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Can't get enough of the place. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> preserve -- >> you didn't want to hear how your golden boy was doing it. but he was out there trading top secret information. >> from political dramas to satire cal news, audiences are turning in to a new hero, the washington operator. >> that is what it i do. there is no one better in the world than i am. >> as long as politicians have been trying to shape their images on television. >> sock it to me? >> political comics have been cutting them down to size. >> i meant all three words. i me...

Stephen colbert, have never cared for our president. the guy is so arrogant. i'll bet he talks about himself in the third person. >> the president got a kick out of that. impersonating colbert. >> did a good job at it. took a couple shots at colbert. what do you do well when it is growing? you move it to cbs. this used to be controversial when he would go on leno or letterman. it is second nature because he has comedic wit. >> it is different than when richard nixon went on "laugh in" and said sock it to me. i don't think this should be controversial. it is a departure.

>> they acknowledged the hippie generation, yet the hosts were in tuxedos smoking cigarettes. they were still your parents. but other people let loose on the show were this kind of young vaudeville. >> hey. it's sock it to me time. >> she socked it to herself. >> we knew that sock it to me didn't mean sock it to me. right? so we thought, oh. >> sock it to me. >> sock it to me. >> ha-ha. >> sock it to me. >> it wasn't as subversive as it sounds. yes it was. no, it was fun. >> sock it to me? >> it was the first time presidential candidates ever appeared on a comedy show and that may have got him...

The network said, what the hell is this? this makes no sense. i said, right. >> hi, you two. >> they acknowledged the hippie generation, yet the hosts were in tuxedos smoking cigarettes. they were still your parents. but other people let loose on the show were this kind of young vaudeville. >> hey. it's sock it to me time. >> she socked it to herself. >> we knew that sock it to me didn't mean sock it to me. right? so we thought, oh. >> sock it to me. >> sock it to me. >> ha-ha. >> sock it to me. >> it wasn't as subversive as it sounds. yes it was. no, it was fun. >> sock it to me? >> it was th...

Silly and that may be harmless. it's the perfect counternarrative of the headline perception that he's a schoolyard bully. but playing against type isn't new in american politics because guess what? it works. the common perception of richard nixon in 1968 was that he was uptight, rigidly old fashioned in a changing era. but his appearance on "laugh in" helped counter the impression a little bit. >> oh, no. i don't think we could get mr. nixon to stand still for sock it to me. >> sock it to me? >> as a candidate in 1976, jimmy carter hoped to shed his holier than thou image by agreeing to an in...