Fox News Slams Colbert: ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’
Fox News Slams Colbert: ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’
Stephen Colbert’s routine at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner “left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.” (Watch the video or read the transcript.) Not suprisingly, the hosts of Fox News’ morning show “Fox & Friends” felt the same way. They shared their reviews of Colbert this morning.
Transcript:
BRIAN KILMEADE: We’re also going to talk about what happened at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The inside story about the Steven Colbert speech: was it really over the line or is that just typical when the President goes to these Washington correspondents dinners?
STEVE DOOCY: [Referring to on-screen image] There you’ve got the dueling Dubyas. Stephen Colbert — I have been to twenty of them and he was over the line.
[snip]
KIRAN CHETRY: What I was wondering though, because we did show some clips and at times it looked like the President was not laughing. Do you think he was annoyed by that or he thought it was not funny?
DOOCY: He was playing a good sport as his body double was there. But shortly after that, the paid performer, Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report, took the stage and did about 15 minutes and it was very uncomfortable. Personally I felt like he went over the line. Today in Lloyd Grove’s column, he says that Colbert “bombed badly.” It was not very funny.
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What? Can't Faux News take a joke? Colbert's a comedian. What is Faux all up in arms about???
LOL!!!
Colbert smoked Emperor Numbnuts!
Neither the Emperor nor Faux can handle the truth, can they?
May 1st, 2006 at 12:50 pmHnah! Fox bobble-heads giving their opinions of what is funny or not. If Roger laughs, it's funny. End of story.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:50 pmHnah! Fox bobble-heads giving their opinions of what is funny or not. If Roger laughs, it's funny. End of story.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:50 pmAnyone have a transcript of colberts bit? I am curious if he was over the line, or if FNC is yelling wolf.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:50 pm" It was not very funny."
Dubya thought that not finding WMDs in Iraq was very funny... so funny he did that skit.
Funny that I didn't find that funny at all.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:51 pmFor not being funny, I sure laughed a lot... hoots, hollars and all! That Faux Mews didn't appreciate it reaffirms it's value!
May 1st, 2006 at 12:53 pmI thought the whole press conference audition bit was over the top, started out decent, but then just kept on going. He also needs to learn to craft his show for his audience, for the 20 something crowd it was great, for the stuff old white people crowd, not so much.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:54 pmIt was so right on it was scary. You go Steve. Most of these correspondents are a
May 1st, 2006 at 12:56 pmafraid of telling the truth
Colbert, Stewart, and Olberann) are Edward R Murrow V.2.0 2006.
Basically same biting insight with truth to power module, but upgraded humour package. Early adopters are finding that some conservative users are confused by the new truth to power module as well as improved humor module. User training should alleviate early adoption anxiety.
Widespread adoption still pending. Should become more prevalant as earlier modules become buried in MSM and users become increasling frustrated. Widespread adoption point is projected to be when POTUS user module appreciation numbers dip below 30%.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:57 pmI don't think it was over the line, just not my brand of humor.
I didn't find it funny, more like a bad rant. In bad I mean no Lewis Black Denis Leary or any other comedian who has it to an art form. The timing was poor in most instances and they weren't any real jokes. Scalia was about the funniest one he had (Because he seemed to be "On" with it even Scalia was laughing).
May 1st, 2006 at 12:57 pmIt was not suppposed to be funny...what it was supposed to do was expose the ridicuous lengths the right-wing and the press go to to sheild the President from unpleasant realities......
also so what if the PResident "was not amused"
There are many Americans (Katrina victims, Iraq War families, low- and middle class consumers paying high energy prices with stagnant wages) who are "not amused" by this PResident and his draconian policy decisions......
This is the same PResident who cannot go an entire press conference without some sort of inappropriate laughter/joking when discussing serious issues of war and terrorism.....
the same PResident who joked about not finding WMD at the same dinner two years ago...
You know what Rethugs...its time this man faced the truth...his decisions have adversely affected the world for the worst....
Thank you Mr Colbert for having the BALLS to speak the truth.......
May 1st, 2006 at 12:59 pmIf you read through his monolauge, be goes after everyone, including the attendeding Press, Fiztgerald, Bush, and Cheney. He may have been a little over the top, but well like the republicans always say about Coulter, can't you take a joke.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:59 pmI remember similar outrage at Fox for Don Imus's 1995 WHCD speech. About the time monkeys were flying out of my butt.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:00 pmIt was GREAT! My husband and I were rolling we were laughing so hard. Especially when Colbert said Fox News told both sides of a story, the presidents side and the vice presidents side.
I could understand repugs not liking it because it was the truth. Bush was livid and it was wonderful!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:00 pmI'm sure Doocy and the rest of the Faux Reich were rubbing themselves when they saw the so-called Bush impersonator. I guess they don't know what humor is.
Hell, even the Today show only covered that stupid impersonator and no mention about my man, Mr. Colbert. Keith Olbermann, I'm sure will bring it up. Mayber show some ofthe Helen Thomas highlights. That got me ROTFLMAO. ;)
May 1st, 2006 at 1:01 pmI think Colbert did a fantastic job - while his delivery is a bit "dry" - it hit the spot. To be within yards of the president and be so blunt with his barbs was great! I watched the video several times, and the only complaint I have is the long bit with Helen Thomas. Otherwise, spot on!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:02 pmWhoops, that was 1996. The speech, not the part about the monkeys.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:02 pmColbert did not bomb to anyone with a brain and a spine.
'lib4'... I only partly disagree that it wasn't supposed to be funny. I think it was supposed to a "funny because it's true.' routine. Though the subject matter he was talking about certainly isn't funny in itself.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:03 pmHere the guy is causing the deaths of young men and women. He is directly responsible for the deaths of nearly 3000 of our young fellows in Iraq.
They at FOX are bitching, however, because they (The Decider and Mrs.Decider) were not exactly amused by Colbert's skit.
