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Stephen Colbert On The NBA Lockout: ‘I’ll Tell You Who The Real Victims Are’

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The NBA lockout’s gone mainstream and damnit, Stephen Colbert is the one mainstream voice who’s not afraid to step forward and stick up for the little guy. That’s right, the real victims in all this—the job-creators who employ all the mini-blimp pilots, buy the thunderstixxx, and pay for the t-shirt cannons. Won’t someone think of NBA owners?

“The NBA owners are on your side,” he says, “So Americans won’t have to watch hockey.”

Check out Colbert’s monologue, plus the owner awareness commercial he tried to run in Texas.

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