stephen colbert." this rank fear mongering is colbert's key fundraising technique.r show last night, i suddenly felt duped by colbert because we had shown the first ad that colbert said his super pac is putting on television in iowa. while making fun of rick perry. and unconventional campaign ad to say the least. you can go to our website to see the entire ad in case you missed it last night. the ad is so ridiculous that after thinking about it after the show, i realized, hey, wait a minute, no iowa television station is going to accept this ad. it was so obvious to me that colbert was lying about buying iowa tv time for the ad. i mean, what respectable iowa tv station would sell him time for that? it didn't make me feel any better to think that the rest of the news media fell for his lie because i'd really gone for it. i went for it hook, line, and sinker. i read the colbert super pac press release accompanying the ad word-for-word. i've never read a press release word-for-word on television before. so i put last word producer nick ramsey on the case since he produ

thank you... >> this past month in iowa, stephen colbert ran political ads in iowa ahead of the iowa straw poll. the ads sort of seemed like, sort of looked like they might be for texas governor rick perry. but the stephen colbert ads encouraged the straw poll attendees to write in rick parry spelled with an "a" and not an "e." >> jobs for iowa pac are flooding the iowa airwaves, telling you to vote rick parry at the straw poll. like job for iowa super pac are trying to pander to eye wants with pro parry ads featuring cheap pornography. they think they can buy your vote with their unlimited super pac money. but americans for a better tomorrow, tomorrow ask what about our unlimited syrup pac money? we want to you vote for rick parry, too, but not their rick perry, our rick parry. we're getting all up in those nibblets. oh, yeah! on august 13th, write in rick parry. that's parry with an "a" for america. with an "a" for iowa. >> iowa! rick perry did pretty well at the straw poll. he beat mitt romney. that's for sure. he beat night gingrich, jon huntsman. governor perry received 700 vote

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take the blindfold out, and the first one was the dumb americone dream of stephen colbert and the second and chocolate, and the third one is potato chip and vanilla. >> and can you please, take us out with the guitar. >> when i did "whip my hair" with neil young and bruce springsteen, it goes like -- ♪ whip my hair back and forth ♪ whip my hair back and forth ♪ just whip it ♪ whip my hair back and forth -- and then you have bruce coming in ♪ ♪ you have to whip your hair ♪ whip my hair back and forth ♪ going to whip your hair and bob dylan is different altogether with the harmonica because he plays one note and blows it out. so, this is bob dylan playing the theme show of "charles in charge" which was a television show in america. ♪ a boy in my neighborhood ♪ lives upstairs and it is understood ♪ ♪ he is there to take good care of me like he is one of the family ♪ ♪ charles in charge of our days and our nights ♪ ♪ charles in charge of our wrongs and our rights ♪

stephen colbert has one, ben and jerry made one with him.ld and counts as ice cream. i want you to try both and see blindfold taste test which you think you enjoy the most. >> all right. i'm nervous about this but i'll do it. >> all right. already feeling deeply uncomfortable. so i will give you the first spoon. >> feed it to him. >> yeah. thank you. this is weird. all right. go. describe it. >> it's sort of coffeeish. i would say, clearly the wrong answer. >> here you go. try this one. >> that's just crunchy and fairly bland. i'd have the first one. >> are you sure about that? >> yes. >> unoriginal tool. i'm so upset. >> you can take the blindfold off. this is ridiculous. the first one you had is the dumb american dream stephen colbert's ice cream. the number two is late night snack. but the first is ice chrome cone with chocolate and vanilla and the second is fudge covered potato chips. >> we have almost exhausted the ice cream debate. can you do what you are good at. get that guitar and play us out with a bit of fallon magic. >> i will gi

stephen colbert. >>> i hope he raises a lot of money. ter way than to talk about our political ticker than with tim farley. live if there washington. >> oh, that stevphen colbert. >> i know. so clever. >> i know. he's a funny mack. he's got his big super pact. americans for a better tomorrow tomorrow, and he's endorsing rick parry with an "a" as in america. that's stephen colbert. i get the sense, it's not going to put the ad business out of business. it's kind of like the onion never put news business out of business. >> he's trying to make a point that apparently our political system is a bit messed up. >> it is shaping up to be a big day in iowa. another gop presidential debate is set for tonight and of course the iowa state fair begins today and get who's going to be there? sarah palin. >> yes, sarah palin. isn't that amazing? the debate tonight and also on saturday and the two biggest names that won't be in the room tonight or on the ballot saturday are rick perry and sarah palin. a recent poll -- this is a fox news poll. they're han

