Colbert Channels 'Dr. Strangelove' To Solve Park51 Dilemma (VIDEO)

Last night on "The Report," Stephen Colbert focused his "The Word" segment on Terry Jones's attempted Quran burning and the planned Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. Colbert feels that whether we burn the Quran or build a mosque, the only thing that will stop terrorists from attacking us is a plan straight out of the script of "Dr. Strangelove."

First, Colbert showed his resentment for people like Sarah Palin speaking out against the burning of the Quran by likening it to the planned park51 Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. "Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it," Colbert said. "Ground Zero is a sacred site. How DARE they build a house of worship there?"

While Jones claimed to call off the Quran burning because Imam Rauf said he wouldn't build the Islamic center, Rauf said that NOT building it will send a message to Muslim nations that Islam is under attack in America. On the other hand, Sean Hannity said building it will send the message that Americans are submitting to foreign pressures. So what's the right thing to do?

Doing his best Peter Sellers impression, Colbert provided a solution from the cold war era film "Dr. Strangelove," involving a doomsday machine covered with a certain holy book, that will only be detonated if a certain cultural center is built. The solution, and the impression, were really quite brilliant.

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[Hardyman1966]

12:29 AM on 09/20/2010

Peter Sellers is giggling somewhere, I assure you...

[liberaldawg]

09:17 AM on 09/18/2010

Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones.

[WardC]

12:39 AM on 09/18/2010

There's going to a terrible run on Dr. Strangelove at NetFlix.

[MSP79]

07:16 AM on 09/17/2010

Colbert for president!

[opprobrious]

10:48 PM on 09/16/2010

This is my personal favorite of pretty much everything he's ever done.

[markburn]

10:07 AM on 09/16/2010

I guess the movie 'Dr. Strangelove' will get the Colbert bump.
There are a lot of people who want to see the movie now.

[Badger84]

03:17 AM on 09/16/2010

Zat vas wunderbar.

[vigwig]

02:29 AM on 09/16/2010

And they didn't give this man an Emmy, again? WTF ?

[Hooty owl]

01:00 AM on 09/16/2010

Brilliant. Oh man.

[thegoodspeed]

12:47 AM on 09/16/2010

impressive!

[cameron d]

12:40 AM on 09/16/2010

Genius, pure genius.

[RasputinsLiver]

12:21 AM on 09/16/2010

Absofreekin'lutely brilliant!

Stephen, you and your crew 've been faned and faved in my mind.

[Ira Meyers]

11:30 PM on 09/15/2010

Steven, that was brilliant. Peter Sellers himself would have told you. LOL Best Movie of all times.
And protect your precious body fluids.

[Dbos]

05:05 PM on 09/19/2010

"I refuse to give them my essences.'

[BulgyLamb]

10:10 PM on 09/15/2010

Now then Dimitri. You know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb... The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now what happened is, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little... funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes... to attack your country... Well let me finish, Dimitri. Let me finish, Dimitri... Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dimitri? Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... Of course I like to speak to you. Of course I like to say hello. Not now, but any time, Dimitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a friendly call. Of course it's a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn't friendly, ... you probably wouldn't have even got it. They will not reach their targets for at least another hour. I am... I am positive, Dimitri. Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick.

[DoesNotComputer]

09:50 PM on 09/15/2010

Can that 18th Century pastor guy pronounce any foreign word properly? Moslim. Iman.

Also, Dr. Strangelove is the single greatest film of all time.