The Colbert Report

Medal of Audacity

Season 2 • 06/26/2006

Stephen honors those who show courage by impersonating those who show courage.

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01:32

Stephen's Fault
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Stephen berated Ghana's soccer team on last night's show and they used their rage to defeat the U.S. and eliminate them from World Cup.
06/22/2006
06:17

Better Know a District - Colorado's 1st - Diana DeGette
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Stephen tries to get Congresswoman Diana DeGette to support a bill protecting the American elephant and to include his name in the bill.
06/22/2006
06:20

Douglas Brinkley
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Author Douglas Brinkley addresses why the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and what the future holds for New Orleans.
06/22/2006
01:58

Stephen Hawking Is an A-Hole
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Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, is such an A-Hole.
06/22/2006
03:50

The Word - Class Warfare
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Stephen takes issue with John Edwards' war on the lower class, coming up with a modest proposal for the poor.
06/26/2006
06:36

Mark Bowden
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Mark Bowden describes the similarities between the West's first encounter with extremist Muslims and the current one.
06/26/2006
00:31

Intro - 6/26/06
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Stephen grinds the news into a fine white powder.
06/26/2006
03:50

All You Need to Know - Hot Planet
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The bachelorette party industry has never been better, thanks to Papa Bear's Factor.
06/26/2006
00:57

Sign Off - Highlights Magazine
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Highlights Magazine celebrates its one billionth issue and Stephen celebrates Highlights Magazine.
06/26/2006
02:19

Buffett Hires Gates
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Stephen is impressed that Warren Buffett can hire Bill Gates to spend his money, but disappointed he didn't consider the Stephen & Melinda Gates Foundation.
06/26/2006
02:09

Medal of Audacity
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Impersonators are buying military medals off of eBay, and Stephen has an award for these heroes.
06/26/2006
01:02

Flammo McBurny
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Stephen is thrilled that an amendment to outlaw flag burning is one vote away from being passed.
06/27/2006
03:49

Movies That Are Destroying America - A Scanner Darkly
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Stephen takes a look at the supposedly dystopian notion that the government may keep us under constant surveillance in "A Scanner Darkly."
06/27/2006
03:25

Greatest Conservative Rock Songs
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Bruce Springsteen angers Stephen by refusing to exclude Soledad O'Brien's present company.
06/27/2006
00:13

Sign Off - Rubber Mop
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Stephen shoos his audience out of the studio in favor of some limey bastard with a rubber mop.
06/27/2006
00:32

Intro - 6/27/06
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Stephen gets ready for a ball-to-ball interview with Chris Matthews.
06/27/2006
04:02

The Word - Cold, Dead Fingers
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Stephen is frightened by the echo of a ricochet of a shadow of a chance that his recreational hunting might be taken away.
06/27/2006
06:54

Chris Matthews
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Chris Matthews shows Stephen who's got harder balls in a full-nelson breaking competition.
06/27/2006
04:51

The Word - Superman
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The New York Times wants you and your family dead -- they could learn a thing or two from Superman.
06/28/2006
06:06

Robert Baer
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Robert Baer tells Stephen we invaded the wrong country, which does not penetrate Stephen's armor of belief.
06/28/2006
02:21

The Smoking Side Dish
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Stephen will send a t-shirt to anyone who sends him a photo of Chris Matthews eating potatoes.
06/28/2006
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