What I find offensive is the talking twin bit where we poke fun at how stupid Bush is.

It is not funny to have a stupid President when we are at war.

If is not funny to have a stupid President when Americans die from dehydration and exposure after a hurricane.

It is not funny to have a stupid President when our civil rights are being eroded.

All of these people that are so offended at Colbert - how did you feel when Bush was poking fun at the soldiers not finding WMDs? How funny was it when you saw Bush and the Press Corps yucking it up showing soldiers in a war unable to accomplish their reason for being there?

That was hilarious, wasn't it?

If Clinton had done that piece, the press would have raised such a stink about it, he would have had to come on television to apologize to the nation.

When Bush does it, it's hilarious.

The jig is up, all you so-called journalists in the news media. We've got your number. You are hacks. You are cowards. You know it, and we know it. The whole world knows it. But you enjoy your paychecks and your limos and your luncheons with the powerful. You might as well enjoy your ride to the bottom. Just don't pretend you have any dignity left. Because you don't.

I am a huge fan of Stephen Colbert and the Colbert Report. He was funny at the correspondents' dinner. What isn't funny is that we have to have a comedian give us the truth because the "Media" has completely lost its balls. He mocked both the administration and the media - as they both deserve. He is brilliant. I watch him every night and count on him to give me enough truthiness to be able to stand what is going on in this country.

I personaly blame the American press for the present state of affairs, and for the press to acknowledge Colbert's performance as being proper, funny, apropos, etc., is of course to acknowledge their own complicity in the death of innocent Americans and Iraqis. How dare anyone imply that they only act as glorified stenographers.

It's how smug they are that is really offensive. These elitists will never accept responsibility for their actions or non-actions.

Thank god for the internet, Salon, bloggers, etc., etc.. We are no longer being held hostage to propagandists.

If Colberetr wasn't funny itwas beacause what he said, espedially about the pet dog media, was so serious and tragic!!!

Somewhere Edward R. Murrow is smiling- with amusement that his mantle is worn not by a real newsman but one who PLAYS one on TV.

I finally got to watch the full video of Colbert speaking this afternoon, and I have to admit; he wasn't funny. I laughed so hard, I cried. It's not funny because the entire situation is dead serious, and it's dead pitiful that we (and I do THANK YOU STEPHEN COLBERT) have a situation where only a comic, in jest, can seriously criticize the president to his face (maybe since the president probably doesn't 'get' irony). I only hope at least a few of the attendees at the dinner look at themselves in the mirror seriously and wonder why Colbert's performance made them so uncomfortable. He's a brave man.

Say anything you want about Stephen Colbert, he was funny as hell Saturday night for "the president" and the couple of thousand elite sitting in their well-heeled constipation at the press corps dinner. Mr. Colbert's brilliant funniness hit its mark beyond a doubt. We've been waiting five years for someone to speak up to Bush's face. Colbert did and gave a never to be forgotten appearance, surprisingly under-appreciated by the cowardly press corps. Because of this I am now more frightened for this country than I have been prior. The question is not whether or not Colbert is comedic, it is whether we need some new press corpsists(?).

No, he wasn't funny. Just as Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal" that the British solve the Irish problem by eating Irish children isn't funny as much as biting. I guess satire really is dead, and all the media has reduced humor to one-liners. Colbert's words were a thing of beauty. Did I laugh out loud? No. I don't often laugh out loud at Colbert's show, either; rather, I relish his ironic skewering of what passes for discourse and analysis these days. Colbert's performance, ostensibly a defense of Bush against "fact-based reality"'s liberal bias was just brilliant.

Clearly, MSM doesn't understand that they have lost the pulse of the American people. We are not claiming conspiracy on this one. Bloggers and avg. Joe are just saying that MSM doesn't know what news is anymore. When somebody states in a public forum in front of a cuckold administration that doesn't care about the avg. joe everything that avg. joe is thinking, the general population thinks it is newsworthy. This is not a conspiracy, just a point of fact. And to make matters worse, they still ignore the story. Instead, they become entertainment critics and decide that the summer camp skit of Bush and his doppelgagnger was truly funny, while a faux newsman actually speaking for the avg. Joe sounded, well, flat. Oh, but I love his character on tv.

I can only say, watch out MSM, you are trying to make yourselves obsolete. When Salon starts streaming, I won't need cnn, foxnews, abc . . .

Steven Colbert's performance was nothing short of amazing. The guy has brass cojones the size of I don't know what.

To be certain, it was not a routine that was ever destined to be welcomed in "polite society," but it sure as hell was something the President needed to hear. His mother should be proud of him, as ahould any rational human in this country.

The people in that room could not laugh, of course, but that doesn't mean they didn't get it. Half the fun of that performance, from here on the Left Coast, anyway, was watching them squirm. The most common look I saw in the eyes of those in attendance was hysteria, like they wanted to run but realized they couldn't be seen leaving. Like deer caught in the headlights. A roomful of deer. Between the spot on hilarity of the rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg, etc. and that look of panicked hysteria in those eyes, I can only describe the performance as "Hilarical!"

Hehe, not funny? Not much, he wasn't funny. To the extent that this president is doing a very good job, Stephen Colbert wasn't very funny at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and Stephen was VERY funny that night.

Thank you, Mr. Colbert, for speaking Irony to power. I can only hope that your text-voodoo, with it's powerful mojo, has the same positive effect that your colleague Mr. Stewart had when he appeared on Crossfire. Wouldn't it be funny if W got impeached around election time?

Hilarical, in fact. It's the newest adjective that's sweeping the language. Use it early, and often.