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ABC

abortion

Abramoff, Jack

Academic Bill of Rights

academic capitalism

Adams, John

advertising; its role in shaping desire

Affirmative Action

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud

Alexander the Great

Alexander, Shana

America: see Colbert, Stephen; as Colbert’s Euthyphro; and freedom of opinion; higher education and the free market in; and patriotic consumption; as undergoing a Puritanical hangover

American Dialect Society

American Exceptionalism

American Philosophical Association

Americas Watch

Amnesty International

An Inconvenient Truth (documentary)

Anaxagoras

appeal to authority

appeal to consequences

appeal to ignorance

appeal to popularity

Aquinas, Thomas; Summa Theologica

argument from ignorance

Aristophanes

Aristotle; his concept of the “serious man,”

Asim, Jabari; The N-Word (book)

aspect change

atheists

Atlanta Journal-Constitution (newspaper)

avowal

Aykroyd, Dan

Baker, C. Edwin: Media Concentration and Democracy

balls

Bangladesh

Baptists

Barnes and Noble

Bartiromo, Maria

basic cable

Basulto, Dominic

Baudrillard, Jean: The Consumer Society (book)

bears

Begala, Paul

begging the question

Bellingham, Washington

Bentham, Jeremy

Berlin, Isaiah: “Two Concepts of Liberty,”

Bible

Big Secularism

bin Laden, Osama

Bindlestaff, Thomas

Boston Tea Party

Brady Bill

Brady Campaign

Brady, James

Brown, Aaron

Buddhism

Buffett, Jimmy

bullshit; defined; on why it’s so prevalent; as the real target of Colbert’s attack on truthiness

Bush Administration, the

Bush, G.H.W.

Bush, George W. ; a defense of his claim to “know someone’s heart,”

C-SPAN

Canton, Georgia

Canton, Kansas

Canton, Ohio

Canton, South Dakota

Carell, Steve

Carlson, Tucker

Carson, Johnny

Carvaka

categorical imperative, the

Cathcart, Thomas, and Daniel Klein: Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar (book)

Catholic Church

Catholicism

Cavuto, Neil

celebrities

Chaplin, Charlie

character: as shaped by action

Charlie Rose (TV show)

Cheney, Dick

Chomsky, Noam

Christianity

Chrysostom, St. John

circular reasoning

Civil Rights Movement

Clash, The

Clinton, Hillary

Close, Del

CNN

co-operation principle

Colbert Bump, the

Colbert Nation (fansite)

Colbert Nation; the relation between Colbert and the Nation

Colbert Platinum

The Colbert Report: Alan (Stephen’s former “black friend”); Alpha Dog of the Week; Better Know a District; Better Know a Governor; Better Know a Lobby; and cable news; in comparison with Socrates’s “street philosophy”; Formidable Opponent; Green Screen Challenges; Jimmy (The Colbert Report’s fictional director); People Destroying America; as play; Rock and Awe Countdown to Guitarmageddon; Steagle Colbeagle the Eagle; Stephen Jr.; and theories of media consumption; ThreatDown; Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger; —The WØRD;—“Casualty of War,” ;—“Ecu-Menace,” ;—“Facts,” ;—“Free Gas,”—“Lexicon Artist,”;—“Overrated,” ;—“Pencils Down,” ;—“Truthiness”; —“Wikiality” Wriststrong bracelets

Colbert, Stephen: as a more authentic American than George W. Bush; as America’s Id and its Fundamentalist Superstructure; as America’s Plato; as America’s Socrates; on his attitudes toward race; as Catholic; and Catholicism; the character versus the performer; as goddess Folly; I Am America (And So Can You!) ; and improvisational comedy; as the Mozart of bad arguments xii; as Nietzsche’s “super-man,” as patterned after media pundits; Presidential Run; at Princeton; as repressing homosexual tendencies, and the Socratic tradition; as ruthlessly self-consistent; as scandalized by the sex lives of bugs; Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream (ice cream) ; as Sunday school teacher; on what his emergence means

Cold War

Colmes, Alan

colorblind society

colorblindness; see Colbert, Stephen, on his attitudes towards race

Columbine