you. out there we've already had an intimate evening here in the studio. (laughter) >> stephen: nation-- (laughter) i shared a few things. (laughter) nation, this is a very big week for republican pettal candidates. -- presidential candidates. tonight there is the debate in iowa that will feature all the major players and tim paw lenty. (laughter) >> stephen: then saturday of course is the straw poll in ames, a crucial test to see if a candidate can get midwesterners to put down a food plate long enough to mark a ballot. but the big news today came from the iowa state fair in des moines where in an attempt to appeal to more voters, ron paul had himself batter dipped and deep fat fried. (laughter) that was good. more chipotle sauce. meanwhile mitt romney was at the state fair in his every man dungarees when he was

ambushed by liberal activists with a gotcha question about social security. and with his answer, romney proved he didn't just dress like the average joe, he understands the average joe. >> we have to make sure that the promises we make in social security, medicaid and medicare are promises we can keep. and there are various ways of doing that. one is we could raise taxes on people. -- >> corporations. >> corporations are people, my friend. >> stephen: yes. corporations are people, my friend. they're like members of your family. your brother, fax machine. your uncle ben, your auntannie, your mam ma celeste, your go daddy. folks, i have been fighting this good fight for years. corporations are legally people in the united states. >> no. >> corporations are people. >> corporations are people. >> corporations are people too. >> would you let your daughter date a corporation? sir?

>> no i would not. >> stephen: wow. in this day and age that kind of bigot ree, it is time to remake guess who's coming to dinner. this time with an oil rig. (laughter) >> stephen: and you know, you know it is going to drive spencer tracey crazy to think about his daughter getting drilled. (laughter) (applause) >> stephen: with romney's historic statement of corporate personhood he has become this generations civil rights champion. a dr. martin luther inc. if you will. (laughter) >> stephen: so folks, i want to salute this brave man for his courageous new campaign slogan. i am confident that it is one that voters will remember come election time. of course with all of this happening, folks, -- >> (applause)

>> stephen: you can applaud me. you can applaud me. believe me, i understand the instincts. folks, with all of this happening the national news media is descending on iowa this weekend which can mean only one thing. >> sarah palin is heading back to iowa. the former alaska governor announcing she is taking her bus tour to the state fair this week, that is just 30 miles south of where the republican presidential debate will be held tonight. >> stephen: well that's a happy coincidence. (laughter) after a brief two-month pit stop sarah palin is bringing her put tour of american's historic places to the historic iowa state fair where thomas edison invented the funnel cake. (laughter) this is the same-- this is the same-- stop it. this is the same kind of coincidence that took her bus tour rick perry with an a fr

america, with an a for iowa. -- (laughter) >> stephen: that's right. (cheers and applause) i'll join you. i'll join you. folks, i want everyone in the iowa nation to go to the ames straw poll, this saturday, going to be a beautiful day. there's food. there's booze and write in rick perry with an a. why a? because there's no "e" in team. and this evening-- (laughter) and this evening at 1700 hours we struck again with our second ad in the greater des moines metropolitan area. jimmy? >> iowa, a land of good people who can make up their own minds. but outside groups like jobs

for iowa superpac are trying to panned err to iowans with pro perry ads feet oouring -- corn october fee that will-- just so you will vote for rick perry at the ames straw poll. but americans for a better tomorrow tomorrow believe that iowans deserve better. and we're going to give it to you. >> oh yeah. on august 13th, write in rick perry. that's perry with an a for america with an a for iowa. americans for a better tomorrow tomorrow is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> oh. >> wow.

wow. my goodness. i do declare. that is some ear sizzling hot buttered below the corn belt action that is bound to appeal to iowa's basist instinct. i better to go to commercial before i jiffy pop. we'll be right back.

(cheers and applause) welcome back, everybody, thank you so. folks, before the break i showed our first two superpac ads. now i don't want this to be about me. some controversy seems to follow me wherever i seek it. because while these ads appeared on two stations in des moines it was originally supposed it to air on three.

but one hour before the first ad was to air last night i received this actual e-mail from woi des moines news leader. quote. our general manager has reviewed both of the spots that your group wants to run tonight and tomorrow and we are going to decline to air them. >> oooh. >> indeed. folks, the midwestern media elite are trying to silence us. they don't want your voice to be heard, folks. the fat cats in des moines think they can sit in their ivory corn silos and play puppet master with our national politics and guess what, we're not invited. are you going to take it? >> no! >> stephen: good, because i was afraid you were going to talk it and i don't want to. just listen, just listen why they want to silence us. they say the ads quote are confusing to voters as we get closer to the straw poll

on saturday and the debate on thursday. confusing to iowa voters? really? we're not talking about the dip [bleep] over in nebraska this is iowa. (laughter) (applause) and be like, excuse me, excuse me. but unlike woi, i believe that iowa voters can understand even a complex message like go to the ames straw poll, write in perry, spell it with an "a" or did i lose you woi. should i have the boys from who news 13 explain it to you. and listen to how they end. please let me know if you have any more questions. yeah, just one more. what the [bleep]! with an "a" i am mad! (applause) i am how manying mad. but of course i'm not mad at

the news team. amanda and rachel, top-notch. of course john walters giving you the latest on sports and brad edwards manning the weather center, no! i'm talking about woi management. you had our ad for two days, gentlemen. hell, you had my money for six days. and one hour, one hour before taping you suddenly said hey, it might be too confusing for your viewers. really? both of them? i happen to know, i happen to know you haven't won a local emmy in ten years. want to touch mine? (cheers and applause) i know what happened here, folks. you clearly received phone call ordering you to shut colbert down. from one of the other six shadowy superpacs that are trying to muss nell on our rightful place as the

