Free Excerpt of Colbert Book!

While most of you already have your very own copy of Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!) and have read it cover to cover, I'm sure there's still a handful of readers who don't have the book. Perhaps you live in a rural Siberian hut or are chained in a dungeon or maybe you're conducting experiments on the international space-station.

Whatever legitimate reason you might have for somehow not getting a copy of the book since its release this morning, you've no need to fret. ABC News has released an excerpt on their website. Here's an excerpt of the excerpt:

Now, you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Stephen, if
you don't like books, why did you write one?" You just asked yourself a
trick question. I didn't write it. I dictated it. I shouted it into a
tape recorder over the Columbus Day weekend, then handed it to my agent
and said, "Sell this." He's the one who turned it into a book. It's his
funeral. But I get your "drift." Why even dictate? Well, like a lot of
other dictators, there is one man's opinion I value above all others.
Mine. And folks, I have a lot of opinions. I'm like Lucy trying to keep
up with the candy at the chocolate factory. I can barely put them in my
mouth fast enough. - In fact, I have so many opinions, I have
overwhelmed my ability to document myself. I thought my nightly
broadcast, The Colbert Report (check your local listings), would pick
up some of the slack. But here's the dirty little secret. When the
cameras go off, I'm still talking. And right now all that opinion is
going to waste, like seed on barren ground. Well no more. It's time to
impregnate this country with my mind.

Feel free to excerpt the excerpt of the excerpt for your own blog and invite others
to further excerpt your excerpt of our excerpt of ABC's excerpt to the point that blogs will soon be running single-word excerpts from the book.

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Previously: Colbert Book Unleashes Tonight!