Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner

[sabra]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002425363

Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner-- President Does Not Seem Amused

WASHINGTON A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.

...

Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged the Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, “and reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

...

As he walked from the podium, the president and First Lady gave Colbert quick nods, unsmiling, and left immediately. E&P's Joe Strupp, in the crowd, observed that quite a few sitting hear him felt the material was, perhaps, uncomfortably biting.

Asked by E&P after it was over if he thought he'd been too harsh, Colbert said, "Not at all." Was he trying to make a point politically or just get laughs? "Just for laughs," he said. He said he did not pull any material for being too strong, just for time reasons.

[OhioChick]

1. Don't you just love it??

:toast:

[niceypoo]

104. Link to video

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html

[OKthatsIT]

121. Excuse me, America? Here's what a PROGRESSIVE looks like

WITH BALLS!

[Scriptor Ignotus]

130. big brass ones - nt

[katty]

135. it was amazing!! +Val Plame/Joe Wilson perfect!

[Tiggeroshii]

2. Why the fuck did they invite him?

That's what they get!

[goforit]

59. They literally thought Colbert was on the GOP side......NOT!!!

roflmao!!!

Hats off to Colbert for fooling the idiots!!!

[cyclezealot]

107. COlbert is a comedian, just doing his job.

any idiot knows a true blue comedian lampoons anything reverent. Comedians have been telling truth to power since Steve Allen.sure lots of comedians have been on FBI lists. to get head lines , there is some truth to COlbert's comment about just getting laughs.
you find the material, then it's an open field day. his BUsh stick on Comedy central, to some degree is just that. A stick to get in some jokes.. Don't Americans understand parody. often I think not.

[TroglodyteScholar]

162. i think you mean it's his "schtick" n/t

[reichstag911]

125. It's unsurprising, really.

I saw John Irving last year, and he told a funny anecdote about having been invited to some White House dinner by VP Dan Quayle during the Poppy Bush administration. Being an ardent admirer of Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, which includes blistering indictments of the Reagan/Bush administration's patronage of the Iran-Contra scandal, I had to ask him if he thought any of those Repub idiots had ever read any of his stridently (subtextually) liberal books. That elicited a laugh and his supposition that no, none of them were probably at all familiar with his novels.

These Repub douchebags merely want to latch onto truly talented people, knowing virtually no one who subscribes to their political agenda has any talent whatsoever (Kid Rock, Britney Spears, Toby Keith, etc.) -- except perhaps for self-promotion, theft, dissembling and cowardice.

[HuffleClaw]

3. oh man i really with i'd have seen this.

it wasn't on cnn and we don't get cspan in canada.

on edit: the freepers are SILENT about this. can't imagine why.

[BeHereNow]

6. You MUST,MUST,MUST see it!

It should be archived on the C-span web site soon.
You can go to the C-span web site from Canada, can't you?
The "audition tape" to replace Snotty-Scotty as press secretary
had me rolling on the floor. You HAVE to see it!

Colbert's presentation was brilliant.
The shots of the uncomfortable audience reactions
were priceless.

BHN

[caligirl]

47. crooks and liars has it, saw it there last night. crooksandliars.com

[truthisfreedom]

4. please somebody, post a link to the video. i really really really really

want to see this.

anyone have any idea where i could start looking for it?

[OhioChick]

5. Try here:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

[truthisfreedom]

7. excellent! thanks for the link!

[truthisfreedom]

9. it's everything they say, and more. what a piece of work... Colbert is my

hero. three cheers for Colbert!

[Judi Lynn]

14. You are so helpful. I wouldn't have missed seeing this link for anything.

Colbert has lifted himself high above the level of a very clever comedian with this event. He's in a class of his own. What a tremendous person.

I ADORED the dead silence from the people he rightfully addressed. They know he has their number.

[Henny Penny]

27. Holy Cow!

That was absolutely brilliant!!

Loved that shot of the generals as he said..."They still support Rumsfeld...you're not retired, right?"

:bounce: :toast: :party: :bounce: :hi: :headbang: :yourock: :applause:

[smtpgirl]

80. I watched the WH correspondents dinner on C-SPAN

I thought is was a hoot. * was laughing at first, and towards the end he was giving GLARES at Colbert.

TOO COOL

[UpInArms]

39. thanks for the link!

:rofl:

[grasswire]

8. disgusting

"quite a few sitting hear him felt the material was, perhaps, uncomfortably biting"


Do they have any recollection at all of what was done to Hillary Clinton at the earlier dinner? Shameless!! Paula Jones was in the room that night, too.

