Episode 4091 (07/21/2008)

Batman may have ruled the box office, but Mamma Mia ruled my heart. This is The Colbert Report!”

Yes We Afhani-Can: “Tonight, Barack Obama embarks on a world tour. The media sold out in record time.”

• Barack Obama’s Elitist Summer Abroad
• John McCain’s Fiscally Responsible Staycation

Green Acher: “And, I get to better know a lobbyist for the Sierra Club. Only one human was harmed in the filming of this interview.”

• 4th installment of the 35,000 part series, Better Know A Lobbyist – The Environmental Lobby (“The Fightin’ Treehuggers”): Carl Pope – President of Sierra Club

Virginia Slams: “Plus, my guest, Senator Jim Webb has a new book called ‘A Time To Fight’. That will be in about [looks at watch] 17 minutes.”

• Jim Webb – Senator, Virginia

THE COLBERT BUMP – YOU’RE GETTING IT:

Jim Webb – A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America

In closing: “Well folks, that’s it for the show tonight, but I’ll be back tomorrow. The question is, will you? [Editor's note: Um, yeah.]”

Video Highlight:

Better Know a Lobby – Carl Pope

Stephen asks Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope if George W. Bush is a green president or the greenest president.

NOTABLE MOMENTS — Video links and more after the fold!

More Video Highlights, courtesy of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report website

• Full Episode Video – Monday July 21, 2008
• Intro – 7/21/08 : Barack Obama embarks on a world tour. The media sold out in record time.
• Barack Obama’s Elitist Summer Abroad : Let the mainstream media fawn all over Barack Obama, some of us have more exciting candidates to cover.
• Jim Webb : If Senator Jim Webb doesn’t want to be Barack Obama’s vice president, Stephen does.

NOTABLE MOMENTS

• New Intro Phrase: “Multi-Grain”
• Well, Nation, you’ve all heard the news, Jesus has returned to earth on a spaceship, cured cancer, and won the British open. Did no one hear about that? Well, maybe it’s because Barack Obama decided to go backpacking overseas with a couple of his friends. You probably know his friends by their professional names, The Entire Media.
• And now Obama’s cheating by visiting Iraq.
• Huh, a 3-pointer. No man to man coverage, no boxing out? No pushing your man out of a low post? All of this proves Obama is weak on defense.
• Oh, but then people might think I’m Chris Wallace. *shudder* It’s not worth the risk.
• More exciting candidates to cover … [video of McCain sleeping] Damn it!
• And it is time the media start trumpeting McCain’s exciting story – he is old and no one likes him.
• Hi everybody, I’m Chris Wall …[throws up a little in his own mouth]
• When I started this show, I vowed to interview the most powerful people in Washington. To practice, I interviewed congressmen.
• The Sierra Club works to defend bills like the 1972 Clean Water act which I believe requires Berkley grad students to dump out their bongs.
• But the Sierra Club’s not just about trying to make me stop blow drying my grapes … [a bit of a character break] That’s a metaphor.
• Their first initiative – The Plumber’s Crack Tree Planting Program
• From the Better Know a Lobby segment:
• Pope: You like to breathe, right? Stephen: [breathes in and out, in and out] Yes.
• Good God, that AquaNet shower!!
• Stephen: You know what I really like drinking, though, is that Bud Light with lime. It’s fantastic. It’s like Zima that they left brown.
• Stephen: Ever gone all the way with a tree? Okay, thought you were a free thinker.
• Stephen: My footprint is huge. You know what that means.
• Stephen: Carabou, Kangaroo … that’s why it rhymes
• HAHAHA! The Polar Bear Puppet!
• From the Sen. Jim Webb interview:
• Webb: I don’t think that I’m actually known for a temper … Stephen: You will after this interview, believe you me. That’s the rumor I’m spreading tonight.
• Stephen: Why haven’t lobbyists had more of a voice in our government?
• Stephen: This is your ninth book, I don’t think I’ve read nine books. How do you find time in the Senate to write books? I wrote a book this year while I was doing this show and by the end of it, I was bleeding out of every hole in my body. And I had, like, 90 people helping me. You claim to write these yourself. Where does the energy come from? Webb: I actually do write my own books, which is not always the case in Washington, as you know. But I’ve written for a living all my life, so writing is much a part of me as working out, and everything else. And this is one that … [reacts to someone laughing at the working out comment] Stephen: I believe you work out, I can imagine you’re hot underneath all that, just 8-pack.

Fangirl Suit Report: Dark navy suit, light blue dress shirt with barrel cuffs, Yellow tie with diagonal pattern.

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