Colbert: Hero
Stephen Colbert proved himself as the possessor of the most grandes huevos in the entirety of the political-media-industrial-complex on Saturday night.
At the White House Correspondents Dinner, in a room filled with the filthy hoards of media enablers of this travesty of a government, and only a few feet from B*sh himself, Colbert delivered the most scathing irony-slap I've seen since living in this country. It was a thing of beauty. And the audience had no idea how to handle it.
Stephen's taking a lot of heat for this from Big Media, when he's not being ignored. The NYT today did half a page on the utterly lame 'double' routine B*ush and an impersonator did beforehand, but couldn't bring itself to come to grips with what Colbert did. But there are a lot of people who get it. Including, possibly, B*ush himself, who is clearly pissed. Watch for yourself.
Thankyoustephencolbert.org
Firedoglake has a good take, with plenty of links to all relevant aspects of the great moment.
At the White House Correspondents Dinner, in a room filled with the filthy hoards of media enablers of this travesty of a government, and only a few feet from B*sh himself, Colbert delivered the most scathing irony-slap I've seen since living in this country. It was a thing of beauty. And the audience had no idea how to handle it.
Stephen's taking a lot of heat for this from Big Media, when he's not being ignored. The NYT today did half a page on the utterly lame 'double' routine B*ush and an impersonator did beforehand, but couldn't bring itself to come to grips with what Colbert did. But there are a lot of people who get it. Including, possibly, B*ush himself, who is clearly pissed. Watch for yourself.
Thankyoustephencolbert.org
Firedoglake has a good take, with plenty of links to all relevant aspects of the great moment.
posted by James B. Martini | 1:02 AM
4 Comments:
Mr. Martini, I am right behind you in saluting this man. The media’s snub on his performance proves he hit a nerve. The right nerve. Stephen Colbert, you are the MOTHA-F*CKEN-JIGGA-MAN!!! Will you be my babie's daddy?? hehe jk
Shout out to all the heroes out there.. you people get it.
Please choose one of the following:
a) Great Speech
b) The Greatest Speech
I'll just put you down for b) The Greatest Speach. :)
Being in China, I missed this completely. This rocks. Thanks for posting it.
The look on Georgie boy's face was priceless.
If ever there was a better example of collective sense of humour failure, I certainly haven't seen it! It's interesting that most reports concentrate on the anti-Bush stuff. In fact, I think the jibes against the collective failure of the media to hold the Bush administration to account are both far more telling and also the more likely reason for the hostile reception Colbert received in the room.
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