Shameless!!

[Judi Lynn]

13. Were you thinking of the year Don Imus went after Bill Clinton for his

Monica relationship? I have NEVER seen anything as vicious as that (the Imus attack on the Clintons) conducted in "polite" society. Filthy, graceless Imus. No wife should have been forced to endure that, with the only alternative being she would be ripped to shreds if she left the room.

[barb162]

24. I agree, that had to have been horrible for Hillary

and Bill and Chelsea

[CTyankee]

91. Don't feel too bad

I have the feeling that Hilary had long ago learned to take care of herself with these attacks. Chelsea, when she was a child of 13 in the White House, was differnt. Rush Limbaugh was rightly lambasted for calling her a "dog." Talk about he kettle calling the pot black!

With Stephanie Miller and Al Franken, we're slowly getting back with satire and biting wit the RW has not felt for many years. Waht a surprise when THEY are in the glare and on the cutting table.

I can't wait!

[libhill]

127. If they can't take the heat

they should stay the fuck out of the kitchen. What goes round, comes round.

[goclark]

40. and did thry replay the IMUS stuff on Television

cause I have not seen ONE clip of Colbert, not one.


It is telling when the "MSM" forgets and BLACKS OUT the true NEWS of that event.

[Bush_MUST_Go]

168. Not surprising, the MSM is rightfully embarrassed by THEIR own cowardice.

[progressivebydesign]

51. I agree.. I've seen other dinners in the past, this issue is overblown.

I just can't believe how many people have been wringing their hands about Colbert and that he was too biting. Can any of us even IMAGINE a republican wringing their hands after some of the filthy things said about Democrats, and about Clinton, NOT in jest?

[Selteri]

58. Heh I loved it. NT

[goforit]

60. Bottom line Colbert was P-E-R-F-E-C-T.

[barb162]

25. I am going to agree with you and I haven't seen the thing

but when people ("quite a few")are getting or are uncomfortable, maybe the "roasting" is going way too far???

[Lindacooks]

99. It didn't go far enough, IMHO.

It's about time chimpy had to sit and listen to criticism. The more the better - break through his self-blown bubble and smack him with reality.

[susanna]

105. Yeah, unlike previous years' dinners, where

DimSon "searched and searched and searched for those WMDs, but couldn't find 'em."

Speaking as someone who lost a friend in the DimSon's war, well, W can kiss my posterior.

I LOVED Stephen Colbert's performance. My husband and I were high-fiving throughout. Good on Stephen. :-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

132. They are uncomfortable...

because he was lampooning THEM as well as the president.

These people are not doing their jobs, and he blatantly pointed it out. It did NOT sit well with the Talking Head brigade. We're getting ready to set off a freaking nuke in the Nevada desert, and all the media can talk about is the Duke rape case and if they've caught the guy who attacked Natalee Holloway yet.

[One_of_8]

152. No way

If the Pretzeldent is willing to send men and women to die or be maimed for life in his illegal invasion, then he can sit and take some well-deserved comical licks like the man he isn't. I hope it made him absolutely furious! I hope he couldn't sleep at all last night, no matter how many shots of Jack Daniels he had, because he was so offended. I hope this moment of reality sticks in his craw, day after day. I hope more people begin to have the bravery to call this charade of a president for what he is. Louder!

[Der Blaue Engel]

153. Oh, no, we should never upset the Little Dictator

That would be un-American. :sarcasm:

[leftchick]

33. "why did we invade Iraq?"

Helen's question should linger in every fucking "journalists" head for the rest of their sorry lives. I applaud Helen and Steve, the only real patriotic journalists there!

[Overseas]

165. I adored it too--- and it was only biting by contrast

>> Because the press corps has been so cowardly. Running from Helen Thomas was a good metaphor.

[ShortnFiery]

170. I split a gut laughing when he ran to the "Call Box"

And yelled, "Helen Thomas keeps asking me why we attacked Iraq." Without missing a beat the call box VOICE blared back, "WHY DID WE ATTACK IRAQ?" :rofl:

[truthisfreedom]

10. the freepers have completely missed the point... totally in denial.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623916/posts?q=1&&page=151

[Maven]

11. ...

To: JulieRNR21

GWB always the gentleman. When he shook Colbert's hand I thought I heard him say 'very good'.

193 posted on 04/29/2006 7:58:38 PM PDT by StarFan

:puke:

[Maven]

12. oh wait, and this:

To: Loyal Buckeye; StarFan

Even the hard core DU pressitutes weren't laughing.
This was not a good career move for Colbert!

