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Hillary Clinton Has Name-Dropping Contest With Colbert, Still Pretends She's Not Running For President
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Aug 6, 2014
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Potential Future President Hillary Clinton showed up for a "surprise" appearance on The Colbert Report last night to promote that book no one cares about, and she and Colbert got into a faux-name dropping contest. To recap, Clinton's rubbed shoulders with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, but Colbert once shared an office with Steve Carell and he's going to interview Michael Fassbender tonight, so who's winning NOW, Hillz?
Aside from all the name-dropping, Colbert got a teensy bit political, kicking the segment off with selections from Clinton's (very boring) memoir, Hard Choices, and asking the former Secretary of State, "Which would you rather fight: one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses?"
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For those of you keeping track at home, Clinton has still not announced that she is running for president in 2016, though HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY reported that she leased office space in midtown that may or may not be her campaign headquarters, blah blah blah blah blah, whatever, wake me when it's time to vote. Note that Hillary's still losing to Luke Skywalker in the polls, but luckily for her, Skywalker isn't qualified to run, having been born on the asteroid colony of Polis Massa. Your move, Rand Paul.
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