There was not a person in the room who would refrain from crucifying George Bush if it served his/her purpose, but only behind his back.

The truth isn't always funny. Steven Colbert's message is not funny nor was it intended to be, but his delivery was funny if one appreciates irony. Therein is why the media doesn't get it.

One would think neither laughter nor applause were heard during or after Colbert's presentation according to the press. But the audience did laugh and applaud and Bush even shook Colbert's hand after he was finished.

Notwithstanding one would be hard pressed to find that in our "liberal" media.

That's assuming the little I have left.

In a venue like the White House Correspondents Dinner, given that the White House Press Corp has only recently begun to find it's voice (sort of), the fact that an actor like Stephen Colbert had the balls to stand up and say what more than 70% of the country feels at this point, I'm surprised that he got the yuks he did get. Yes, in spaces the silence was defeaning. After all, he was taking the press to the woodshed as well. FOX "News", CNN, MSNBC, the whole cowed lot got a good ass-whoopin' that was well deserved. And the smirking imbecile that passes as the President of the United States got the first public tar-and-feathering of his term. It was a long time coming, but I have prayed long and hard to see this thug exposed for the self-serving moron that he is. Maybe the press wishes this would go away, but America has seen it. As an American who loves this country, I feel extremely validated. Clearly, so do a lot of other people. May the truth continue to out. God Bless America.

Of COURSE Lou Dobbs didn't think Stephen Colbert was funny.

The only jokes Lou Dobbs likes are jokes about Mexicans.

to the audio of Colbert on Democracy Now this morning and it sounded like he got a lot of laughs. The only bits that didn't go over well were the ones that aimed at the lapdog press. Surprise, surprise.

This "Colbert doesn't exist and if he does he's not funny" shtick is just more of the press trying to manufacture consent. Some things are appropriate for comment and some commentary is appropriately done. Others are not. And the press decides which is which.

Just like with the Viet Nam war, the people are way ahead of elite opinion makers on the Bush Admin, the war, NSA spying, tax cuts, etc. It's a real education watching Washington try to catch up, while pretending not to be in the race.

when bush is impeached and this sorry chapter of history is finally written...colbert's moment will be one of its few bright spots. he's freakin' nathan hale, man.

is how once again the RW media voices (Scarborough, Matlin, etc.) have been able to frame the debate away from the most important issues at play. Instead of saying "What prompted him to rip on Bush and the press at such a fun event", or "How could this clear statement about the media's failing in its obligation fall on such deaf ears", we're asking today "Was this funny?"

Seriously, no matter what happens or who says it from retired generals to Colbert, the RW media machine has framing the issue and changing the subject down to an absolute science.

Tim,

You may have already read the reader comments to Mara's article, but if you haven't I found them to be literate and spot on - save for the 3 or 4 different comments made by the same knee jerk neo-con guy commenting like he had a nervous reactionary tick.

Like I commented over at the NPR site - it is a sad day in American journalism when I trust Comedy Central to get to the heart of American politics and culture more than NPR or the NY Times.

If it weren't for the War Room, I'd always be yelling at my TV and radio. Thank you Tim Grieve.

America

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Wow.

Wow.

I know, kind of a mixed metaphor...

First an admission. I defended Mssr Colbert before I watched the video. I had a feeling it would be funny. I had a feeling that I might agree with him. I read the little sound bites. I had no idea that he was about to create one of those black holes of awkwardness from which no dignity escapes...

It was awesome.

Let me just say that that is one very uncomfortable stretch of video

Allow me to follow that with a second admission: I hate George W Bush in a very cartoonish way; you know the way that the right wing nutbags seem to think is some kind of character flaw, but is really just a mirror image of their (unjustified and completely insane) hatred of Bill Clinton?

That said, I felt very sorry for our poor retarded President.

And I can understand why the "Liberal" media has not been reporting on this. Colbert panted them.

[For those of you uptight Right Wing Nazis and/or Flakey contrarians, who are about to open up an almighty can of "wup ass" on me; I have another admission--you are masterbating--I am not going to read or respond)].

There aren't enough honors to lavish upon zetta-intrepid heroissimo, Mr. Colbert. I have re-named the constellation Orion, Colbertion. Check out your globe to notice that Mt. Everest is now Mt. Colbert.

To drastically speak out in the BellyOfTheBeast is a fantastically brave act. If you didn't get how obsidianally funny, scathing, flaying he was, you need direly to up your doses of Vitamin I (Vitamin Irony).

I tug my forelock five times a day.

Colbert'success is clear in all the squirming his performance has created among pols and pundits ... Hi Voltage! And they are all lying on the ground twitching!

If we could tap the hydrocarbon gasses seeping from your head we'd never need to drill for oil ever again. Please, please stick to what you do best which is standing on your desk and shouting "Clintonclintonclinton" eleventy billion times.