mate her wikipedia page was updated 68 times. >> stephen: 68 times! well, that's impressive. considering that once she was on the ticket she did not edit herself once. (laughter) so the number of times a wikipedia page has been edited predicts the chances for v.p. slot. folks, that means we could be looking at vice president season six of "bufffy the vampire slayer." (cheers and applause) so nation, let your voice be heard in this historic decision. go on wikipedia and make as many edits as possible to your favorite v.p. contender. now, i like friend of the show tim pawlenty so to up his chances i'm going to get on the

old wikipedia to pump up his edit count. let's see here. let's see here. let's see here. t-paw was born in st. paul, minnesota. let's edit that to the minnesota town of st. paul is where born tim pawlenty was. (laughter) he was the son of eugene joseph pawlenty and let's say mrs. butterworth. (laughter) intending to become a dentist, pawlenty started his career in santa's workshop. (laughter) wait a minute. wait a minute. what am i doing? this is wikipedia. anything you type in here becomes reality. on august 10, 2012, tim pawlenty was named mitt romney's running mate and wiki, wiki, wiki. with (cheers and applause)

so i have designated t-paw the v.p. pick but it doesn't have to stay that way, folks. you get on wikipedia and edit any of these guys' pages to give them the edge or maybe edit the page of more of a dark horse-- like mitt romney's dark horse. (cheers and applause) we'll be right back.

(cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome back

everybody, thank you so much. nation, i don't know about you but i have had it up to here with animal rights groups. i mean, how endangered could the black rhino be? every time i go on safari i bag one. (laughter) and spare me your phone calls. i use everyday part of just the horn. (laughter) now luckily there's a hero out there who's not afraid to stand up to the puppy huggers. iowa congressman and haunted ice sculpture steve king recently king spoke out against new federal anti-dog fighting laws. >> the legislation that passed in the farm bill that said that it's a federal crime to watch animals fight or to induce someone else to watch an animal fight but it's not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting. there's something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that. it's wrong to rate animals above human beings. i will not raise animals up above human beings. >> thank you. if two consenting adults want to

fight under the auspices of the w.b.a., why not two consenting dogs? i mean, it's a classic cinderellator story. a troubled young dog from a tough neighborhood looking for a way off the street heads down to the gym and then chooses to enter the exciting world of dog fighting. a mentor takes him in, teaches this dog everything he knows. and when that dog feels ready, he enters the ring to prove to the world and to himself that he's got the talented tenacity to be a winner-- or a loser, in which case he is killed. that's how cinderella ends, right? now, sadly, king's words were twisted like the ball sack of a rot rot wiler in a pit bull's jaws. (laughter) he was savaged by the "we don't enjoy animals being tortured for our amusement brigade" at the humane society so congressman

king put his defense of dog fights in a true moral context. >> what i said is that we need to respect humans more than we do animals. wherever we start elevating animals to above that of humans we've crossed a moral line. for example, if there's a sexual predator out there who has impregnated a young girl, say a 13-year-old girl, that sexual predator can pick that girl up off the playground at the middle school and haul her across the state line and force her to get an abortion to eradicate the evidence of his crime and bring her back and drop her off at the swing set and that's not against the law in the united states of america. (laughter) >> what? that's not against the law? (laughter) why not? maybe congressman kick should do something about that! (laughter) what what? what?

i'm being told that all of that is against the law. well, bravo, congressman, fast work. the point is... the point is humans do cruel things to each other therefore they must be allowed to be cruel to animals. until there is no human suffering it's ali ali oxen free on what you're free to do to your oxen. and, folks, it's not just cruel things, we're allowed to watch people have sex for money. why can't steve king watchdogs have sex for money? far matter, why can't i watch steve king have sex with a dog? stop putting dogs above steve king! i'm sure he'd be the top! (laughter and applause) i guess... i guess all... (cheers and applause) i guess all steve king is saying is that we shouldn't judge him for having impregnated that dog and then taking it across the border for forced abortion to protect the world from his monstrous glassy eyed man puppies. (laughter)

right? right. that's got to be what he's saying. because otherwise i can't figure out what the (bleep) he's talking about! (cheers and applause) we'll be right back.

(cheers and applause) welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight has written a book that is a glowing portrait

of his father. are you listening, kids? please welcome mardi gras shriver. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thanks for coming on nice to see you again. >> thank you. >> stephen: you are the vice president of u.s. programs at save the children. >> yes. >> stephen: you are a shriver and a kennedy. your father was sergeant shriver, a giant in his own time and you have now written a book about your father called "a good man, rediscovering my father sargent shriver." why good man? why not great man. he's your dad. why are you pulling the punchs? >> i think there's a lot of people watching that think they're great men or great women but when the lights are turned off they're not good people and i think that when i heard from so many folks after he died was that he was a good man. and i think it's a nice thing

that people say to you when you lose your father, i realized it meant something different. i heard it from the waitresses at his favorite restaurant and the guy at the hair counter at the national airport. dad was good to everyone, whether you are president of the united states, cardinal or trash collector. that's what i wanted to figure out. how he could do that and do it joyfully. >> stephen: your father had an impressive if albeit extremely liberal bent. founder of the peace corps, head start, job corps, vista, legal services. did he ever revent his liberalism? (laughter) because he did all that stuff when people said yeah, liberalism has a place in america. >> he was very proud of it. he reached across the aisle to people like orrin hatch who supported job corps. >> stephen: but today if you reached across the aisle to somebody like orrin hatch he'd pull back a bloody stump. (laughter) >> in the time... he believed this was a greatest country on earth and he believed what brought us together.

