Canton, Kan., gets its Colbert apology

Stephen Colbert’s serial Canton-bashing has moved northward. Colbert’s inevitable official apology Tuesday to Canton, Kan., for his unkind remarks last week on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” kicked off an assault on Canton, S.D., including a song calling it “North Dakota’s dirty ashtray.” A CNN report on the reaction in the Kansas Canton, which is near McPherson, featured one woman who said she’d like to “hit him in the nose.”