Colbert: AP Is “No. 1 Threat Facing America”

Quoting the AP:

“Stung by a recent Associated Press article that didn’t credit him for coining the word ‘truthiness,’ Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has struck back.

The world’s oldest news organization, Colbert says, is the ‘No. 1 threat facing America.’

On Wednesday evening, Colbert placed the AP atop the Threat Down segment of ‘The Colbert Report’ show. What was No. 2?

Bears.”

Colbert referred to the AP omission as a “journalistic travesty…”

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