Word choice: Bring and take

A reader objected to this usage in Monday’s paper: Stephen Colbert brings his Comedy Central show to Iraq. Indeed, because Colbert was in the United States to start, he must take his show to Iraq.

I’ve run across a couple of other instances of bring where I would use take.

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