The Colbert Report

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Season 9 • 11/07/2012

Doris Kearns Goodwin shares her book, "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln."

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Senate Races & State Referenda
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Key Senate elections disprove old political adages, and Los Angeles County decides on burdensome regulations for the porn industry.
11/06/2012
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Sign Off - Election Reflections
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With the election over, does America lance the boil of hyper-partisanship or let it callus over into a civic abscess lodged in the national soul?
11/06/2012
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Andrew Sullivan
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Editor Andrew Sullivan believes that Europe will follow Barack Obama's national employment strategies and hopes for a civil war within the Republican Party.
11/06/2012
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The Colbert Report Election 2012 - Who Will Replace Obama? '012
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Stephen celebrates his mom's birthday and can't wait to palp the palpable election night excitement.
11/06/2012
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04:25

Four More Years of Hopey Change
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Even though Barack Obama lost in big red states, he is reelected due to a technicality called the Constitution.
11/07/2012
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Wind Power's Health Hazards
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Wind turbine syndrome might just seem like a collection of unrelated health complaints to the untrained eye, but untrained eye is also a symptom of wind turbine syndrome.
11/07/2012
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01:59

Nontraditional Non-White America
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Papa Bear Bill O'Reilly claims that the presidential election wasn't decided by a "traditional" America, and MSNBC's Donny Deutsch reveals changing Senate demographics.
11/07/2012
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Intro - 11/7/12
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Stephen copes with the election results.
11/07/2012
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04:21

Polling Irregularities & Vote-by-Phone Scam
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Liberals across the country pull tricks at polling sites while robo-calls inform seniors that they can vote a day late.
11/07/2012
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Sign Off - Solace in a Bottle
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Stephen nurses a Bud Light Lime in silence.
11/07/2012
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04:58

Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin tells one of Abraham Lincoln's dirty stories and quotes some of history's presidential losers.
11/07/2012
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07:43

Difference Makers - Stephen Dick Jr.
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New York State slams an exotic dance club with back taxes, but owner Stephen Dick Jr. petitions for an arts exemption.
11/08/2012
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02:04

Nor'easter & Mitt Romney
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The nor'easter is so powerful it wiped out the region's supply of t's and h's, and voters continue to stand with Mitt until Florida is counted.
11/08/2012
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Intro - 11/8/12
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Art is a three-letter word for something unfortunate, scientists study friendship, and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow skips her show for The Report.
11/08/2012
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Sign Off - Goodnight
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Stephen says goodnight.
11/08/2012
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05:56

Rachel Maddow
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The MSNBC host talks about conservative election coverage and shares her book, "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power."
11/08/2012
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04:32

The Plight of Platonic Relationships
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Men are much more attracted to their female friends than vice versa -- and also more attracted to female acquaintances, female strangers and pictures of women on billboards.
11/08/2012
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02:58

Blitzkrieg on Grinchitude - Santa's Pipe
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Anti-smoking activist Pamela McColl edits out two verses in "T'was the Night Before Christmas," but Santa needs his vice to unwind.
11/12/2012
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Colbert Super PAC SHH! - Karl Rove & Jon Stewart
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Billionaires go after Karl Rove's thumbs, while anonymous, scary Colbert Super PAC SHH! donors trace Jon Stewart and Stephen.
11/12/2012
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Ken Burns
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The famous filmmaker talks about the Dust Bowl's devastation and the 1989 Central Park jogger case involving five innocent teens.
11/12/2012
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Colbert Super PAC SHH! - Secret Second 501c4 - Trevor Potter
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Stephen learns how to give Colbert Super PAC money to himself and thereby hide it forever from all eyes and use it in a way that he wishes.
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