Is Stephen Colbert Swedish?

Barack Obama, announced he will not be deporting illegal immigrants, brought here as children who have a high school diploma and no criminal record. Oh, great. Now the doors are wide open for people who are already here. Obama does already have a great reputation among Latino voters with quite an impressive lead in the polls. Plus even among GOP circles, it is being called the right thing to do. Stephen however thinks he is pandering and yes, even trying to get re-elected. Just look at that burro the Democrats use for their party. Stephen suggests that if you hit it, candy and free health care will fall out. If Mitt Romney were the president, he would veto the Dream Act and fully expect that people would simply self-deport. (Didn't they do that in Star Trek once? No. Maybe I'm thinking of something else. Never mind.)

Full disclosure: Stephen is a member of the White House Press Corps Reserves and he can heckle with the best of them. That would be Neil Munro who heckled the president and was called out on it by no less than Papa Bear Bill O'Reilly, Chris Wallace and Don Lemon.

Stephen has the best audience in the world. That's a fact because Stephen said it. And they need to help Stephen with the ongoing diplomatic talks with Sweden. Stephen can speak Swedish fluently and he likes to Tweet. Therefore, everyone should go to Colbert Nation and help him get his rightful chance to  be the official Tweeter for a Week for Sweden. It is sort of up in the air now as to whether he will be able to claim his chance. Here is what Sweden has said about this topic.

"People who are not Swedish citizens cannot take over the account, no yet anyway...we have a very long list already. Colbert will have to wait."

-Sergio Guimaraes
Media Relations Manager
Swedish Institute
June 13, 2012

Here's the thing. Already Stephen has given Sweden's Twitter Account the famous Colbert Bump. Heck, tourism will probably double in the next year for Sweden just because of him. Well, stay tuned. Hopefully Sweden will see the light and give Stephen the account for a week.

Paul Krugman was the guest and had lots and lots of interesting things to say. He does have a book out also. "End This Depression Now." He also has written many other books and has a whole bunch of awards. An interesting tidbit that he talked about. You often hear politicians claim that government doesn't create jobs. Ha! Tell that to fire fighters, police officers, and teachers. Krugman said that if we rehired laid off workers from those thee groups, we would be a long way towards ending this depression. He also talked about Ireland, with 14% unemployment. He called Ireland Romney's Economics in practice. Something to think about if we care about our economy.

Last Week in a Nutshell

Everything that happens on The Colbert Report is important. Sometimes it is difficult to decide what to talk about. So, if your favorite part is missing, I sincerely apologize. But here are some of the highlights from last week.

Stephen had a fun time talking about Mitt Romney's athletic endeavors. Included in that would also be Mitt Romney talking about various sports, or sport as he likes to call it. "The tall man was not in sport." That's a hoot. It really tickled Stephen's funny bone. The other thing that tickled Stephen's funny bone was dressage, you know, horse ballet. Turns out that is the sport that Mitt Romney is most famous for. In fact, it may be that we see a Romney in the Olympics, in that his horse is doing pretty darn good in horse ballet. Stephen had a photo of the Romney horse enjoying the family vacation riding on top of the car, just like the dog did. Hopefully, the horse will do well, otherwise Stephen tells us, he'll be glue.

Tourism Update - Go to Sweden. Did you know that every week a different actual Swede person gets to be the official tweeter for the entire country? The Swedes so far have been doing an exceptional job and have set the bar high. Think a minute though. Who would you like to see as an honorary Swede tweeting for a week? Well, just go on over to Colbert Nation and "Help Stephen Control @Sweden. He is the one person who can set the bar even higher.

Will Allen was a guest who had the interesting background of being a basketball player and a farmer. He talked about his book "The Good Food Revolution." If you like to eat food, and I know I do, visit his website and yes go out and buy the book too. What could be more important than eating?

In the classic, "kids - don't do this at home" Stephen talked about the latest fun activity by one of the Wallendas.  Nik Wallenda walked across Niagra Falls, but he did it the hard way, on a tightrope. If I was him, my biggest fear would be that I would accomplish that and then trip on the stairs as I was going to talk to reporters.

In one of the cutest and also more intellectual reports that Stephen has had on for a long time, we met Richard Zimmerman and all his cohorts. Ooooh they are so cute. And there are iPads, too.

Gregg Allman was on and talked about his book "My Cross to Bear." You may remember him as being married to Cher, but no, actually, Cher was married to him. He cleared up that detail for Stephen.

If that wasn't good enough, Stephen had the best product yet from Prescott Pharmaceuticals - a sleep aid (actually two sleep aides) for women. Just not one for Deb.

And Steve Coll talked about Exxon. Read more about him over at NPR.