and dr pepper ten is our soda! it's only ten manly calories, but with all 23 flavors of dr pepper. it's what guys want. like this... catch phrase! so you can keep the romantic comedies and lady drinks. we're good. >> jon: that's our show. here it is, your moment of zen. >> the scottsdale, arizona, gun club were offering to take a picture with santa and, of course, your favorite high-powered weapon. >> in addition to the picture, they also let you fire you captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby please standby captioning sponsored by comedy central >> stephen: welcome to the report, thank you so much. stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! >> stephen: welcome to the report. good to have you with us. thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. boy, folks, thank you so much. i've got to

and dr pepper ten is our soda! it's only ten manly calories, but with all 23 flavors of dr pepper. it's what guys want. like this... catch phrase! so you can keep the romantic comedies and lady drinks. we're good. everybody. thank you so much. folks, please, sit down. folks, the cain train has been permanently derailed and now the question on everyone's minds is who is next. and what form of transportation will they compare themselves to? i can't wait to see whether santorum or perry will be the first to claim the rickshaw. you see, there's a lot of talk out there about jon huntsman now thanks to a recent huge ad buy in new hampshire. >> him. >> the world is literally collapsing and no one has shown up we can trust as a conservative. >> who actually has a chance to win. >> our government's flabby, bloated and weak. why haven't we heard of this guy? >> stephen: good question, cranky old man in close-up, maybe you haven't heard of this guy because the ad you're in was only recently financed by a big corporate sugar daddy, literally. >> jon huntsman getting a little monetary help from

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and dr pepper ten is our soda! it's only ten manly calories, but with all 23 flavors of dr pepper.uys want. like this... catch phrase! so you can keep the romantic comedies and lady drinks. we're good. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: welcome back. oh, the holiday season, 'tis the season. the holidays are upon us which means we hear at the daily show turn our attention to the neediest among us: giant on-line retailers. they're suffering and nowhere is the situation more heart breaking than in california. john oliver has more. >> reporter: california is in trouble. they're facing a financial armageddon. and it's largely because of one thing. direct democracy. >> they throw issues on the ballots and people vote for them without actually knowing what the ramifications are. >> we hear that direct democracy is on wonderful but what if it's not. >> reporter: with just 500,000 signatures californians can put anything on the ballot right past the legislature and make it law. it's a difficult system to understand until you talk to state democratic chairman john burden. >> it's totally (beep)

and dr pepper ten is our soda! it's only ten manly calories, but with all 23 flavors of dr pepper. it's what guys want. like this... catch phrase! so you can keep the romantic comedies and lady drinks. we're good. >> welcome back, everybody. nation, the race for the gop presidential nomination is far from over. newt gingrich may be the front-runner now but by the looks of him he might get winded if there are stairs involved. the point is, it is still anybody's game here because my man rick perry just released a great new ad, jim? >> i'm not ashamed to admit that i'm a christian. but you don't need to be in the pew every sunday to know that there is something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military, when our kids can't openly celebrate christmas. >> stephen: yes. governor perry-- ooh, i agree. governor perry is right. thanks to the gays, our children can't openly celebrate the birth of our saviour in school, and yet these gays in the military can openly celebrate their favorite holiday, being away from their family, risking their lives in afghanistan. well,

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and dr pepper ten is our soda! it's only ten manly calories, but with all 23 flavors of dr pepper. it's what guys want. like this... catch phrase! so you can keep the romantic comedies and lady drinks. we're good. >> jon: welcome back. everybody knows the expression, neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall keep the postman from their appointed rounds. it does turn out that precipitation in a variety of temperatures isn't the only threat to mail. wyatt cenac has more. >> the post office, everybody loves it, for just 44 cents they'll deliver your mail anywhere, whether it's wishing someone a merry christmas or flirting with prisoners. but that time may be over. >> deep in debt and facing hundreds of thousands of layoffs, it's no secret the u.s. postal service is desperate to stay afloat. >> reporter: these are tough times for president of the postal workers union cliff guthie. >> the post service say great lady, where the flag flies in america n all these small communities. to start backing that, solely for budgetary constraints, i think it's kind of add in a way. >> but you'r

