Episode #08095

Carne Ross discusses his book "The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century." (06:08)

Tags:  Carne Ross,  interviews,  books,  government,  Occupy Wall Street,  democracy,  America,  capitalism,  corruption,  business,  Colbert Super PAC,  protests,  money,  Wall Street,  poverty,  Congress,  U.K.,  Bush administration

Episode #08080

Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos. (04:20)

Tags:  Latino,  Hispanic,  Mitt Romney,  Mexico,  parents,  Mormon,  Colbert Super PAC,  advertising,  stereotypes,  ethnic,  voting,  Spanish,  dogs,  candidates,  immigration,  Indecision 2012,  Republicans,  media,  polygamy,  polls,  under the desk,  Jimmy

Episode #08072

Veteran political strategist Mark McKinnon's No Labels movement has a 12-step program to reform Congress. (06:53)

Tags:  Mark McKinnon,  interviews,  Congress,  Democrats,  Republicans,  Olympia Snowe,  government,  Independents,  rehab,  money,  military,  campaigns,  laws,  voting,  Civil War,  Kermit the Frog,  Newt Gingrich,  Rick Santorum,  liberal,  approval ratings

Episode #08065

Dawn Quarles, a Florida high school teacher, faces voter fraud fines for registering her students to vote. (07:13)

Tags:  People Who Are Destroying America,  Florida,  on location,  voting,  kids,  teens,  school,  education,  laws,  elections,  discrimination,  democracy,  mongering,  corruption,  parenting,  Rick Scott,  crime,  statistics,  sexism,  men/women

Episode #08060

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi believes that super PACs threaten American democracy and that Citizens United should be overturned. (08:13)

Tags:  Nancy Pelosi,  interviews,  Colbert Super PAC,  money,  fundraising,  wealth,  democracy,  Supreme Court,  freedom of speech,  business,  elections,  Better Know a District,  Colbert Bump,  advertising,  Congress,  government,  California,  Catholic,  Lent,  holidays,  Jesus,  Rick Santorum,  men/women,  health,  birth control,  family,  kids

Herman Cain sings at the South Cain-olina Primary Rally, Rick Santorum panders to the elderly, Maurice Sendak praises Stephen's idiocy, and Newt Gingrich reimagines the moon. (04:09)

Tags:  Weekly Recap

Episode #08049

The Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan analyzes the picture that GOP candidates have painted of Barack Obama and extolls the president's numerous achievements. (06:19)

Tags:  Andrew Sullivan,  interviews,  friend of the show,  Barack Obama,  Obama administration,  Republicans,  Iraq War,  Afghanistan War,  Al Qaeda,  Osama bin Laden,  George W. Bush,  unemployment,  economy,  recession,  stimulus package,  Mitt Romney,  poverty,  health,  insurance,  laws

Episode #08049

Maurice Sendak demystifies "Where the Wild Things Are," Rick Santorum panders to a misinformed elderly woman, and Andrew Sullivan discusses Barack Obama's health care reform. (01:00)

Tags:  Colbert in :60 Seconds

Episode #08032

Jack Abramoff describes the controversial activities he engaged in as a Washington lobbyist and discusses the corrupting influence of campaign contributions. (06:23)

Tags:  Jack Abramoff,  interviews,  books,  lobbyists,  corruption,  Washington DC,  laws,  crime,  Native American,  Congress,  money,  prostitution,  prison,  restaurants,  gifts & presents

Episode #08017

Make Us Great Again creates a Rick Perry ad, and the Nebraska Democratic Party skirts campaign finance limits with Ben Nelson's issue ads. (05:22)

Tags:  Rick Perry,  Colbert Super PAC,  Ben Nelson,  advertising,  Buddy Roemer,  Karl Rove,  Barbara Bush,  money,  Democrats,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012,  campaigns,  candidates,  hunting,  laws,  lookin' good

Episode #08010

Documentarian Susan Saladoff explores how the media and corporate America manipulated the public into believing the civil justice system is broken. (05:45)

