Colbert: Rand Paul Inspired Me To Exercise My Right To Call Myself An Ophthalmologist (VIDEO)

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After hearing that Kentucky senate candidate Rand Paul created his own National Board of Ophthalmology to certify himself, Stephen Colbert said last night that Paul “has inspired me to exercise my constitutional right to call myself an ophthalmologist.”

So Colbert created his own “USA Board of Ophthalmologist Freedom,” and with the help of his cat Professor Buttons, performed Lasik eye surgery on a bespectacled, and unsuspecting, intern.

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