What a TV station!!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:03 pmThe people who work at Fox Cable News are expected to show unswerving loyalty to BushCo. Period. That is part of the business plan. It worked as long as the Administration controlled the narrative. As public attitudes shift it may not work too well in the future.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:05 pmThe people who work at Fox Cable News are expected to show unswerving loyalty to BushCo. Period. That is part of the business plan. It worked as long as the Administration controlled the narrative. As public attitudes shift it may not work too well in the future.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:06 pmHow dare someone who was paid to kiss Bush's ass speak the truth about what is going on in America!? Hey...the truth hurts. And when you have no defense then just shoot the messenger. The funniest thing is Colbert's ratings are going to shoot up the more people talk about this.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:06 pmSir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.
Best comment ever. Perfect way to describe Bush supporters....backwash. I can't stop laughing at this...
May 1st, 2006 at 1:07 pmagain... commentary and editorializations parading as "news" at Pravda
May 1st, 2006 at 1:09 pmSo Laura Buch can joke about George jerking off a horse and no reaction. Now a comedian cracks fun of the President, and it gets all this reaction. Republicans just continue to show themselves as the hypocritical retards that they are.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:09 pmIf people don't know by now that our present government is destroying Democracy and that Fox news is a propaganda machine of this administration, what on earth will it take for them to know? And when/if they come to know......what will the American people do? .................What will we the American people do? It's time to contact your tv station and demand that they start reporting real news........the truth.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:12 pmSo, did the "FOX & Friends" think it was "over the top" or "inappropriate" when the Bush double said that the First Lady was "hot"? I don't think so. And the only reason they're coming down so hard against it is because Stephen Colbert, brilliant comedian that he is, found a way to make supporting this administration and this president look completely foolish. And when people laughed at the foolish-looking Bush supporter up on the stage, they realized people laugh at them. (Finally.) Congratulations, Mr. Colbert. [And, of course, that great performance would not have been possible if not for the "Papa Bear" himself, Mr. Bill O'Reilly.]
May 1st, 2006 at 1:13 pmFOX News are a bunch of crazies, who just spew lies and propaganda, so do NOT pay any attention to them! Someday FOX network will go bankrupt or be forced out of business!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:13 pmiF THE BUSHES WERE NOT AMUSED , DO THEY THINK THE COUNTRY IS AMUSED BY THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS ADMINISTRATION , WHERE THE COUNTRY IS IN RESPECT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. OUR INFLUENCE IS ZILTCH , THERE IS A QUITE REVOLUTION IN SOUTH AMERICA, THE IRANIAN ARE SHOWING US THE FINGER AND THINGS ARE NOT SO GOOD AT HOME EITHJER , AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY . tHE MOOD IN THE COUNTRY IS SOMBER , WE ARE NOT AMUSED.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:16 pmI think the bit a few years ago where GWB was pretending to look for WMDs around the White House was "Inappropriate" and "Over the Line." Anyone else with me on this one?
May 1st, 2006 at 1:17 pmSurprise Surprise Faux News did not like Colbert! *Gasp* *Shock* *Horror*
May 1st, 2006 at 1:18 pm#30 Absolutely, Zookeeper. In fact, it was an insult to the hundreds of soldiers who died because this president said those weapons were there, that Saddam could and would turn them over to terrorists and that we could be attacked 45 minutes later. Then he makes that video ridiculing the fact that no WMDs were ever found. Meaning the soldiers died for - what - a chance for the president to make a joke about it?
May 1st, 2006 at 1:20 pmColbert's humor is for the intelligent, others just don't get it. The element of truth is what makes humor funny.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:21 pmIs this a surprise that Fox thinks this way? No..
My husband and I laughed silly - especially since no one at the WHCD was laughing!!! That made it funnier!!!
Colbert was quite funny. Who cares what Fox thinks?????
May 1st, 2006 at 1:24 pmSteve Doocy as the arbiter of funny? Have any of you seen his reel?
What a riot, Steve!
Aw, you Fox guys are hurting today, a little sting from the OTHER fake news guy, huh? That's just ... precious.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:24 pmFOX is just upset because they, and their Leader, got royally punk'd. Let 'em squirm, I'm loving every minute of it. You'll notice that hardly any of the MSM is mentioning it because they got punk'd as well.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:26 pmTough shit, Faux News. Its about time someone started to point out what a corrupt bunch of news whores slithers around at Faux News. Too bad we dont have more Stephen Colbert's, not just one.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:27 pm"FOX is just upset because they, and their Leader, got royally punk’d. "
so true!!!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:28 pmTruthiness Hurts Biasches!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:29 pmYeah - I need to get me some of that truthiness!!!
I love Colbert. I will be a fan forever!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:32 pmYou bet Colbert went over the line, and it's long past the time where many more need to cross the line these wight wing wacktoids have drawn in the air.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:32 pmFreedom of Speech is freedom of speech, and if the Dubious Duplicitous Decider can't take it, then he oughta just stay home in his widdle orifice.
Hearty cheers and support for the courageous men and women who will be standing up in the line of fire for the restoration of our civil rights.
Not "ha-ha" funny. More like "indictment" funny. Poor Washington media....Steven dropped a big, smelly turd in their Kool-aid punch bowl. Swilling the remaing 38% in the glass won't make it taste better.
Funniest line of the night? "A toast to the pResident." And Monday, they'll all be on the case, reporting this administrations crimes, incompetence, and attempts to destroy our democracy......
