Hardball   |  November 13, 2012

Colbert defends failed super PAC

Stephen Colbert is realizing how much he has to answer for after his failed attempt to buy the election.

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>>> back to "hardball." now to the "sideshow." during the gop primaries steve colonel bear started his own super pack . it was a spoof of course. with karl rove facing backlash from his donors who expected a vastly different return on their investment in mitt romney and other republicans, colbert offered up a response to his own donors.

>> karl is in big trouble . they're going to take his thumbs. and karl is almost all thumb. i took a lot of money for my super pac and my 501 c 4 colbert super pac shh which stands for shh. okay? money from some anonymous scary donors. that's not pixel ated. that's his face. listen, fellows, i didn't waste your money. running a super pac is expensive. i mean, we had legitimate costs. we had handling costs and we had legal fees, and the biggest expense, almost $90,000 of it was for the commercials the super pac ran while he was kind of sort of running for president of south carolina . i want even in charge of the super pac then.

>> in his home state of south carolina , of course, colbert was at one point polling ahead of a legitimate candidate, jon huntsman .