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2nd bigwig lib backs out of 'Colbert'

By Pareene, 1:16 PM on Fri Jan 4 2008, 776 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Now Naomi Klein turned down Colbert! Didn't anyone tell her and Katrina that the Colbert writers' "strike" is just an elaborate meta-media joke? No...? [NYO, Previously]

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