Stephen Colbert: 'Obama's a liar. Pass it on.'

David Edwards and Josh Catone

Published: Wednesday May 23, 2007 Print This Email This

On his show Tuesday, Stephen Colbert "exposed" 2008 presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as a "liar."

Colbert calls into question a statement Obama made about a Life magazine article he said he read when he was living in Indonesia as a child that "awakened him to the issue of racism."

"But the Chicago Tribune," says Colbert, "and other papers say the story can't be true because, quote, 'The Life article and photographs don't exist.' Pants on fire!"

Obama, continues Colbert, said later that it might actually have been an article in Ebony. "Which is, Obama? Life magazine or Ebony?" he badgers. "Which issue of which magazine that came out at least 37 years ago are we talking about?"

After revealing that it was likely a 1968 Esquire article, Colbert presses the issue, "Why couldn't you remember, Obama? If we can't trust you to remember which magazine you read in Indonesia when you were nine, how we can possibly ever trust you to protect our country?"

The following video is from the May 22 edition of Colbert Report.



