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I just watched it.

It was amazing. Bush had a speechwriter write his jokes. It just goes to show that not even large sums of money can compete against the genuine, brilliance of Colbert.

Stephen Colbert? Balls. Of. Steel. He has just won my eternal admiration.

Somehow I doubt that he will ever be invited back. It doesn't matter. He has suddenly, instantly become bigger than that venue.

Watched it for the 2nd time today and while I am still amazed that Colbert managed to zing them all on dozens of points, I got the feeling again that I was watching cast party for a play that has been going on for a couple of hundred years.

Call me small, but I take all this very seriously. I'm not lying when I say I think there are a group or groups that are ruining out world. I am not interested in being at their party or being in the same room, much less shaking their hands.

You name it, except for Rummy and the Pope, the entire cast of every drama we've had the last 5 years was in that giant room. Rove, Condi, Scalia, Alito, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, the entire press, actors, athletes, Kissinger....they were all there having a good time.

I'm not against a good time, but I do not party with my enemies. But to look at it another way. Everyone in the room except for some of the actors and athletes have become rich and famous playing their role. Most would be nothing if they didn't play the role they've made for themselves. They can't quit now, they have to keep being themselves, good or bad.

Those of you lucky enough to see Colbert at work should think about the courage he showed, especially midway when he had managed to lampoon everyone in the room at the same time. It was pretty quiet, yet he went right on.

Here I am worried about holding up a little sign that says Laura, You Suck! this coming Tuesday...assuming I can get out of my own yard. There is no way I could have stood 5 feet away from the most powerful (and perhaps stupid) man in the world and shove his mistakes down his throat.

If I believed in such stuff, I'd be saying that Will Rogers and Hunter S.Thompson hooted and hollered and nearly fell off their cloud watching Colbert disturb the comfortable Saturday night. Good show! Start praying now Huckabee........

The entertainer at the dinner always submits his jokes prior to the event to the WHCA. They know what he is going to say.

He was funny however they have had much funnier entertainers in the past. As a whole, the audience was not amused.

Yes, my already-high admiration for Colbert just shot through the roof!

Yuks were few.

I think there were probably more yuks than the tape picked up. In a studio setting they have microphones set to pick up the audience. In a setting like the correspondents dinner the mics are only set to pick up the speaker. I've seen lots of similar situations where in person the audience was excellent, but when I heard it on TV it sounded like the audience was "dead".

i'm a huge colbert fan, but it wasn't his best performance. the chocolate city joke was great though.

the highlight for me was the flashback to Clinton's last speech to the WHCA. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. the picture of bill cleaning the limo will last me through the tough times.

I bet the audience at home was rolling on the floor.

Well, at least those that know he was telling the truth.

It wasn't funny. It wasn't supposed to be funny. It was the unvarnished truthiness and nothing but.

Yuks were few?
I wouldn't expect any at a celebration whose purpose is to congratulate its own members on how 'in' they all are. The whole event is a prime example of what's wrong with the Fourth Estate. These people are all too comfy for each other, betraying their codependency. If they weren't laughing, and if journalists, editors, producers, executives and politicos out there aren't laughing, it's because of this old saying: The sting of a rebuke is the truth of it.

Dang.

That was brilliant. He didn't even need a trojan horse to get in there. He was like a streaker: right past security, right up there in front of the people he is owning.

Colbert--as the comic -- has a great advantage over journalists in getting the message across to America. He's not a journalist, but he plays one on TV. He got away with pinching the nose of bushco, holding them down in their chairs, and making them swallow a big old spoonful of truth. In front of the press corps, to boot.

mag's right. It wasn't supposed to be funny.

If you liked what Mr. Colbert had to say, you can thank him:

http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/

As aware as I am that Colbert's schtick is a parody, I often just don't have the stomach to watch someone even pretend to like this administration. I now have a new appreciation for the man and will make more of an effort to lose another half hour of sleep every night. Huevos Grandes, indeed.

As aware as I am that Colbert's schtick is a parody, I often just don't have the stomach to watch someone even pretend to like this administration. I now have a new appreciation for the man and will make more of an effort to lose another half hour of sleep every night. Huevos Grandes, indeed.

I think Colbert's humor is too cerebral for the crowd. Remember how they all got a bunch of laughs last year when the Commander in Chief reminded them about he lied his way into war by looking under his desk for WMD's in a much more sophmoric routine?

Righto, flounder.

This is an ARKANSAS sight? My hero, Stephen Cobert is being lauded? How refreshing!

In response to: "I think there were probably more yuks than the tape picked up." That's usually true, but not in this case. Watch the entire event. The previous "act" was full of loud audience laughs and people were rolling. There was good will and self-mockery by the Administration trying to win the press over. Colbert confused the audience with his skewering performance art and turned the evening on its head. The feel good moment was gone and I say good. Next time, they'll get a Leno or similar.

AT, I hope you're inundating Colbert's people with emails and calls to get him to "laud" the governor about shutting out a legitimate news source based on its editorials. I know they'll want somewhere to go after the diet jokes are played.

Colbert's performance was a one time blaze of glory designed to reveal the fraudulence of the main stream media pursuing the job that got it FIrst Amenment protection as an indispensible part of a healthy democracy. They and the president were skewered in ways that everyone else NOT in attendence could laugh at. Yet maybe the joke's on us for we do not find the media generally talking about it, demostrating how low we have become as a self critical nation. Thankfully, Colbert has his own show, and it's almost certain that his population will rise even more, despite his hammering of the media nails. He will continue skewering this Administration until ratings are limited to friends, family members and cronies.

Anyway, you are free to watch the video and comment further on this issue at :

www.weazlsrevenge.blogspot.com

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to thank Stephen Colbert for his performance last Saturday night. Not all of America is sleeping.......there is hope yet!

