Colbert Interviews Harold Ford Jr.

After naming him last week's Alpha Dog, Stephen Colbert had Harold Ford Jr. on last night to defend some apparent changes in his positions. It turns out transforming from a pro-life, anti-gay right-of-center Tennessean Blue Dog into a dyed in the wool liberal New Yorker doesn't make Ford a flip-flopper after all. It's just like in nature when a caterpillar emerges from its cocoon as a beautiful hippopotamus.

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.

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