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dr. pepper. it happened at a place called morrisson's old corner drugstore.e inventer liked the way the place smelled. the accommodation of fruity syrups and medicine. so he tinkered with the recipe until he came up with a mixture. at first he called it waco, after the town, but for unknown reason, the store's owner later changed it to dr. pepper and to this day, it remains the oldest major soft drink still in mass production in the united states and the world got some tasty medicine 126 years ago today. now you know the news for this thursday, the 1st day of

and neither is dr pepper ten. 23 flavors from 10 manly calories. it's what guys want. like this!elcome back to the show. honestly, we're just recovering from herman cain dropping out of the race. you may have seen my writers' retithatrkews of herman ca's withdrawal. >> no! no888 it's not supposed to happen this way! >> oh god, oh man! >> (bleep) (bleep) (bleep). (laughter) >> jon: it was upsetting. they weren't alone. when cane dropped out of the race i felt despondent. i was depressed, i was losing all hope that my job would ever bring me joy again. and... (laughter). and then... >> we are just confirming that donald trump will moderate a republican debate on december 27 in des moines, iowa. >> jon: (whispering) thank you, jesus. (cheers and applause) you know, sometimes when god closes a door he opens a window! and sometimes standing outside that window a circus peanut wearing a badger. (laughter) here's how you know it's going to be great! regular republicans, the one we used to hate, are down right scared. >> jon: it's going to be a giant go trip and anybody who thinks that d

and neither is dr pepper ten. 23 flavors from 10 manly calories. it's what guys want. like this! catch phrase! there are so many controversies, so many controversies this holiday season, but of all of them, only one is the stupidest. >> the muppets are back and being terrorized by an evil oil executive in their new movie. i mean this is a muppet movie for goodness sake. the only thing green on that screen should be kermit the frog. >> class warfare. it's teaching our kids class warfare. where are we, communist china? >> >> jon: yes. i think he may be thinking of the mao-pets. their new movie the mao-pets. are the money es communist propaganda. we turn to our resident deranged millionaire john hodgson. >> i'm on the canadian dollar. please, sir, can i have some more money. money. bow before your god. money talks. >> john hodgson. [cheering and applause] what is this? what is this? the muppets are communists? >> let me say off the bat i love the muppets as much as anybodiment you may not know, my father was a muppet. [laughter] >> jon: you're half muppet? i didn't know you were hal

and neither is dr pepper ten. 23 flavors from 10 manly calories. it's what guys want. like this!, ladies and gentlemen. well, that's it for "the colbert report." but before we go, i want to mention a new graphic novel by one of my writers, glen eichler. it's called "mush, sled dogs with issues. request w art by joe infernari" and it's about the jostling for power among a group of the talking alaskan sled dogs. fantastic book. in fact, it got me thinking about hitching my writers up to a sled. because if they have enough time to be writing books on the side clearly i am not working them hard enough. that's it for the "report," everybody. good night. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org mtv networks [♪...] man: so devanzo stands in 6-foot first baseman out of pawtucket. fine form on this fellow. shot down the line. that's a frozen rope. base hit in anybody's league. and here's captain jeter steps up to the plate to his usual hip-hop music. bum-bum-bum-bum-bum. and look at the triceps on this youngster.

and neither is dr pepper ten. 23 flavors from 10 manly calories. it's what guys want. like this!e! ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: my guest tonight is a photographer. his photos from his many trips to iraq are displayed in his new book, iraq perspectives. please welcome to the program ben lowy. ( applause ) so this is a selection of or a collection of photographs from iraq from the years.... >> 2003 to 2008. >> jon: how many times did you go to iraq to collect these photographs through those years? >> way too many. more than my wife would have liked. >> jon: that many times. let me tell you how this happened. so we did this rolling stone piece. they said, oh, we're going to send over this photographer. he's just going to hang out with you guys for a day and take some pictures. we thought, okay, we'll rough him up a little bit. this guy shows up. where were you before this? where was it? >> libya. >> jon: yeah, that's right. >> i get around. >> jon: you get around. so we go, who are you? it turns out you have been traveling to these... you're a photographer that travels to the mos

dr. pepper was $100,000 university scholarship. it meant the world to her.he was absolutely overwhelmed when she finally got there. >> that is incredible. you hear about a lot of great prizes, but this is it. let's hear from her, don. >> this is so important to me. dr. pepper is seriously the best thing that has ever happened to me. >> she will satisfy be drinking a lot of dr. pepper in college. >> just incredible. she's going to spend money on her education. she'll study english and history, then law school. then she says she wants to be a federal judge, then make the supreme court. if she makes it, keep your eye on this girl. it all started with a can of soda. >> got to love it. what a great story. thanks so much. >>> checking other stories making news later today. 11:00 eastern nasa holding a news conference to announce the discovery of a new planet. how often do you hear that? >>> at 1:30 eastern president obama meets with college students. they'll talk about the high cost of going to college. >>> an antihazing forum at florida a&m university. it's in re