Stephen skewered virtually everyone in the room, and especially the press. His audition tape with Helen Thomas tells the painful truth that only she was asking the tough questions and the administration was afraid of her.

Titanic? No, Hindenburg! lol

Colbert's brilliance is matched only by his huevos grandes.

The first couple and the audience weren't the only ones who were uncomfortable with the routine....Colbert himself was uncomfortable with the lack of response. I saw his continuing his routine as his having to go through with what he was paid to do or he'll be sued for breach of contract..that's how he stumbled through the rest of the routine anyway...it wasn't entertaining at all.

Colbert fan, my ass.

He didn't stumble through anything.

It was more than entertaining.

the only part he stumbled on was about the percentage of water in the glass bit, and he handled that very well. he didn't stumble on anything whatsoever before or afterwards. he was hard as steel and he delivered entirely, with bits of speaking directly to the president with total confidence regardless of the tense atmosphere to boot. if you call looking at notes as 'stumbling' then you obviously are willful to forget any other long speech that has been given......btw...gotta love your 'colbertfan' moniker, a totally dishonest attempt at mocking him from a 'fan' point of view...as if anyone would be dumb enough to believe you. i will say thank you 'colbertfan', for giving credence to showing how low you bush lovers are willing to go.

17,845 people have hit the site to say thanks to Stephan Colbert. Gaining at a rate of about 1000 every 2 hours.

It has been fascinating today and tonight to watch the mainstream news shows. Every single one of them yuck it up over the 2 Bush's, and pan Stephen Colbert's segment. Amazing......like finding fang marks on your date...here is proof that our news media has been bought off lock stock and barrel.

Half think it wasn't nice to say such mean things to our President. The other half just say it wasn't funny. I don't need Roger Ebert to know greatness, Colbert was funny, but his main mission was to put his boot up the collective asses of both the criminal White House and the super sorry national media.

When was the last time anyone saw an ass kicking that was funny? The guilty never thinks it's funny. Colbert shoots, he scores!

Colbert ROCKS! Bush and crew were shocked, by Colbert's reality check. Notice how in Bush's skit, Bush used 36% as his pole numbers while Colbert used the "real" 32% poll numbers for Bush. That little difference showed just how bad Bush needs that extra 4%. Bush was fuming you could tell. Sorry, but Bush deserved everything Colbert fed him at that dinner. COLBERT said what evryone else is only thinking and afraid to say.

Funny or not he was heard and what he said and who he said it to is waht counts. Thats balls of steel to look the President in the face in front of his people and bash his ass like that. Not one of us is even close to capab le of that but we knock him anyway. Stephen Colbert stuck it to them good. Lets hope they don't fuck him back harder.

The support for Colbert has continued to grow since saturday evening. He is now a superstar! He definately shook up the whole right-wing, who has been busy trying to pretend that Stephen Colbert was out of line with his comedy. Colbert was spot on the truth and they know it. Fortunately Bush finally got the well deserved proverbial pie in the face served to him on a platter. A nice truthiness cream filled pie, slammed at him from 4 feet away and all he could do was sit there, frown and take it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Colbert ROCKS!

In those times when "truth" is a common subject in movies and television, I think Colbert just said the truth about what's going on: Bush ignoring global warning, being not so intellectually focus, Bush's harder control on the media (journalist get fired by the news channel when they say something patriotic... and what does patriotic means? patriotic = act the way the president want you to behave)... even though, the control of the media by the American has always been there (as in many countries... it's a lot better than in countries with dictator, but there's still a lot more media control in the united states than in most democratic countries. Also, it is true that the USA is very religious... Consequence: religious leaders influence politic and the president try to get religious leaders' votes... and that's not I would call "separation of the church and the states"!

Here's how it works: journalists report the news... if the government don't like what they hear, they will give indirect penalties to the CEO of the news corporation... then the CEO will have to fire the journalists for being inappropriate. If the news corporation resist, all the other news corporations (who are scared of penalties) will say how unpatriotic that news corporation is and the latter will eventually have to conform to the others.

Watch "V for Vendetta" movie... You'll understand what's happening to USA.

Bush is a "doomsday" politician with high economic (which is good) and military (which can be scary) interest.

So... Start wars = Get votes and get popular = More money for the USA and for his family.

The problem is not being republican... It is being for Bush. Voting conservative doesn't mean WAR. Voting for Bush means to go WAR. Liberals and conservatives might go to war or not for some reason. We should rather link the military orientation to the leaders rather than the political party.

Go see the statistics about Bush's popularity: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/blogphotos/Blog_Bush_Approval_May_2004.jpg

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Even though, I think what Colbert say is the cold hard cruel truth... It must be very humiliating for the president to be there watching some insulting person. I empathize with the president in the situation. Colbert is cruel... Humiliating... That's the same technique that was used by the Bush's "concentration camp"! So he's not better than Bush in that way.

Colbert is funny. His show has very high ratings and checks on the internet, people love him and the speech he made (although media hate him now!). People who were attacked by him (including the Washing Post) will say he's not funny.

Final note: Colbert said the cruel truth, but it must been very humiliating for the president and the media people. It was very inappropriate, but at the same time it's a wake up call for the president and the media.

Colbert was amazing. It is true that they must turn in their jokes before-hand. Party planners knew what he would say.
Let's contemplate that for a moment.
Did they ask him to speak because he would say what they all wished they could?
Will this display of courage spur the press corps to finally do their jobs?
Will they finally stand up, thumb their noses to the dismissive and authoritarian state our White House has become, and demand answers for the American public?
I HOPE SO
Steven Colbert--genius.