>> stephen: let's talk about the great man good person dichotomy there because aser just saying we were talking about vice presidential choices over there. >> yes. >> stephen: your dad in 1972 ran as the vice presidential candidate with george mcgovern and they were nice guys! >> they were. >> stephen: pretty much universally heralded as maybe two of the nicest guys in my lifetime who ran for president and they got their asses handed to them. (laughter) in a historic crushing. by richard nixon and spiro agnew two men who even their supporters thought were complete bastards. (cheers and applause) does being a good guy get you ahead in the world of great men? >> well, i think my favorite line from that campaign was what

my dad said to george mcgovern after they lost. he said "we may have lost the election but we didn't lose our souls." (cheers and applause) my father died at 95 years of age after battling alzehimer's disease for ten years, surrounded by his 19 grandchildren and five kids all of whom loved him. his in laws. george mcgovern celebrated his 90th birthday in washington surrounded by hundreds of people in washington, d.c. i think we know who won that election in the long term. (laughter) (applause) >> stephen: your father was one of the champions of social justice. >> yes. >> stephen: social justice led to things like the war on poverty. 45 years on we are approaching the same level of poverty as when the war on poverty started.

haven't we prove than all those social services, reliance on the government, that that actually has failed and it's every man for himself? i got mine, jack, let's let it trickle down. (laughter) >> when you look at the statistics in 1965, the senior citizen rate of poverty and kid rate of poverty was about the same, ten years later after the war on poverty started up they both dropped ten points in 1975. now the adulterate is down under 9% and the kid rate is back up to 25%. and the bottom line is because we invested in taking care of our senior citizens. if we make the investment and put the political will behind it we can help to give kids the opportunity to realize their goals and dreams >> >> ultimately why do you think your father did this stuff? what was his ang? was it media optic? did he have a good publicist? (laughter) why helping other people because i don't see the gain there.

(laughter) >> as corny as it sounds he went to mass everyday of his life and he was a catholic. >> stephen: i'm a catholic, too. >> i understand. >>. >> stephen: if it's a contest, it's a tie. (laughter) mark, thank you so much for joining me. mark shriver. the book is "a good man." we'll be right back. ll hello, welcome to hotels.com.

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the "report," every captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is it is "daily show" with jon stewart. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: welcome to the "daily show." my name is jon stewart. we have a show for you tonight, including a visit from an exciting new, fresh, young, comedian, christopher rock. ( laughter ). i expect big things from him. let's begin tonight with america, folks. these are troubled times.

in this majestic land. ( laughter ) but there is one problem in our great country which stands out, perhaps above all others-- voter fraud. how big of a problem? do we know how big a problem it is? >> jon: i'm going to say it's bigger than ringworm. ( laughter ). and less than bieber fever. ( laughter ) actually, i didn't even know we had a voter fraud problem in this country. >> we have a voter fraud problem in this country. ( laughter ) >> jon: i stand crebted. is it proven? >> it's a proven problem, a serious threat to our democracy. ( laughter ) >> jon: well, i hope we have our best people on it. >> now to the fox news voter fraud unit. ( laughter )

( applause ) ( cheers ) >> jon: yes, conservatives and their media division are up in arms over voter fraud, and this year almost entirely in swing states with republican-controlled legislatures, they are doing something about it. >> a lot of these states, swing states in particular, have passed voter i.d. and voter suppression laws. >> new voter i.d. laws in texas, tennessee, kansas, wisconsin. >> jon: pensylla-tucky, arc anbamma, floralinea. and new ohio. or new higho. states are spending millions of dollars to combat voter fraud through strategies like purging voter roles and requiring photo

i.d.s, even though a study by a group that supports the laws, the national republican lawyers association-- which, by the way, if you ever just want to smoke some cigars and play some golf with some rule douchebags-- ( laughter ) ...there you go. anyway, they said this -- >> the national republican lawyers only found 340 cases of voter fraud over a 10-year period in all of america. >> jon: oh, my god! ( laughter ) that's almost... .7 cases per state per year. ( laughter ). and it also includes registration fraud like a mickey mouse petition. but still, even pennsylvania, which is now defending its photo i.d. law in court said this -- >> the state admits it is "not

aware of any incidents of in-person voter fraud in pennsylvania. in addition, the state says it has no evidence to prove that in-person voter fraud is likely to occur in december 2012 in the absence of the photo i.d. laws. >> jon: i rest my case, your honor. it doesn't happen. this won't stop it. i think you can see why we have to do it now. ( laughter ) next up, leiber laws for unicorns. ( laughter ) ( applause ) it's very odd, republicans-- republicans are throwing money at this problem that seems to have very little factual evidence behind it, because i can think of another issue that has perhaps a larger body of scientific work behind it that they are somewhat reluctant to tackle. >> we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet, and the idea of spending trlz and trlz of dollars to try to reduce co2 emissions is