Looks like Congressman Rush Holt (D. NJ-12) was on The Colbert Report last night in hopes of getting the Colbert bump:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
If members of congress need further reason to avoid going on "The Colbert Report," look no further than senate hopeful Rush Holt's interview with Colbert for his "Better Know a District" segment, in which Princeton, New Jersey is profiled.
Holt, who's going head-to-head with Newark's Mayor Cory Booker in the state's Democratic primary today, doesn't appear to be quite prepared for Colbert's curveballs. Perhaps most notable was his response to Colbert's question about why he thought it was important to defeat the man who would be New Jersey's first black senator. - Huffington Post, 8/13/13
Here's a good part of the Colbert/Holt interview:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
COLBERT: Education, big issue for you.
HOLT: That is probably as much as anything, maybe more than anything, what has made this country great. It has been our public education system.
COLBERT: Isn’t there a lot of waste in education? We have biology and psychology. Do we need every ‘ology’?
HOLT: You know we should teach every science to every student every year, all the way through school.
COLBERT: Astrology?
HOLT: … So I said science, that’s astronomy.
COLBERT: I think astrology is more of a science because it has that ‘ology’ in there.
HOLT: We should teach every student every science every year. It’s not just just 10th grade for biology and 11th grade for chemistry.
COLBERT: Twelfth grade for astrology… Physics is better for Aries, a Taurus does better with astrology….
It's primary day in the Garden State. Polls close at 8 PM. If you need to find your polling place, you can do so here:
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