And Helen must have taken her high potency ugly pills for the film shoot......OMG what a face!

200 posted on 04/29/2006 8:00:44 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Katherine Harris is 'In It to Win It' .....Go here: http://www.electharris.org/)

DE-NIAL ain't just a river, baby.

[ShortnFiery]

144. Yes, and your dear leader's also sooo appropriate ...

"Now watch this drive." :puke:

p.s. did you get that last aside about the 32 percent consisting of mostly back wash? :applause:

[Righteous9]

16. Wow...

You're right, they didn't get it at all. The light didn't even come on that the reason the crowd wasn't laughing was because they were getting publicly scolded. The President they've felt so uncomfortable criticising was being told he was a criminal to his face, and nobody could cut to a terror alert or a missing girl in Aruba...

That took a lot courage from Colbert. Those were heavy jokes. He wasn't 'playing nice'. He took this opportunity to say something to these people, and he said it well...
of course there's always the possiblitiy that some of the guests weren't laughing because they didn't get the jokes either, such is the state of our journalism.

[henslee]

19. Colbert killed. And the fact his film was tortuously long was funny.

[SoCalDem]

159. He was also enjoying himself at the after party ..

Bloomberg had a whoopdeedo party at the Macedonian Embassy afterwards, and there are some pics online of Colbert there..I thought it was an odd choice of location what with the expiration date for the war criminal turnover, and the EU implications, but hey.. a party's a party :)

[truthisfreedom]

26. oh hell no. the press corps were weeping inside. they went home shaking.

they asked their spouses to drive.

[susu369]

32. Dead center

and welcome to DU.

[goforit]

61. A gutzzy hero in the making!.Not afraid to hit hard while the ass is down!

[smtpgirl]

81. I loved the vinette at the end

Priceless!!

[cliss]

65. Hi Righteous9

and welcome to the DU:smoke:

Oh, I think they all understood what Colbert was saying.....the stunned silence was probably the realization that the rest of this country understands everything......

[Julius Civitatus]

79. YES! In the words of Colbert, that took some "huevos grandes"

[zann725]

131. Agreed! My thoughts exactly! "GRANDE," indeed!

n/t

[54anickel]

94. The sure are clueless. I don't think this poster even felt the breeze

going over his/her head.


To: bahblahbah

Well, for sure the President was the comedian of the evening. He has fantastic comedic timing.

199 posted on 04/29/2006 8:00:17 PM PDT by WVNan (Never use the word "you" when debating.)

[reichstag911]

128. Being a joke of a human being...

...really doesn't qualify as having "fantastic comedic timing," I think. :think:

[Placebo]

63. "Even the liberal media is not laughing."

Oh my god, these people really are out of touch with reality.

[johnnyrocket]

102. Yeah, that freeper quote is priceless!

"Even the liberal media is not laughing." so says a Bush-Bot.

Yep, that says it all! The cluelessness, the way they got it completely backwards!

Man, the right wing really IS a bunch of simpleminded humorless shitheads isn't it!

[lovuian]

15. Hey the King got a dose of reality from Colbert...

Your President but the people can't stand you!!!

Colbert is brave and right!!!

[FatDave]

83. Yes, but...

Everybody knows reality has a liberal bias.

[QC]

17. COLBERT IS MY HERO!

Kicked and recommended!

[slay]

18. He didn't "pull any material for being too strong...

...just for time reasons." Hahahahaha! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[shadowknows69]

20. Brilliant

I'm still watching it and my jaw is on the floor. Does anyone know that Colbert's whereabouts are known?

[Freeusfromthechurch]

21. My mouth was wide open the whole time

Colbert has the biggest balls on planet earth. Wow, what a patriot.

[Justice]

30. Totally

[Theres-a]

38. Muchas grandes Cojones!

Love it,love it,love it!

[smtpgirl]

82. If only more like Colbert did this 3 years, maybe 4 years ago

We wouldn't be in this mess!!!

[goforit]

62. LOL!!!....I'm sure he would love to hear that!!!

[TankLV]

72. It was a "The emperor has no clothes!" moment. Fitting and priceless.

So was mine - and I was just flipping channels when I saw it on C-SPAN this morning.

He was just PERFECT!

And his video was incredible!

A must see.

Me and my partner practically wet our collective pants!

[debbierlus]

115. Mine, too!

I couldn't believe it. It was completely surreal. When I first linked to the video, I thought that the whole thing was a joke. You know how they do clips with the President supposedly in the room, I thought it was one of those skits! It took me ten minutes to really believe it was real!