official unconnected pro perry superpac. well, i don't know who you normally deal with but woi-abc 5, you have [bleep] the wrong people. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: you hear that? you hear that? yes, you can hear that now. colbert superpac is not some small potatoes business that will just sit there and take it we're not curley's furniture on army post road where prices have been great since 1948. by the way if you are going to sit there and just take it, you can to the do any better than curley's selection of leather recliners. colbert superpac is 165,000 strong, baby. hear us roar. (cheers and applause) besides, besides, you said here, you say my ad was confusing. but you know what i find

confusing? you wouldn't take our money to run our ad during a 5:00 news commercial break but on the 10:00 news you reported on it for free. >> stephen colbert has purchased ad space in iowa to promote a write-in campaign for perry but spelled with an "a" instead of an "e" >> a storm is gathering over iowa. >> colbert won approval dprt federal election committee to set up a superpac in his name which means he can raise unlimited amounts of money and funnel it into campaign ads. >> stephen: thanks, amanda, great report. now over to brad with the weather-- no, wait! stay mad! now clearly someone needs to get to the bottom of this corruption. someone on the inside, like the intrepid woi reporter katie eastman who has the courage to tackle the tough issues. >> jessica, it is the longest annual garage sale in iowa. (laughter) >> stephen: katie blew the lid off garage sale gait.

clearly, clearly, katie, you are the only one i can trust. call me. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause)

(cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you very much. welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is a feminist icon and the subject of a new hbo documentary and it's only 75% as long as documentaries about men. please welcome gloria steinham. (cheers and applause) srz gloria, good to see you again, how are you doing. >> good, good. >> stephen: i don't have to introduce you, you are a feminist icon. >> no, no, no. >> stephen: no, you are. a feminist icon. there are people who wear pictures of you around their neck. >> but icon is really dangerous because then you get an icono klaas, you know what i mean. >> stephen: people come tearing after you, attack

you for being an icon and here we go. >> okay, okay, i'm ready. >> stephen: this documentary is gloria in her own words. why do you need to express yourself in your own words. are you misinterpreted by other people? >> probably. and probably that will go right on. because it is in my own words. but it's just much intimate, i think, because you, well, here's what happened. they ask me questions and i tied to answer as honestly as i could. and then they created a documentary around it. so it's kind of like jumping off a cliff, you know. and it turned out amazingly well. >> stephen: it's a great documentary. it really is a window into a time when sexism existed (laughter) but now everything's equal. there's spanks for men, now.

>> there are, i didn't know that. >> stephen: there are, spanks for men, trust me. (laughter) where do you shall see the feminist movement existing now? >> well, actually, the thing that concerns me about the documentary is that people look at it and see where we have been for 20 or 30 or 40 years and how much we've done. we've done a lot. because you know, now we know that say women can do what men can do, most folks would agree with that. >> stephen: absolutely. >> but we don't know that men with do what women can do. >> stephen: aha!. we cannot have the babies. >> therefore. >> stephen: we cannot have the babies i talked to a lot of doctors. >> (laughter) >> and that's why it would be great if men spent that much more than half the time caring for the children because women have spent a year or whatever, you know. >> stephen: nine months. (laughter) i know what species you are

from but nine months where i come from. >> so nobody nursed you? >> stephen: no, no, no. i had formula. i'm a child of the '60s. >> that explains. >> stephen: so you mentioned share half the duties plus nine months, that would evening things out. >> that is logic. logic is in the eyes of the magic, but really, it's important, seriously that kids grow up knowing that men can be as loving and nurturing as women can. >> stephen: i thought the rule of the father was to take his emotion and stuff it down as much as can until it comes out inappropriately at thanksgiving dinner. (laughter) >> what we are talkizz about is a revolution and not a reform. >> gloria steinham, the most visible symbol of the women's movement. >> you understand it's not a real exchange. we're not trying to do to men what men have done to us. we are trying to humanize -- >> every generation has its own name.

>> more than a third, is women under 25 years old beenls who empower other people. >> susan b anthony said our job is not to make young women grateful, it's to make them ungrateful so they keep going. >> stephen: if there was one thing that you could tell to younger women today who did not experience the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s, one example of what happened then that doesn't happen any more that changed because of them nist movement what would-- what would it be, what would you shock them with? >> there are a lot of things in the movie, as will you see wz we don't have time for the whole movie right now. >> but there were restaurants in which women could not be seated or could not go at lunchtime. there, when we got married we lost most of our civil rights, our names, our credit ratings, our legal

dom style and basically we thought that our position was due to nature or, you know, fraud or god. i don't know. but anyway-- nothing to be envious by the way. >> really a burden. >> i have heard you say-- (applause) >> i have heard you say that you were uncomfortable being perceived of as pretty like the pre feminist y? >> well, it has to do with being identified by your outsides not your insides so women who were pretty people said oh they just succeeded because they were pretty. women who were not pretty, whatever that means, they said oh that's, she is succeeding because she couldn't get a man so we all basically had the same problem of being identified byñr our outsides instead of our hearts and minds and so on. >> stephen: but the fact is. >> and that still goes on. >> stephen: but the fact is you're pretty. >> well, you're pretty too. >> stephen: i've been

waiting the whole interview for that. (laughter) >> stephen: i can't believe i had to wait six minutes. gloria, thank you so much. gloria steinham dheers plaus. >> the documentary gloria in her own words premiers monday night on hbo. we'll be right back. (cheers and a

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