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Everyone's favorite congressman, who happens to be the only person in Congress to be a doctor, lawyer, and U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran, made a recent appearance on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report."

That person is, of course, Vic Snyder, who represents Little Rock and the 2nd District.

Snyder was featured in a regular feature on the segment "Better Know a District," in which the show's host, Stephen Colbert, interviews someone from Congress, or in some cases, an opponent.

In Colbert-speak, Snyder's district is the "Fighting Second," and in case you missed it, how did Snyder do?

Not bad.

Looking alternately bemused and befuddled by Colbert's questions, Snyder did his best to defend Conway's annual Toad Suck Daze and talk about the district. But Snyder's medical or legal background did not come up.

Snyder later said that he was impressed with the depth of Colbert's knowledge and that while the segment lasted for about five minutes, Snyder's press secretary Jennifer Oglesby Holman said about 90 minutes were taped.

Arkansas News columnist John Brummett reported on his blog that one bit cut was Colbert's suggestion of an "Arkansasectomy," similar in many ways to appendectomy, "since Arkansas is like your appendix, serving no purpose and not missed if gone."

Hardy-har-har. But we have to laugh since it is best not to get crossways with Colbert, because you might get "put on notice" or, even worse, become the dreaded "dead to me." It's a list Associated Press reporter Heather Clark is still on after failing to note in an AP article Colbert's invention of the word "truthiness," which later claimed the 2006 Word of the Year award.

Colbert also claims the title of "Dr.," having been given an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois.

Colbert does have some experience around real doctors. His father, James, who died in a plane crash, was a vice president at the University of South Carolina's medical school at the time of his death.

Snyder was the first of Arkansas's four congressmen to make an appearance on "The Colbert Report."


April 2007

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