Episode #07102

Barack Obama throws himself a lavish birthday party instead of working on the economy, so the recession will last four hours longer. (03:34)

Tags:  Barack Obama,  birthdays,  partying,  aging,  Fox News,  Sean Hannity,  pundits,  debt,  economy,  growing up,  President's Day,  Vietnam,  crying,  under the desk,  lookin' good,  Steve Doocy,  the heroes

Episode #06157

Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, says Julian Assange is definitely not a criminal. (08:27)

Tags:  Daniel Ellsberg,  interviews,  history,  Vietnam,  Iraq War,  wars,  Julian Assange,  WikiLeaks,  friend of the show,  sex,  crime,  terrorism,  First Amendment,  government,  media

Episode #06147

John Legend encourages people to stay involved and aware of what's going on in the world with his tribute to protest songs from the 60s and 70s. (03:24)

Tags:  John Legend,  interviews,  friend of the show,  celebrities,  music,  Rally to Restore Sanity,  March to Keep Fear Alive,  civil rights,  Vietnam,  wars,  protests,  history,  60s,  70s,  education,  culture

Episode #06083

If Muslims really need to get together, they can meet at a camp or a compound out in the wilderness. (04:16)

Tags:  The Word,  Barack Obama,  Stanley McChrystal,  Rolling Stone,  David Petraeus,  Afghanistan,  wars,  Vietnam,  history,  military,  media,  pop culture,  reality shows,  crying,  America,  Taliban

Episode #06078

Afghanistan is like a slot machine that America has been warming up for nine years, and it's about to pay off. (05:24)

Tags:  The Word,  Afghanistan,  wars,  wealth,  international affairs,  polls,  Robert Gates,  Hamid Karzai,  Vietnam,  history,  oil,  China,  Steve Doocy,  World Cup

Episode #03096

Democratic campaign strategist Bob Shrum wants to know if Stephen's wrist injury has made him reconsider his position on universal health care. (6:33)

Tags:  Bob Shrum,  interviews,  violence,  drugs,  Al Gore,  John Kerry,  George W. Bush,  Democrats,  Republicans,  Karl Rove,  George McGovern,  Richard Nixon,  Vietnam,  wars,  Gerald Ford,  Iraq

Episode #03059

Senator Mike Gravel believes Spartans encouraged homosexuality because they fight harder for the people they love. (7:02)

Tags:  interviews,  Mike Gravel,  Colbert Bump,  Vietnam,  Iraq,  Hillary Clinton,  wars,  Barack Obama,  Bill Richardson,  USA Today,  gay/homosexual,  movies,  CNN,  George W. Bush,  William F. Buckley,  Senate

Episode #03052

Stephen asks Sean Penn if he snuck weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq in a bulky raincoat to embarrass the president. (5:00)

Tags:  interviews,  Sean Penn,  stand by our president,  celebrities,  George W. Bush,  Iraq,  wars,  Vietnam,  San Francisco,  terrorism,  WMDs,  Meta-Free-Phor-All,  challenges

Episode #02159

Stephen feels the draft should be reinstated so that America can go back to the days of Vietnam when they hated protesters more than the war. (3:10)

Tags:  The Word,  Iraq,  George W. Bush,  wars,  Canada,  Vietnam,  Republicans,  Ronald Reagan,  John Kerry,  WMDs,  Jane Fonda,  Ralph Nader,  Britney Spears,  Al Qaeda,  Muqtada al-Sadr,  Olsen Twins

Episode #02157

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells Stephen that if Abraham Lincoln were alive today, he might be the host of The Colbert Report. (6:15)

Tags:  Doris Kearns Goodwin,  interviews,  Abraham Lincoln,  Civil War,  Lyndon Johnson,  wars,  Iraq,  Vietnam,  South Carolina,  Expert

Episode #02124

The best way to come up with the best exit strategy is to get the super group of the Nixon administration back together. (2:58)

Tags:  The Word,  George W. Bush,  wars,  Iraq,  Bob Woodward,  books,  Democrats,  60 Minutes,  Mike Wallace,  Jimmy,  Dick Cheney,  Henry Kissinger,  Vietnam,  Richard Nixon,  Donald Rumsfeld