• scoobford@piefed.blahaj.zone
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          His last show was the Colbert Report on Comedy Central. He pretended to be an arch-neocon as a bit, which was not only hilarious but also resulted in several high profile right wingers eating the onion.

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            His character (also named Stephen Colbert) was specifically and primarily based on Bill O’Reilly, who was not pretending. It’s why Stephen often referred to Bill as “Papa Bear”

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            I always find the term eating the onion amusing. Especially as a Australian where we had a conservative Prime Minister bite into and eat a raw onion like an apple.