“Mayor Nagin is here from New Orleans, the chocolate city… Mayor Nagin, I'd like to welcome you to Washington D. C., the chocolate city with a marshmallow center, and a graham cracker crust of corruption. It's a Mallomar I guess is what I'm describing.”

—  Stephen Colbert

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)

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