WOW!

[rodeodance]

22. Looks like Laura and George don't much appreciate humor:

....As he walked from the podium, the president and First Lady gave Colbert quick nods, unsmiling, and left immediately. E&P's Joe Strupp, in the crowd, observed that quite a few sitting hear him felt the material was, perhaps, uncomfortably biting.

[Judi Lynn]

23. Only uncomfortable for those who "lost" their "moral compasses!" n/t

[98geoduck]

28. Video at Crooks and Liars.com...Must See TV!

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

[DainBramaged]

29. An early morning zinger worth waking up for

I woke up early to watch it this morning. Colbert said for the record what the asswipes in the press corps have been in complete denial about; Bush is the worst President in history, and if Pickles didn't like it (from her expressions and resounding refusal to stand and greet Colbert at the end) too fucking bad.

http://www.canofun.com/cof/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=18990&posts=3&start=1

Bush Speech with Bush Impersonator Steve Bridges

And Bush sounds shitfaced, NOT the impersonator.

[Zorra]

36. I'm stunned. OK, I'm over it. Bwaaahaaahaaahaaa

That was fucking awesome. Somehow this seems like the tipping point for the press to me.
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce::bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce::bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce::bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce::bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce::bounce:

[JNelson6563]

31. His greeting to Scalia was hilarious!

Man I had a seriously spontaneous outburst of laughter on that one.

:toast:

Colbert rocks.

[dmoded]

34. very refreshing

Loved every minute of it.. It's too bad the daily show calls it as it is, yet there is Never one mention of such an open air talk show like his on FR. Ignorance is bliss being my point.

Way to go man, GWB musta had a homer simpson moment where in his bubble of thoughts, there were cats and monkeys playing accordian's :)

lol, nice :)

d.

[Newkophile]

41. To his credit (?), Scalia laughed

Unlike many others in the audience who were perhaps stunned at the audacious humor of Colbert, at least Antonin had the graciousness to laugh. Personally, I think Colbert has big cajones! He was awesome. I'm glad I turned the DVD recorder on to catch it and rewatch it.

[JNelson6563]

42. Yeah, I thought that too

It was a priceless moment. I'll be Scalia was as surprised as I was so his laugh was likely a somewhat unguarded moment.

Julie

[Pab Sungenis]

110. Scalia has a sense of humor, believe it or not.

Especially about himself. Perfectly healthy.

Of course, Hitler was a big Charlie Chaplin fan, so that doesn't count for much.

[ShortnFiery]

141. Anyone could ... he's not ever going to be UP for Re-Election ...

He's as smarmy as they come, but alas, being smarmy isn't a crime. :(

[bmbmd]

35. Brilliant, biting satire.

I was very uncomfortable. Kauffman-esque in its brutality.

[Robb]

88. Yes! Andy Kayffman came to mind!

Amazing, brave performance.

[ramapo]

37. Too much truthiness

I watched the whole show rerun on CSPAN last night. It was clear that Colbert made the audience uncomfortable as he lambasted one and all. The Helen Thomas bit was great, a tribute to one of the few (only) White House correspondants who do their job. The show leading up to Colbert was more of the same Bush love-fest by the ass-kissing press corp.

[Julius Civitatus]

43. Any CSPAN re-runs scheduled?

I tried to check on the CSPAN site, but couldn't find it. Anyone knows if CSPAN is re-running this thing?

Thank you.

[supernova]

44. 12:30 EDT

according to the thread in GD.

I watched the internet tapes, but I want to see it in context.

Stephen, I want to have your baby, eventhough I know you're probably happily married.

[WinkyDink]

45. Show is starting NOW!

C-Span.
Just showed SC on the "Red Carpet", as it were, speaking to "Extra".

[JoFerret]

54. Not only married and a Catholic

but also the father of new born eagle.

[FatDave]

85. Stephen Jr.

[ShortnFiery]

138. And don't forget ...

his namesake, Stephen Junior <chirp> will be monitored closely.

Can't wait for the updates ... sans the Toby Keith tunes in the nest. :P

[leQ]

46. watching it now (eom)

11:55CDT

[steely]

48. I wonder at what point Steven comes on?

I hope I didn't miss it.

