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Ha! You know that footage of General Odierno and Stephen Colbert appearing to rehearse the big head shaving moment we saw before? Some people commented that they wished they could see more, and the MNC-I has obliged.
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That interview seemed totally natural on stage! But ahhh! the joy of these videos and Stephen’s back stage persona! Bless the MNC-I!
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In TDS news, Ed Helms is guest on Mondays show promoting the new Office season1-4 collection. That will be exciting to watch :)
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Is there a new collection? I think that one is already out.
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Meh I’m a liar! lol–I just followed a link that linked to that one. Taking an educated guess…it would have to be s5..but that doesn’t come out until sept. Usually don’t they pimp their stuff much closer to the release date? I guess maybe they are shooting. But NBC has had what seems like everyone doing promo for the office.
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My guess is that he’s doing promo for The Hangover. From what I hear, it’s a lot funnier than the usual “comedy” movie fare.
Regardless, I expect it to be awesome, because he’s always a riot.
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Wow—I completely forgot =p (and i did get to see the movie as well…it was pretty funny).
Then that makes me wonder how desperate NBC is right now. Last night John Krawsinski was on Fallon. Two nights ago Angela Kinsey was on Conan. Mindy Kaling was on fallon couple weeks ago.
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Stephen with the pen in his mouth! Bwaaaahahahaha!
I wish he hadn’t told General Odierno the Shrek line in the rehearsal – his reaction here was so beautiful.
I remember back in the ‘old days’ when we were amazed by what TCR could pull off (like getting Peter Frampton, Elliot Spitzer, Henry Kissinger et al together for the Guitarmageddon) and we floated the theory that Stephen could do it because he simply invites everyone to come play and who doesn’t want to do that?
And how nice to see General Odierno here – it didn’t surprise me that he went along with the joke… it surprised me that he is did it with a perfect combination of humility, sincerity, and light heartedness.
An old saying in India says you find the greatest teachers in the best students. This is used also to indicate that the best leaders are those who know how to follow. And watching Gen. Odierno listening and taking direction here it gave me a whole new level of respect for the man.
And Stephen’s pretty good here, too.
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When I was in Drum Corps, we always referenced those two sayings. You can’t lead until you can follow. You can’t follow until you listen.
Odierno seems like a great guy–although I would never want to get on their bad side =)
Ohhhh you know what I really want to see? The bootcamp outtakes, I bet those are f-ing hilarious.
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Odierno fascinates me because, as I mentioned in an earlier comment, he was one of the people responsible for the almost arbitrary detention of so many Iraqi civilians in the early part of the war, yet he shifted tactics almost entirely when he returned to Iraq as they were moving from a more conventional warfare to a more classical counterinsurgency approach. Reading Fiasco and The Gamble back to back, you’d hardly believe it was the same guy. I really respect Odierno’s willingness to listen to contrary points of view as part of the process of determining the best way of “winning” the Iraq War, even if his earlier actions predisposed me to be wary of him.
I don’t suppose an interview on The Report is the best place to delve into political, strategic and tactical questions like that, but Stephen actually did tangentially touch on them with his interview of Lt. Gen. Jacoby last night, which I thought was interesting.
It would be fascinating (and probably incredibly valuable to future generations of troops) if the generals from Iraq could, at some point, sit down for a detailed “postmortem” of what they learned. I know the Armed Services have a pretty good history in that regard, overall (although I think there was a sad lapse right around the time were were invading Iraq under Pres. G.W. Bush).
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I have not really read much on Iraq. I’ve always been more intrigued with Afganistan & Pakistan. IMO, when we went into Iraq, we lost focus on Afganistan.
Our foreign policy cannot be, invade and bomb a place to pieces and consider the job done. Iraq already had pretty decent infrastructure, which is why the “shock and awe” campaign worked so well. I think we already know our failures in Iraq were.
1) Lack of a cohesive strategy at the onset of how to bring together Sunni, Shia, and Kurds.
2) Not integrating the Republican Guard with the new military structure.
3) Public relations fiasco. We failed to involve the community in rebuilding their country. Instead of Iraqi men and women rebuilding, we had American contractors doing the rebuilding. Consider this: you’re given a house straight up. That’s great, but there is a lack of attachment and work that was put into it. Now, give them the materials & scematics and insist that the communities supply the labor/work. The community then has a vested interest in protecting what they built.
I think we failed to do that (and that applies to both Iraq and Afghanistan).
Just my few cents.
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(This is a reply to your other “reply”.)
I agree, but I would add “(4) Egregious incompetence in addressing ‘rebuilding’” as its own problem. It wasn’t just a failure to involve the community, it was gross mismanagement on the part of many of the civilians who were put in charge of that phase of the operation. If you ever want to really get your mind blown over examples of partisanship and cronyism at its worst, read Rajiv Chandresekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald City. I get that every administration is, to a certain degree, going to put its own people into influential positions, but you’d think a minimum level of competence would be required. That we were sending over twentysomethings to head entire departments of the “rebuilt” Iraq and not bothering to ask them whether they had any experience in their prospective departments (focusing, instead, on whether they had been loyal Bush Administration campaigners and — seriously — what their views on Roe v. Wade were) … arrgh, it’s enough to get my blood pressure right back up there.
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Of course, pen in mouth. The oral fixation lives on.
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Oh cool, I’m glad they released the full video of that. It’s always fun to see behind-the-scenes footage!
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Pen in the mouth. Gaaawd. I could watch that all day, no lie.
I agree, this interview seemed so natural and unplanned when it happened on the show! That’s great. This was awesome to see, I love behind the scenes stuff. Thanks, NFZ!
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A new chapter in “Stephen and his oral fixation” ;)
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I love watching Stephen the professional at work, AND getting to see the results of how good he is at what he does. I really enjoyed seeing this behind the scenes coverage, and that it was long! not just a snippet! :)
I also was impressed with Odierno’s willingness to play along – this takes a little more than just showing up for an interview and being willing to roll with the punches of “Stephen’s” persona. It all came off flawlessly in the show, the timing with the recorded greeting, everyone’s lines, etc. Great work!
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As someone with a mad obsession with behind-the-scenes footage, this video was a great fix.
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Oh yes! I could watch him rehearse all day. So professional yet so nice and easy going. Can’t get enough of Stephen chewing on his pen:)
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