Hat tip to the team at the Huffington Post for getting this out; Eric Alterman, who was Stephen’s first guest on last night’s episode of The Colbert Report, presented Stephen with a gift that we didn’t get to see on the show: an alternate cover of Why We’re Liberals, complete with Stephen’s face in the place of honor.
From HuffPo:
The Gift Eric Alterman Couldn’t Give Colbert On Air
April 1, 2008 05:04 PMNation columnist and author Eric Alterman carefully planned his appearance earlier this week on the “Colbert Report,” armed with a weapon designed to smother Colbert’s
biting humor with love.Alterman planned to hand Colbert a poster-sized copy of the pseudo-cover and to declare to the audience and cameras that “nobody had done as much for liberalism since FDR as his nutty questions and commentary.”
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Not bad, Mr. Alterman!
For those of you who’d like to see the original cover to compare it to, here’s the link to Why We’re Liberals again:
That is so cool! I knew that I liked Alterman.
I loved it when Stephen and Alterman discussed the actual book cover during the interview. I’m sure Stephen appreciated the fake cover with his own picture out front.
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Haha, yeah, it’s a good thing that he didn’t do that or else it would have sorta killed the whole show…
Still, very awesome indeed! Definitely printing that one off.
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heheeheee…
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Cute cover, Stephen looks kinda hefty, like Al Gore :)
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Mr. Alterman is definitely an It-Getter…is it just me, or does it look like Stephen is missing his neck? LOL!
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