Stephen Colbert and Laura Ingraham Discuss Her "Terrible" "Racist" New York Times Bestseller

In this very special clip from last night's The Colbert Report, Fox News' Laura Ingraham — the not-author of New York Times Bestseller The Obama Diaries, a collection of personal writings of the President and his family that were not actually written by Ingraham — sits down to discuss, as Stephen puts it (right to her face), the book's "terrible" writing with "the most banal turns of phrase" and "the most hideous, hackneyed racial stereotypes."

There's about sixty seconds of this interview that are as good as anything that has ever been on television. Well, basic cable anyway…

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

Tags: Barack Obama, Books, Fox, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Obama, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

Laura Ingraham's New Book Is Why the Word "Hilarious" Was Invented by Comedy Scientists

Oh my! Will you look at this fresh-off-the-presses piece of droll political satire from Laura Ingraham. The Obama Diaries — a make-believe collection of diary entries written by President Obama, his family and members of his administration — is simply too much! It's almost as if the guys who made Scary Movie and  Meet the Spartans! decided to go into fictional, right-wing political commentary. Really! It's that good! Check out this "excerpt" from the First Lady's diary…

Honestly, I think we've done all we can for the Gulf Coast. On my way out of town I even stopped by the Pink Pelican Ice Cream Bar to enjoy a luscious treat called the "Chocolate Hurricane." (I have to remember to e-mail Ray Nagin about that one.) After my visit, there will be lines around that ice cream joint for decades–and who knows, by then they might have even capped that oil spill.

But in the meantime, they might want to consider renaming the place the "Brown Pelican Ice Cream Bar." And to think, earlier today, I told the NAACP that, "Dessert is not a right." I stand by that. It's not a right. When I'm working this hard, it's a necessity! LOL!

LOL is right! I am Laugh Out Loud-ing all over the place after reading that! This book is pretty much making Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift throw up all over themselves in their graves with jealousy. Johannes Gutenberg is up in Heaven right now saying, "I had no idea that anything so beautiful, hilarious and obviously not thrown together in a quick six-week writing jag could ever have been produced with my humble little invention." Jesus is on his cell phone on some underwater golf course in Atlantis telling Bigfoot that this book is why he gave dominion of the Earth to humans instead of bigfeet.

And look, even NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez — who has never been known to have ridiculous opinions ever before — is in agreement…

It's parody meets brutal reality; it's more truthful than the health-care campaigning this administration and its acolytes have engaged in regarding Obamacare… The Obama Diaries is actually two books in one — a rallying call to action in the tradition of her previous Power to the People and a clever, entertaining, let’s-laugh-instead-of-cry-while-we-keep-fighting summer read from a woman who's done a bit of successful fighting in her life.

What are you waiting for? Go out and buy it right now before everybody else uses up all the laughter.

Update: This one comment from Matt has more Laugh Out Loud in its little finger than my whole 160,000 word post has in its whole body…

Satire is to Laura Ingraham as gangster rap is to Laura Ingraham.

That's pretty much all anybody needs to know in life.

Tags: Barack Obama, Books, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Obama

Jon Stewart Plays Six Degrees of George W. Bush

The Fox News crowd is predictably appalled that anyone would pass some blame for the Gulf oil spill onto George W. Bush. But as Jon Stewart pointed out on last night's Daily Show, they were more than glad to fault Bill Clinton anytime something went awry during the Bush administration. Of course, blaming Bush and blaming Clinton are both incredibly unfair. Because all this stuff, from 9/11 to Katrina to both recessions, is obviously William Henry Harrison's fault.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Tags: 9/11, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Dick Morris, Economy, Energy & Oil, Fox, George W. Bush, Gulf Coast, Jon Stewart, Laura Ingraham, Recession, Rudy Giuliani, Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy, The Daily Show, Video, William Henry Harrison

Stephen Colbert on the Violation of BP's Cash-titutional Rights

It's really heartwarming to see so many of Joe Barton's friends — like Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Ben Stein and Rep. Michele Bachmann — lining up alongside Barton and BP and opposing the American government they've all been speaking out against for so these years…

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

Tags: Animals, Barack Obama, Ben Stein, Bill of Rights, BP, Constitution, Energy & Oil, Guantanamo Bay, House of Representatives, Joe Barton, Laura Ingraham, Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, Stephen Colbert, Texas, The Colbert Report, Tony Hayward

Rep. Joe Barton Gets Some Support from an Unlikely (Very Likely) Source

You'll be happy to know that the right-wing pundosphere totally has Joe Barton's back.

Thank God! I was really worried about that guy's feelings.

Tags: BP, Brian Kilmeade, Energy & Oil, Environment, Fox, House of Representatives, Joe Barton, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Money, Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, Steve Doocy, Tony Hayward