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Keith Olbermann had on his program the “surviving” members of Monty Python this week. Olbermann said Terry Gilliam asked him about a statement Colin Powell made in 2007 about the “terror industrial complex,” a phrase Powell used in an interview with GQ. Apparently the only reporter to ask Powell about those remarks were staffers at the Oklahoma Daily, OU’s student paper. Score one for the little student guys.

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