I can usually tell how popular a program on Democracy Now is in the Gulf (I am living and workking in Kuwait) area by how the on-line traffic makes it hard for me to access properly on-line the stream or recordings. When a few days after the speech-roast Democracy Now ran the program, people in the Gulf got onto it quickly and quickly overwhelmed the website and technology. The website of DN hasn't yet recovered a week later.

In short, soldiers in neighboring Kuwait and Americans in other countries want to here the truth like Colbert told it. The lack of nervous and roaring laughter in Washington on that night by the press was outrageous. People want the press to be spanked.

In Kuwait (with a market of under 3million people) there are three English language papers that do a better job of reporting on most things than 80+% of the newspapers that peoples in the U.S. receive in the form of their dailies.

Kevin Stoda

Hawally, Kuwait

Stephen Colbert’s sharp satire of George W. Bush’s tenure as President, and the complicity of the WH Press Corp during GWB’s six-year debacle, will become as historically important as was Joseph Welch’s pointed take-down of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R) during the infamous McCarthy 1954 senate hearings on “Un-American” activities.

Bravo Colbert.

I thought Colbert's speech was brilliant and scathing political satire. It's purpose was to make people think, not giggle. The appalling job performance of the Bush administration isn't funny; it's deadly serious.

It's stunning to see so much effort put into adoring a 2nd rate comic - latest count 254 letters here and at least the same amount on other posts. For the story, Lapdogs, there are only 49 letters, though most of the cheering throngs praise Colbert for bashing the press. A real journalist writes about the inadequacies of the press and not many of you folks seem very interested. You'd rather have your indictments coated with sophomoric humor it seems.

Hey fans, clear your heads for a minute, I got news for you. If you look real close at

the video with Helen Thomas the press is vigilant; it's your hero who's in retreat. Is that really poking fun at the press or Colbert's intolerance for legit assignments? The self-deprecating joke was intended to cushion the Hindenburg remark because Colbert likes to have it both ways, which is why he's lame. At least Stewart and co. lay it on the line, but as much as they give, the joke's on you. And the idea that you don't "get it" makes it even funnier.

Dr. Pranzarone - who apparently needs to cart out his credentials in order to certify Colbert's brilliance - wrote in a letter, Colbert's zingers were tantamount to bringing down McCarthy. Huh? Hey Dr. P.who are picking in the Preakness? I'll make sure to go the other way. Colbert's performance was more like tossing a spitball on Mr. Zeplick's chalkboard in the middle of science class than it was like an actual political event of any kind. But it's fabulous to see just how befuddled you Dems are, how impressed you are with mediocrity.

Today, while Dems stood around the water cooler still proud of their roastmeisiter's schtick, Hillary Clinton - your top rated candidate for '08 - praised our president as being charismatic and charming. If that's not a disconnect I don't know what is. And tonight on Charley Rose, Bill Kristol was the host, covering both Republican and Democratic scandals from a far more sensible viewpoint. Remember when PBS was a bastion of liberal, one dare say, Marxist content? Yo, Dems you've lost the battle of ideas. You've lost the media wars. And you're losing the allegiance of the country despite the current poll numbers. Remember we're only one terrorist event away from recommitment.

If you keep beating up on Bush, the tide is going to turn because Americans are going to get tired of all the negativity. So, be my guest. Keep mocking him and laughing to your heart's content. But when election time comes, it's going to be our turn to laugh at the perennial joke you Dems have become.

Funny is a meek and vapid word to use when referring To Steven Colbert. Funny is Rodney Dangerfield and, frankly that is where it should stay. Those who write about Steven Colbert as being funny or not funny have lost the capacity to think, to see, hear. Ye of withered minds cannot conceive of the dynamic new horizon which is Steven Colbert. This fresh, clear voice transmits via elegant and eloquent metaphor and allusion, biting, bitter truth, word and thought play of a new dimension, the most precious of things : freedom. In my opinion, Steven Colbert was clearly sounding the Paul Revere alarm to the country, to the clear-minded, to the truth-desperate youth outside of the WH press dinner arena. Was anyone sitting at that dinner wondering about the color of the cake served for desert or would they blindly eat up anything served to them on the pablum platter?

Where the hell does funny come into it...can't you hear the chimes of freedom ringing? This guy, Steven Colbert is the bravest man in the country since the Grey Ages began in 2000AD. Funny? Who the hell cares !? To all those whose eyes and ears and minds are dulled by wallowing in and manacled( oh god, I have not written that word in such a long time!) to pablum news cycles: go eat the cake...yellow cake, of course. There is no one word to describe Steve Colbert's devastating, simple genius. Come to think of it, let's use "genius" as a place marker until the right word comes along. Is that funny ?

Marshall peck

With so many letters on the subject already I doubt mine will get noticed. I watched Colbert's performance no short of 5 times on video dog and I don't think I ever, "ha, ha" laughed once (well, maybe during the NSA line) but each time I was more shocked... and dare I say it moved at Colbert's tenacity and truth telling. As a comedian myself, as well as preacher, I don't know if I could have kept a straight face the entire time knowing how close my opponent was to me, particularly when that opponent has armed guards and his own VP shot a guy in the face! While I don't know if it was political pandering that lead the press to ignor Colbert or talk smack about the guy, I do know this: he said things in those "20 odd minutes" that no one has been able to say to Bush for years... normally Bush gets to pick the audience and on that night for once someone he didn't "pick" was there to speak the truth.