
“I think of him as well intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot.”
On his character in The Colbert Report, in an interview on 60 Minutes http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/27/60minutes/main1553506.shtml (30 April 2006)
"Colbert spoofs cable news on Daily Show spinoff" Associated Press report (31 October 2005)
“I think of him as well intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot.”
On his character in The Colbert Report, in an interview on 60 Minutes http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/27/60minutes/main1553506.shtml (30 April 2006)
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 4, “The Value of Suffering” (p. 83)
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
Ma Ying-jeou (2014) cited in: " No plans to promote use of simplified characters: Ma http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/01/02/2003580339" in Taipei Times, 2 January 2014.
Statement made during a calligraphy activity in Grand Hotel in Taipei, 1 January 2014.
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Letter to James Madison, 30 November 1785 https://books.google.com/books?id=64MTAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25
1780s
The Glenn Beck Program, January 23, 2008 http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/4897/
2000s, 2006-2009
“Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.”
RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)
“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms