The Colbert Report

I watch the Colbert Report every chance I get and usually the guest is there to promote some sort of product like a book or movie. I'll be trying to catalogue those products here.

No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight
Tom Delay - The Colbert Report May 17th 2007
Delay stated that there is no chance of him serving jail time for his inditement of money laundering and stated he didn't do anything wrong according to Texas laws. They showed his mug shot on the big screen.

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1 year ago
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Tags: jail, money laundering, republican, tom delay

Howard Dean In His Own Words
Howard Dean - The Colbert Report May 16th 2007
Dean was trying way to hard to be funny on the show and none of his material was working. The spoke references about the use of torture in the recent Republican debate. Haaarraaaagggghhh.

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1 year ago
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Tags: democrat, howard dean

The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
William Langewiesche - The Colbert Report May 14th 2007
Scary interview about the proliferation of nuclear technologies throughout the world. Author gave a somber outlook on small organizations obtaining or manufacturing nuclear devices.

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1 year ago
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Tags: atomic, nuclear

The Dangerous Book for Boys
Hal Iggulden - The Colbert Report May 3rd 2007
Iggulden writes that little boys need to live on the edge a little bit and do some dangerous things so they take their licks as a kid and learn from this behavior. Seems kinda obvisious to me and surprised people need a book to learn this.

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1 year ago
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Tags: childhood development

Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
Gina Kolata - The Colbert Report May 02 2007
Kolata discusses writes and discusses how people need to rethink the practice of diet. I never really got a sense of what the book was really about from the interview.

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2 years ago
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Tags: diet, health

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell - The Colbert Report May 01 2007
Now out on paperback! Malcolm was a little quirky but made good arguments on how to use your intuition and experience to make decisions in life. Gladwell seemed very anti-Bush and said Colin Powell was a much better decision maker than the... read more

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2 years ago
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Tags: blink, decisions

The New American Story
Bill Bradley - The Colbert Report May 01, 2007
Colbert asked had spoken to Bradley when he was running for president. Colbert asked, "so how'd that turn out for you?"

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2 years ago
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Tags: bill bradley

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Colbert Report May 01, 2007
Neil was the first 3 peat on the show. He was there to discuss recent discoveries about potentialy habitiable planets outside our solar system. Very nice gentleman.

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2 years ago
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Tags: black holes, space

The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe - The Colbert Report April 26th, 2007
The author was promoting a recent article he had published in Conde Nast. I don't think Wolfe had a clue where Corbert was coming from and looked bewildered at some of the things Stephen was saying. They did get to speak little of how Wolfe's... read more

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2 years ago
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Tags: nasa, space program, tom wolfe

Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being
Dr. Andrew Weil - The Colbert Report April 24th 2007
Weil practices holistic medicine and get really get a chance to describe his beliefs as Colbert kept interupting him and changing the subject, but he took it in stride. One statement from Weil was that the goal is to prevent disease, live as long... read more

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2 years ago
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Tags: holistic, medicine