Colbert pays tribute to Stephanie Tubbs Jones David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Published: Thursday August 28, 2008





Print This Email This In honor of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who died unexpectedly last week, Stephen Colbert re-aired a Judge Judy parody he did with her in the early days of The Colbert Report.



"Recently, America lost a great public servant and a good friend of the show," Colbert began. "She was a champion for fair elections, civil rights, and ethics reform, and one of the members of Congress that I interviewed on my very first day in Washington for this show."



"Representative Tubbs Jones was such an 'it' getter, we gave her her own spinoff," Colbert continued, "and in tribute to the congresswoman, we'd like to show it to you one last time."



Tubbs Jones was also recalled by Senator Hillary Clinton in her speech at the Democratic convention on Tuesday as "steadfast in her beliefs, a fighter of uncommon grace," and her life was celebrated by the Ohio Democratic delegation on Thursday morning.



This video is from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, broadcast August 27, 2008.









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