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VIDEO: Kyl skewered for ‘not intended as factual’ slam on Planned...

Cable TV news satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert mocked Arizona Senator Jon Kyl Monday for the way he overstepped in making the case against Planned Parenthood on the floor of the Senate last week. Kyl's wild exaggeration about Planned Parenthood and abortion, however, served to underline the distortions at the heart of the broader campaign waged against Planned Parenthood since January.

Colbert, by choice, can’t quite bring himself to leave Ken Buck...

One would think that with Colorado's Senate seat safely in Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet's hands, the funny boys on Comedy Central would leave Republican...

Rally to Restore Sanity works — thousands now much calmer

The Rally to Restore Sanity drew tens of thousands to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and maybe a couple of thousand to Civic...

Daily Show comes to Denver for a Saturday kick in the...

OK. It's finally time for a little sanity. From now until the election, all candidates have agreed to run only positive ads, to disavow...

Colbert dices Buck on the gays: ‘He can’t help it; he...

The U.S. media has largely embraced homosexuality as a naturally occurring healthy variation of human sexuality, which makes Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck...

Colbert tells Congress how he tried and failed to take an...

Now that Senate Democrats have indicated that they will not vote on whether to extend the Bush tax cuts before midterm elections, the biggest...

Who’s in charge? The Beck/Colbert West Point speech military org chart

The President's West Point speech on Afghanistan pleased some of the people a lot; a lot of the people a little; and a lot...

Humor of Polis ‘Colbert Report’ segment lost on Post reporter

Apparently somebody forgot to tell the Denver Post that Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” on Comedy Central is satire. Initially acknowledging the “TV funnyman” is a...

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis: On your corner and on your screen

Second District Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis held a Congress on Your Corner event yesterday in Boulder. He also appeared in a taped segment...

Fox News ranter Glenn Beck to launch ‘Common Sense’ comic tour...

Fox News star Glenn Beck will kick off a six-city comedy tour in Denver, The Associated Press reports. "[We] might as well laugh a little before Comrade Obama has us all wearing fur hats and waiting in line to buy toilet paper," announces Beck's Web site. Beck says he's decided to hit the road this summer because President Barack Obama has his "head feeling like it's about ready to explode each and every day."