Letters to the Editor
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Can't say enough
I have never witnessed a comic routine that I would say after seeing it, "I will always remeber where I was when I saw the most amazing comic routine in history." Hyperbole, perhaps, but I, at this moment feel like I will never forget it. Stephen Colbert used the pregnant pause to perfection throughout his act. In his most cutting moment, when he mentions how difficult it is to send people into battle from a computer room, he pauses and everyone is silent. Instead of moving on, he makes everybody in the room uncomfortable about the statement. Perhaps, and if he did this, then it was truly a monumental feat, but perhaps, he made the press feel a sense of blame for helping generate false headlines that answered the question, "Why did we go to war?" Of course, this means he knew his audience perfectly.
I thought it was also a great gesture to have Helen Thomas sit by him at the head table. I didn't notice, but I wonder if Bush ate anything knowing she was just a couple of feat away. Thomas, representing the only journalist in the White House Press corpse who would question the obvious, was the only true journalist in the room.
And as for some of the people out there who think that Colbert is truly right wing, that is classic and proves Colbert is one of the finest comedic actors in my generation. What, did you not get the whole guts-head bit.
If you did a search on sun, mon, and tues., on Colbert's performance, you will see a precipitous rise in hits. His routine is gaining momentum. Unfortunately, it is only a splash in the internet pool. The tv pundits don't get it. They don't know what a news story is. Regardless of if you liked or disliked the performance, it was a lambasting og the Pres. to his face and to the media that covers him. How is that not news worthy? How would that not stir the "crossfire" arguments. I guess the tv news media is welocoming their obsolescence. Kudos Colbert and God Bless America (and the internet)!