. >> last time they changed the m men you was to get -- menu was to get dr pepper. >> we'll be back in a minute. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ >>> welcome back. we're talking about grilled cheese. >> i wanted to go back for a moment to the mobile payment issue, because that's still -- we're really at the very beginning of the whole thing of using your phone to pay for things and everything. i was curious about what percentage of your users are actually prepaying using their mobile device to pay and whether you're able to track any improvement in the metrics in terms of your line length or something like that as a result of it? >> sure. so we're in about -- a little over 10% of our custome

dr. pepper, lipton, coca-cola or pepsi? >> pepsi. >> everyone's on a roll today. you go! >> wow.t one right. that was a very controversial video. >> yeah. this is the video that had the burning crosses and the part where madonna sort of gets, like, very cozy with a saint in a church. >> i remember. >> not so shockingly religious groups were sort of outraged by that one. at least one of them called for a big boycott of pepsi. in the long run the controversy was good for madonna. >> usually controversy ends up being okay. back across to kath. >> can you imagine she might be from new orleans. the big easy. all right. how old was stevie wonder when he began his recording career? 9, 11, 13 or 15? >> 11. >> wow! everybody's really doing great today. >> is everyone cheating? what is going on? >> they're not. >> are you positive? 11 years old. youngster. >> this is nuts. we should have made these harder. started recording in 1961 when he was known as little stevie wonder. the next year when he released an album he was billed as the 12-year-old genius. truth in advertising. he was indeed

dr. pepper? >>guest: your children should be getting water and milk.you have to give them something sweet give them chocolate milk. or make a smoothie. there is no nutritional value in juice and soda, it is empty calories, or diet soda they take the calcium out of their bones. >>shepard: french fries and chicken nuggets, and something from chick filet. >>guest: they will not allow gay couples this there, that was all over year's when. >>shepard: i missed it because the chicken sandwiches are spectacular. >>guest: in small amounts. if your child is drinking juice ever day --. >>shepard: i thinked my mom fed us arsenic soup. doctor, always good to see you. don't take off a snake charmer but the guy who left the snakes to the local tax office said they got what they had coming. your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. then our invisible hearing aids are for you. loaded with our most advanced hearing technologies, our invisible hearing aids are comfortable to wear and are specifically designed to improve hearing in noisy environments, sound mor

dr. pepper, but i need these things right here. >> what do twizzlers do?> the licorice, it moistens your vocal chords. and you can do gummy bears as well. >> if i eat loads of gummy bears, would i suddenly get a huge voice such as you? >> i don't think so. >> what do twizzlers do? >> the licorice, it moistens your vocal chords. and you can do gummy bears as well. >> if i eat loads of gummy bears, would i suddenly get a huge voice such as you? >> i don't think so. i think you'll just have fun eating the gummy bears. but, you know, for singers, it's just a tip. you know, it kind of keeps you -- your vocals lubricated. so, you know, i got it from a vocal coach. >> is the reality if you're in a business that's very competitive and it involves performance, that the awards are kind of the, you know, they're the icing on the cake. they're the people standing outside saying, yes, we think you are good. is it that kind of thing that you crave? >> it is very important. i definitely still care about awards. because it says to me that everything you're doing is, you k

dr. pepper and a few other corporations moved here as well. later on he ended up sounding perot systems here as well. i thank him for that. my question is about his choice for vice president. how did that come about? he did not look too good in the bpd day. it was a hindrance. i in not sure how many votes that cost them, but it did not make it look good. what was the thinking and a decision beside -- behind selecting james stockdale as a candidate? >> in 1992 he chose stockdale. >> he is one of the greatest americans who ever lived. he is one of the most decorated naval officers in u.s. history. of course, he had been a pow in world war -- in the vietnam war and organized a -- how to have pow resistance. he won something like 26 medals, numerous silver stars, medal of honor winner. he later became president of a neighbor -- naval war college. we are dealing with a very serious person. ross perot admired him. he thought this was the type of person we needed in government. he chose him as his vice president which is an interesting choice. what p

dr. pepper and a few other corporations decided to move your as well. later on, he ended up sounding perot systems here. my question is about adult -- admiral stock sale. -- admiral stock dale. he did not look too good in the vice-presidential debate. i know how much it cost him, but it certainly didn't make him look good. what was the thinking behind it selecting him as his vice- presidential candidate? >> the admiral is one of the greatest americans who ever lived. he's one of the most decorated naval officers in u.s. history. of course, he had been a pow in the vietnam war and organized what they called the alcatraz gang of how to have a pow resistance. i think he won something like 26 medals, numerous silver stars, a medal of honor winner and later went on to become president of the naval war college. we're dealing with a very serious person. ross perot just admired him. he thought this was the type of person we needed in government and so he chose him as his vp. it was an interesting choice. what people forget in 1992 is ross perot did well and the