[seasat]

49. He is in the last 30 minutes of the broadcast n/t

[progressivebydesign]

50. Bush CLEARLY patted Colberts arm as Bush left...

And that was when: "(He later said the president told him "good job" when he walked off.)" I watched the end of the show, and Bush clearly greeted Colbert in friendly gesture, either patting or grabbing Colbert's upper arm as Bush passed by, and Colbert was standing near him. Of course Laura Bush can't laugh about it, she gets her JC Penny undies in a bunch when anyone criticizes her little man. The thing I loved about Clinton and Gore was that they could laugh at themselves... I've watched other years, and the humor was just as biting.

[EndElectoral]

57. Gw patted him,but look at GW's reaction as soon as Colbert passes

[jayfish]

68. I Think Shrubyas Exact Words Were.

"Good job. ...brilliant". He liked it until someone told him it was baaaaaad.

Jay

[Julius Civitatus]

52. STARTING RIGHT NOW ON CSPAN

1:30 pm ET, the segment with COLBERT is starting.

Go on, now!

[caligirl]

55. seeing it on tv I got a much better view of the roast Colbert did

than watching it on crooks and liars. One of those times when size matters.

[spotbird]

53. Courage is so rare

truly, he was brave.

[shayes51]

64. agree

[EndElectoral]

56. Colbert was terrific...funniest thing i've seen in a long time!!!!

I'm still laughing....man, GW and Laura's face after is worth the watching!!!!

[lindisfarne]

66. Were Bush and wife mainly upset because Colbert suggested making

love to one's wife?

[Greyskye]

67. MUCH higher quality vid at YouTube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II&search=colbert%20roast

It's in 3 parts - above link is to the first one.

[skamaria]

69. WMD'S

Mr. President i think we've found the weapons of mass destruction. Their hanging between
Steven Cobert's legs....

[ebayfool]

74. BAM!

I'm soooo gonna spread that one around - TY! :evilgrin:

Welcome to DU ... & way to introduce yourself to the gang! :rofl:

[Herman47]

86. Greyskye gives us the COMPLETE video...

...unlike the one at Crooks and Liars, which may be missing 40 percent or so.

[Misunderestimator]

133. thanks for the link!

:thumbsup:

[GinaMaria]

70. reality has a well-known liberal bias

love it.

[fjc]

71. Brave and Brilliant

Does anyone know where I could get a copy of the video? It was truly a sterling example of all that is great about America.

[graywarrior]

73. C-Span will have it for sale.

Maybe you can download it from various sites on the internet. You should be able to find it here at DU. I've seen some already.

[0rganism]

75. Colbert's huge nards are causing an eccentricity in the Earth's orbit

He said it.

No, I mean, He said IT. HE FUCKING SAID IT.

He laid it all out crystal clear, in a roundabout way that summed up everything involved perfectly, from the incompetent brush-clearing bush ("mesquite-powered car") to the lapdog press ("You know, fiction"). It was a brilliant, defining moment for political satire. And, true to their colors, the cowardly AP edited him out of their coverage. :rofl:

Of course the routine was marked by uncomfortable silences. The entire audience, well most of them, figured out early on that they were the mark of the most biting satire delivered in American history, nationally televised, and archived on the 'net for global posterity.

[Poll_Blind]

95. His scrotum attaches directly to the ground. I believe...

...his giant balls lay somewhere below the mantle but above the core. Swinging together and causing a tectonic clacking which will kept Bush up last night, fearful for who the nuts toll.

Doze nuts toll for you, George.

PB

[Shakespeare]

164. Actually, the earth on which we live isn't actually a planet, but one of..

...Stephen Colbert's testicles. All hail Stephen.

[DallasNE]

76. What A Hoot

I especially liked the following two:

"I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."

"When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday."

That captures the essence of the whole Bush administration. Sadly, Bush has had a lot of Tuesday's.

[renate]

78. welcome to DU!

:hi:

[DallasNE]

103. Thanks

I have been a regular reader of DU for roughly 5 years but have been an infrequent poster on DU over the last several months.

[flyingobject]

77. Freepers upset

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624275/posts

[GinaMaria]

122. did they watch the same thing I did?

Why are they claiming that no one laughed? Cuts to the audience showed laughter. even * laughed. It's a roast. Even * understood that. Apparently reality does have a left wing bias :eyes:

[nickgutierrez]

84. Rearranging deck chairs on the Hindenburg.

:rofl:

[debbierlus]

116. Soaring not sinking!

OMG!

Too delicious!

