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Stephen Colbert certainly did cross the line...the very big line. There is now a moment in American history (modern history, anyway) that has become so revered that is is only mentioned in exhaulted term...whether you love George Bush or hate him. George Bush captured a moment that has stolen Dallas from JFK (even with Jackie's frantic dash across the trunk of the limo to grab back that piece of her husband). That moment was George Bush's (eventual) appearence at the wreckage of the World Trade Center with his bullhorn.
Saturday night Stephen Colbert in a casual, off the cuff way stole that moment back. He used that moment as one of the examples of Bush's cynical, calculated phoniness. And that, my friends, WAS crossing a very big line. No one has yet called Bush on that smarmy act publically yet.
The conservative shills, Republicans, media lapdogs and terrified Democrats can pile on Colbert all they want, but he crossed the line and there's no corssing back...and he crossed the line right in Bush's horrified face.
Stephen Colbert, Saturday night, became a hero to more people than these media and political insiders can ever guess.
