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Westboro Hate Group Blames Boston’s Same Sex Marriage For Bombs

Westboro Baptist Church, a small anti-gay, anti-Semite group of haters based in Hell, I mean Kansas, came out of their hole yesterday, just hours after the Boston bombings, to damn us all. I saw that they had just released a statement which will be made into flyers, saying they plan to picket the funerals of those who died in the Boston bombs. On their site, GodHatesFags.com, they claim have picketed over 50,000 funerals. Yesterday, they said the Boston bombings were due to Boston’s equal-marriage laws — except that’s not what they called the laws. This despicable group couldn’t even wait one day after the tragedy without damning the three victims who have died, including an eight-year-old boy. Westboro Baptist Church got on Twitter within hours to spew their special brand of hate, throughout social media and the world. That’s what they do.

[Note: as of this writing their site with the statement above was down...]

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Gun ‘Enthusiasts’ Respond To Boston Marathon Bombings By Demanding More Guns

Before the smoke had even cleared, gun massacre advocates took to Facebook to declare their love of guns and how any attempts to regulate them is treasonous. Oh, yeah, some people got killed and I feel bad BUT DON’T YOU TAKE MY GUNS! I went through the first 50 Senators’ Facebook pages to see the first batch of responses to the bombing. Most hadn’t commented yet but some did. Several of those pages had reader comments that were of shared grief and concern. But then there were the other pages. Those were filled with all kinds of rage and hate. The gun nuts were less than concerned about the dead and injured and more with making sure no one could touch their precious guns. Unsurprisingly, the majority of that anger showed up on Republican pages.

I didn’t bother deleting their names because it’s in a public forum and some people should be ashamed of themselves:

John McCain: My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Boston and everyone involved with the marathon.

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Dave Poole You share responsibility with the demoRATs and other RINOs for selling Aerica out and making us an easy target.

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Chuck Pullen Maybe we should make bombs illegal too?

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Mary Lab Your too worried about taking our 2nd admentment rights away, and making illegals

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Michael F. Bennet (D): There are many Coloradans running the Boston Marathon today. Our thoughts are with the victims and first responders dealing with this tragedy. Use this Red Cross website to search for loved ones and list yourself as safe.

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Larry W. Williams Here are the 46 senators, who are enemies of The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, that voted to give your rights to the U.N. (I skipped the names in the interests of space)

These Senators, enemies of The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, who voted to let the UN take our guns. They need to lose the election. We have been betrayed. These 46 Senators Voted to Give your 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights to the U.N.

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John Wray Sad sad sad, but the HUGE divide in this country will rear it’s head more and more. People are frustrated with a government that is dominated by liberals and totally out of touch with the majority of the country. This administration just doesn’t care

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Johnny Isakson (R): Praying for everyone in Boston affected by this terrible tragedy.

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Keith Beck And you want to control our guns

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Judy Walker-Paulk Maybe you could introduce a bill to ban marathons—they are killing people!

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Carey Meadows Terrible things like this happen and you want to legislate our right to protect ourselves away.

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Mike Crapo (R): Please join me in keeping the people of Boston in your thoughts and prayers!

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Gary B Maxey This was a horrible example of a weapon of mass destruction – just like an AR-15 with a 30 clip magazine. Neither should be available to private citizens. (Finally! A liberal jerk! He’s actually on several other pages like Pat Roberts, Jerry Moran and Mitch McConnell and gives the rest of us a bad name- FLS)

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Nick’s Politics One’s first thought during terrible events is with the victims. Then it goes to the culprits. After questioning the cause it becomes why didn’t they go after those responsible and in charge instead of people who aren’t involved. Soon followed by, “Oh great, what freedom are they going to take now.” Notice all this is happening in places supposedly made more safe by stricter gun laws and liberal policies. (But then it’s right back to the right wing jerks – FLS)

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Mary Eileen Twyman I’m also wondering, Nick — Who knew about it but failed to act — ie: bho too lazy to attend morning briefings and bho paralyzed by fear and standing down @Benghazi — Who’s going to allow bho throw them under a bus to cover for his cowardly backside on this one?

