He Built That

Stephen Colbert is a humble man and he will shout it from a mountain top. That reminds me and Stephen reminded all of us, his latest book, "America Again," will be released on October 2. (It even has pictures.) Next week he will be pushing it, which I assume means trying to get lots of people to buy it. Look for him on Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper, Live with Kelly and Michael, Late Night with David Letterman and in the opening credits of Downton Abbey. Also, he will be on Oprah Winfrey's show, so a busy week for him.

On a sadder note, the polls are not looking good for Mitt Romney, but no need to panic at this point. All you need is a carefree attitude. When asked about the campaign by a reporter, Mitt responded, "Ha, ha. We're in the stretch aren't we? Look at those clouds. It's beautiful. Look at those things." I'm thinking that Paul Ryan has got a new appreciation of those beautiful clouds.

But, and we can't say this often enough, you can't trust polls. Fox News had a poll of likely voters in Florida, Ohio and Virginia. The results for Obama-Biden were 49%, 49%, and 50%. For Romney-Ryan the results were 44%, 42%, and 43%. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Then they isolated voters and just asked the ones who were extremely interested in the election, and they got different numbers. Then it was Obama-Biden 48%, 47% and 49% compared to  Romney Ryan 48%, 47% and 47%. So. Those are definitely numbers. But you know, as they say on Fox, "... scientific gobbley gook - I don't believe them."

Stephen even talked about a conservative blogger, Dean Chambers, who set up his own polls that showed Romney is winning. Finally, Fox had a text-vote on their show. Of the 20,000 who responded, 10% said Obama would win in Ohio and 90% said Romney would win. Now we're getting the kind of numbers we want to see. You would think that would settle it, you would think that would be the end of polls for the night, but no. Stephen has a his own poll, a "Stephen Poll-Bert."

Go over to Colbert Nation and be part of the poll. Here's what you will find"

President Obama currently leads Mitt Romney in the polls. Why are the polls so skewed?

A) People tend to choose the first option they are offered.

B) I don't answer polls.

C) When in doubt, always pick C.

Stephen says it's a scientific poll, so we know that it is.

Last night's guest was Vince Gilligan, creator of "Breaking Bad." More episodes will be coming this summer which gave Stephen a great idea. "Just tell us how it ends." That didn't happen. However, the two of them had a meth-off which is not as bad as it sounds. They just had to come up with different names for meth. We found out that now there is a blue meth. Stephen explained to Vince Gilligan what some of the benefits of having interns are. And they talked about how roads are paved.

So a great episode tonight. Be sure to go over to Colbert Nation to vote and for goodness sakes, think about all the answers before you vote!