colbert superpac is 155,000 strong, baby. hear us roar.heers and applause) besides-- besides, 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 from the federal election committee to set up a superpac in his name. which means can raise unlimited amounts of money and funnel it into campaign ads. >> stephen: thanks, amanda, great report. nowover to brad with the weather-- no, wait! stay mad! 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. >> jess ca, it is the longest annual garage sale in iowa. (laughter) >> jon: . >> stephen: katie blew the lid off garage sale gait. clearly, clear

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 dp

for rick perry superpac. grow pac superpac and jobs for iowa superpac was which recently ran this ad. >> what if we had a candidate for president with a real record of creating jobs. the leader of a state that created more jobs in the past two years than the other 49 states combined? what if we had a better option for president? we do. rick perry. jobs for iowa's responsible for the content of this advertising. >> stephen: wow, rick perry clearly has everything it takes to be president including at least half a face. (laughter) and-- and there's a good reason to want to be perry's main superpac because perry already has a huge network of megadonors. and their megamoney will go into the coffers of whatever superpac comes out on top. so i would just like to say, back off bitches, i saw him first. (laughter) okay. i endorsed perry weeks ago. i already called shotgun. though he may not have heard since people in texas are always yelling shotgun. so hands-off my rick. he's the last doughnut on the office break roo

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. >>> coming up, steven colbert's superpac. that's in the rewrite. >>> and a big win for democrats in wisconsin as they take two senate seats away from republicans. what does it mean for the prospects of recalling the republican governor and what does it tell us about next year's presidential election? ed schultz, just back from wisconsin, joins me next. , when. one log in lets you monitor all of your balances and transfer between accounts, so your money can move as fast as you do. check out your portfolio, track the market with live updates. and execute trades anywhere and anytime the inspiration hits you. even deposit checks right from your phone. just take a picture, hit deposit and you're done. open an account today and put schwab mobile to work for you. >>> here's who's not represented on the congressional super committee. if you don't live in one of those colored states, you are one of the 85% of the american people who is not, not represented by the congressional super committee. coming up, what the recall elections in w

colbert superpac is 165,000 strong, baby, here us roar. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: i happen to foe you haven't won a local emmy in ten years. want to touch mine? (cheers and applause) >> stephen: now that was a low blow. almost as low as the number of emmies they have. (laughter) >> stephen: but it turns out that i have met ray cole and he has touched my emmy. (laughter) you see, what happened was-- (laughter) in 2008 we had just won our first emmy and naturally i went to the bathroom to celebrate. (laughter) the only other gentlemen in there who i had never met was ray cole. he offered to hold my little trophy while i peed. (laughter) i said i would rather you hold my emmy. and in return-- true story, true story. (cheers and applause) >> true story, in return when he peed i held his package-- (laughter) >> by which i mean these little parcels he's holding down there. so my apologies. did you touch my emmy and when you have touched my emmy, you've touched the best of me. so like my children, in that i legally adopt all of them. they

and a romney superpac. no? >> right. not just in the iowa. i think this goes right through the -- right through the primary and into the general election. i've had a number of political consultants say to me, this is where the action's going to be. by the way, two more points that are worth making. i mean, one is, the end run that this does not just on the political, you know, from the campaigns, which are limited to these $2,500 contributions, but the way candidates can get around, you know, their campaign promises. barack obama says he's got to accept money from lobbyists, but priority usa, you know, bill burton's superpac, is collecting big money from lobbyists all over washington, in fact, giving them up. so, again, you know, this is where we need to focus oun attention. the news media needs to put a spotlight on the action by these superpacs. >> right now we may have to go through the cycle before congress will even think about regulating this. anyway, michael isikoff, our nbc senior investigative repo

(laughter) 9 even bigger question is how did colbert superpac do in iowa? as i said -- (cheers and applause) and i want to thank all these people for supporting the superpac without having to know what it does. (cheers and applause) as i said, oh you of little faith. as i said, our superpac ran superads in des moines urging iowans to go to the straw poll and write in rick perry with an a for iowa. (laughter) well, folks, the results are in and rick perry received 7189 votes which were all spelled with an "a" (cheers and applause) ment i assume because the iowa gop officials refused to release the full write in results. >> boo! >> stephen: who are you afraid of, gop, that the superpac nation is going to demand their seat at the table? somebody needs to get to the bottom of this blatant vote laundering. you know who i think could blow the lid off this thing? the team at woi, des moines aes news leader. i'm talking amanda, rachel, john walters on sports and brad edwards at the weather map. and you know who i think could really get to the bottom of this, intrep

for those of you just emerging from a coma in your time machine last week colbert superpac produced a multi100 dollar ad campaign urging iowanans' ames straw poll to write in rick parry with an a, that is a for paaaarry. and on saturday at the straw poll when all the fried put her been eaten and all the votes had been counted, rick parry came in number one, two, three, four, five, sixth place-- (laughter) >> with 718 votes. the only write-in candidate to rank in the top ten. we may have did it. (cheers and applause) now folks, we can't be sure yet. we can't be sure yet how many of those votes were spelled with an "a" because the iowa gop refuses to release the results for public scrutiny. >> boo! >> stephen: i agree. (laughter) and we have visual proof that at least some people voted for parry with an a because an actual iowa straw poll voter tweeted a cell phone photo of his ballot where he wrote in rick parry with an "a" yes. now i assume the other 717 parry voters did not tweet their ballot photos because their phones were deep fried and eaten. so to find out the truth that the iow

i have a superpac, could that help in any way?would say that by being -- i would say people be more grateful. >> stephen: what if things are, if you pardon my latin (bleep). do i have to be grateful for the (bleep) parts, too. i think part of relationship to god is being honest about the (bleep) parts. but also. >> stephen: i find that offensive coming from a man of the cloth. excuse me. i have no standards. i have no standards but from the chaplain of the colbert nation. >> trying to speak your language staofrpblgts 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