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Dan Coats (R): My thoughts and prayers are with those involved in the Boston Marathon tragedy

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Gary Canada We don’t need gun laws- we need people laws. TSA and DHS are useless and both a financial drain. We need enforcement of the laws we have and faith in Democracy. We need leadership from the front (not behind) ,transparency, and communication. We have lost our way and today need prayers.

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Jerry Moran (R): My prayers are with all those affected by the explosions in Boston. Grateful for the emergency responders & bystanders who are acting quickly to help.

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Mike Larreau THIS IS TRUELY SAD AND EVIL, BUT THIS GOES TO SHOW YOU IF SOME NUT JOB WANTS TO KILL INOCENT PEOPLE, THEY DON’T NEED AN AR-15 OR ANY GUN TO DO IT !

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Mitch McConnell (R): Prayers for the people of Boston & runners and spectators at the marathon. Thanks to the first responders and volunteers on the scene now.

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Danny Prater Of course prayers but why do you have to allow debate on more gun control!! Don’t think a gun done this but lack of them in people hands likely has!!!

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David Vitter (R): Our family’s hearts and prayers go out to all of those hurt by the horrible explosions at the Boston Marathon. If this is indeed an intentional act, we all must stand strong and united against these sorts of heartless, cowardly attacks.

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Donnell Dent It’s time we take back our country, this is horrible! I’ll be darned if I ever give up my rights to carry a gun with horrific things like this going on, it’s sinful!

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Jenae Wise Don’t let them use another tragedy to push their agendas… Please.

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Susan Collins (R): Sen. Collins joins Senator Angus S. King, Jr. in expressing “deep sadness by the deplorable and heinous act of violence in Boston today. Reports that multiple improvised explosive devices may have been involved at this high profile national event bear the hallmarks of a terrorist attack.”

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Lawrence Horn Collins is an outright traitor..going to vote on a 1500 page piece of gun control legislation with out having read it through…same as she did with Obama Care..time for her to retire w/o a pension

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Donna Noble Short One of the first questions people ask is “Who was it?” How about we start taking our boarder security seriously. We don’t even know who is in our country – so, yes, we don’t know for sure if it’s homegrown or foreign because we have millions of people here illegally.

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Jerry Tonubbee When will we start background checks on people that buy things that can be made into bombs?

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The next time some random gun nut insists that “libs” are just angry and hate filled, show them the bile that poured forth within hours of a terrorist attack. The callous and self-obsessed nature of gun massacre advocates is hard to overstate and these are the people that are claim they are “responsible?”

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Fox News’ Erik Rush Tweets ‘Kill All Muslims’ Immediately After Boston Marathon Bombings

Despite the fact that no known facts were made known about the culprit behind today’s senseless bombings during the Boston Marathon, facts have never stood in the way of Fox in the past so why break dangerous precedent? Fox News ran with a totally debunked and bogus story about having the bomber in custody and then being a Saudi national, then the network managed to locate the biggest attention-seeking paste-eater.

Pretend journalist and Fox News Contributor, Erik Rush, decided that the appropriate response was to do what Fox News does best: make purposefully incendiary comments designed to attack the fractious emotions of their totally unspectacular audience.

The World Net Daily and Fox News Contributor claims that he was being ‘sarcastic’ and was just joking. Yes, taking a totally tragic event in which people were killed, and when we haven’t a single fact on the perpetrator yet; creating hysteria, vigilantism, and possible acts of reprisal on an entire class of people is simply hysterical. This is yet another reason why conservatives aren’t funny, and when they try, they just come across like the needy teenage girl (or NY Congressman) who snaps a scandalous mirror photo of themselves.

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Was The FBI Responsible For The Attack At The Boston Marathon? Alex Jones Seems To Think So

Conservative radio host Alex Jones took to Twitter very soon after the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, professing sympathy for those involved, but then, according to Mediaite, saying that it was a “false flag,” and that the FBI “has been behind virtually every domestic terror plot in the U.S. as NY Times reported.”