May 1st, 2006 at 1:35 pmit was over the line and needed to be -- Colbert is my hero. It wasnt funny in the traditional slapstick sense because nothing about this horrible administration is funny. There is nothing FUNNY about our soldiers dying for a lie. there is nothing FUNNY about oil barrons and enron theives making *ssloads of money just becuase they can while people are going without or losing what little they had. There's nothign FUNNY about having this country taken over by power greedy conartists who just are looking for that extra buck and enjoy the smell of chaos because chaos brings revenue to them. God Bless the Comediians of this world who use irony to make their points-- whose slapslick holds the true zinging sting that the MSM cowers from. God Bless the comedian who is like the court fool -- who fears no one and knows biting wisdom in his jest. Truth to power. Safe under the guise of satire. God Bless Colbert. In him and Jon Stewrt live the spiritual embers of men like Charlie Chaplain who defied power and suffered for it -- but who knew the truth about evil men and had no fear to show the world--Look. See. Learn. Change. God Protect Colbert and Stewart and those others with courage to speak truth to power.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:39 pmI love the way TP is so threatened by Fox News Channel. The minions who monitor Fox News Channel for TP actually help with ratings - who knew? I guess the fact that they mention the hosts of shows on MSNBC once in a while, and CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS never, lets progs know those networks are fit for PPC (Progressive Public Consumption). In other words, those others news companies are sufficiently progressive for your tastes.
Fox is flattered that you dislike their format - if YOU liked it (or approved of it) they would be doing something VERY wrong.
'Til later....
May 1st, 2006 at 1:40 pmBest set since Bill Hicks. Speaking of which, great diary at kos now, by a working standup
May 1st, 2006 at 1:40 pm"Today in Lloyd Grove’s column, he says that Colbert 'bombed badly.' It was not very funny."
I'm certain it's the president who has "bombed badly" and that is what is not very funny.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:40 pmIn the Fox-n-Friends' whine, just replace 'over the line' with 'too close to home', and you'll see why they didn't think it was funny. Somebody stood up and spoke truth to power, and it made them uncomfortable. It's just a shame that, in today's environment, it takes a comedian, in character, to do so.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:42 pmI'd like to give Stephen Colbert and Helen Thomas great big fata kisses! How brave they are. I was amazed at Colbert taking each of the failings of the Bush administration and present it in such a way. I'm surprised the President didn't have him arrested on the spot! I only rarely watch Stephen's show, but now I will watch it all the time. He was as brave as our soldiers are. And Helen Thomas, she is the greatest of them all!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:43 pmMighty Moron how is Ann Coulter your sister or should I say your brother > lol.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:43 pmWow, way to miss the point, FOX. They weren't in on the joke. They were the joke.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:44 pmMy favorites were the 'backwash' comment that dlet posted and the 'but your granschildren won't know what glaciers are' comment. It's satire. Apparently you have to be awake to get it, and well, from the current debacle created by our naked Emporer, he and his flock are definitely asleep at the wheel.
There's a website where you can send Colbert a thank you (it's up to 8500). http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/ (credit to JP from yesterday for posting it).
May 1st, 2006 at 1:44 pmFaux Infotainment Channel is not funny
May 1st, 2006 at 1:45 pmI think Colbert is going to prove his genius any day now. I predict he is going to use all this outrage to finally "outfox" Fox. He is going to do to Fox what they do to everyone else. I predict he will accuse them of bowing to the liberal media, smearing him and taking quotes out of context. He is finally going to turn the tables and give Fox and the right-wing media a taste of their own medicine.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:46 pmWho does the hiring for the WHCD???
May 1st, 2006 at 1:46 pmThe surprise, I think, is not that Fox "News" has ripped Colbert for not not so subtly criticizing Bush and others in the audience as is the fact that, so far, the so-called liberal media has been deafening in their silence for supporting and praising Colbert for daring to bring to light the hypocrisies of this administration. Let us see what Chris Matthew will say about Colbert, assuming that he even mentions Colbert at all.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:49 pmWho elected Fox News as the arbiters of cool? The bit went over very well with the non-Koolaid chuggers I've talked about it with so far. The only people who didn't like it were the supporters who realized it was utterly, brutally true. Colbert served these baby birds a big fat nightcrawler of truth and they were too chicken and emotionally involved to take it like adults.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:49 pmLooking under a table for WMD's while My Soldiers and I were picking up our Dead Comrades remains In Mosul that day was not funny either!!!
But some how the MSM and Faux Infotainment thought it was.
What will be funny is when Faux ever decides to report the truth.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:51 pm$3.21 for Regular Unleaded is Damn sure not funny.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:55 pmYes Fox, it wasn't funny, because the truth of who Bush and Co. is and what they have done is horrific and frieghtening. If it isn't true, why would you feel uncomfortable? If someone you don't know personally calls you a dumbass and you know this is not true, do you get pissed and loose your temper?
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/ - 8661 Thank you's and counting
May 1st, 2006 at 1:55 pmWHY ARENT ANY VIEWERS/READERS COMPLAINING-
May 1st, 2006 at 1:56 pmI THINK THE PRESS (FOXNews) IS LOSING TOUCH WITH AMERICA
Do ya think the Prez and his generals will award themselves purple hearts now that they've been through an ambush?
May 1st, 2006 at 1:57 pmliars and cons, such as we have with the entire republican and corporatre media establishment are always uncomfortable when they hear truth - its such a foreign concept to them.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:57 pm.
If you're a fan of Colbert, then you know his goal was not to be funny. He succeeded in exposing the hypocrisies and the ridiculousness of the Bush Administration.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:57 pmfor CalGal and all
May 1st, 2006 at 1:58 pmhttp://thankyoustephencolbert.org/
Mighty HermAphrodite, that all you got?
Thats it?
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:58 pmWho cares what faux thinks!!!!!...only the 32% backwash.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:59 pmHA! fox news was one of the bigger butts of the joke, of course they think it was too much.
If anything it might not have been enough!
May 1st, 2006 at 2:01 pmRegarding my comment # 55, it should read "...deafening in their silence for NOT supporting and praising Colbert..."
May 1st, 2006 at 2:03 pmcrooksandliars has a story and video about the
May 1st, 2006 at 2:05 pm60minute interview last night...
THAT was most excellent also...
I think maybe someone in the administration just figured out the the Colbert Report is satire and that maybe he is not really one of them.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:05 pmIt was MUCH funnier when Chimpy joked about not being able to find WMDs. Holy crap.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:06 pm#68,
I agree, the point wasn't to make the Bush's laugh, and as usual, the Right completetly missed the point, and doesn't get the dry satire. I think if you want to make Republicans laugh, slapstick might be more up their ally.
