The Colbert Report

Code Word - Empathy

Season 5 • 05/04/2009

Stephen tries to crack the Obama code by rearranging the words in "empathy."

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Obama should have anticipated that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would copy him and picked a more effective anti-nuclear campaign slogan.
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Ethan Nadelmann
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Ethan Nadelmann wants to remove marijuana from the criminal justice system and put it into the taxation and regulation systems.
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President Obama - The First 14 Mondays
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The true test of a president: running the country while living Garfield's worst nightmare.
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Obama's First 14 Mondays - Jonathan Alter
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Jonathan Alter tells Stephen how Obama's first 14 Mondays stack up against FDR's.
04/30/2009
00:24

Intro - 4/30/09
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President Obama finally completes his first 100 days, and don't tell Ethan Nadelmann Stephen's wearing a wire.
04/30/2009
00:14

The After Show
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Stick around for the after-the-show show, which is Monday night's episode.
04/30/2009
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The Prescott Group Bailout
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Help your old friends at the Prescott Group because if they go down, they're taking you with them.
05/04/2009
05:54

J.J. Abrams
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J.J. Abrams reveals clues to Stephen's Persian Gulf mystery before Romulan Stephen demands revenge.
05/04/2009
00:23

Sign Off - Colbert Nation Home
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Every great American's interactive adventure starts with colbertnation.com.
05/04/2009
05:56

Movies That Are Destroying America - Summer Movie Edition
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"Up" is a fantastic solution to our Social Security problem: we tie old people to balloons and let them fly away.
05/04/2009
03:22

Code Word - Empathy
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Clearly, Obama plans to appoint a drug-addled evolutionist with swine flu to the Supreme Court.
05/04/2009
00:19

Sign Off - iTeam
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Unless Apple has an application called iTeam, there's no "I" in team.
05/05/2009
05:43

Paul Rieckhoff
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Paul Rieckhoff wants to make sure returning veterans get education, employment and health care support.
05/05/2009
05:15

Picking a New Supreme Court Justice - Cliff Sloan
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Cliff Sloan estimates that the odds on the new Supreme Court justice being a white male are close to zero, even if that male is Stephen.
05/05/2009
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Cinco de Mayo Precautions
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This year, Stephen celebrates Cinco de Mayo with a quarantined three-bean dip and a Hazmat-suited pinata filled with Tamiflu.
05/05/2009
05:57

The Word - Captain Kangaroo Court
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Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney should have to explain their nuanced rationale for torture to a jury of children.
05/05/2009
00:33

Intro - 5/5/09
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Who should be the new Supreme Court justice? Here's a hint: Stephen's two days away from an online degree.
05/05/2009
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Laurie Garrett
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Laurie Garrett warns that the bird virus in Indonesia is 850 times as bad as the swine flu, though the piggies are right outside our door..
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Colbert-Branson Duel
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Stephen challenges Richard Branson to a chicken fight with a couple of nude models on their backs.
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Tip/Wag - Forced Smoking & Grizzly Best Man
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Before his trip to the Persian Gulf, Stephen will pack clean underwear and swallow an Argentine shiraz-filled condom.
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