Tag Archives: Stephen Colbert

Juan Cole, Leni Sinclair, and the YpsiGlow project …on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | September 22, 2016

The Saturday Six Pack will be back on the air this weekend, and it has all the makings of a great show. Our first guest will be esteemed University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole. An expert on the Middle East, Cole came to be a household name shortly after 9/11, as our nation geared […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Detroit, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adriana Zardus, Detroit Artists Workshop, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Festifools, FoolMoon, Geore Bush, Iraq war, Isreal, Jeri Rosenberg, jihad, John Sinclair, Juan Cole, Leni Sinclair, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, Middle East, SDS, The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East, White Panther Party, WonderFool Productions, YpsiGLOW | 4 Comments

The somewhat more real Stephen Colbert introduces himself to America by way of Monroe public access television

By Mark | July 1, 2015

When it was first announced that David Letterman would be retiring and that Stephen Colbert would be leaving the satirical Colbert Report to take his place at the helm of the Late Show on CBS, a lot of people, myself included, wondered how he would navigate the transition from fictional conservative pundit to something more […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Pop Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Colbert Report, David Letterman, Eminem, giant checks, Jerry's Frenchtown Bar and Grill, Late Show, Letterman, Michigan, Monroe, MPACT, Only in Monroe, other Mark Maynards, public access television | 16 Comments

Donald Trump v. Stephen Colbert on balls, mouths, October surprises

By Mark | October 25, 2012

Damn it, Stephen Colbert, you magnificent bastard. I’d vowed that I wasn’t going to mention Donald Trump’s latest in a long a line of pathetic, racist, conspiracy-laden stunts directed toward the President, and then you come along, jump into the fray, insert your balls, and make it absolutely irresistible… Enjoy! BACKGROUND: For the past several […]

Posted in Media, Politics | Also tagged allegations, ball gargling, balls, birther, challenges, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorist, divorce, Donald Trump, insinuation, Larry Flynt, Obama, October surprise, P.T. Barnum, Romney, Romney's taxes, startling non-revelations | 11 Comments

Hoekstra advocates for the repeal of the 17th Amendment, suggesting that Washington insiders and special interests could do a better job of picking our senators

By Mark | August 20, 2012

Our favorite race-baiting candidate for Senate, Pete Hoekstra, is in the national spotlight again. This time it’s for comments he made concerning the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, which, as you may remember from sixth-grade history class, passed in 1913, allowing American citizens the opportunity to directly elect their Senators by popular vote. (Prior to […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics | Also tagged Clarkcast, Constitutional amendments, election, election reform, legitimate rape, Pete Hoekstra, Senate, Seventeenth Amendment, states rights, Todd Akin | 5 Comments

Stewart and Colbert on the debt ceiling “compromise”

By Mark | August 2, 2011

Here, for those of you without basic cable, is what Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert had to say about the so-called compromise. The Daily Show – Dealageddon! – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering CompromiseGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political […]