My all-time favorite TV show ever is the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I consume that show like a crack addict. (Those of you who know I don’t have TV will find that interesting, to you I say welcome to the world of hulu.) However, I sometimes run out of daily show to watch, and it is in these cases that I resort to the Colbert Report.

It was while watching the Oct. 23 episode of the Colbert Report that I saw an interesting sketch about the National Hummer Club (beware, this site is ugly . . . almost as ugly as a hummer). The sketch was shot in the style of a serious film about conservation, with such notable quotes as “if we can save the hummer, we can save America.” But what really caught my attention was this gem, implying that driving a hummer is the epitome of American patriotism: “If that’s not patriotic, I don’t know what is.”

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