Since the Republicans were duped by Colbert, do they want their money back?
May 1st, 2006 at 2:08 pmNever failes to amaze me.........Good thing were focused more on what some comedian says then the people in charge that can just give lie after lie after lie, which is what most of his routine was about......Your right though we should definatly be more focused on some comedian doing a routine about the complete joke of a job our goverment is doing.....
May 1st, 2006 at 2:08 pmThe Filthy Left can never be "over the line". Here's Madona's recent quip on stage,
"During an energetic rendition of her song I Love New York, Madonna roared, "Just go to Texas and suck George Bush's d**k."
Charming, no?
May 1st, 2006 at 2:08 pmI expected this from Fox News.
Can't wait for Olbermann, Stewart and Colbert's shows tonight.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:08 pmFirst hint that the Colbert Report is not serious - ITS ON COMEDY CENTRAL.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:10 pmOf course Colbert was not very funny. Ask anybody who still supports Bush (32%) and they will tell you how badly Colbert bombed. The rest of the country (68%) enjoyed The Colbert Report immensely.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:10 pmIRI
given that the crap Ann Coulter, and a host of right wing radio announcers spew is ten times worse then Madona suggesting the Bush gets his cock sucked, I really don't see your statement as being germaine to this conversation.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:11 pmThanks IRI for clearin' that up, no boundaries for us.
If Colbert stepped over the line, it was only because the Right was too stupid to see that they put Colbert there. They just today figured out Colbert was satire and he is a liberal. But what would you expect from the concrete, simpleton, ignorant, mouth breathing, just kick ass to solve problems Right wingers.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:14 pmNice try IRI - who cares what Madonna says. However, I bet you were not shocked or dismayed in the least when Ann Coulter said Souter should be poisoned were you?
May 1st, 2006 at 2:16 pmUs liberals have always taken advantage of the intellectual inferiortiy of the right, and we always will, cuz you got to be dumb to be Right.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:16 pm2400 DEAD US soldiers and this Man along with most in attendance found a skit on searching for WMD under a table a laugh riot. Would a skit portraying Laura and the twins being raped in the face with a hammer also be funny? I find both to be the same.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:18 pmSatire doesn't produce loud laughs, but uncomfortable squirms. No one slapped their knee when Swift proposed we control population by eating babies, and the same is true of Colbert's satirical look at the farce that is the US Government and media.
He should measure success by how many people wanted to leave and prayed he wouldn't mention them next.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:18 pmThe Bushinistas have gotten a free pass on dealing with real people's opinions for virtually six years now. If anyone was offended by some barbs that hit the mark, then they'll have to learn to live with a little humility.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:19 pmThis thread has the most
"Well Clinton said"
"Well George Bush did"
"How did you like it when ... Said"
"You thought it was OK when ... did"
"Soandso one time said..."
Than I have ever seen in my life. It's called freedom of speech and you can't go over the top in my Libertarian world (Yes even saying shoot border crossers (( No I don't advocate it))
May 1st, 2006 at 2:19 pmI watched Mr. Colbert's whole talk. He wasn't as funny as he has been doing other routines. But, he was speaking the truth to power and that is not necessarily funny. These people rarely hear the truth from the capitalist corporate media.
I applaud his honest, humorous and courageous presentation!
May 1st, 2006 at 2:22 pmI guess the folks that hired and expected "laughs" from Colbert need to look up the definition of satire. Satire is not just plain humor.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:23 pmI right I, Did you think it was funny when Bush joked about not finding WMD's while people were being killed looking for them? Yes sir, Bush is the epidome of tasteful humor.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:25 pmIt’s called freedom of speech and you can’t go over the top in my Libertarian world (Yes even saying shoot border crossers (( No I don’t advocate it))
Comment by Tundra — May 1, 2006 @ 2:19 pm
Nothing crosses your ego boundaries as offensive speech?
There is even a caveat to our Freedom of Speech Right. That thing about not yelling fire in a crowded theatre because some things do cross the line.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:26 pmWhat's not funny about...
...I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound -- with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.
Now, there may be an energy crisis. This president has a very forward-thinking energy policy. Why do you think he's down on the ranch cutting that brush all the time? He's trying to create an alternative energy source. By 2008 we will have a mesquite-powered car! ...
Gads. The filth that Ms. Coulter and the drug addict Limbaugh slings isn't funny. But this man Colbert. He's funny. Very funny.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:26 pmseems iris and that ilk have stooped to a new low…check this out:
May 1st, 2006 at 2:27 pm“It seems that a young woman by the name of Ava Lowery, a 15-year-old from Alabama has been getting death threats for a powerful video she produced called “WWJD†(What Would Jesus Do)…â€
(dailykos via crooksandliars)
iris - be sure to watch the video titled "the 32%"
it will make you proud...
#59,
Little kids get mad when someone says something about them that isn't true. But as an adult I generally don't get upset if someone says something that isn't true about me. Good question, if the stuff was just a joke, and wasn't true, why get upset about it?
May 1st, 2006 at 2:28 pmEvery U.S. citizen should be required to watch Colbert's tour de force. It was a brilliantly conceived roast of the preznit and the press.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:28 pmHe didn't do anything different than he does on his show, they booked him, and they knew what they were getting themselves into. Also nothing he said was anything worse than Bush or his impersonator said about himself, the only difference was that he was the only one that didn't look like "Dubya".
May 1st, 2006 at 2:28 pmwhiny republicans
haha cry more
May 1st, 2006 at 2:29 pmThis is GREAT; this speech was about to be doomed to obscurity but now what FOX NEWS has done is give it legs!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 2:31 pmSo many people are going to see it now just because of this and they need to see it!
You can find link's Colbert's full brilliant performance on http://www.democraticunderground.com/
just scroll down on the main page. It should be duped and spread everywhere.
Colbert's a genius.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:32 pmOh, you mean there's no international version of Fox News? Really. I wonder why?
Colbert got 'em and they can't take it? So what!