Mediaite also reports that he believes the Transportation Security Administration will use the incident as an excuse to “start groping you at sporting events.”

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Forget the fact that conservative radio host Alex Jones jumped up on his wackadoo Twitter soapbox tonight and blamed the FBI for the bombing at the Boston Marathon. It pales in comparison to what happened only a few hours later when InfoWars “reporter” Dan Bidondi attempted to hijack a press conference away from Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick by insisting the bombing was nothing more than a “false flag staged attack.”

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The first question that Massachusetts GovernorDeval Patrick received during tonight’s second press conference on the Boston Marathon bombings came from someone who may be a follower of conservative radio host Alex Jones. The questioner, who some on the scene are identifyingas InfoWars’ Dan Bidondi asked Patrick directly if the bombings were a “false flag staged attack” meant to “take our civil liberties.”

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Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, “Well, I’ve had it with humanity.”

But I was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

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Barney Frank Demands Higher Taxes Over Boston Bombing, MSNBC Anchor Calls Him Out For Politicizing Attack

Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), speaking with MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts on Tuesday, made the case that the government needs to raise tax rates and generate more federal revenue in order to ensure Massachusetts does not have to pay for the post-Boston Marathon Bombing rebuilding effort. Roberts expressed his concern that Frank was politicizing the deadly attack less than 24-hours after the fact.

Frank cautioned that there should not be a “hyperbolic” reaction to the attacks, and that he thinks Bostonians will feel safe again in the near future. However, he said that the attack is an effective argument against those who would seek to shrink government.

“No, let’s continue to build up security,” Frank said. “This is very expensive for the city of Boston over time.”

“I hope that we will be able to find some revenue so that Boston doesn’t have to pay for this absolutely necessary expenditure by cutting back on other important services down the line,” the former Democratic congressman continued.

“Do you feel like you’re capitalizing and making political hay of this event that happened?” Roberts asked.

“I’m talking common sense,” Frank replied. “I’m saying that, if the sequester had gone through and we had not had enough money, we couldn’t be able to do this. I’m making an argument about reality, and that’s the only responsible response.”

Frank concluded that he hoped that some people would be “less enthusiastic” about “reducing our ability to respond to a crisis like this.” Frank called the Boston attack a “teaching moment” about what Americans expect from civil society. More at

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Laura Ingraham, a regular on Faux News and one of the most vile of the anti-immigrant talking heads, decided to use the Boston Marathon bombings as a way to spread her anti immigrant propaganda on her radio show Tuesday. MediaMatters has a video with the audio.

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LAURA INGRAHAM: This, in my mind, raises all sorts of questions. I mean, again, we don't know who did this, motivations, all of that. But it is interesting that at this moment -- we are considering legalizing or giving regularized status to millions of people. Pretty much none of them have gone through any rigorous background checks, to have a temporary status in the United States. And we don't -- I just think that there are all sorts of security implications aside from the other arguments on immigration -- national security implications that we don't talk about with enough frankness and I think certitude here. We can't stop every attack, but my goodness, if we had borders that were shut down and we actually had a proper screening process, maybe we could stop some of them.
Video at http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/04/16/laura-ingraham-uses-boston-bo
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Her absolute ignorance of how immigration laws work, amazes me. She claimed that the government is about to legalize millions of people that have not had proper background checks. Ummmm….say what? At this point in time, if an undocumented immigrant wishes to apply for status they must pass through a background check. This is a fact! My husband is an immigrant from El Salvador and when applying for Temporary Protective Status, the second thing he had to do, after filing the paperwork, was to go to the local United States Immigration and Citizenship Services Office and submit his fingerprints for a FBI background check. The FBI runs the immigrant’s fingerprints through their database and if there is anything to be found, they will find it. My husband found that out the hard way when his ten year old DUI came back to haunt him.

Maybe Laura just overlooked these facts when she did the research for her show. HAHAHA don’t believe that either, do you? More than likely she figured she’d just throw that dishonesty out there because she knows that her (tea baggers imbeciles) listeners are not going to take the time to actually research the garbage she is spewing on her show.

