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Stephen Colbert (Ahem) Supports (Wink Wink) Pete Sessions's "Insurgency" Remarks

February 11, 2009 7:07AM

Last week, Rep. Pete Sessions had to be interrupted by an aide during an interview with the National Journal when he just couldn't stop putting the words "insurgency," "Republican Party" and "Taliban" in the same sentences. Which is how Sessions, makin' the 32nd District proud, wound up as the subject of Stephen Colbert's "The Word" segment last night.

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