Word: jerkingly
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With remarks like “Bill O’Reilly is a big, lying jerk,” liberal radio personality Al Franken ’73 gave a Harvard Square audience a taste of his newest jab at the right last night. Speaking to a group of about 350 attendees at the Charles Hotel, Franken promoted his newest book “The Truth (With Jokes).” While still filled with his traditional political humor, the book is more serious than his previous publications, which at times was reflected in Franken’s speech. Reading...
...them is not small.” But Heymann warned against this attitude. “It is a fundamental mistake to think that the solution is to throw civil liberties out,” he said. “We can’t afford to be knee-jerk about national security...
...didn’t really follow it too much [last season],” says Harvard coach Ted Donato. “Knowing the two of them, my knee-jerk reaction would be that it would be a very bad idea...
...don’t really know how to say this without sounding like a jerk," he adds...
Weirder yet, people like that total jerk. In its first two weeks, Colbert's spoof of opinion shows drew 1.2 million viewers on average (The Daily Show pulls 1.6 million), more than double Comedy Central's rating for the 11:30 p.m. E.T. time slot a year ago. The network last week extended the show's eight-week run to a full year. It's a tribute to how well Colbert, 41, plays his gasbag alter ego--or to how annoyed his viewers are with the real-life gasbags whom he nails right down to their graphics. In the opening...