The Colbert Report/Episode/502

The Check-In

 * Dr. Colbert gives his impression of the The Greatest President Ever's behavior during the inaugural

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 * adulation feels like a nice warm hug
 * which Stephen loves


 * someone was just goosed by an icepick


 * he apologizes for his outburst
 * nothing worse than getting swept up for nothing


 * first thing Obama did was cause Roberts
 * he is the Justice Chief of the Court Supreme!


 * the oath problem was no harmless slip of the tongue


 * will have a huge impact on who FOX thinks is president


 * conservatives are stickler to the letter of the Constitution


 * whoever was on camera at noon
 * Yo-Yo Ma


 * shame to lose our first African-American president
 * but we get our first Asian-American president
 * first vice president who is a cello

Election 2012

 * technology has progressed


 * 2012 Presidential Election Coverage
 * Election 2012: Change's Revenge


 * Bobby Jindal
 * Mitt Romney is both Anglo and Saxon


 * Mike Huckabee's new book: Do The Right Thing


 * Sarah Palin has fallen behind her rivals


 * Iowa caucuses is 1076 days away
 * the race is all tied up it's too close to call!


 * Chuck Todd
 * calls the 2012 Republican Presidential for Romney, not Bobby Jindal, who is black (for GOP)


 * if you're not already in the running, you can't win


 * Obama started running in 2004


 * have campaigns stacked up like planes at LaGuardia


 * how can GOP get their states back
 * get more than white people to vote for them
 * then Chuck said something racist


 * this is Chuck's last day on NBC news

Remixing

 * 2 weeks ago Dr. Colbert interviewed Lawrence Lessig about remixing and copyrights


 * within 24-hours some DJ Jazzy Jerk remixed his interview with Lawrence Lessig and his Grammy-award nominated audiobook I Am America (And So Can You!)


 * Dr. Colbert made his own


 * he repeats his warning not to take his words and mix it to a dance beat and play it in a dance club
 * especially Chapter 7, which contains passages about homosexuals


 * his lawyers s-s-s-sue by the syllable

Interview

 * Elizabeth Alexander
 * inaugural poet "Praise Song For The Day"
 * read her poem at the inaugural, Stephen will ask how many of her poems can be read by cats


 * poems are not true; they're made up
 * Stephen feels betrayed and upset by J. Alfred Prufrock


 * poems should be emotionally true
 * they should feel true


 * mermaids are still singing to Dr. Colbert


 * what's the difference between metaphors and a lie


 * why not say what you mean, instead of dressing things up with flowery language


 * Stephen has a mountain in his pants, not a metaphor


 * they will analyze her poem line-by-line


 * a "Praise Song" is an ode
 * name something we rejoice in


 * occasional poem: poem written for an occasion
 * resonate for the event


 * like the theme to "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"
 * we don't need another hero ...


 * marked by commonality of experience, not soaring rhetoric that gilds Obama


 * economy about language


 * Stephen's poem suggestion:
 * Hickory dickory dock, we elected a guy named Barack

Epilogue

 * that's it for the show everybody; good night

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