That was a genuinely insightful article. I can't believe the LA Times kicked Robert Scherer out. A real loss. (They also lost me as a reader.)

Bush and his handlers claim to be able to make their own 'reality', and they've been largely enabled in this fantasy by a compliant, corporate sponsored media. Well Stephen Colbert just took a huge bite out of their facade. Let's hope the house of cards comes tumbling down soon, so that the American public can see what lies below the surface.

In Colbert, Bush faced what he was able to avoid throughout the whole of his re-election campaign; a man who was willing to openly confront him. If the Democrats take Congress back this year, Stephen Colbert, the man who said all of the things the left's "leaders" have been too cowardly to say in public for years, will loom large in the verdict of historians.

A hundred years from now, Colbert's routine will be a staple of the videos produced for high school history classes, and he will rank with Thomas Nast as one of the great American political satirists. At its best, satire is a rapier through the heart of our established conventions and accepted points of view. Satire is nimble, and deadly, in a way that makes the lists of talking points drawn up by the likes of Karl Rove or James Carville look foolish and pointless. Satire is a fickle weapon, but in the hands of a master it renders the traditional political dialogue, with all of its carefully rehersed rhetorical tricks, hollow and meaningless.

The news media did not respond to Colbert's performance (perhaps the greatest piece of performance art of all time) because traditional journalism simply lacks the language to make any meaningful contribution or addition to Colbert's devastating critique. Only the most conservative media outlets tried to respond to Colbert...indeed, how could they not without giving the impression of total surrender...and their clumsy and hackneyed attempts to discredit him only made more evident what everyone who saw Colbert's performance knew already: there is no answer, and there is no defense.

I note that the President has not been seen in public for over a week now. No doubt it will take another for him to wipe all of the egg off of his face.

Funny how the folks in the room didn't get it while I was rolling around on the floor in stitches. Ah, irony, a wonderful weapon when it's not pointed at you. Right Main Stream Media? I am your intended audience and you've been blowing it with me for years now. No, I imagine there were few of you heros in the room who thought Mr. Colbert's routine was even slightly amusing. Helen Thomas seemed to find it amusing. Of course, she seems to be missing the same sheeple gene the rest of you appear to have inherited. I'm curious, does it at all concern any of you that while the majority of you were aghast with righteous indignation at Mr. Colbert's pointed barbs aimed in your direction, that the audience you seek to serve was howling not only in laughter but in agreement?

We've been watching your pathetic, sycopanthic kow-towing for years now, wondering "where did all the good times go and will they ever be back?" Unfortunately, it took some very public missteps by the administration during hurricane Katrina to wake you all up. Yes, you finally started asking some questions. But too little too late. This unexposed, uninformed, and arrogant president has made a mess of things while the "CLOSED" sign was up on investigative journalism. A poorly informed America re-elected a poorly prepared Commander in Chief. You can and should take most of the blame. Guess that's really not so funny after all, is it?

I have watched Colbert's performance over and over and I cannot, for the life of me, think of a more courageous way to address a corrupt system. While there are certainly more desperate means to make a point, be it a suicide bombing or a run for public office, Colbert has walked out of the ruins intact. It makes me think there should be a medal given for bravery in front of a camera. It makes me believe that good people can make bad people feel bad. That is exactly what happened. The bad people actually felt bad. And for good reason.

What can I say more than what already has been said before me?

Stephen we love you man, I'll be sad to see you go when they railroad you off your new show. You'll definately be able to find work on an obscure AM radio talk show however. Thats where they like to keep comedic-jouralistic-actor types like you that talk badly against the powers that be.

I hope I'm wrong and this will turn into a paradigm shift in how the media covers the illegal activities (9/11 complicity, illegal NSA wiretapping, treasonous outing of clandestine CIA agents, illegal preemptive war with Iraq, signing bills into law without congressional approval etc....) of our current administration, but from what I'm hearing out there so far in response to Mr. Colbert's impromptu roast of the President and the Main Stream Media talking heads is that this is not going to be the case.

All I can say is that if Stephen Colbert ends up having an unfortunate car accident or an tragic accidental throat slashing, we know who made the order Mr. President.

Some of you may think I'm off base on this but when you piss off a serial killer like Mr. President, people end up missing, ask John O'neill former FBI agent, he just had a plane ran into his office the first day on the job, after pissing off the administration.

Just listen to the reaction to the crowd... THERE WAS NONE! They didn't know weather to snarl, smile, laugh, cry, run, or wet their pants! They were scared shitle$$!

Mark My Words!

When the shit hits the fan, all of you talking heads out there covering up the dirty deeds of the current administration that includes you as well Salon we know who you are, and there is a growing list, you as well as your superiors will be held to the same accountability as the evil that you falsly promulgate.

The truth movement is growing at a rapid rate and sooner or later your going to have to kill us all or face the dark days that you have coming to you!

That is of course if you don't change your pathetically cowardly ways.

God Bless,

SEAN