That part isn't actually a joke. That was really Nixon's organization.
This isn't exactly the most historically accurate lesson on Watergate that you can watch, but on this 40th anniversary of the political scandal to end all political scandals, Stephen Colbert hits the truthiness of the situation right on the nose. Of the pandas. Who don't know how to mate.
MMmmm. Space food sticks. What's funny is how barely-exaggerated the ridiculousness of Watergate really was. Even in an era where you can always find out what the next NSA spying revelation will be by listening to what they're denying spying on now, the revelations around Watergate were comically blunt and obvious. There were the Plumbers, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (C.R.E.E.P), Nixon talking about their hush money, and the 18 1/2 missing minutes of tape. You literally would have to hire comedy writers to make it more absurd. Which, I guess, this proves.
(by Johnny McNulty)