:toast:

[Julius Civitatus]

87. Most news media are IGNORING or AVOIDING the Colbert speech

I've been looking out for how the news media would cover this. Unsurprisingly, the GUTLESS COWARDS in the media are talking about the "hillarious" performance of Bush with his lookalike. Yeah, very f*cking funny. Nothing this guy does is funny anymore, IMHO.

All news reports completely IGNORE the ballsy performance of Colbert. They don't even mention him by name.

This is a SHAME.

:grr:

[debbierlus]

118. Doesn't matter.

Because this was about delivering the message to the Chimp, personally.....

Yes, it would have been nice, if they covered it.

But, Colbert made the press & Bush & the rest of them squirm for 1/2 hour.

And, the Colbert routine will sweep the internet as far as the eye can see.

E-mail the video link to friends. Pass it on.

We ARE the media.

[The Wizard]

89. truthiness

The stenographic slugs pretending to be reporters have to look in the mirror and know they've not only been exposed, but that they are the butt of satirical humor. Colbert hammered at the root cause of what's gone wrong in America, especially now that the fourth estate has become a fifth column. What passes itself off as news is nothing more than what Pravda TAAS and Izvestia did in the defunct Soviet Union. We have become what we hated in the Cold War. State/corporate controlled news has replaced the free press. Those who count the votes determine election results. Soon most will be working for the same pay, minimum wage. News for profit, be it monetary or favorable legislation, is really fake news. Colbert and Comedy Central as well as Keith Olbermann are the only TV broadcast news venues that regularly criticize the naked em porer. I stopped watching all news during the corporate news driven impeachment of the last duly elected leader of the free world. Newscasters on all the channels were practically drooling over Clinton's lying about a consensual blowjob.
The second hand excuse for a human being now occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue started a war predicated on deliberate lies and all these jerk off reporters can do is cover his miserable ass.
So let's see: getting your dick sucked is a crime, but being a lying scumbag and war profiteer is good.
We need a national strike where everyone who gives a shit stays home from work one day a week. Treasury looting is as un-American as war profiteering.
Our pResident is a nut.

[mistertrickster]

126. You are correct, sir. As Digby points out on his blog, Colbert didn't

just stick to ridiculing the pRes, he went after the PRESS CORP hammer and tongs.

[goforit]

90. Saw Colbert on 60 minutes.......... He's just great!

[Paula Sims]

92. I had memories of the movie V. . .

where the comedian lambasts the administration only to himself be arrested by Nazi like tactics a la Cabaret. I admire Stephen Colbert for what he did,

:yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

I just worry. . .

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:


Paula

[OnyxCollie]

97. You beat me to it.

This is exactly what I was thinking. No way Colbert can deliver all that and walk away unscathed. Do you think the NSA was doing a "black bag" job of his house before he even finished?

[ShortnFiery]

150. No, don't worry about Cobert's welfare ...

This corrupt Administration has ALREADY far too many enemies (and acquiring more each day) to worry about a little PRESS DINNER. They've got their lapdog media to play it down. That's all they care about.

Remember Citizen, it's time to ramp up the rhetoric for our Iranian Invasion. :scared:

They believe that if *their spin on news* is not covered on their CONTROLLED Corporate Cable stations, that everyone will not care about alternate news sources. Perhaps that worked in the short term, but now, increasingly, the word's getting out ... they are wrong. ;)

[Fresh_Start]

93. WH Correspondents disappointed Colbert not funny

Which is just too bad, because Americans are disappointed that the press no longer investigates and reports on the news.

To the artists in America who are speaking up, thank you.

[debbierlus]

117. Screw em all, except Helen.

[think4yourself]

96. My 4 and 6 year old kids were laughing

The Helen Thomas vignette was brilliant. Even my kids were lauging their asses off, screaming "Noooooooooo!!!"

Thank you Colbert, we needed that.

[LaloBorges]

98. "who ostensibly supports the president strongly"?????

Don't these people understand sarcasm? Where do they see that Colbert supports Bush?

[kinchdedalus]

100. Somebody needs to look up "ostensibly."

[Fresh_Start]

101. "who ostensibly supports the president strongly"?????

I don't know if you remember all in the family. It was intended as social criticism of bigotry. The problem was that bigots identified with Archie Bunker and felt validated and invigorated by him.

Its one of the reasons why I was cold on "Colbert Report". Because I felt that same thing could occur. If you want to believe that your position is the right position and that only idiots won't support you, you'll look to find things that validate you.

So yes, I believe that some neocons could actually believe Colbert was a neocon supporter of Bush.

Hell if they're willing to excuse the Presidents verbal gaffes, why not believe pundits gaffes?

