MINN City Pages: The Truthiness Hurts

[supernova]

I finally found an article on the WHCD about Colbert and not the double mint twin presidents.

President Bush had the press eating out the palm of his hand at last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner. (If you need proof, a Google news search reveals more than 300 articles dedicated to the celebration of Bush and his look-alike lampooning the president for such now-innocuous foibles as mispronouncing "nuclear." If you control them, they will follow...) But it was comedian Stephen Colbert's biting political satire, and the awkward silence that followed, that brought the real "truthiness" to last night's event.


If the mainstream press' majority allegiance to the current administration wasn't painfully obvious enough, so far only Editor and Publisher has extensively reported on Colbert's roasting, which, in the best kind of political satire, resonated as hard-hitting political commentary disguised as stupidity in the form of Colbert's faux-Republican persona. Colbert lambasted the presdident for Iraq, Valerie Plame, global warming, and his response to disaster....

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

Then it repeats some of the best quips last night.

Here are some choice reader comments, too:

Good for you actually reporting on the real news. Many of the many articles extolling Bush's performance and neglecting Colbert's were reprinting part of Elizabeth White's AP report (for example, Chicago Tribune, ABC, CBS, FOX, Boston Globe, Forbes, Seattle Post, NY Post, SF Chronicle). She gave short shrift to Colbert but even her few remarks were edited out by a lot of the media.

Posted by: zjemi at April 30, 2006 03:40 PM

Excellent piece. This is getting huge attention. It's fun to see the journalists after the fact assuring one another that they didn't notice the elephant in the room. The Washington Post version of this appears to be a White House press release, though it carries the byline of somebody who claims to have been there. They sort of squeeze in that somebody named Colbert was alleged to have been there.

Posted by: aa at April 30, 2006 03:40 PM

And, apparently one from Steve Carrell:

I used to work with Stephen at "The Daily Show" and we always say he was the funniest on the writing staff...

He's a good man!

Posted by: Steve Carrell at April 30, 2006 04:37 PM

Thank you Minneapolis City Pages!! :D

[KitchenWitch]

1. I live in the Minneapolis area and I LOVE the City Pages

It is a free weekly publication, with hard hitting journalism and an amazing current events listing.

[supernova]

3. Must be like our Independent

I love those free weeklies.

You get all the best stuff that way. :-)

[Dudley_DUright]

5. Use to live in the Cities and I miss the City Pages

Nice to know that they are on line and still kicking ass. :-)

[Minnesota Libra]

6. I'm in St Paul and I too love The City Pages - it's great and best........

.....of all it's FREE - every week it's free!! :wow:

[mdmc]

2. thanks for the link

[supernova]

4. You're welcome, mdmc