Last night, Stephen Colbert was surprised to hear about accused Muslim cabbie slasher Michael Enright’s background, especially when he went through recent editions of the New York Post. Enright “wasn’t even in this one titled ‘If You’re Mad About Islam You Should Pull Over A Muslim Cab Driver And Stab Him,’” Colbert said.
He continued that people like Enright are “sully[ing] Muslim bashing for the rest of us law abiding bigots,” like the drunk man who was arrested for urinating on a prayer rug in a New York mosque, or as Colbert called it, “criminal tres-pissing.”
This act, Colbert said, elicited strong reactions from “Imam Mohammed Nadir Al-Dude,” more commonly known as the character “The Dude” in The Big Lebowski.
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Jillian Rayfield
Jillian Rayfield is a Reporter/Blogger for TPM, and started as a News Intern in May 2009. She graduated from Cornell University in May 2008 with a degree in Film, and worked as a Research Assistant for a market research firm in London in between.
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