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Date: November 5, 2008

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Episode: 475

Production code: 4144

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IntroEdit

Yes He Did "Barack Obama has been elected president! My rage will be historic!" Change We Can Bereave In "Then, has Obama's election already changed America!? Yes, but don't worry, not the real America!" Civil Gripes "And I sit down with civil rights pioneer Andrew Young! I'm not sure what we'll talk about now that racism is over!" I didn't vote! If I wanted to stand in line for hours, I would have been an audience member at my show! This is The Colbert Report! ~ Stephen Colbert November 5, 2008 The Colbert Report

Contents 1 Production Info 2 Intro 3 SEGMENT1 4 SEGMENT2 5 Threat Down 6 Interview 7 Epilogue 8 Gallery 9 Motherload Videos 10 External Tubes 11 Reviews and Comments

SEGMENT1Edit

• results of yuesterday's election
• Stepehen couldn';t sleep
  • he tried to count republican Senate seats

• squeezing stress ball
  • it turned to dust and relaxing

• Dr. Colbert called it, from 11pm last night
  • President-elect ...

• Oprah got crappy seats
  • redistributing Oprah's wealth

• Repubklicans were out of touch

• Large Hadron Collider
  • could create a black hole, destroy the earth
  • started in September, when McCain was ahead

• jolted us into a parallel universe
  • obama is president
  • PHillies are world champions

• 349 electoral votes
  • not a mandate

• set back for McCain campaign
  • come back and take this thing

• no bigger underdog than the guy who just conceded

SEGMENT2Edit

• fairy tale
  • snow white and 7 houses

• like children filled with wonder
• afraid of monsters

• Tonight's Word Change

• fear has been currency for the last 8 years
  • Laissez Scare

• fear market could just keep going up and up

• fear got overvalued
  • bottom fell out

• fear bubble burst

• America elected a guy named Barack Hussein Obama
  • America bears some responsibility

• our fear-bloated livers would have been the foie gras at the McCain
• fear industry
  • scare mongers will lose their jobs

• Stephen still has faith in the system
• Barack Obama's Term Of Terror
  • a woman was driving home alone
    • followed by a truck

• the story should have injected liquidity into your pants

Threat DownEdit

#5 Sensitivity

• New York Times OpEd page published poetry

#4 Corey Booker

• he obsessed on his delicious America's racial

#3 Universal Health Care

• Stephen doesn't want to pony up the bill every time an alien pops from someone's chest cavity, clearly a pre-existing condition

#2 Barnyard Animals

• Calif passed a law to give chickens the right to do the hokey-pokey
  • Chig, when a chicken is crossed with a pig
• cheese will sue for age discrimination
• bananas will have to be 18 before people will be allowed to eat them
• tofu will demand the right to vote

#1 Black Presidents

• asking for a catastrophe
• terrorist will team up with an asteroid to hurt America
  • Obama will sit down and talk with no preconditions

InterviewEdit

• Ambassador Andrew Young
• longtime civil rights pioneer, who Stephen will ask what happened to the Bradley Effect

• My Black Friend
• Barack is not black
  • Afro-Asian Europan-American
• racists hate themselves
  • insecure with yourself, you pick on others

• was speechless that the day would come when Stephen asked him back to the show

• was in Chicago with MLK

• more afraid in Chicago than Mississippi

• he said Stephen had it right
  • people rejected fear
  • Obama awakened the faith people had in America

• wants Stephen to talk to Gorlock

• Obama's transition team
  • Stephen deserves one
  • UN job is cushy

• MLK in 1964 believed we could have an AfAmer in 25 years
  • HW was black or Young is calling MLK a liar

• We should thank W

• blacks have not seen the promised land

• every thing is so messed up that now it's been handed to black people to fix

EpilogueEdit

• Ambassador mentioned Gorlock
  • reinvest in America

• watching from nutrient pod
• sell all Stephen's shares in Scarcerarium
  • put in low-yield bonds

GalleryEdit

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