As If Sandy Wasn't Devastating Enough--Colbert Whines: "It's Gender-Ambiguous"

AlterNet
November 01, 2012

In the wake of hurricane Sandy, as millions  cope without electricity, heat or public transportation, candidate Mitt Romney has come under considerable scrutiny for failing to comment on whether he would dissolve or privatize the federal aid agency FEMA. But what few have realized is that hurricane Sandy has its own political agenda to make a strong centralized government look necessary. And the most offensive part to Romney-advocate and political humorist Stephen Colbert? That Romney’s campaign is getting derailed by a “gender-ambiguous weather storm.”

Watch Colbert rail against the not-quite-manly-enough storm Sandy:

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