and my guest is msnbc host rachel maddout. if she's here then who is getting ratings on msnbc. a nine-year-old boy spent his parent's life savings on candy. he shouldn't have paid full price for that $100,000 bar. this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) (cheers and applause) thank you ladies and gentlemen. stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! >> stephen: welcome to the report. thank you for joining us. nation, you know, here in the tristate area we are still dealing with the aftermath of hurricane sandy. things got so bad that people if brooklyn were forced to live like they were in the 19th century instead of just dressing like it. but just, just when we thought that the worse was over we got hit again. >> a new nor'easter is slamming new york and new jersey. a brutal nor'easter. >> nor'easter. >> nor'easter. >> yes, a nor'easter. (laughter) a stoorm so powerful it can wipe out a region's supply of ts and hs. (laughter) and folks, i

. >> stephen: now are the host, you were the host of the rachel maddout broadcast every-- night of the week. you're also author of the book drift, all right, its unmooring of the american military. enough of that. all right. still me what it was like election night over at msnbc. okay when you guys knew that obama was going to win. was it just crazy over there? was chris matthews like running around with a lamp shade on his head or do they make lamp shades big enough to fit on his head? >> we were all covering it. and when ohio went, we were not expecting it. it was sort of, we were in the middle of talking about forecall for another station, an when they said that ohio happened it was sort of like do-whoop? it happened quickly and we were all involved in covering, and wanted to make sure we had the right information. it was a work day. >> stephen: here is the thing. the people at fox seemed more freaked out than you guys seemed elated. why was it? could you not believe that things were turning your way? why weren't you doing the end zone dance. >> i think the difference between the tw