The next thing that really stood out to me is her insistence that border security would somehow lessen attacks like the one that took place in Boston on Monday. The only problem with that? That’s not what’s happening, undocumented immigrants are not crossing the border and blowing up buildings in the United States. The September 11 hijackers all followed the proper immigration channels and received visas. The Oklahoma City bomber was American. The D.C. snipers were American.

As the wife of an immigrant, I hear nasty things all the time. I read the paper, look in the opinion section and see the utter disdain for immigrants. People like Laura Ingraham help perpetuate a fear of the scary people from the other side of our borders. People like her use tragedy as a way to spread their hateful, nasty, ant immigrant rhetoric. It really is rather pathetic but not surprising at all.

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Congressman Cannot Help Using Boston Marathon Bombing To Voice His Inner Racist

On Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the Boston Marathon bombing that left three dead and more than 150 injured, King gave an interview to National Review Online where he used the attack to justify his opposition to immigration reform.

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Representative Steve King of Iowa, a prominent House conservative, says Congress should be cautious about rushing immigration reform, especially after Monday’s bombing in Boston, where three people were killed.

“Some of the speculation that has come out is that yes, it was a foreign national and, speculating here, that it was potentially a person on a student visa,” King says. “If that’s the case, then we need to take a look at the big picture.”

On immigration, King says national security should be the focus now, and any talk about a path to legalization should be put on hold. “We need to be ever vigilant,” he says. “We need to go far deeper into our border crossings. . . .We need to take a look at the visa-waiver program and wonder what we’re doing. If we can’t background check people that are coming from Saudi Arabia, how do we think we are going to background check the 11 to 20 million people that are here from who knows where.”

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Tea Party Officially Blames Obama For Boston Marathon Bombing

In the hours after yesterday’s Boston Marathon attack, the right wing was quick to blame Muslim extremists despite the lack of a single indication of the identity of those involved. Similarly there were those on the left, like me, who were just as quick to point out that a bombing on Tax Day/Patriot’s Day at a marathon dedicated to the families of the Newtown Massacre smacked of a right wing Timothy McVeigh style “protest” (aka right wing terrorism). Time will tell which of us is correct but rather than wait for the facts to surface, the Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips has decided that President Obama is clearly to blame in an email sent out on Tuesday.

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Unfortunately the sad truth is we will be hit again. It will happen sooner or later. It will probably be sooner than later.

There are two reasons why we will be hit again. First, we have a determined enemy who hates us. Second, we have a government that is not committed to protecting America.

It is a pretty safe bet right now that this attack was carried out by an Islamist. It was a well-coordinated attack. In its publication, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula called for just this kind of attack.

While the government and media have fallen all over themselves to downplay this fact, there is a twenty-year-old Saudi student being detained as a “person of interest.” Person of interest in a nice police term that is used for someone who is not under arrest and therefore does not have to be read his Miranda rights and who hopefully will not lawyer up.

Barack Obama could not force himself to use the word “terrorism” in his speech last night and the FBI right now won’t call this a terrorist incident. (The rest of the screed is at http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-boston-attack-o
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The right, in general, has been awfully quick to jump on the Islam bashing bandwagon. Fox News and the Post has been salivating over a Saudi Arabian man that was under guard at a local hospital following the attack. Turns out that he is not a suspect, just a witness. Why the guard? Because people like Judson Phillips are whipping up fear and anger at Muslims.

The most disturbing aspect of the bombing is the barely restrained glee with which the right has responded. A sore topic among conservatives is that there has been no successful terrorist attacks on American soil since Obama took office and he’s proven to be far more capable in killing terrorists and reaching foreign policy goals than the previous administration. For a political movement that obsesses over their national security bona fides and ties it disturbingly closely to their manhood, a successful terrorist act is like a soothing balm. Listening to right wing rhetoric, you’d think that nothing bad ever happened under Bush. Except for 9/11, the anthrax attacks, the bombing of the USS Cole and the several embassies and consulates that were assaulted. But FINALLY, they can blame Obama for something that actually happened!

