Awesome. Love it. Those aids were angry because they knew he would be taking it out on them the next day.

...if he's even dry. It's amazing how brittle Bush can be after being coddled and spoiled by his family, his handlers, the media, and his financiers.

Let him blow. Then let himself drink himself to death in his retirement. His attitude is its own just punishment.

I hope his tax returns are in order. This isn't an administration that can take a joke. Thanks for taking the prez and lapdog press on, Stephen.

Stephen Colbert is being lionized at the moment, but it's not like any of his material was new. It was well-timed, it was maybe a little crasser than expected, but the "roast" was mostly comrpised of de rigeur criticism of W. and his regime. Heck, Colbert hardly went out of his way; he didn't delve back into Bush's first term to speak of other than for the stupendously obvious Iraq observations.

Bush is probably mad at his handlers. They didn't preseve his embedded state within the echo chamber quite well enough that night. He should be angry with himself, for providing so much material.

It'll be interesting to see whether there's some sort of semi-official spin response to this one. W. and company have a history of swinging at any "tar baby" someone puts in front of them, Iraq being the prime example. Oh, how I wish the guy would hold a real press conference right about now, so someone could goad him a little... He'd get past an attempted "This was humor, relax about it" and start swinging his (painfully ill-formed) rhetorical fists awfully fast, methinks.

Bush is angry? Well, that is just too damned bad.

I've been in a state of helpless anger since his campaign to confuse Osama with Sadam was launched.

And will still be angry as the mess Bush has made of America becomes even more tangible in the years to come, years when Bush will be "retired" and comfortably shielded from the chaos the rest of us will have to deal with.

Thank you Colbert. Thank you for finding yourself in a situation where Bush would have to hear what you say, and not taking the easy way out, not pulling a "Leno".

Words cannot express the depth of my desire that Bush had blown his top right there on camera. What a gorgeous sight that would have been.

So poor King George waltzed out of his cocoon long enough to get skewered by Stephen Colbert and now he's mad as hell. I guess we should all be glad that he (presumably) doesn't visit Salon from time to time because the top of his head would probably be missing. (I wonder if we'd all then know what we've always suspected, that there's nothing inside that head of his.)

You gotta believe that an angry George Bush is probably much, much worse than good ol' implacable, mulish George Bush ... the usual "no protest" zones around his public appearances will no doubt be expanded, guest speakers at these appearances will be rigorously screened ahead of time, he'll dig in his heels even more than usual on each and every one of his policies that have so angered Colbert and the rest of us, and he's now concluding that a major "diversion" will be the only way to repudiate Colbert and his plummetting poll numbers. (Can anyone say "Iran"?)

The genius of what Colbert did was the impotence of Bush's reaction. He's mad? Big Deal! We can speak openly in this country whether he likes it or not. There's not a damn thing he can do except be mad. Colbert grabbed him by the back of the head and rubbed his nose in the United States of America.

Any retaliation on the part of the Administration, the Republicans or conservative shills will just backfire. It would just put a brighter shine on Stephen Colbert's balls.

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)!