Update on the petition to make Stephen Colbert an honorary veteran
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Hey, y’all! Just wanted to give you this update on the status of Paul Rieckhoff’s challenge to the Nation. As of a few minutes ago, there were 12,412 signatures (out of the required 25,000) on the IAVA petition to make Stephen an honorary veteran. This post from yesterday’s New York Daily News sums up the campaign, for those of you who missed it (internal links omitted):
Fans voting for Stephen Colbert to be honorary war vet
by Cristina Everett
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, July 15th 2009, 2:51 PMWhen Stephen Colbert paid a June visit to the troops in Iraq, the “Colbert Report” host made quite the impression!
Colbert, 45, was a hit with the men and women of the armed services, particularly Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff, who was a guest on Monday night’s episode.
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Since the comedian’s trip to Iraq was successful, Rieckhoff posed the question: If Colbert made it to Iraq and back in one piece, would he deserve to be an honorary IAVA Member?
A petition has been created to collect the 25,000 signatures needed in order to honor the host. Over 10,000 people have given their vote for Colbert thus far.
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C’mon, everyone, you know it would be a good thing to get Stephen this honor. And, if any of you are on the fence about whether he deserves this recognition, consider this: the military has, on occasion, honored “civilians” in the past. For example, the following “people” have been named honorary Marines: Bugs Bunny, Lon Chaney (Sr.) and Chuck Norris.
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11 Comments
July 16th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I’ve tried repeatedly to go to the IAVA site with Safari, and the page never loads completely. It loads ok with Firefox, but I wonder if the slow rate of signature accumulation is perhaps partly due to people using a widely used browser giving up in frustration.
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July 18th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
it’s the link on the TCR website. Try this link:
http://www2.iava.org/o/436/t/8492/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=2023
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July 16th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Darn, I’m not a US resident. Anyone willing to lend me their ZIP code? Hahaha, kidding! :) I’ll ask my relatives in the States to vote for me. :)
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July 29th, 2009 at 12:47 am
You can use 31405, if you want. Its in Savannah GA
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July 16th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I’ve voted already; too bad it’s not a vote early/vote often kind of plan! ;)
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July 17th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Can we vote more than once? I like voting multiple times. I know that wasn’t allowed with Nasa within some limits.
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July 17th, 2009 at 1:23 am
NASA let us vote once a day – if we can do that for this poll, I’ll head back there!
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July 17th, 2009 at 4:14 am
forsakinghalfloves,
Just google ‘zipcodes in the US’ !
I’m not in the USA either, but I think its beautiful what he did for the troops too, so I voted.
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July 17th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Guys, although I know how much we all like to vote for Stephen, I really think this is one of those times when it would be much better if you could get friends or family to vote for you. If this were another vanity project like naming something after Stephen, etc., that would be one thing, but the aim here really is to get more eyeballs on the IAVA site. If you could encourage friends and family to check it out, I really think that would be preferable …
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July 18th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Agreed. This is far more important. Part of the drive is to create more awareness for our returning vets.
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July 18th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
o
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