A Colbert Report
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Was the Late Show too unprofitable, or too political?
Guest: Eric Deggans, NPR TV critic and media analyst, Knight Chair, Journalism and Media Ethics, Washington & Lee University.
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| 1:09.8 | Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been hold up in a cabin near Naples |
| 1:13.6 | for more than a year. |
| 1:15.6 | The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist. |
| 1:20.6 | Randy and his wife Vicki thought the government was an agent of Satan on Earth. |
| 1:25.6 | When it was all over, three people were dead, |
| 1:28.7 | and the government had spent millions of dollars to catch one man. |
| 1:32.8 | We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge unfolded the way it did, |
| 1:36.7 | and think about some of the questions it raises. |
| 1:39.6 | What should we do about white supremacists? |
| 1:43.0 | Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring myth for the far right? |
| 1:47.5 | And whose fault was it anyway? |
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