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Stephen Colbert has hopefully done this country a massive service by what he did on Saturday night in the White House. He held the administration and the press corps up to the klieg light of truth and demonstrated to the whole country that none of them are wearing any clothes. And that's the reason Colbert didn't get many laughs, they couldn't believe that people outside their little bubble have lost all respect for them. To me, one of his funniest lines was "Decide - announce - type - go home". Absolute brilliance summing up their pathetic performance in four words.
Whether the majority of people who don't surf the internet or watch C-Span will ever find out about it is another matter entirely.
Isn't it interesting that the main stream media have so far ignored what happened - we've all seen the self-congratulary stuff about what a funny guy Bush was with his double, but funnily enough not a word about Colbert's Swiftian take on the whole mess in Washington.
We don't have a fourth estate any more - they're just as much in the pockets of big business as the administration and congress are.