May 1st, 2006 at 2:32 pmone can't have a battle of wits with the unarmed opponent
a roast is just that, put it in the pan, baste it, marinate it, heat it, cook it, roast it
what about this is unclear?
May 1st, 2006 at 2:33 pmNothing crosses your ego boundaries as offensive speech?
There is plenty of offensive speech, but what constitutes crossing the line? I'd say nothing, deal with the consequences of what you said. I'm sure Colbert there is going to be snubbed by some journalists for some time as well. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The KKK went and marched in Toledo a couple years ago and the African American Mayor let them (That shows how much he cares about the constitution), There was also rallies that were about 150X the size drowning them out.
I'm not about to argue taste with anyone. It's worse than trying to argue religion.
That thing about not yelling fire in a crowded theatre because some things do cross the line.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:34 pmI'll give you that one (Justly), but if there is not an immediate danger then it's free game. Otherwise who do we want deciding what it is we can say?
Comedians are the only people who really tell the truth these days. Our government reeks of apathy and deceit. We need some sort of miracle.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:35 pmSo many people are going to see it now just because of this and they need to see it!
Comment by Bison — May 1, 2006 @ 2:31 pm
Best way to make people want something... Thanks FAUX, you are good for something.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:36 pmI’ll give you that one (Justly), but if there is not an immediate danger then it’s free game. Otherwise who do we want deciding what it is we can say?
Comment by Tundra — May 1, 2006 @ 2:34 pm
I agree, which is why I do not understand why I am called a traitor or unpatriotic when exercising my first amendment right to criticize this administration and its policies.
Colbert tlod the truth, to some the truth hurts. Although I cannot understand Bush being upset, he cannot even recognize the truth.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:38 pmColbert was awesome. Genius!
Sure a hell of a lot better than Bush making fun of sending our kids, mother, fathers, to war to find WMD he knew weren't there. He found it so funny, he made jokes about it. Now that is something to get outrageous about.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:38 pmIf you watch his show he doesn't deliver as a comedian. His character is that of a wreckless uninformed idiot right wing pundit. His character is based on O'Riely.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:41 pmIt's only funny to the people with a brain and have the mental capacity to see the truth through the truthiness.
It would be great if FoxNews and their pundits would review the Colbert speech with their audience line-by-line and discuss what's not funny about each of Colbert's statements. I suspect that Colbert acheived precisely the effect that he was aiming for and that he is not at all surprised by the response of the media or the conservative pundits. He is much smarter than all of his critics combined and a pleasure to watch because he really does "get it."
May 1st, 2006 at 2:42 pmDubya Dunce Decider is upset because he wanted his stupid comedy routine with his paid double to get all the press, but that was a weird gig with the double hitting on Laura > lol.
I guess Bush did not care because he was looking for Jeff Gannon for a quickee in the back room > lol.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:43 pmTM - you are right on. The first time I watched his show (I had never seen him on Jon Stewart) I was a little taken aback until I realized it was satire. I find it awfully funny that whoever hired him either never really watched his show or they did it on purpose. I am thinking they did it on purpose. If I realized it was going to be a skewering they certainly must have known.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:44 pmHeya Jules,
I agree, which is why I do not understand why I am called a traitor or unpatriotic when exercising my first amendment right to criticize this administration and its policies.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:44 pmWell they can call you that all they want (Sort of the flip side of the coin) but it doesn't make it true :)
The KKK went and marched in Toledo a couple years ago and the African American Mayor let them.
Smart man (the mayor). Was a win-win for him. No one can accuse him of racism or intolerance, and the KKK get seen as idiots for being racists and intolerant.
I’m not about to argue taste with anyone. It’s worse than trying to argue religion.
I wasn't arguing. Just asking. I'm not fond of absolutes and whenever one of your righties states one, I like to challenge it.
I’ll give you that one (Justly), but if there is not an immediate danger then it’s free game.
So then, there are limits. I've yet to see any rule without its exception (s).
Otherwise who do we want deciding what it is we can say?
Comment by Tundra — May 1, 2006 @ 2:34 pm
Agreed 110%. It's where Hitler began his journey - burning books and outlawing records.
I think it it has to be a decision between people to decide where the limits lie. For instance, you jokingly call me an unwashed hippy. I'm pretty thick-skinned, so I laugh. But if you were to tell me that you were going to hunt me down and cut my throat (and I know you wouldn't), well, I wouldn't think that was funny at all. And that's my point. Pointing out the exception(s) to your absolute(s). You should expect that from me, by the way : ).
May 1st, 2006 at 2:46 pmFor the linguistically impaired
There is a huge difference between telling jokes and performing satire. The first can be done by the average 8 year old. The latter takes skill and briliance to do well.
Colbert is the latter.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:52 pm[...] It seems the political world is split on Colbert and his performance. The news media seem to be ignoring his performance like the plague and the left-wing sites like Crooks & Liars and Daily Kos are embracing him with a fervor. And whaddya know, Fox News isn’t too pans his performance. Well, the latter isn’t that surprising, and the former probably isn’t either, but is certainly disappointing. [...]
May 1st, 2006 at 3:04 pmHoly Moses - you are very good at discerning dictionary definitions!!! (applause, applause).
For Truth - Thank you for reiterating the Left's premise that their life force is more intellectually gifted and curious. What a huge compliment to the rocket scientists of the Hollywood liberal establishment. I mean, who can top the reasoning abilities of Al Franken, Madonna, Brice springsteen, Julis Roberts, Susan and Tim and the rest of the "can't talk without script or camera" crowd. The difference is the spineless wonders on the left would sleep with the enemy to guarantee a semblance of "peace". But since the barbarians HATE progs too, it would be a short-lived romance.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:05 pmit was kind of witty, but the video wasn't really funny. but the joe wilson, valerie plame quip was a stinger.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:11 pmColbert said things that no one else would. While Bush made fun of himself, Colbert went up there and talked about the really serious issues, putting on his persona and letting them all have it! He totally kicked ass... No matter what people say. Fox News, can you say... 'out of touch'?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:11 pmSome of the most famous and effective political satire isn't really very funny at all. I'm sorry, but I don't laugh out loud at Jonathan Swift.
