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Wednesday, May 3, 2006 12:00 AM

Making Colbert go away

The docile press corps was offended when Stephen Colbert dared to expose Bush's -- and their own -- feet of clay. But how to respond? Voilà: "He wasn't funny."
By Joan Walsh

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  • Thursday, May 4, 2006 06:08 PM

    Part of the problem...

    Part of the problem with the performance was the really quite stupid business with the various White House correspondents and Helen Thomas at the end that went on far too long and took a lot of the edge off the entire performance. I think Cobert would have had more impact if he'd been much shorter and dropped the video.

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