If the shoe fits put it on. Come on the pomposity of the attendees were enough to tell anyone, that they didn't like the show because it went for the jugular. The liberal press let down the country who's president was leading us into a war which was stupid. It was stupid then and it's dumber than dumb now. There were a few good men, i.e. Walter Pincus and a smattering of others, but for the most part, like the NY Times, they ate it up like gravy. Can you believe the press powers that be who invited Colbert to do his dirt, are now trying to walk away from his show. Stupid is as stupid does.

In all fairness, Colbert's routine was not really performed that well, in the opinion of many people, including myself. His timing was off; in fact, he appeared very nervous. Some critics may be talking about his performance, not his material.

Also, I think that the humor was so sophisticated that many of the attendees simply didn't get it (we're talking about the Washington press here). Others, of course, did get it and were oh, so shocked and offended.

What Colbert did, however, was a breath of extremely fresh air, and he is wonderful to have done it. And Bush's "searching" for weapons of mass destruction is the least funny thing I can imagine.

Also...the best of the "few good men" was a woman: Helen Thomas.

I could hardly blame Colbert for being a bit nervous. It's beyond tough when you're the only person in the crowd with the courage to speak truth to power, and know that you're going to be derided for it by the remaining powers afterwards.

It's funny to think about how all across the world blacklists and violence are used to intimidate people who do have the courage to speak up with the truth--and now it's landed on our shore... Now, here in America, the Fourth Estate is in league with big brother, who just happens to be in bed with big business... And don't we have to laugh about how the media reported that a decrepit, old boxcar was the "SMOKING GUN." Yeah, it's not like we sold Iraq the pesticide factory that produced all that nerve gas..., now is it...??? Scary, yes; funny, no...

seriously, that was supposed to be funny?
that's about as funny as george bush saying "the french don't even have a word for entreprenuer" in public.
where are his "handlers"? He shouldn't be allowed to speak in public without everything written down, first. that's not funny. If it was a little bit funny, I would laugh. I wouldn't be sitting here cringing at my computer. That's really bad. Who voted for that guy, seriously?
But Stephen Colbert is hilarious--even if he is an honest man.
It's funny, because it's horrifyingly true. Kind of like Judge Judy....or cops...or Jerry Springer...or CNN...

we really have to separate what is illegal from what inmoral is....therefore no one yet has had a good aproach to submit an impeachment action against president Bush. The way all of the events are being conducted I can to a great degree of failproof say that:
The president will not be impeached.

I don't have a TV but happened to be on vacation and was channel surfing when I came across the correspondence dinner on C-SPAN. If I hadn't known better I would have thought it was a Saturday Night Live skit, wow was it funny. I believe the only reason the stiffs in the audience weren't laughing was they were afraid they'de be shot if King George saw them. Colbert deserves a medal of honor for the courage to say what the whimppy press refuses to say!

I just saw the video from the correspondents dinner and as far as I'm concerned the next ticket for President and Vice-President should be Colbert/Thomas. It appeared that the people in the audience were terrified as they witnessed the "truth being told by the Jester". Liberal press, what a joke. The comments re: making the president squirm mean nothing compared to the profound squirming for years that "just regular people" are going to go through due to the damage that this horror show of a presidency has caused.

There is one thing thats real important.
Everyone knows Colbert is one of the funniest guys on the planet.
He wasn't going in there I be funny,in my humble opinion.
When he got booked I bet his whole posse was grinning ear to ear,they probably couldn't believe how stupid the right wing media is to book him.
Colbert went in there for all the dead soldiers,all the lies and the desist.
He's a comedic hero in my opinion.

Colbert seemed a little nervous, his timing was a little off (it kind of seemed like he was holding for laughter), but I still laughed my ass off, and it was nice to see someone stand up and calmly say those things to the president.

The reason most people didn't think Colbert funny is because he wasn't. An illegal, disastrous war, a compliant, corporate press, eavesdropping on American citizens, the list is endless. Colbert spoke the truth, but funny, funny as a train wreck.

What Colbert did, was not funny, in fact, it was every bit as not funny as Jonathan Swift's 18th century essay "A Modest Proposal"

Swift wrote a scathingly satirical essay which suggested a way to rid the good lords and ladies of Great Britain of all the nasty, starving, poor, Irish beggars littering the streets of England who were, you know, being such a downer for the rich.

It was how he suggested doing it that caused a huge scandal.

You can read it here:

http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html

A Modest Proposal

For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland
From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and
For Making Them Beneficial to The Public

By Jonathan Swift (1729)

Personally, I think Colbert pissed off the media even more than he did Bush. I also think that Bush's lackeys are small enough and mean-spirited enough to watch tapes of the audience to identify anyone too happy with Colbert as a target for their revenge.

Seriously, look what they do to anyone they perceive as an enemy of Bush's.

And it's not as if the media hasn't seen this revenge in action before, hell, they've been complicit in it. Who would want to call that wrath down on themselves for a comedian?

The media, full of their own hubris, and with their pockets full of corporate cash, would be pissed at being put in the compromising position of wondering whether or not they could laugh in public without fearing reprisal. It makes them look bad either way.

How dare Colbert put them in that position.

That's not funny.

All this posturing about being civil to the president as if he was somehow royalty in a 19th Century European country (the Really Old Europe). When will Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh start being civil to the people they skewer? When can you criticize a president when you never can reach him except through people who filter everything he sees? If the jabs Colbert aimed at Bush and his administration and the all too compliant press were untrue they would have laughed! Talk about a president in a bubble! Colbert did us all a great service.

Yea its gotten so bad, we don't laugh, or maybe we don't want to laugh about it as much any more. And, of course Colbert's timing was a bit off at times...for Christ's sake he was roasting the president, and in a very hostile manner. Remember... Mr.Bush does not take criticism well. But the real reason the MSM has a problem with Colbert...is that his sharpest skewers were left for them.

"Funny" is simply the wrong word. It was "satirical" and it was brilliant.

I'll tell you what is funny. Funny is an Administration that tells the rest of the world how badly they're behaving in terms of human rights. Funny is a media which tells the media from other countries how to cover the news. I'm writing from, I guess, the fringes of the Empire -the Third World- and I have this to tell the American media: after the disgusting show of servility, next time you want to pass judgement on the state of other countries' media, just shut your mouth, you suckers!

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