Colbert Rips Cable News For ‘Breakthrough’ In Reporting Everything ‘We Don’t Know’ About Boston Bombing

When it came to informing the public about developments in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, yesterday wasn’t a great day for cable news (save for MSNBC, which had a more cautious Pete Williams reporting on the story). CNN in particular has seen the brunt of the criticism (that Obamacare verdict didn’t help), with Jon Stewart deeming the network the “human centipede of news.” His Comedy Central colleague Stephen Colbert, too, chimed in last night.

Colbert began with a different story, discussing the ricin letters sent to Sen. Roger Wicker and President Obama. Starting with being unaware of Sen. Wicker’s existence, Colbert detailed the many things yet unknown about the case. “Roger Wicker does not sound plausible as a senator,” Colbert quipped, noting it “sounds more like a patio furniture store.”

Similarly, in Boston, 48 hours after the marathon bombings, “there has been a major breakthrough in the reporting of all the other things we don’t know.” With that, he cued up a montage of cable news clips offering contradictions amid their reporting and many instances of the phrase, “We don’t know…”

“So, no arrest,” Colbert remarked, “but at least we have not wasted any precious time not being suspicious of dark-skinned males.”

Take a look, via Comedy Central:

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