Stephen Colbert turns Katie Eastman, a 22-year-old “intrepid cub reporter” in Iowa, into a national celebrity

Katie Eastman, a 22-year-old TV reporter from Des Moines, Iowa, has become a national celebrity thanks to Stephen Colbert. Eastman’s employer, WOI-ABC 5, refused to air an advertisement from Colbert’s political action committee. The ad urged Iowa voters to cast their ballots for “Rick Parry,” deliberately misspelled. Colbert, or at least his televised persona, then

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Stephen Colbert turns Katie Eastman, a 22-year-old “intrepid cub reporter” in Iowa, into a national celebrity

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