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Colbert Blasts The Morning Shows: Sawyer, Lauer, Tapper - Everyone Gets It

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Yesterday, both GMA and Today ran segements on the Colbert Report's "Better Know A District" feature wherein Stephen Colbert gets congressmen to act like idiots and say embarrassing things like "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do." Besides the fact that it's hilarious that they both chose yesterday morning to run near-identical segments, it provided fantastic fodder for Colbert & Co. to unleash on the morning shows bigtime. The clip is long, and worth every second. Typical of Colbert, it's not only hilarious but dead on. Favorite from ABC & NBC, just to be fair:

Jake Tapper, ABC: "But with the reputation-damaging risk associated with an appearance on the Colbert Report, why do politicians keep going on the show?"
Matt Lauer, NBC: "Do you really need to wait a half hour after you eat to go swimming?"

We never did find out the answer to that question, but presumably cocaine is a fun thing to do.