Colbert: (Powerful) Truth to Power
I knew he would be good at the WH Correspondents' Dinner, but I had no idea. He is as brilliant as his cojones are grandes.
(Update 5/10/2006: The proper link to C-SPAN's video is through Google Video.)
There was no gentle ribbing here because, let's face it, being gentle is being dishonest. And don't forget that Bush used this event to mock the missing WMDs -- as if the thousands of dead in Iraq could laugh with him.
Colbert eviscerated Bush and the press corps lackeys in the tradition of the great court jesters, saying what we wish we could say, only funnier.
I think this will go down as a "Have you no decency, Sir?" moment in history. I have the utmost respect for Stephen Colbert.
That First Amendment is a beautiful thing... when it works. Please watch it work.
posted by Eric 3.0 @ 3:44 PM
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Trouble is, he has no decency.
I saw the uploaded videos and must say that it was a roast that will be heard around the world. As it well should be.
I think it was a rhetorical question, don't you? :-)
I knew you'd enjoy it.
Do you have a favorite line? I'm still debating whether it was the one about the Hindenburg ormathe one about our established government in Iraq. And I loved the press secretary audition tape. Just like the administration he ran away from Helen Thomas... great stuff!
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