Watch Stephen Colbert Not Use the N-Word (With Help from Herman Cain)

Barbara Walters, take note: Stephen Colbert has figured out how to report on Rick Perry's family hunting camp without using its racist name.

Walters' "View" colleague Sherri Shepherd expressed discomfort Monday wih Walters' use of the camp name, "N-----head." On Monday's "Colbert Report," the host carefully avoided the phrase, first through charades and then with a timely assist from African-American Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.

Also read: Should Barbara Walters Have Used the N-Word to Discuss Perry's Camp?

As Colbert explained, "Of course, Herman Cain can get away with it, because it's okay for black people to call each other's family hunting camp that."

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