Colbert's show at the Washington Whitehouse Correspondent's Dinner was not only exactly right on target , but also extremely skillfully done in the league with "I come not to

bury Ceasar, but to praise him". The satire was well thought out, executed well, spared none, and had biting truth to it at every turn of phrase.

Mr. Colbert was spot on in his performance...long overdue! When do we stand up to Bush and his "thugs"?

Looking forward to more of Mr. Colbert!!! Thanks.

Robert Stafford, you ignorant slut! “...poor taste to hurl nasty insults at someone whom is already making fun of himself.” Fuck That and Fuck You!!! That sonofabitch in the WH is responsoible for my friends, family and neighbors dieing in Iraq because of his incompetence and lies.

And as far as how I “SHOULD act” - it’s none of your fucking business! And “resentment of the Islamo-fascists” has nothing to do with Colbert’s bravery, no matter how hard you try to twist and spin as is your ilks wont. However, the Republico-fascists are an entirely different subject, and Stephen Colbert skewered their tiny little dicks to the wall last Saturday night and people like you just can’t stand it so you whine like the little brat-babies that you are! Grow up, you tiny-little-dick Republico-fascist and accept the fact that you sonsobitches are getting the “what-goes-around-comes-around” paradigm and it’s about fucking time. What is a shame is that you consider yourself a human being! Left-wing cheerleaders rule! Remember that come November, tiny-dick.

Tim Grieve, you are either a dishonest person, or you genuinely suffer from poor reading comprehension.

Richard Cohen did NOT "seem to be saying" that it was WRONG for Colbert to attack President Bush.

What Cohen said is that doing so is NOT speaking "truth to power" as Colbert's left-wing cheerleaders claim it is.

Cohen makes the great point that it does not take courage to attack the President since there will be no brownshirts or Gulag, or Castro's prison, as punishment.

In fact, anybody can insult the President---the media do it every day !

In many other corners of the earth---a Colbert would get thrown in prison---THAT is what Cohen is saying.

Furthermore, President Bush was totally self-deprecating on that particular evening---and you may not appreciate the following point---but it is generally considered poor taste to hurl nasty insults at someone whom is already making fun of himself.

Mr. Grieve, you're confusing how a person "can act" with how they "SHOULD act."

I'm sorry that you and Colbert are wrapped up in anger toward Republicans....it's a shame you don't harbor such resentment of the Islamo-fascists, whom, if you insult THEM, will cut your head off.

Colbert was great. Still is and always will be!!! but there's a new Colbertgate brewing over at the WaPO with Will Arkin saying the same thing about that bully ex-CIA analyst being rude and so on and so for to the Sec of Defense Rummy - the liar Sec of Defense Rummy, that is. Under the heading "Rumsfeld Didn't Lie, But He Should Still Go," Arkin goes on to berate the angry libruhl as shrill, (insert your favorite adjective here), and unfair. Didn't count the comments but there are many and very (very) few in defense of Arkin's drivel. What I don't understand is why does Arkin hate America?

Colbert may well have galvanized the "angry liberal" and it's about godamned time - from the responses to Arkin, I have a very strong sense that it's only just begun...

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Only one thing to add... I'm amused by the suggestion that it's wrong to criticize someone if the target of your crtiticism is unable to respond with a punch to the face.

Where does the line start to punch Ann Counter and Rush Limbaugh in the face, please? I'm willing to wait my turn.

I'm old enough to remember when the MSM piled unmercifully on a president for alleged improprieties in a land deal and diddling an intern. Neither of those events, the factual or the fanciful, had any power to hurt me, the environment, ordinary citizens of Middle Eastern countries, the Constitution or my pride in being an American. Now we have a president who is holding himself above the law, murdering tens of thousands, spying on Americans, gutting environmental protections, putting us deeply into debt and shaming us in the eyes of the world.

MSM syncophants are concerned about a comedian MAKING FUN of him?? Where, oh where are the Menckens of yesteryear? When historians study how this disaster might have been prevented, the MSM will be in for a large helping of shame.

I watch a lot of old movies.

And a staple of some of those old flagwavers is the common joe -- whether it's Mr Smith going to Washington or John Doe speaking truth to the crypto-fascist publisher who engineered his rise and fall -- the common joe going up against all the hacks and goons assembled by the "establishment" to protect their hold on the reins of power.

Stephen Colbert's performance at the recent press dinner may have been smarmy and larded with irony -- but it was of the same basic fabric as those fictional heroes.

But there are PLENTY more heroes where Colbert came from:

The retired generals and officers who are coming out to speak truth about the war effort, its malfeasant planning -- and the terrible crimes against prisoners which have undercut the safety of all soldiers for now and the future.

Former government officials from Richard Clark on who have exposed the lies and misfeasance of the Bush administration. Or who have, even though it means deeply tarnishing their "place in history," spoken out as Colin Powell has, decrying continuing disastrous policies.

I was one of the apparent few who did watch Stephen Colbert on C-Span, although by accident. I was channel surfing. I was just about to turn off the tv, when Stephen Colbert was announced. Wow, he was great! It seemed that at last someone was telling the president and his gang how the American people really feel about the last 5 years. And I thought he was funny, Mort Saul-like. And as far as the great free press is concerned, I had been wondering where they were. If anyone gets close to asking a question, and expecting a real answer, he is slapped down somehow. Remember when the president went to Ireland a few years ago? Now that reporter asked pointed, direct questions. Mr Bush was very surprised, uncomfortable, and had difficulty answering them. The content escapes me now, but they included questions about the war. Well, back to Stephen Colbert, he was right on. My question is WHY I keep reading how wrong he was, and how off the mark. I'm am sorry, but he was very clear and pointed in his satire. Facts are facts, and finally someone really is telling us all, the 'emperior has no cloths'!