President Orders General to Cut Comedian's Hair

U.S. General Ray Odierno, Commanding General, Multinational-Force-Iraq, pretends to give comedian Stephen Colbert of the Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” a haircut during Colbert’s performance for U.S. military personnel at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, June 7, 2009. Colbert is participating in a USO/Armed Forces Entertainment tour to the Persian Gulf region.
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Good on President Obama and Stephen Colbert (and General Odierno) for participating in entertaining the troops:

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Stephen Colbert in Iraq

U.S. General Ray Odierno, Commanding General, Multinational-Force-Iraq, pretends to give Stephen Colbert a haircut during Colbert’s performance at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, June 7, 2009.
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U.S. military personnel smile as they watch Stephen Colbert during his performance at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, June 7, 2009.
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U.S. military personnel watch actor / comedian Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” during his performance at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad. Colbert is participating in a USO / Armed Forces Entertainment tour to the Persian Gulf region.
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Hat tip: Foreign Policy Passport

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A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.

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Hawk

14 years ago

I was shocked to see that Colbert had actually had his hair cut completely off. I just couldn’t imagine him doing that. I also thought Obama would catch it from all sides from doing that.

While I don’t care for BHO, being part of the USO show is a good thing.

Doc Philip

Bravo for Colbert its awesome that he went to Iraq to entertain the troops. I have to say that I have been impressed by all the things he has done for the troops and even though he may not have agreed with us going over there he hasn’t allowed it to poison him and he does do what is most important and that is supporting the guys and gals that are overseas in harms way. Again Bravo Zulu Colbert.