Colbert Defends His “Mentor”

Stephen Colbert defended his “mentor” last night for the leaked 20-year-old “we’ll do it live!” video of FNC’s Bill O’Reilly when he anchored the “Polk Award winning series,” Inside Edition. Colbert’s take — it was Sting‘s fault. Then, as a defense of O’Reilly, Colbert played his own video, showing an outburst from his time at WPTS in Patterson Spring, North Carolina. Featuring an off camera cameo from a certain broadcast anchor:



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