Congratulations to Sephen Colbert for having the balls and the brains to stand up to the Bush Administration, right in front of their faces. It was almost painful to watch this video... as the President and the audience slowly became aware that this was not just another funny spoof... this was an all-out roast. The cuts and digs were right on target and packed with TRUTH. Colbert's reference to glaciers and the fact that they may not be around for our grandchildren to see was his humorous/sarcastic way of blasting the President for ignoring threats of Global Warming. Stephen Colbert did what so many of us want to do... and that's to bring to Bush's attention all the wrongs and inadequacies of his Administration... and to hold him accountable. Wow.... Colbert... my hero. I hope he has a body guard, as he's probably now at the top of many conservatives' hit lists. Ah, the truth is painful.... congratulations again to Colbert for saying what needed to be said.

Thank you, salon.com, for posting this very important speech. I mean that.

Hi there America,

For what ever reason I can get the video ,but it will not play through. Imagine that!!!

Thank you Steven Colbert for having the guts to say what we all would like to.

GOD BLESS YOU,

Trish

WOW!!! And WOW again!!! I love Stephen's stuff from The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. I watched this performance live holding my breath through the entire skit feeling the seriousness of every word he was saying and yet wanting to laugh it off for his performance as a comedian. Perhaps this is why many there couldn't laugh -- because these are such serious matters -- and these are the things these people have for the most part traitorously ignored to the detriment of America. But Stephen was great and wonderful (AND sexy per usual) and his words were as sharp as the keenest sword that ever cut.

Who would have ever dreamed that the most truth we hear in this Country is on Comerdy Central.

Jon Stewart and Stevn Colbert are waking up more Americans than any Democratic Politician.

It took incredibile courage to walk Steven Colberts path. Looking at the crowd I think he was alone.

I want to see the rest of it!

Delighted to see that Stephen Colbert used this venue to tell Bush what most of America thinks of him and his policies. My gut tells me that history will remember this president as one of the worst we have ever experienced. Very glad that history will also record Colbert's needle-sharp, articulate, and damning voice so that future generations will not assume we were all sheep during this era. Kudos to Helen Thomas, too. She has always taken the high road throughout her career and her performance in Colbert's video was a beautiful coup de grace to Bush and his team of classless idiots. Thank you, Slate, for airing these videos.

Why was this ignored by the New York Times? I hadn't heard about it until I received the email forward from Working Assets. Hmmmm.

Thank you Stephen Colbert. I have never seen anyone resist being co-opted like that before. How incredibly sad that courage has become so rare. Your performance was much better than just funny, it was brilliant.

Colbert said nothing surprising about Bush that hasn’t been said before – the only difference is, he said it to his face and he used humor.

But why is the Washington Press Corps so scared? Afraid their phones will be tapped and their peccadilloes outed by an administration bent on revenge against anyone who disagrees with them? Maybe they have good reason to be scared. No wonder they didn’t want to cover Colbert’s stand-up comic routine.

Colbert did what 2/3's of this nation would have loved to do. To let the president know that he is just a human being nothing more and nothing less, and he should remember that. We don't have a monarchy here in the united states. And our "elected" president is not better than any of us. We treat him exactly the way he treats us. As far as the press people are concerned they stopped printing the truth along time ago. The only time truth is printed is someone else finds it and gives to the press from other countries. Thank goodness for the intranet. We get more truthful reporting there than in the main stream media. Thanks Colbert!

Perhaps the correspondents didn't applaud wildly is that journalists are trained not to take sides. Even for those who were to take sides, sometimes it was hard to figure out which side Colbert was on because his wit is so dry. The clip here does not show his marvelously ironic talk, only the prepared video that he presented afterwards as his audition tape to be the next press secretary. In the talk, Colbert was mouthing Bush's right-wing rhetoric, and his body language did not indicate parody. Then he turned on the press. That part was clear. I disagree that Laura gave him an icy stare. I had thought so also until I watched the clip here again. I stopped the video twice where she is looking up and smiling at him while seated, at least two seconds. And Mr. Bush walks toward him to shake his hand in a hail-fellow way. The president is neither smiling or frowning, but doesn't show any agitation even if he had some. I would guess he hadn't figured it out. If Colbert's talk didn't get a lot of coverage, neither did Bush's presentation, which came first.

On your Colbert video:

There was a sound edit when Colbert said "Fox News"; I only heard "___ News".

Also later when Colbert said "Fox news gives you both sides of the story, the presidents side of the story and the vice presidents side of the story"; your audio skipped "_ both sides of the story _". You cut away the essence of the recording when you did that.

I very much resent this kind of censorship. Josef Goebbels did the same kind of thing in 1930s Germany under Adolf Hitler's tutelage.

It also sounds a lot like Nixon's 19 minute tape gap.

Let me know if I should ever pay attention to any other things you report. Maybe you have a Goebbels or Nixon on your staff.