The Colbert Report

Boiling Frog Metaphor

Season 5 • 01/19/2009

Stephen honors President Bush's last day with a frog he's slowly simmered since 2001.

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Intro - 1/19/09
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Stephen celebrates Martin Luther King the way he does every day, by refusing to ride the bus.
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