And remember, Colbert wasn't trying to be Benny Hill, he was trying to look into the eyes of the Washington Elites and a Dictator and tell them just how execrable they are, without getting arrested, tortured or killed.
The reason there wasn't a lot of hysterical laughter among the members of the media is that it's hard to laugh when somebody is telling you that you're a whore, a failure, a miserable representative of a basic institution of Democracy.
And Bush wasn't laughing because he just didn't get the joke. He's not bright enough and he was too smashed to figure out he was being called a flaming wreck and a failure as a President and as a human. Not really the stuff of belly laughs.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:16 pmWho cares what Fux Nutwork Says?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:17 pmLook at that guy, deception, another weird eyed neo-nut liar.
it was brilliant, biting reality. colbert is a genius.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:18 pmaphrodite> Care to make a few more fallacious arguments while you troll day after day?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:19 pmDOOCY: He was playing a good sport as his body double was there.
HUH? Bush has body doubles?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:20 pmDOOCY IS LOOCY
May 1st, 2006 at 3:22 pmHave a Cold beer for Colbert !!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 3:23 pmColbert played it just right. He was funny and
May 1st, 2006 at 3:24 pmright on with his criticisms.
NOT FUNNY??? Are you freaking kidding me!!! The thing that made it so funny was that serious charges were being mounted about a president that was 10 feet away!! The content is serious, because this administration is endangering our species and this earth, but the context is what made it hillarious.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:25 pmHow to tell if You're a Prog:
1.) If Bill Clinton, Al Gore And the rest of the Dem suspects discussed "regime change" and WMD's, progs fail to call the Dem suspects LIARS. If George Bush and other leaders say evidence points to WMD's in Iraq, Progs scream - LIAR.
2.) If you hope (for the good of the "planet") that the US is defeated in military operations... you are and excellent prog.
3.) If you are complaining about $3.-/gal gasoline while sipping your $15.-/gal Starbucks...you are a proud prog.
4.) If you are whining about tax loopholes and interrupt your accountant to remind him/her about the deduction for your Prius...your a sensitive and caring Prog.
5.) If you agree that textbooks should reflect the positive contributions of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and sexually confused people.... you're a prog without question.
6.) If you whined about Newts' book advance and were uncharacterically silent about Hillarys' book deal - fellow progs are proud!
7.) If you are convinced that belief in God is just a giant conspiracy to curb your hedonistic lifestyle ... you are a certified prog.
8.) You wonder how your Republican parents were smart enough not to drop you on your heads and kill you when you were post birth fetuses. True progs always discuss any conservative family members with the obligatory "tsk...tsk"
9.) A super-prog believes "professors" Ward Churchill and Armando Navarro speak "to truth" -- and re-covering communist, David Hrowitz, is a danger to society.
Happy May Day, Comrades!!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 3:29 pmThe thing that made it so funny was that serious charges were being mounted about a president that was 10 feet away!!
Comment by RYAN — May 1, 2006 @ 3:25 pm
It was amazing the way he was able to keep turning to Bush to directly address him with such confidence, and forced him to hold eye-contact while he was slamming him. That takes some serious gravitas... I don't know many who could fill his shoes.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:29 pmHappy May Day, Comrades!!!!
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 1, 2006 @ 3:29 pm
How many ways can we say this:
YOU ARE NOT FUNNY
May 1st, 2006 at 3:31 pmMy wife, a "dyed in the wool" democrat and liberal, was watching colbert at work in the breakroom. A very conservative, very republican supervisor walks in and comments, saying how surprised that she's watching colbert. Why she asks? Well, he's *very* conservative...I can't belive you watch him.
Uh..did you know he used to have a skit on the daily show? Do you realize that he's not conservative, that he's lampooning all the conservatives? Do you realize he's making fun of *all* of you?
I'd like to know who actually booked colbert at the press dinner?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:33 pmGlad to see your trolling is both-on topic and correct, aphrodite.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:34 pmThis Colbert guy is funny:
... The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will. As excited as I am to be here with the president, I am appalled to be surrounded by the liberal media that is destroying America, with the exception of Fox News. Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the president's side, and the vice president's side...
I wonder if this is the paragraph that got Faux News all riled up?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:34 pmRemember all the times Leno stuck it RIGHT TO Clinton at these things? He made Clinton squirm over and over again. Was that made a big deal of? Nope.
Why is this being made a big deal of?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:36 pmScorn!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 3:37 pmI’d like to know who actually booked colbert at the press dinner?
Comment by rael imperial aerosol kid — May 1, 2006 @ 3:33 pm
That's a hysterical story about your wife and her idiot co-worker.
The President of AP signed Colbert. I think he knows that Colbert is a comedian, considering the whole evening was a lampoon of sorts, and when he introduced Colbert he warned that no one in the room was safe. Guess he has a thicker skin than most in attendance.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:42 pmcomrade: 1. A person who shares one's interests or activities; a friend or companion.
2. often Comrade A fellow member of a group, especially a fellow member of the Communist Party.
hey! you joining the clup, aphro?!?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:47 pmMA -
Dude. Must suck to be a neo-con nowadays. You're getting smoked. And smoked hard.
Keep clinging to the fact that you have 'power' for the next few months.
Hey, other TPers - I'm in Toronto for training. Any Canucks out there with advice on what to do in the evenings?
May 1st, 2006 at 3:57 pmRemember all the times Leno stuck it RIGHT TO Clinton at these things? He made Clinton squirm over and over again. Was that made a big deal of? Nope.
Why is this being made a big deal of?
Easy. Conservative news talking heads.
