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Laugh So You Don’t Cry

May 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Tonight’s Colbert Report featured reporter Bob Deans talking about his new book The River Where America Began. Deans was talking about the early emergence of a sort of proto-democracy in colonial Jamestown, with the caveat that it’s not “democracy as we would recognize it,” since (among other things) “there was martial law, there was torture.” Colbert interrupts: “We wouldn’t recognize that.” Big laugh. Deans smiles slightly: “Not in America, no.” The audience cracks up again. I’m laughing too. And then, suddenly, I’m not, at all.

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  • 1 Dave W. // May 24, 2007 at 5:31 am

    At least we are treating the Afghanistanis, Iraqis and Palestinians better than they treated the Algonquian natives. So we got that going for us.