. >>> plus, stephen colbert reassuring the nation, starts to pack his survival kit after yesterday's selloff. the late-night reaction to the economic mess a bit later in the show. >>> but first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. in new york city. from asia to europe to here in the united states, standard and poor's historic downgrade of the nation's credit rating is having a ripple effect on the world's financial markets. although that's only a part of this story. the front page of the "wall street journal" reads, downgrade ignite a global selloff. stocks resume free fall on fear over economic and credit woes. when the closing bell rang on wall street yesterday, the dow finished down 634 points, that's the sixth worst point loss in the index's history and the sharpest one-day decline since the 2008 financial crisis. the s&p 500 fell 79 points, while the nasdaq tumbled 174 points. those all big percentage jumps. to plunge followed earlier remarks from president obama, who reaffirmed his belief in the strength of the nation's credit. it added that the ratings cut could be useful

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stephen: i find that offensive coming from a man of the cloth. excuse me. [laughter] i have no standards. i have no standards but from the chaplain of the colbertn. >> trying to speak your language >> stephen: i understand. relating to the young. >> being honest in your relationship with god but being honest about things that are god. people come to god only when they are ready to complain or lament something rather than celebrating things or giving praise to god. >> stephen: like the fact i exist. >> it's something to celebrate. >> stephen: can we talk politics for a second csm god get the upper hand in the polls by going negative on one of his opponents? like running an ad against buda. fatso wants you to have nothingness. yahweh wants to you have everythingness. vote yahweh. >> i'll take it up with him. >> stephen: thank you. father jim martin. this guy needs to be a monsignor. the book is the jesuit guide to almost everything. we'll be right back. thank you s [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] nation, last month i formed colbert super-pac and since then i have learned some d

. >> stephen: that's right. colbert superpac, not affiliated with this show, has made their first ad and has changed the game in iowa, folks. i've been saying for weeks rick perry is the guy. the problem is according to the tenacious ken vogel at "politico" there are six other superpacs already swiping at one another to be the perry superpac and rake in cash from perry's billionaire buddies. so last night we launched our air power to prove that we're the only superpac rick perry really needs. jim? >> a storm is gathering over iowa. a money storm storm. >> out of state groups like glow pac and jobs for iowa pac are flooding the iowa airwaves, telling you to vote rick perry at the ames straw poll. they think they can buy your vote with their unlimited superpac money. >> but americans for a better tomorrow tomorrow ask what about our unlimited superpac money. we want you to vote for rick perry too. but not their rick perry, our rick perry. (laughter) on august 13th write in rick perry. that is perry with an a for america,

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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 i

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last night they tracked down this stephen colbert person and obtained the following statement: >> we'resed. sal is the best in the business. that's why we went with him. we're happy for sal and we are even happier that governor perry has sent the clear signal of which super pac he trusts to receive all that unlimited money waiting to pour in on his behalf. loud and clear, sir. unofficially, loud and clear. [laughter] >> stephen: i couldn't have said it better myself. [laughter] point is, rick perry is taking sloppy seconds on my treasurer, who knows everything about my operation -- how much money i've raised, how much these people down here have given me, my password to adult friend finder. [laughter] hey, in politics you gotta press the flesh. [laughter] but i would again like to emphasize that there is no coordination between colbert super pac and the perry campaign. that would be wrong and illegal. they're as separate as church and state under a perry administration. [laughter] [cheers and applause] nation, a wise man once said, "everybody shut up. stephen's talking." this is tip of

i think you'd hear that from jon stewart and stephen colbert and i think those are the venues where people are flocking to because you want somebody who has an edge to them to talk about the news. especially if they're going to make fun of the news and how seriously they try to take themselves, then people are inclined to be a little crass. satire gos a long way. wit gos a long way. i especially think that's what younger people want. it's no longer -- it's not just the katie courics that get the multimillion dollar contracts to host the evening news but nobody gathers around the tv every night with their families every night to watch the news. if they do, it's not my generation. it's a different world, we have d.v.r., people's lifes are busier and more hectic, the internet you can watch whenever it's convenient for you. but i think people are tired of it too. i do feel like there's a deliberate effort to dumb television down for the audiences. and i don't think that's what they want. i think that they want to be spoken to like they have a worthy audience, like they're on the same intellect

