Welcome everyone. Today's going to be a little bit different than normal. I've got a rear-run episode for you,

but it's a special one, one that you should definitely stick around for, and one that actually

deserves an introduction and an explanation, so that's what I'm doing now. In the past few months,

when it was announced that Stephen Colbert was going to be leaving his show on Comedy Central and

moving over to Phil, one of the late night host spots, it sort of reignited a conversation about

what he, as a satirical political pundit, has brought to the political landscape and in the media,

and then also sort of reignited a little bit of discussion of people remembering one of the

biggest splashes he made was when back in 2006, he hosted the White House Correspondence Denner,

and so as all this discussion was happening and people were sort of lamenting that he will be

gone and this character of his will be lost, I thought to myself, I should replay the show that I

made at the time back in 2006 about Stephen Colbert's White House Correspondence Denner hosting,

and so I had that idea and then I promptly forgot it, and then it didn't come back up for a while

until today, and the reason it's coming up today is because at the beginning of this week,

I felt a tiny bit sick, and each day since I felt a little bit worse and a little bit worse,

and sometimes it's a cough, and sometimes it's congestion, and sometimes it's both, and I woke up

today with a terrible headache and aches and pains and sore throat and cough and science congestion,

I thought, I don't remember the last time I did this, if ever, but I'm going to call in sick today,

this is ridiculous. My original plan was to do a Charlie Hebdo episode today, and I just thought,

I cannot do that subject justice, hopped up on de-conjustance and pain killers, so I started looking

around for a rerun to do, we've reminded about the Colbert Correspondence Center episode I thought

today's the day. So as I said, this episode is from May 2006, if you can even believe it,

I only started producing Best of Left in January 2006, so I'd had a full four months of production

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