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Lunch with the FT
Jon Stewart: ‘Ain’t nothing as agile as authoritarian regimes’
...Sixteen years ago I moved to the US, and my wife and I would regularly watch Stewart’s show and The Colbert Report, which starred Daily Show alumnus Stephen Colbert, when trying to get our then baby son...
October 28, 2022
World
White House Countdown – Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
....” - Republican Richard Armitage, deputy under secretary of state under George W Bush....
June 16, 2016
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
US presidential election
Bush mimics Trump on Late Show with Colbert
...While he stuck broadly to his stump script, Mr Bush explained how he differed from his brother George W Bush, the former president....
September 9, 2015
US politics & policy
US candidates find reception better on late night TV
...The performance helped define Mr Clinton’s image as a representative of a new generation — the baby boomers, in contrast with the incumbent president George H W Bush, who came of age during the second world...
October 12, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Walid Raad, Museum of Modern Art, New York: ‘A pure wave of irritation’
...His work resonates with the writings of W.G. Sebald, who sprinkled stories with murky snapshots of questionable relevance....
October 21, 2015
US presidential election
Jeb Bush proposes slashing tax rates
...George W Bush’s tax cuts came with an expiration date but were extended for two years in 2010....
September 9, 2015
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
John Kay
How beliefs became truths for the political establishment
...The concept of truthiness evolved in the era of George W Bush....
April 21, 2015
Person in the NewsMatthew Garrahan
Jon Stewart, television satirist
...From George W Bush to the British royal family, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly to Bill Clinton, no one was spared....
February 13, 2015
Women of the Year
Women of 2014: Naomi Klein
...said Colbert. “You can let go of your Canadian fantasies,” Klein retorted. “My government is actually keeping the George W Bush dream alive....
December 12, 2014
Special Report
Making a stooge of Scrooge
...This includes television purveyors of “fake news” such as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, as well as publications such as The Onion....
June 27, 2013
US & Canadian companies
BofA names four new directors to board
...The four are expected to replace Donald Powell, former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp; Virgis Colbert, a former executive at MillerCoors; Charles Rossotti, a former executive at Carlyle Group...
August 23, 2012
World
Parties set for tug of war over welfare
...In Pitt County, which swung from backing George W. Bush in 2004 to Mr Obama in 2008 and is part of a region afflicted by poverty rates in excess of 20 per cent, it may be at the top of voters’ minds....
September 3, 2012
US downturn
Colbert considers South Carolina entry
...Mr Colbert is famous for his blistering “roast” of President George W. Bush at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2006. “I stand by this man....
January 13, 2012
US politics & policy
Legal flaws give free rein to super-Pacs
...In support of his comedic run for the White House, Mr Colbert’s group was renamed The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super-Pac, and put under Mr Stewart’s leadership....
January 16, 2012
Edward Luce
Don’t rule out a third candidate bombshell in the 2012 presidential election
...Even Stephen Colbert, the comedian who has set up ironic election funding vehicles, has attracted more coverage....
February 26, 2012
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Christopher CaldwellSocial Media
Politics takes a comic turn
...Mr Stewart takes, as his prime examples, those on the right who believe Barack Obama is a secret Muslim and those on the left who want to try George W. Bush for war crimes....
September 24, 2010
FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway
CalPERS calls out Ken
...CalPERS also opposes Merrill Lynch directors who were added in January 2009: Virgis W. Colbert, Joseph Prueher, and Charles Rossotti....
April 28, 2009
US politics & policy
Opponents seal response with a hiss
...Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s finance minister, said the art of taxation was to “pluck the most feathers with the least hissing”....
February 27, 2009
Jurek Martin
Obama is right about racial profiling
...Still, it is probable that an equal firestorm would have erupted if he had ducked the question, taking refuge, as George W. Bush often did, in the pablum that anything sub-judice precluded comment....
July 28, 2009
Climate change
How Europe can respond to Obama
...Colbert should be put back in his mausoleum....
November 25, 2008
US & Canadian companies
Networks add new dimension to coverage
...It was left to the hosts of Comedy Central’s Daily Show and Colbert Report to satirise the sudden appearance of so many black faces in television newsrooms....
November 5, 2008
Climate change
Democracy in America: an update
...The ability of a nation to poke fun at its political leaders is a sign of the strength of its democracy, according to President George W. Bush....
April 23, 2007
UK schools
From scarf to finish
...By Richard Ascott and Philip Colbert Next month: Rodnik’s search for an angel. www.rodnik.co.uk...
July 14, 2006
World
Jurek Martin: A little universal difficulty
...This, in W’s Washington, is very unusual....
May 12, 2006

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