Next question.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:59 pm#135 - "...2. often Comrade A fellow member of a group, especially a fellow member of the Communist Party.
hey! you joining the clup, aphro?!?" - Comment by katy
******Thank you, katy , for your kind invitation. I am not interested in "joining the club" or "contracting clap"....
May 1st, 2006 at 4:00 pmHey might aphrodite … I fixed your post.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:02 pmColbert simply reiterated the nightmarish nonsense that our government and press serve up, fresh daily. It was terrifyingly funny because it flew directly in the face of authority. A particulary self-obsessed form of authority that seems incapable of facing the outcomes of its own actions. Colbert made these people spend almost ten whole minutes with themselves -- that's why the event was so uncomfortable for all the "professionals" in the room. And that's why the only thing that got a laugh from that particular audience was Colbert's equally dark and disturbing comment about their grandchildren being unable to appreciate the glacier metaphor -- just because that observation was less "personal" than the others. It's both remarkable and sad that it takes a comedian to confront the mess we've all hellp make... Colbert is owed our gratitude for doing so.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:04 pmBobcat-Grad - Dear Dudette - I don't smoke - but if you put down the bong, you might not be so confused. You'll find LOTS of like-minded progs Canada - and alot of washed out ex-pats.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:05 pm#138 - ...Thank you, katy , for your kind invitation. I am not interested in “joining the club†or “contracting clapâ€â€¦
So you think giving Emperor Bush a blowjob is an effective safe means of avoiding sexually transmitted diseases? You're much much dumber than you look. Dudette, I almost feel sorry for you.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:06 pmMy husband and I thought that Colbert was brilliant. However, to understand Colbert, you have to understand what's going on in the REAL world, and we all know that reality has a liberal bias. Unfortunately, that leaves out a lot of the MSM commentors who either refused to admit that Colbert was there, or saw his brand of humor as "over the line".
May 1st, 2006 at 4:07 pmI don’t smoke -
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 1, 2006 @ 4:05 pm
I see you more as a pill popper, that might explain your incoherant rantings, and crazed delusions.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:11 pmYou'll also find health care, tolerance, an educational system that works ...
You know, progressive ideas.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:13 pmBobcat-Grad - Dear Dudette - I don’t smoke - but if you put down the bong, you might not be so confused. You’ll find LOTS of like-minded progs Canada - and alot of washed out ex-pats.
Nice try. I guess when you run out of salient points, it's time to resort to calling people names. That must explain your sad attempt at attacking my manhood with the 'Dudette' comment.
Good, glad you don't smoke. You'll be around longer to watch the GOP crumble into splintered little pieces. Oh, and I've never smoked anything in a bong.... or anything period. I like to think clearly, Republicans should try it sometime.
And yes, it is nice being surrounded by other progressives while I'm visiting Canada. It's nice not to look at every other person on the street and think "You voted for Bush, idiot." Plus the news is better. It's not uber conservative slanted.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:14 pmThanks Holy Moses - You reinforce my steroetype about progs - I never thought progs were very original anyway. (Seriously, how bright can progs be when they constantly tout a renamed version of a failed econ system 150 year old.) Some good reading for the "masses" : http://www.catallarchy.net
May 1st, 2006 at 4:16 pmWow ... you not only fail to understand satire, you also fail to understand "irony."
Of course, reading your posts here, you also fail to understand terms such as "equality," "tolerance," "logic," "facts," "law," "Constitution," "criminal," "lies" ...
But don't worry. Hooked on Phonics may still work for you some day.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:20 pmBob-cat. Dude, When you ignorantly addressed me as Dude - I thought I'd return the favour. And the News on state controlled CBC is SO - progressive.....Have a great time!!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 4:22 pmMA
since you are so worried about communists, why don't you worry about them, while the rest of us "progs" clean up Bush's mess, and worry about terrorists. Last time I checked it wasn't a bunch of communists who flew planes into the WTC, or did you forget about that attack?
May 1st, 2006 at 4:26 pmIf I were a gay person, Moses, am I supposed to be flattered you "tolerate" me?? What a smug mutt!! I think we both understand the concept of satire - it's just your post wasn't humourous or ironic.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:27 pmMA -
Go eat five hot dogs, shoot a gun, kick a homeless person, pray to the Almighty that he smite the Gentiles, play keep-a-way with a senior citizen's medications, and then take candy from a baby.
(If you can play the sterotype game, so can I.)
Oh. The only difference between the CBC and Fox News is Fox News pretends to not lean drastically to one side of the aisle.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:27 pmI just watched a replay of Colbert at that event with Bush > he made Dubya look like a fool, but George did not seem to notice till afterwards > the audience looked humiliated! Good satire skews its target suttlely!
May 1st, 2006 at 4:29 pmIf my sources are correct (and maybe someone here can verify), the White House must approve all speakers at this event. When it was given transcripts of Colbert Report episodes, no doubt it read them literally, so they assumed he was going to be at least sympathetic to Bush/Republicans.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:30 pmIf this is true, it is one of the most brilliant bits of comedy ever. The joke is on the morons at the White House who approved this absolutely scathing piece of political theater.
Bravo, Mr. Colbert! As a lover of the Jon Stewart Show, I could never understand the point of your show. Now finally I get what you're all about. Beyond brilliant! The joke's on them.
You can bet next year the White House will insist on seeing the speeches beforehand.
But if you were to tell me that you were going to hunt me down and cut my throat (and I know you wouldn’t), well, I wouldn’t think that was funny at all.
I would not find it funny either, but here is where we will differ. I don't think it should be against the law. Otherwise we are dealing taste again. What if I said (For sake of argument here) I really would love to hunt you down...., would that really change anything? What if I said I would like to make a plan to hunt you down....What if I said, I know people that will hunt you down?
In reality any one with half a brain could get around it and still get their point across. So we can easily grab the stupid ones?
And that’s my point. Pointing out the exception(s) to your absolute(s). You should expect that from me, by the way : ).
May 1st, 2006 at 4:31 pmAs do I lass, as do I
Um ... huh? Anyone got a "Wingnut to English" translation?
Smug? No. Enjoying ruffling your neocon feathers? Absofrickinlutely.