Here’s a prime example of the anti-Obama hysteria currently gripping conservatives:

And here’s Patrick Dollard. Apparently he’s someone important in the right wing bubble of gibberish:

The revisionist history is breathtaking. I’ll bet cold hard cash that if Dollard was forced to admit that there were several terrorist attacks under Bush, his head just might explode.

All of this loud frothing serves two deeply cynical purposes: First, to get as many people on the right as riled up as possible at Obama and liberals. Without any significant Muslim threats, the cash cow that is professional Islamophobia has been a bit anemic of late. Even if it (most likely) turns out not to be a Muslim, well, darn it! It COULD have been a Muslim so you good “Christian” Americans should be afraid! Be VERY afraid. Also, you should oppose everything Obama does because he’s in league with the Muslim terrorists that may or may not have bombed Boston. And send money to the Tea Party so they can keep making you wet your diapers fighting terrorism.

The second purpose of all this anti-Muslim screeching is even more disgusting: That this attack occurred on Tax Day as well as Patriot’s Day (the third Monday in April) at an event in which several of the Newtown families were running is a giant red arrow pointing, not at Muslims, but at right wing extremists steeped in Tea Party rhetoric of revolution, Second Amendment solutions and “watering the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” They know this. They also know that if this turns out to be the case, the nation’s eyes will look to them just like they did after the Oklahoma City Bombing. Back then, the silent guilt they carried was enough for them to tone down the proto-Tea Party insanity that is fully realized today. As a preemptive move, they are loudly blaming Obama and Muslims because if (when) the other shoe drops and the country finds out that, yes, Fox News and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and the entire conservative entertainment complex that oozes violence and eliminationist rhetoric had a hand in egging on the bomber(s), they will already have millions of conservatives ready to defend them and even refute that it wasn’t a Muslim. Keep in mind, this is the political movement that still has a large percentage of people that believe Obama is a secret Muslim, Iraq was behind 9/11 and that we found the WMDs. A year from now, they will still be absolutely convinced that Muslims attacked Boston and Obama “let it happen.”

The right wing media knows its audience and they know how tight a grip they have on how that audience (mis) perceives reality. Expect to see a lot more of the kind of self-serving trash that the Tea Party Nation is selling to its easily manipulated audience in the next couple of days and weeks. They have to get in there and shape public opinion before reality rears its ugly head.

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Jon Stewart Tears Apart CNN For ‘Completely F*cking Wrong’ Boston Reporting: ‘Human Centipede Of News’

Jon Stewart let CNN have it over its erroneous reporting that an arrest had been made in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing. Stewart mocked how much CNN kept boasting of its “exclusive reporting,” which turned ot to be exclusive “because it was completely fucking wrong,” and was even more blown away by how CNN was subsequently backing away from and questioning that very report. Stewart described this as the network “shit[ting] in their own mouths,” christening CNN “the Human Centipede of News.”

Stewart played a variety of clips in which Wolf Blitzer touted the network’s “exclusive reporting” on the arrest. Stewart said, “It’s exclusive because it was completely fucking wrong!” He also got in a veiled swipe at new CNN head Jeff Zucker for claiming Stewart to be a jealous competitor.

Stewart asked, “Did any of your sources end their tip-offs to you with the phrase ‘Ba ba booey?’” And when CNN just dropped the story altogether, Stewart called it a “news story as imagined by M. Night Shyamalan.”

But perhaps the best part for Stewart was the hour-long gap between the initial breaking news and the eventual confirmed walk-back in which CNN anchors attempted to clarify and walk back the report of the arrest. Stewart viewed this as CNN removing the middle-man and realizing they can “shit in their own mouths.” Or, as Stewart more colorfully put it, “the Human Centipede of news.”

Stewart then brought on correspondent John Oliver who, with the help of Jessica Williams, narrowed the identity of the bombing suspect down to either a “dark-skinned male, possible white, or maybe a woman,” “a fat Hispanic baby,” or “a dog on its hind legs wearing glasses and a hat.”

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