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Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, And John Edwards All Get The Colbert Bump
Published 4/18/2008 at Cinema Blend Television
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Clinton, Obama, Edwards On Colbert [Publicity Stunts]
Published 4/18/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
If you want to be president these days, it's not enough to have an appealing platform, strong public speaking skills or even to look polished on television. You also have to prove you're at least slightly cool. Blame Bill Clinton for blowing the saxophone on Arsenio Hall in 1992. It's a measure of how important this yardstick has become that both Democratic presidential candidates showed up on Colbert Report last night, plus third-place John Edwards, who has been out of the race for months. Hillary Clinton was funny in a skit in which she fixes a video screen, even if she didn't find the breakthrough ...

You Can Be Funny, or You Can Be President
Published 4/18/2008 at TIME.com: Tuned In
April 18, 2008 9:34 You Can Be Funny, or You Can Be President As Al Gore discovered, your political loss can be your media career's gain. John Edwards appeared on The Colbert Report—along with current candidates Clinton and Obama—and he absolutely killed. (At last, the voice of the white man is heard!) There is a limit to how laugh-out-loud funny an active candidate can be: you can be wry, or self-deprecating, or maybe sarcastic, but there are built-in limits to how much fun you can have with your image, and the line between joke and gaffe is too treacherous. Edwards, on the other hand, was free to be funny. The details, and Clinton and Obama's videos, after ...

Clinton, Obama, Edwards on The Colbert Report
Published 4/18/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
Last night on The Colbert Report , Hillary Clinton , Barack Obama , and third place finisher John Edwards all made cameos to hem and haw and show the world that they are real live people with senses of humor and personalities. Ironically, it was Barack, the candidate who most closely resembles a real life person with a sense of humor and a personality, who came off stiffest though he alone appeared via satellite and was thus inherently disadvantaged. Hillary got a few chuckles, but who knew Edwards could deliver a monologue so effectively? His self-deprecating bit about throwing his support behind the candidate most likely to give him a Jet Ski stole the show. ...

Barack Obama Puts Manufactured Distraction On Notice
Published 4/18/2008 by Aaron Weber at TV with MeeVee
Manufactured political distractions: You are officially on notice!