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In the comments yesterday, someone said that Colbert made a Reese witherspoon crack when he was talking to Chunky Bobo last night. I don’t have the right version of flash player on this computer to watch the clip….so did this really happen?

Update. The Reese Witherspoon joke took place right before Douthat came on, apparently.

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  1. 1.

    Nellcote

    In the segment right before Doushat, Colbert was talking about wearing costumes to his rally and riffed about making something out of Reese’s peanutbutter cups. It wasn’t during but adjacent. Apparently I wasn’t the only one to make the connection!

  5. 5.

    Jay in Oregon

    From the lexicon:

    Chunky Reese Witherspoon – Ross Douthat, while blogging professionally at The Atlantic, published a memoir using this phrase to describe a fellow collegian whose feminine wiles he claimed to have resisted due to his distaste for her birth-control-pill-popping, hedonistic habits. The story solidified Douthat’s reputation as the new young right-wing Culture Scold, and possibly led to his current position at the New York Times, but it also offered endless entertainment speculating about Douthat’s personal sexual foibles to bloggers who do not care for professional culture scolds.

    There are plenty of references to the article in question, but here’s one at Wonkette:
    http://wonkette.com/407085/misogynist-neck-beard-ross-douhat-shares-his-sexy-stories

  6. 6.

    smiley

    @Tom Traubert:
    From the lexicon linked to on the right:

    Chunky Reese Witherspoon – Ross Douthat, while blogging professionally at The Atlantic, published a memoir using this phrase to describe a fellow collegian whose feminine wiles he claimed to have resisted due to his distaste for her birth-control-pill-popping, hedonistic habits. The story solidified Douthat’s reputation as the new young right-wing Culture Scold, and possibly led to his current position at the New York Times, but it also offered endless entertainment speculating about Douthat’s personal sexual foibles to bloggers who do not care for professional culture scolds.

  8. 8.

    FlipYrWhig

    I brought it up — it was in a previous segment, like Nellcote said, about the proximity of the fear rally to Halloween. Something about how Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are the scariest Halloween candy because they’re made from Reese Witherspoon. It just seemed like a very long way to go for something not very funny without the Douthat/Chunky Reese Witherspoon context.

  13. 13.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Chunky Reese Witherspoon always sounds like an entire phrase to me, like something out of “Clue”. I always want to add “in the Study… “

  15. 15.

    stuckinred

    UPDATE: 2:42 p.m. ET — Meg Whitman knowingly employed an undocumented worker through 2009, according to attorney Gloria Allred.

    “Nicki,” the employee, sat next to Allred during a press conference Wednesday and tearfully detailed her experience as a housekeeper for Whitman.

    Allred told reporters that her client was paid for just 15 hours of work per week, despite working past those hours. Allred claimed that when Whitman hired her client, she never asked if she was in the country legally.

    “Nicki” told reporters that when Whitman let her go, the Republican candidate for governor said, “I don’t know you, and you don’t know me.”

  17. 17.

    MikeJ

    @stuckinred:

    “Nicki” told reporters that when Whitman let her go, the Republican candidate for governor said, “I don’t know you, and you don’t know me.”

    Because people who have been underpaid are always so eager to do personal favors for the person who is firing them.

  19. 19.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @geg6: Once again, to reference DennisG, everything is right in wingers eyes if you own some property. How the land would help these people I have no clue, and I doubt they do either, but land will make everything better.

  20. 20.

    quaint irene

    The story solidified Douthat’s reputation as the new young right-wing Culture Scold,

    BUT…has he tried to ‘punk’ a CNN reporter yet?

  21. 21.

    Shinobi

    So, I’ve been pronouncing Chunky Reese Witherspoon’s name wrong in my head for Sooo long now. In my head it is Dew-Hat. Which is clearly not even remotely accurate. (But much closer to DoucheHat…..which I feel is a better descriptor if not a correct pronunciation.)

    Oh well, The more you know!

  22. 22.

    Chyron HR

    @stuckinred:

    “Nicki” told reporters that when Whitman let her go, the Republican candidate for governor said, “I don’t know you, and you don’t know me.”

    Nicki was replaced by a Roomba(tm), which Whitman also caught in bed with Buster.

  24. 24.

    Ailuridae

    The Douthat interview reminded me of something that I notice any time a Goldberg or a Kristol or a Brooks is on the TV: Why are all of these conservative commentators bordering on being morbidly obese?

    FWIW, I will stick to Chunky Bobo for Douthat. Reese Witherspoon would probably right a more interesting column than either of them.

  26. 26.

    Kristine

    I swear, it’s like a conservative sexual hang-up hat trick today. Granted, the Douthat stuff is old, but the creepiness has real staying power.

    How do you pronounce that name, I don’t Do-That?

    Nothing useful to add. Just a headshake. These are some seriously messed-up people.

  27. 27.

    Martin

    @Ailuridae:

    Why are all of these conservative commentators bordering on being morbidly obese?

    It’s the next GOP platform: coronary heart disease is a lie made up by the liberal secular nanny party.

    Oh, and I don’t think they make Cheetos-lite.

  28. 28.

    Delia

    @Martin:

    It’s the next GOP platform: coronary heart disease is a lie made up by the liberal secular nanny party.
    Oh, and I don’t think they make Cheetos-lite.

    And high fructose corn syrup is a health food.

  29. 29.

    DonkeyKong

    All an think about when I see Douthat is “Dude, that’s not a forehead, that’s a fivehead!”

    Too pithy?

  30. 30.

    JPL

    Meg Whitman said the worker had documentation. In the golden days of the media, they would ask Whitman why she did not verify the documentation. Verification might be difficult for me as an individual but she was the head of EBay. That’s the only story here imo.

  31. 31.

    Ailuridae

    @Martin:

    Isn’t restraint supposed to be a conservative value? I can’t think of a major male conservative commentator that has a visible jaw line

  33. 33.

    DonkeyKong

    Then I think of “Chunky Witherspoon” using her sharp protruding chin to crack open his forehead and feast on the delicious coconut meat inside.

    Is that wrong?

  37. 37.

    beltane

    @Kristine: It will always be Douche-hat to me, but maybe it’s really Doubt-that. Whatever the case, I’d like to see the birth certificate for this name. It does not sound American.

  38. 38.

    Poopyman

    @beltane:

    It will always be Douche-hat to me, but maybe it’s really Doubt-that. Whatever the case, I’d like to see the birth certificate for this name. It does not sound American.

    It sounds so –so —Belgian

    (/disgustedface)

  39. 39.

    Martin

    @Ailuridae: Uh, no, those conservative principles only apply to those that didn’t rightly inherit this nation. Only non-WASPs need show restraint. And sometimes Catholics, when they aren’t all preachy on that ‘least of us’ bullshit. And sometimes Jews when they’re keeping back the Muslims and being cool about the whole dying in a lake of fire so the Protestants can be saved and have their RVs and NASCAR shrines beamed up to heaven with them.

    But yeah, everyone else is just borrowing the place, so don’t use it all the fuck up, okay!?

  40. 40.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)

    OT: It never ends. Eddie is back in the hospital, this time to have two toes amputated due to an infection that’s gotten into the bone.

  42. 42.

    fasteddie9318

    Didn’t he actually say that the peanut butter cups are made from “chunks of Reese Witherspoon”? Maybe I’m misremembering.

  45. 45.

    FlipYrWhig

    @JPL:

    Verification might be difficult for me as an individual but she was the head of EBay.

    Isn’t eBay also PayPal, the company that goes hog-wild getting people to verify identities?

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