Here's some country-wide coverage of Colbert from last night:

[BigBearJohn]

Stephen Colbert smacks Bush down hard
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=621

The truthiness hurts
http://blogs.citypages.com/ctg/2006/04/the_truthiness.asp

Ripping Him a New One
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20060430punditpap.html

Critics make a meal of Bush
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18980967%255E663,00.html

Stephen Colbert to Replace Michael Chertoff?
http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002424618&imw=Y

Satire Treads Where Reporters Fear To Go
http://uspolitics.about.com/b/a/207707.htm

http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/30/stephen-colbert-at-the-white-house/

http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1146380087.shtml

[onehandle]

1. Buncha blogs and an Australian newspaper. Big deal. nt

[dysfunctional press]

18. exactly my thoughts too.

wake me up when there's REALLY "country-wide" coverage...

and blogs don't count- that's just preaching to the choir.

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[Mythsaje]

3. And of course, as we know

the "appropriate forum" is in a dark, soundproofed room where no one of any consequence can hear anything that might be unsettling.

Free speech is for "Free Speech Zones" that look uncomfortably similar to gulags. Just in case we need a reminder where they'd like to put anyone who's mentally unbalanced enough to practice dissent.

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[Mythsaje]

7. Except forceful talk in places it's expected

isn't happening. That was the whole point of last night's exercise. The press corps doesn't really DO anything but faithfully parrot what they're told. Snotty Scotty should have burst into tears the minute he left the podium on a regular basis.

These people think that they should be insulated against anything negative, that if they should HAVE to deal with criticism, it should come with plenty of warnings and a pre-arranged script so they can get their talking points ready.

What the right expects of people is REAL "Political Correctness." I mean playing politics in an approved manner that doesn't discomfit the powerful.

I'm not arguing with your take on it--I'm just saying that we have ready-made rebuttals already in the can.

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[Mythsaje]

13. NOW

they're beginning to speak up...because it's unavoidable. They're following the trend, not leading it.

News is about profits and viewership, not performing a public service anymore.

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[Warren DeMontague]

15. How else would the public be so against the war?

I'll tell you how- because no one is that stupid. Hell, a dog will figure out that you're full of shit, eventually-- if you lie to it enough.

I mean, the Administration peddles this cheap, bogus crap to folks for three years, and meanwhile kids keep coming home in boxes -to zero media coverage, I might add- and people will slowly start to wise up. So and so's kid is in Iraq, and word gets back to his hometown about how he feels they're being shafted. People start wondering why invading Iraq didn't bring us Osama Bin Laden. Numbers like "$300 Billion and counting" begin to sink in.

And NONE of that has anything to do with a media that has behaved absolutely fucking shamelessly throughout the whole Iraq debacle, from FOX NEWS (where it's expected) to the NY Times and the Wash Post, which both sold this fucking disaster and its pack-of-lies justifications, HARD.

No, if we had anything resembling a real, free, adversarial press in this country anymore, we wouldn't have gotten into Iraq in the first place, and if we had, Bush would have been impeached a long time ago. People are against the war and Bush's ratings are in the toilet despite the corporate, right-wing media--- not because of them.

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[Warren DeMontague]

19. So just reporting "numbers" is negative? I disagree. That's the bare bones

of factual reporting. The only alternative to reporting how many people were killed on a given day is to pretend the war isn't happening, altogether.

How about showing picturs of the bodies? The carnage? The wounded? The guy coming home to no legs, no wife, and no job?

No, this thing is sanitized as hell, for public consumption- compare it to Vietnam, where people turned on their tvs and saw- in graphic detail- what our tax dollars were paying for over there.

You want to see who "the media" is and who they're shilling for with regards to this Administration, check out this piece on the Colbert deal:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060430/cm_huffpost/020092;_ylt=A86.I2aOX1VEBVIByRv9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

[acmavm]

5. He'll get hammered, no doubt about it. But who's gonna give a damn?

Not who counts. The people who read or hear about this are gonnal stand up and applaud. The way things are going, if you are MSM, you support the bushista regime at your own risk.

[rodeodance]

6. If they hammered him--at least he would attention--right now Ignoring him

almost utter silence from cnn and msnbc (i have not tuned into fox).

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[otohara]

10. Olberman Will Cover Tomorrow

but I'm with you, they turned on the "ignore" button.

[otohara]

9. Yeah But Then They'd Have to Address The Content

of Colbert's brilliant performance, including the lousy job the press does. I bet they just sweep it under the rug, hoping it will all go away.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

12. jon stewart and stephen colbert will hammer them

right back.

the msm might not want to do battle with them.

[gatorboy]

17. By this afternoon, people are going to forget the whole thing.

The immigration policy protest coverage are going to take over by this afternoon...And the Bush impersonator will be history...