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Stephen Colbert Earns Wag of the Finger

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It has come to our attention that talk show host Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report has suggested on multiple occasions that bears are a "threat" to America as part of his bit - "the Threatdown."  Well guess what, Mr. Colbert, we are going to BLOW YOUR MIND: Not only are bears not a threat, looks like polar bears may actually be listed as threatENED.

Fasten your seatbelts: it's going to be a truthful ride!

That's right.  We teamed up with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Biological Diversity and sued the pants off of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (figuratively speaking, they still have pants) to list the polar bear as a threatened species.  But the Fish and Wildlife Service was clearly afraid of our awesome power and is considering our claim before ever stepping foot in a courtroom.

Mr. Colbert can put Greenpeace in the "dead to me" column if he can't deal with our advocacy, but we intend to fight for all bears, everywhere.  Mr. Colbert's silly fear of bears is wimpy and un-American.  If he needs a REAL threat for his threatdown, he should try global warming.

Oh, and by the way, after our 10-year campaign, the Canadian government announced it is going to protect the Great Bear Rainforest from logging and other destruction.  The forest is so named because it is one of the last grizzly strongholds in the world.  We're making sure that Yogi and Pooh will be around long after the Colbert Nation crumbles.  Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Comments (9)

  • Permalink Andy on February 19, 2006
    I think that since the talk show is a parody of the O'reilly Factor, its more of a joke than anything.
  • Permalink Dale VanCleef on February 20, 2006
    It seems to me that most of this story was also "a joke more than anything." Using Cobert-type humor to jab at Cobert is a fun way to deliver the message.
  • Permalink Chris on February 22, 2006
    Yeah, it's just too bad that this wasn't very funny
  • Permalink Kent on February 24, 2006
    Somewhere in there, must have a hidden joke, right?
    I get the Colbert Report's brand of humor, maybe this needs some video
    to get the humor to come out. Or maybe, it's just lame and sadly not funny or informative. Yeah, that's it.
  • Permalink Jim Earthling Moore on February 27, 2006
    There's no humor in loss of animal habitat, mercury poisoning, animal exploitation, nuclear fallout and everything else Greenpeace fights. You commentators are nowhere!
  • Permalink steph lessard on February 28, 2006

    you know honstley who really watches his show anyway that shows the amount of talent he has so for him to make a commet about the bears i wouldn't worry about it because he may on the out of a job list...
  • Permalink Kelsie on March 10, 2006
    yeah, Steven Colbert wasn't that funny aways. I don't like his humor.
  • Permalink Jeff on March 13, 2006
    I like Steven Colbert's show is rather funny, and i think who ever wrote this needs to realize that the colbert report is satire and is not to be taken to literally at all. I do agree with what you are trying to do I just think attacking Steven Colbert is a little rediculous.
  • Permalink Adam on March 13, 2006
    This is like when Al Sharpton was bothered by the Martin Luther King episode of The Boondocks.

    Did you watch the show?
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