy of the Bush administration at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.

Colbert: You see, the President is fighting a federal court's ruling that the detainees at Afghanistan's Bagram Air Force Base have the right to habeas corpus. That they have the right to challenge their detention. But he's just following the long-standing principle of American justice: guilty until proven forgotten about. That is essentially the same stance taken by George Bush with one important difference: Obama makes the kids like it.

Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they've got detained over there did something really unforgiveable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitional law. That is cold.

Stephen Colbert is correct to criticize the President for this. We need to support the President when he's right and not act like the right wing did with Bush and their blind support of him no matter what, and call him out when he's wrong.