Tags:  Susan Saladoff,  interviews,  documentaries,  movies,  lawsuits,  lawyers,  trials/hearings,  injuries,  business,  media,  McDonald's,  money,  Constitution,  civil rights,  lying,  laws,  candidates,  Republicans,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012

Episode #08007

The Republican presidential candidates all agree on one thing: they want to end the EPA's job-murdering environmental regulations. (02:30)

Tags:  Republicans,  debates,  EPA,  environment,  pollution,  safety,  Address the Mess,  government,  unemployment,  Rick Perry,  Michele Bachmann,  business,  China,  international affairs,  candidates,  Indecision 2012,  campaigns,  young Stephen,  70s,  photos,  health,  mental health,  liberal,  Richard Nixon,  fires,  John Stossel,  hippies

Episode #07108

Barack Obama breaks up the word "Obamacare" into "Obama" and "care," but that's not where that word came from. (01:58)

Tags:  Barack Obama,  health,  insurance,  government,  laws,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012,  elections,  campaigns,  Democrats,  transportation,  injuries,  doctors,  surgery,  the heroes,  Drew Barrymore,  cars/trucks

Episode #07108

In politics, messaging is everything, so Stephen turns to the Persuadulux 6000 to generate a Colbert Nation word cloud from Super PAC donor write-ins. (03:52)

Tags:  Colbert Super PAC,  touch screen,  Colbert Nation,  technology,  advertising,  Rick Perry,  money,  fundraising,  photos,  Frank Luntz,  democracy,  marijuana,  drugs,  Fox News,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012,  elections,  Republicans,  Supreme Court,  Andy Serkis,  the heroes,  freedom of speech,  audience interaction

Episode #07106

Gloria Steinem believes Americans know that women can do what men can do, but they don't know that men can do what women can do. (06:05)

Tags:  Gloria Steinem,  interviews,  feminism,  sexism,  culture,  documentaries,  movies,  men/women,  discrimination,  civil rights,  history,  60s,  70s,  pregnancy,  marriage,  kids,  family,  parenting,  mental health,  lookin' good,  Jimmy,  the heroes

Episode #07100

Bloomberg News' Al Hunt believes Barack Obama lost the debt ceiling negotiation, but he doesn't think the Republicans won. (05:41)

Tags:  Al Hunt,  interviews,  debt,  economy,  government,  fights,  media,  24-hour news,  candidates,  America,  Democrats,  Republicans,  civil rights,  Barack Obama,  asses,  alcohol,  80s,  90s,  Medicare,  taxes,  the heroes,  Mitch McConnell,  Michele Bachmann,  Ronald Reagan,  history

Episode #07098

After consulting with Ham Rove and Matthew Dowd, Stephen calls on the Colbert Nation to determine the direction of his Super PAC. (05:16)

Tags:  appearances,  Matthew Dowd,  Karl Rove,  Colbert Super PAC,  Colbert Nation,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012,  advertising,  Iowa,  money,  wealth,  fundraising,  food,  the heroes,  under the desk

Episode #07096

Peter Edelman explains why America can't call the troops home and beat its plowshares back into swords when it comes to fighting the war on poverty. (04:22)

Tags:  Peter Edelman,  appearances,  poverty,  books,  Xbox,  lying,  food,  recession,  economy,  debt,  money,  wealth,  unemployment,  housing,  kids,  gay/homosexual,  Heroe$ Crawl

Episode #07087

John Lennon was a closet Republican, and a European poll ranks Germany as the world's least funny country in spite of the name of their breakfast cheese. (05:34)

Tags:  Tip/Wag,  John Lennon,  The Beatles,  appearances,  conservative,  Hans Beinholtz,  performances,  music,  songs,  Ronald Reagan,  Germany,  death,  men/women,  Jimmy,  hippies,  economy,  Republicans,  philosophy,  polls,  international affairs,  challenges

Episode #07083

Rick Scott wants to increase his popularity, Ted Nugent writes an op-ed, and Grover Norquist talks about Americans for Tax Reform. (00:37)

Tags:  intro,  Rick Scott,  Florida,  Ted Nugent,  video games,  violence,  kids,  Supreme Court,  Grover Norquist,  taxes,  senior citizens