Max Gladwell

Stewart and Colbert double team climate change deniers with a satirical approach that ends in a world of eternal darkness. Our most popular post by traffic criticized both sides of the climate change debate for faulty reasoning. The logic typically goes like this: It’s unseasonably cold and snowing, therefore global warming is a myth. Or, [...]

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The Colbert Report on the bailout of U.S. automakers: Season of Giving. “Instead of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we’re giving to Ford, Chrysler, and GM.” We’ve written plenty about GM’s strategic mistakes and the pending bailout of Detroit’s Big 3 automakers, which started back in early September. We recognized that GM was heeding the wake-up [...]

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Stephen Colbert gets into bed with Big Oil and celebrates the lifting of the ban on offshore drilling with a new ad campaign. Now that the Congressional ban on offshore drilling has been lifted, Stephen Colbert and the Prescott Oil Company wants to drill, baby, drill. Colbert hailed the lifting of the ban as a [...]

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The Colbert Report interviews GM Vice Chairman and global warming skeptic Bob Lutz on the new 2011 Chevy Volt. Bob Lutz is GM’s Vice Chairman and one of the world’s more high-profile global warming skeptics. Stephen Colbert invites him on the show to talk about the recently unveiled 2011 Chevy Volt. Lutz mentions that one [...]

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart calls McCain on offshore drilling double-talk and offers some comic relief for the financial crisis. The U.S. House of Representatives passed an energy bill compromise that lifts the ban on offshore drilling. This is similar to the bill being hammered out in the Senate that we fundamentally support. Of [...]

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