Stephen Colbert Finds The Credit Card Of A Goldman Sachs Partner (VIDEO)

On Monday night Stephen Colbert revealed that he'd found the credit card of a partner at Goldman Sachs.

He opens the report by saying, "This season Americans are facing 9.8 percent unemployment. And the only chestnuts they want to see roasting on an open fire are the ones attached to Wall Street Bankers."

Colbert said he'd return the partner's card -- one one condition. Here's Colbert:

"All you have to do is come on my show and talk about Wall Street bonuses. And for incentive, each night that you don't, I will reveal one digit of your credit card number. Which, as Wikileaks has proven, is not blackmail, it's journalism."

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Comments

[James Caroline]

10:57 AM on 12/15/2010

I'm trying to imagine how this went down in the office with the writers and staff and it's hysterical...

[BlackJAC]

10:52 AM on 12/15/2010

Unfortunately by revealing the name of the cardholder they've given the guy notice that the card's in play so he can just have it canceled.

[WhatTheHolyHeck]

11:40 AM on 12/15/2010

I'm sure he already knew and had his PA cancel it and get it replaced even before Colbert went on the air.

[Konrad Klean]

06:25 AM on 12/15/2010

Stewart/Colbert 2012

I think that just speaks for itself.

[AbstractImp]

06:25 AM on 12/15/2010

Chestnuts roasting on their funeral pyre. . .

[Godfearing]

11:58 AM on 12/17/2010

F&F

[TheLastWallStreeter]

01:32 AM on 12/15/2010

This is hysterical! I know Buckley - went to college with him. I am sure they LOVE this exposure down at 85 Broad.

For those who think that Colbert is joking (reasonable considering the ridiculousness of Buckley's name), he's not - there really is a Buckley Ratchford who is a partner at Goldman Sachs. Very ballsy thing for a TV personality to show a real person's name on national TV like that.

[kenmei]

06:29 AM on 12/15/2010

'Ballsy' like $144 billion record bonus in this economy?

I hope Colbert gets extremely 'ballsy' with this.

[Emanuel T Olff]

07:37 AM on 12/15/2010

Goldman moved awhile back

[karen1p]

01:14 AM on 12/15/2010

That was good.

But, Steven, I keep waiting for you or Jon to make fun of Obama/Clinton press conference. Come on, that one writes itself !

[meaghanm10]

09:14 AM on 12/15/2010

Jon did last night on his show..

[LisaCACO]

10:12 PM on 12/14/2010

omg, this is so funny. love me some colbert!!!

[realitytrumpsbull]

09:43 PM on 12/14/2010

ROTF I have long been a Colbert fan, he's like Stewart, got the gift o gab, and always good for a laugh. It's a depressing situation for a lot of people out there, for millions Christmas is going to be thin gruel, but maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel, maybe the Wall Streeters will combine their resources, and focus on some online job training/retraining for people that are not in a good way, and work to start some more job sourcing companies to help employers/employees make contact and arrangements to get things turned around. Rome was not built in a day, and it's no easy task to get things moving again, to be sure, but at least we know there's SOME people in this country that have a couple bucks to pitch business ideas to etc. And, that's the backbone of this economy, business. So, entrepreneurs? No time like the present to take that half-baked scheme off the back burner, get it in the oven, and baked to perfection. Who will be the next Zuckerberg, the next Henry Ford, the next Ray Croc, the next Warren Buffett? Opportunity knocks daily, who will open the door?

[Pippy67]

08:35 AM on 12/15/2010

You keep thinking happy thoughts.

[auburnbob]

09:44 AM on 12/15/2010

ok I can't take this anymore.. people do not start businesses to create jobs! they start businesses to make money!

[KatieHW]

10:48 AM on 12/15/2010

You cannot be seriously thinking that this would happen...C'mon! They don't have the money for job training. They don't even have the money for taxes. They barely have enough to survive. (I mean, really--sell the mansion? Return the Rolls? Who would employ the nanny, the chauffeur, the poolboy, the caddy?)

[JudgeCCrater]

01:31 PM on 12/15/2010

Don't forget the Swiss Chalet, the estate in France and the summer home in Tuscany!

[Burningtables]

09:36 PM on 12/14/2010

Go home, Debbie Downer.

[vandegrasse]

02:20 AM on 12/15/2010

That's funny!

[Gretchen Watson]

10:57 PM on 12/14/2010

I'm also pretty sure that they already called the guy and it's a gag....

[jasev01]

11:01 PM on 12/14/2010

even if that is so, it is only encouraging others to act badly.  Not everyone may know that and they may do the same thing

[vandegrasse]

02:21 AM on 12/15/2010

I doubt that. They know the guy's cancelled his card.They've nothing to lose but a lot of great satire.

[jasev01]

08:19 PM on 12/14/2010

and its a debit card!! all his money in his accounts

[HansMundt]

09:27 PM on 12/14/2010

He already changed his number by reporting it lost. This is just a publicity stunt.

[Heavenhound]

12:17 AM on 12/15/2010

And here I thought it was completely serious. Silly me.

[Kache]

02:32 AM on 12/16/2010

Of course it's a debit card. The guy is the bank, why would he use credit when his debt account is the bin the rest of us borrow out of?

[HalEBurton]

08:10 PM on 12/14/2010

Colbert must have some of NY's finest lawyers on staff

[nanooknw]

07:48 PM on 12/14/2010

Maybe the guy doesn't even know he lost it. An ego such as that fueled by cocaine!
If he finds he lost it, he may not even care.

[Fiscalprudence]

09:37 PM on 12/14/2010

What a foolish statement. You don't know the man. He lost his credit/debit card....so what?

[auburnbob]

09:52 AM on 12/15/2010

someone has seen boiler room too many times..
only in this country.. sit on huffpo and ridicule this man because he works for goldman sachs.. bet you would be more than happy to take his tax dollars

[Bigtuna1125]

06:32 PM on 12/14/2010

I liked how even Colbert couldn't help laughing at this

[InedaName]

07:04 PM on 12/14/2010

I liked how he pretended to chop lines with the card. Which might be a clue as to how the cardholder lost it in the first place. But Colbert said the guy's name and it was shown on the card so don't you think it's been cancelled by now?

[VolsFans]

06:20 PM on 12/14/2010

bravo!

[fairywhatnot]

07:03 PM on 12/14/2010

BIG DEAL! The card has been most likely canceled by now. So, no problem if he reveals all the digits.

[siasina]

07:07 PM on 12/14/2010

Yeah but it's still funny lol

[JLRoberson]

07:16 PM on 12/14/2010

I was thinking that myself. And it takes only a second's thought to realize that, so the joke barely has a chance to work.

[Brothaman2k]

06:18 PM on 12/14/2010

Ok, if the card is real? That is pure... unadulterated... WIN. lol