Liz

[ShortnFiery]

142. I knew the "Archie Bunker" factor and was on to Cobert's

character from the onset. Yes, I concur that a couple of the kool-aid drinking Neo-Cons Cobert has had on his show - did play along with the right wing fanaticism because it's what they know and love. However, his wit and sarcasm were so sharp and biting. Gawd, I loved every minute of it, to include the Helen Thomas chase scene at the end. It was GD Artwork! :P

[American Tragedy]

108. Read the sentence again.

"in the guise of his talk show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly"

[frankenforpres]

109. ostensible means apparent

but not necessarily true


he says he supports the president, but he doesnt. that is why his claimed support is ostensible. grab a dictionary before you insult someone else's intelligence.

[yorkiemommie1]

106. maybe the other correspondents were afraid to show their

true reactions.

1: very upset because they saw themselves in what Colbert was saying and realized he was right

or 2: they recognized the truth in what he said and agreed w/ him wholeheartedly but were afraid to bust out laughing!

[Mr_Scarecrow]

111. jealous, too

Colbert can do things they can't. And he gets treated like a rock star for it. It's what they all really wanted to do when they signed up for that online journalism class. They all once wanted to tell the truth and change the world and be vindicated and be famous for it. But with bush, truthiness got in the way, and now they have to watch someone else reap the rewards they wished for. As they realize the chimp let them down they will circle in and cannibalize him. IMHO

[debbierlus]

114. Dead on.

Bunch of COWARDS.

[Chiyo-chichi]

112. I was busting a gut the whole time.

Colbert did a great job.

Re Bush's schtick: I'll bet Laura would have rather taken Steve Bridges home with her. She gave him a look when he said she was hot.

[Lisa]

140. especially since Bridges doesn't look much like him, in real life!

(that's him in the upper left pic)


http://www.stevebridges.com/photo_press.html


Thumbs up to the makeup guy who did the prosthetics ...

http://www.ppi.cc/ppi_players/kevin_haney2.htm

[debbierlus]

113. I think people in the room were shocked that someone would say the emperor

Was naked.....

Lines like 'reality has a liberal bias'.

I thought it was a very BRAVE routine. He used this opportunity to say all the things that never get said! He confronted George W Bush through sarcasm.

I can't believe they had him host. Haven't they ever seen his show?

I was deeply impressed with his routine, and I love Colbert more then ever. He is BRILLIANT!

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

124. They didn't get it. I didn't get it until I had seen him several times

Bill Kristol was on the Colbert Report last week and he was floored. I don't think he realized what he was getting into until a couple of minutes into the "interview" and the light bulb went on for Bill. It was hilarious.

Colbert's character is such an obtuse, butt-sucking RW hack on the surface. Colbert, otoh, is razor sharp. It's like the buffoon news-model he plays "accidentally" exposes the RW stupidity/hypocrisy he's "covering".

[ShortnFiery]

137. It's nothing short of Comedic ARTWORK :-) n/t

[smb]

163. Oops!

I can't believe they had him host. Haven't they ever seen his show?

They probably take his right-wing talk show host character at face value and don't realize that it's a mockery.

[oc2002]

119. Coblert is a GOD! now only if our elected Dems had half the balls.

if they only stood up for the democrat that voted for them.

[Tight_rope]

120. The truth hurts...doesn't it!....n/t

[winston61]

123. So Georgy was offended,

BFD, As Harry used to say if you can't stand the heat, get out of the fuckin' kitchen.

[Bassic]

129. Priceless

Simply priceless.

[katty]

134. Colbert knocked bush out of the park-great!

[Strawman]

136. How sweet was that McCain slam?

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811

"John McCain is here. John McCain, John McCain, what a maverick! Somebody find out what fork he used on his salad, because I guarantee you it wasn't a salad fork. This guy could have used a spoon! There's no predicting him. By the way, Senator McCain, it's so wonderful to see you coming back into the Republican fold. I have a summer house in South Carolina; look me up when you go to speak at Bob Jones University. So glad you've seen the light, sir."

:rofl:

[JoFerret]

160. Magnificent

...multiple slams with one jab. Skewers mccain where he lives - on the right wing extremist pandering fence.
Colbert is a genius. This routine he has going is just perfect for the posturing O'Reilly liars and for the Administration phonies/ creeps/ incompetents/ liars/ thieves they fawn upon. Maverick McCain - what a joke that is! Go Colbert - skewer McCain for betraying patriot Bush and undermining the presnint..