. >>> for a punch line, once upon a time there was a fight between president obama and stephen colbert finishes the fairy tale for u. >> it's like the billy goats gruff. obama is the troll. back in december the smallest billy goat said mister troll, let me cross your bridge so i can go to the other side and renew the bush tax cuts or i will call you a job killer. he made the political calculation to let the goat pass and bring this issue up again later. this spring the medium sized billy goat showed all sapd, mr. troll, let me cross your bridge so i can cut spending or i will shut down the government. everybody had seen this exact matchup in 1995 and knew a troll could win by eating the goat and then celebrating by having sex with the troll intern, but obama troll said now is not the time. then the this summer the largest billy goat came capitoling up and said, mr. troll, i will not raise the debt ceiling unless i get to gouge out your eyes and throw you off the bridge. so the troll had to compromise by gouging out his own eye and throwing himself off the bridge. and the moral of the s

stephen colbert with a take on the "new york post's" way with words. >> the dow lost 519 points todays the single-biggest drop since two days ago. everybody is trying to make sense of these markets, luckily, "the new york post" explained it all with today's cover story -- crazy stocks like a hooker's drawers -- up, down, up. this is analysis that everyone can understand. you get a hooker, everyone's is excited that her panties are up. then the underwear starts to drop. people start getting upset. grown men are cliing, clutching their heads, worried about their futures, and their children's. and then the hooker pulls her undies are up, happy days are here again. somebody ring as bell and everybody goes home. if you paid the extra $50 for bell -- and it's not a bell, i personally look forward to more of this kind of analysis. such as -- london just like a hooker's genitals, burning! and somalia refugees like hooker's libido, always hungry and "new york post" front page like hooker, will say anything to get your money. >> don't test them. they will make those headlines. >>> still ahead,

find a new niche for people and that same niche, like i said, that i think that jon stewart and stephen colbertmanaged to fill for people that they want a logic argument. they don't need to be scared all the time. they know what's going on, but they want it to be funny, they want it to be sarcastic, they want you to talk to them and they want you to talk to them about issues that actually matter to people these days. i'm sorry, but the cold war is long over. from my generation, that doesn't matter. we're not afraid of communism anymore. quite the opposite. we're afraid of the fact that we have this massive security state and intelligent state that's growing, that is, we're constantly under surveillance. privacy is something that, i think, is incredibly important for my generation, for any generation, but just as long as long as we carry on into the future because technology plays such a large role in our lives and i think that's why it's so interesting to watch all the developments and to monitor things like to protect i.p. act and that's why i go to blogs like (tech dirt) and i speak with peop

. >> stephen colbert. quote of the week. >> great to end with stephen colbert.should be very interesting how that shapes up as we move on here. >> president obama kicks off a week-long tour to the midwest to focus on jobs. that's coming up, of course. >> got to get back on message with job creation, especially after taking a little bit of flack after being on vacation. >> get back to work. >> lots coming up. also the big video game conference coming up, games con, the largest video game trade fair in the world. >> are you a gamer? >> in my middle school days, yes. i gave it up once i started dating. just joking. just joking. >> of course don't forget the little league world series. coming up on thursday. >> that's right. the town is williamsport, pennsylvania. 16 teams going at it. >> very, very exciting. >> lots of stuff. >>> coming up, the big money people are getting by cashing in tiny pieces of gold jewelry. >> the price of gold is way up. even the tiny backs of gold earrings are worth a bundle. you're watching "world news now." now." >>> while stocks go dow

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i'll let comedy central's stephen colbert finish this one. >> today's word of the day that you must know>> official term is haboob. >> haboob. >> haboob. >> meanwhile, a haboob -- >> haboob, h-a-b-o-o-b, an arabic name for an intense sandstorm. >> haboob. this is america. forecast in english. >> i have talked a lot about haboobs with rob marciano live in atlanta. i think it was you who introduced me to the word, rob. it was unfamiliar to me at the time. emily is more familiar. >> it is. we try to give you descriptions of what's going on weatherwise. sometimes we have to use technical terms. haboob is one of them. tropical storm emily, as you mentioned, this has been on our radar screen for quite some time. this is just off the coast of the dominican republic and about 100 miles south of port-au-prince, haiti. it's been dousing hispaniola with heavy rains for 10 to 12 hours. in the mountainous areas they've probably already received eight or nine inches. it could be a dangerous situation for the folks in the bahamas and potentially florida. let's get to the forecast track now. as of 5:00

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. >>> comedian stephen colbert wants you to know it's all heatsteria. >> the media is trying to convinceke temperatures. >> feels like 116 i