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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
There's nothing here. He laughs where you'd expect, and only rolls his eyes once. Compare that to footage of Bill Clinton during Don Imus's appearance at the same function several years back. It looked like Clinton was going to break Imus's neck.
And I write all that as someone who despises Bush.
I also bear no fondness for the President, (understatement) but under the circumstances, he seems to be having the polite reaction, and without the visuals you can really tell that part of the skit needed a little more editing.
Actually, I can just see the thoughts forming in his little brain..."Huhuhuhuhuh, this is funny--oops, right, I'm the target--we are not amused!"
I see a little exasperation and anger, but what I see more than anything else is dumb incomprehension. He's obviously not getting at least 3/4 of the jokes.
Is it just me or did the cowboy tough guy look like he was about to cry there during the "reporter uprising". Maybe he can shoot a gun better but at least Zarqie did'nt act like a baby.
He thought it was funny at parts. The interesting thing is that when the host leaned over to talk to the President, he clearly said "...I'm sorry." to which the President replied, "It's okay". I got the impression that the host said something along the lines of, "I didn't expect his routine to be like this. I'm sorry."
I gotta agree with the general tenor of the comments so far --most of the time it looks like he has a little smirk/grin on his face and his Texas-tanned cheeks are bunched up in a rictus of a grin. I'd love to know for certain what he made of it; from that clip, it seems he took it better than Richard Cohen or Steny. And like probably everyone else posting on this page, I'm hardly a Bush fan. But no criticism where none called for, eh? After all, isn't making crap up to throw on the other guys Rove's line of work?
Yeah, hey, "Rob" and "Renee." Thanks for your pathetic attempts at being Bush apologists. Maybe if you sat at your computer with BOTH hands out of your pants, you'd see what you missed.
No, Resident Cokehead didn't "laugh when he was supposed to." He only girly-giggled when OTHER people were being discussed (i.e. Dan Rather). Otherwise he sucked in his lips like a little child afraid to say something and leaned back in his chair like it was a recliner. At least he didn't outright slouch with his baboon a$$ hanging half off the chair like he did at Rosa Parks' memorial (that was pathetic).
Being an actual Republican (and unlike Cokie, an actual Texan... nothing more pathetic than watching a Connecticut Yankee prance around in a Howdy Doody hat), I'll tell you collective heads of knuckle the same thing I've been telling all Bush-loving hairy-palmed Freepers for years: bringing up Clinton makes you sound like an absolute jacka$$. The whole "I know you are but what am I" tactic: very clever, guys! Clinton's been out of office over 5 years! You think your argument holds weight? Je$u$ you people are stupid. Personally, after Clinton's term ended, I understood that he was now completely out of the picture, no longer in power, no longer affecting us. But you simpletons are so programmed (undoubtedly via druggie, doctor-shopping Rush Limbaugh) to bring up Clinton every time someone points out the stark ignorance and self-righteousness of your drug-abusing, drunk driving, unelected Spankboy. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Mr. Colbert is a genius
Did anybody notice that the running time on this video is about 7 minutes? Roughly the same amount of time that Bush sat in that classroom after being informed that the towers were hit on 9/11?
No, I'm not creating a new conspiracy theory. It's just that after watching Bush make odd faces in this painfully long video, it's a vivid reminder that 7 minutes practically feels like an eternity - and yet that's exactly how long our president sat in his chair in that classroom, doing absolutely nothing while NY was under attack.
Just an observation.
Wow.
On the one hand, I find it deeply ironic to watch footage of Bush -- the master of fear and packaging fear and generating fear -- accompanied by a scary soundtrack. (Especially rather benign footage of him just sitting, perhaps even thinking! Terrifying!) He should have that as his soundtrack always!
On the other hand, as one who gave up TV 4 years ago and who never sees scary movies, watching Bush with that soundtrack just made me even more fearful than ever about our future of two more years at the mercy of his incompetence.
I've heard lots of talk about emperors and new clothes, but I think it's clear to most of us who the real clown was at that table.
Bush was amused by Colbert asking for the sexy female reporter to call him later, and he was amused by Colbert bumping into the wall when he tried to leave through the drapes behind the podium. He was also slightly amused with Helen Thomas revealed as the chauffeur in the last moment. Aside from all this, however, he looked like he knew he was the butt of the whole joke (which he was) and was not enjoying it at all. When some of folk walked by in front of the podium, he watched them leave with a "Wish I could follow them" expression, and at the end he was doing the fingers-of-one-hand-on-palm-of-the-other clapping that people do for ritual purpose when they didn't enjoy something but have to clap for politeness' sake.
I'll admit my own patience was wearing with the overlong "carkey fumble" schtick, though Colbert rewarded it properly by suddenly having him remember to just push the chirper to open the door, but Bush was certainly not enjoying himself at that point.
All that said, while Bush was doubtless pissed, part of why he was pissed was he was being skewered by someone who was actually funny, and even he cracked some smiles at Colbert's jokes.
I'd love to see a camera on Justice Scalia during the whole routine. From what I saw, Scalia was nearly laughing out of his chair the whole time, though this is likely because if there's any Republican who gets satire, it would be the notably snarkiest member of the Supremes.
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