[Aviation Pro]

139. Too bad....

...Asshole. Unvarnished truth, raw in its beauty, is the ultimate spotlight. Feel uncomfortable, Asshole? Good. Now go suckle at the teet of the Silver Douche Bag you big crybaby and just remember this is only the beginning. Only the beginning. Only the beginning.

[ShortnFiery]

146. Whoa!

And here I thought that I may be a little too intense.

We need to wake up the lapdog media and encourage Cobert not to fly on small planes.

That's all - real good work - for now. :hi:

[Aviation Pro]

166. Believe me

I was restrained.

[Julius Civitatus]

143. Shameless Elizabeth Bumiller (NYT), avoids Colbert altogether while

at the same time praising and slobbering all over the "Cute" performance of Bush with his "twin."

Not a word of Colbert:

"At Award Correspondents' Dinner, A Set of Bush Twins Steal the Show."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/washington/01letter.html

Bumiller is the NYT's official Bush ass-licker, but this is beyond reproach .She completely avoids the big part of the show.

[ShortnFiery]

145. "Bumiller is the NYT's official Bush ass-licker"

It needed to be emphasized again. ;)

[janetle]

151. "They" are totally trying to cover up Colbert

We must have seen Bush and Bridges with Bush laughing at "himself" over 8 times yesterday while running in and out and doing yard work. And again this morning on the Today Show with Matt Lauer laughing hysterically at his darling pres. We were so sick of it.

I did not even know about Colbert or what he had done until I came on the computer and my blogs this morning.

[Beaverhausen]

147. I had the feeling Colbert was told to stop after the video played

It seemed like a very abrupt ending. Anyone else?

anyway I loved it! Colbert rocks! Who saw him on 60 Minutes?

[kimmylavin]

148. BTW...

Did anyone notice the new press secretary slipping comfortably into his role?

After the gathering, Snow, while nursing a Heineken outside the Chicago Tribune reception, declined to comment on Colbert. “I’m not doing entertainment reviews,” he said. “I thought the president was great, though.”

Ugh.

[ShortnFiery]

149. Ugh is exactly right ...

You know all those "hero" movies where one man goes out on a limb to take on power while everyone else shakes in their boots.

Last night Cobert was as brave as those retired Generals who went public. Sure Cobert is a comedian but he brought out all the ills in this corrupt Administration that we DARE not speak, especially with a CONTROLLED MEDIA atmosphere.

Yes, Cobert was IMO braver than these retired Generals at that time because, Dear Leader, was only a few feet away from him. Would that not frighten the average comedian/person? Yet he pulled the complete routine off seamlessly.

Genuinely - God Bless Cobert for speaking truth to power. :patriot:

I want to believe that every act of bravery such as this is making a difference ... cracking the silence of the gutless-wonder Corporate Mass Media.

Let's make them feel ashamed at every damned opportunity? It's hurting their egos that just may get them to report the TRUTH ... or at least OBJECTIVELY approach each news story.

[MsMagnificent]

154. Awww.... Chimpy's not smirking

& neither is his wife!

*jumping up & down with glee*

/schadenfreude

[SideshowScott]

155. Im not gay..But i love Steve's Big Ginormus BALLS

OMG wow im stunned how Steve took the Press to the woodshed and beat the crap out of them. That was the funniest thing ive seen in a long time. They should just replay the whole thing on tonights Colbert Report

[skypilot]

156. Kick

*

[pinniped]

157. This is lame attempt to humanize that piece of shit.

.

[Shakespeare]

161. Excuse me? Are you talking about Colbert's performance?

That didn't humanize him (nor was it attempted). On the contrary, he verbally kicked the living shit out of Bush and the press corps on national TV. That was one of the most brilliant, harshest and long-overdue verbal assassinations I've ever seen in my LIFE.

Bush's schtick was an attempt to humanize him; Colbert simply murdered him onstage for all to see.

[Mr_Scarecrow]

158. Tiny points of light in Freeperville

To: yuta250
I don't remember anyone getting annoyed when IMUS skewered Clinton and Hillary at one of these. In fact, we were overjoyed!



96 posted on 04/30/2006 8:59:12 PM PDT by Hildy (Producing a penny now costs the government more than 1.4 cents)
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To: alnick
This thread has made me realize that no one has a sense of humor anymore and its sad.



97 posted on 04/30/2006 9:44:44 PM PDT by boulderite20
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[madmark]

167. the truthiness hurts

[ckramer]

169. Go to thankyoustephencolbert.org

to sign your name and then come back here watching these his shows:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3