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The New Deal - Jonathan Chait

Season 5 • 03/16/2009

Jonathan Chait names a few things the New Deal gave us.

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Mahmoud's Non-Consensual Endorsement Deal

If Iran is going to use Stephen to sell products he hasn't endorsed over there, he'll use Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to sell products over here.
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Craziest F#?king Thing I've Ever Heard - Barreleye Fish

National Geographic releases footage of a fish that has a see-through head and twitching green sacks of goo for eyes.
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It Could Be Worse - Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson explains why America's economy resembles an unstable, emerging market.
03/12/2009
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Goodnight

That's it for the Report tonight.
03/12/2009
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Peter Singer

Peter Singer urges Stephen to give money to poor people rather than enjoying it himself.
03/12/2009
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Stephen's Angry Mob Will Crush AIG

The government can't stop AIG, but Stephen's angry mob can.
03/16/2009
00:19

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Stephen Wants to Hug You

Stephen wants to hug every one of you.
03/16/2009
05:00

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Better Know a Governor - Mark Sanford Update

Stephen asks South Carolina's Mark Sanford what barbeque sauce he wants for his last meal.
03/16/2009
05:31

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman replaces being scared of dead people with being afraid of living people in his new book "The Graveyard Book."
03/16/2009
00:33

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Intro - 3/16/09

Your tax money is being spent on executive bonuses. At least it's not going to welfare.
03/16/2009
05:21

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The New Deal - Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait believes the New Deal was successful because it eased people's misery.
03/16/2009
00:23

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Persian Gulf Countdown Clock

Stephen is one day closer, or further away, to going to the Persian Gulf.
03/17/2009
03:34

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Shout Out - The Colbert Report Overseas

The Colbert Report is definitely going to visit our troops sometime in the near or distant future -- or past.
03/17/2009
00:32

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Intro - 3/17/09

How will the wealthy weather the economic crisis? Easy, they have weather-control machines.
03/17/2009
05:04

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World of Nahlej - Shmeat

PETA funds a scientist developing meat from tissue culture.
03/17/2009
05:51

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David Grann

David Grann follows the footsteps of an explorer searching for a lost civilization.
03/17/2009
04:20

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Colbert Aluminum - Cigar Nubs, Faux Poor & Blixseth

Cigars get shorter, the British elite act poor, and Tim Blixseth sells his private island.
03/17/2009
07:10

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The Word - Keeping Our Heads

Stephen propses that CEOs be stripped naked and locked together in a Thunderdome scenario with screaming taxpayer spectators.
03/18/2009
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Intro - 3/18/09

Scientists dig up something unexpected, and no, it's not a social life.
03/18/2009
03:36

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Tip/Wag - Mississippi, Talk Shows & SyFy

Mississippi ends child selling, talk shows move to Connecticut, and the SciFi Channel changes its name.
03/18/2009
00:11

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Sam's Club Time

That's it for time until Stephen runs to Sam's Club and picks up some more.
03/18/2009
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