Colbert Outraged by Cochran Victory: ‘When Did Black People Start Voting?’

Like the rest of the conservative pundit universe, Stephen Colbert was up in arms last night about Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran’s victory over tea party primary challenger Chris McDaniel.

“I don’t know about you, but I am absolutely stone cold furious about yesterday’s heated Republican Senate primary in Mississippi,” Colbert began, accusing Cochran of “playing the dirty politics of promising people stuff and then delivering it.”

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But more than the fact that Cochran won Tuesday’s runoff, Colbert was outraged that he courted black Democrats to help him beat his opponent. “He appealed to black people. That is incredibly selfish,” the host said. “Doesn’t Thad Cochran know there’s no ‘I’ in Mississippi?”

“What I’m trying to say is, when did black people start voting?” Colbert asked.

Watch video below, via Comedy Central:

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