Actually, I bet you don't. And I hate to break it to you, but neither you nor Fox News are the arbiters of comedy.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:39 pmM.A. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the fact that Mr. Colbert took the mighty Chimperor Boy King to school. Mr. Colbert is a comedian and comedians have a way of telling a joke especially when there are darker moments in life. The days of Bob Hope and Red Skelton (no disrespect) are over. We are in a world where we can laugh with Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Chris Rock, Janeane Garofalo, Tina Fey, Denis Leary and of course, King Richard Pryor. We are laughing not at jokes, but at their view of how the world is, politically and socially, and how they confront that world with humor. Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert are only the beginning. David Spade is making fun of celebrities, but the ones you like, Paula Abdul, the Simpson Sisters, Paris Hilton, Nick Lachey,etc are only famous for being famous and not for talent, though they lack any whatsoever.
So what if Larry The Cable Guy is popular right now. He only appeals to those who are not diverse and uses his so-called redneck persona to sell t-shirts, lighters, keychains, etc. I don't remember Pryor, Carlin or Leary using merchandise to attract attention. He does not represent what true comedy is about.
Look back to the history of political satire. Will Rogers was only the beginning. That legacy continues and the mainstream media can't handle it. And 9% of people like you who still think the war was a good idea are lost. Try to join the real world and you'll find out where the real comedy lies. It lies within a circus called the White House.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:41 pmIf health care is so great in Canada - why do SO many flood across the border for treatment. It must be awful trying to make everyone so equally miserable.
#150 - Krazy - I've been warning toleRANT progs for months about Islamofascist barbarians. I guess retention isn't one of your strong suits.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:42 pmOh and as far as muduhnna is concerned.. She does not speak for the left anymore than righty or charles manson does for the right....Some of you are so drunk from the kool-aid that you BORE us.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:43 pm"Over the line" and "Not funny", eh? Well, aWol is over the line and his bogus war is not funny either.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:45 pmUnholy - Before I run - THank you, THank you (!!) for reinforcing the well-known "fact" that progs are thoughtful, kind and considerate - and would make excellent Boy Scouts if they prayed to God and didn't "tolerate" gay Scout leaders.
'til later....
May 1st, 2006 at 4:49 pmThanks Holy Moses - You reinforce my steroetype about progs - I never thought progs were very original anyway. (Seriously, how bright can progs be when they constantly tout a renamed version of a failed econ system 150 year old.) Some good reading for the “masses†: http://www.catallarchy.net
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 1, 2006 @ 4:16 pm
Slightly smarter than CONservative christIANS who tout a 2000 year odl religion and ignore the core message fronm the individual who they claim founded it, like;
Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.
Matthew 5:38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 5:39 But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. But whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.
Matthew 5:43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘hate your enemy.’ 5:44 But I say to you, love your enemy and
pray for those who persecute you, 5:45 so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they? 5:47 And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they? 5:48 So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect
Matthew 6:19 “Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 6:20 But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
6:22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 6:23 But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money
Matthew 7:1 “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 7:2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. 7:3 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? 7:4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own? 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Luke 8:3 The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them 8:4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. 8:5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?†8:6 (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. 8:7 When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.†8:8 Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.
8:9 Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 8:10 Jesus stood up straight and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?†8:11 She replied, “No one, Lord.†And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.â€
Coulld that be the Jesus you speak of Anvilhead…..because it is the Jesus that Mahatma Gahndi and Martin Luther King did, and they were the two most influential philosopher activists of the 20th century, and both achieved great changes in the societies with out guns or deaths like you openly advocate. But then again neither was particularily worried about their bank accounts, stock portfolios, or personnal worth as much as their fellow man and woman’s welfare and future.
Remember the Jesus you advocate us to find has something to say to you as well,
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 7:22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?’ 7:23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
May 1st, 2006 at 4:49 pmI wonder how many Iraqis who've lost loved ones since Bushiva's invasion and occupation...
...were laughing at Bushiva's antics?...
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M.A. this is only the beginning. :)
May 1st, 2006 at 4:51 pmM.A. Don't you run out on us. Stay here, face the truth and take your medicine.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:56 pmSorry? Um, I would say somebody who tells lies is in fact a liar. If somebody is simply operating on faulty data, and is saying something they believe to be true, then they are simply mistaken. If you take the word of a liar, you aren't a liar you are simply deceived. If however, you purposefully distort the facts and outright lie about them, releasing only those few which agree with your hypothesis, then you are a liar.
Actually, no you are not a prog. You are probably an Iraqi. What Progs hope is that the US simply stops invading other countries whenever an election looks iffy for the Republicans. This may occur as the result of America getting its butt kicked, but in all likelyhood it would just mean America using Nukes, which would not help the planet.
If you don't like the prices at Starbucks, you can always make your own damn coffee, if you don't like the prices at the petrol station, you walk. Further, the price at Starbucks is effected by the prices at the petrol station, because those coffee beans aren't exactly transported on burro-back and that farm machinery doesn't exactly run by magic. (I am of course, including diesel here.)
Actually, we believe that you should pay precisely what you owe. No more, no less. We also believe that America's line of credit with nations hostile to America's interests isn't going to be infinite.
So in other words, if we think textbooks should reflect the truth, we are proud progs. If we think literary giants like Oscar Wilde shouldn't be left out of our schools simply because of their sexual preferances, we are proud progs.
Hillary= former first lady to a president who left amidst a sex scandal. The book deal was kind of expected. Newt, who is he really?
Actually, I believe religion is a construct put together by the first primeval conman, intent on fooling his tribe into feeding him, clothing him, and giving him the best hut in the village, while he basically did none of the work. This con has evolved all throughout history, until it became an excellent excuse for people of a particularly nasty sort to justify their own actions.
After all, torturing people, burning them alive, wiping out entire populations and generally raping and pillaging your way through history is so much easier on the conscience when god made you do it. If there is no god, the only person who is responsible for my actions is I, and that leaves a whole lot less wriggle room.
Actually I don't. My mother is a progressive, my father is a conservative. My mother is a chartered accountant my father's best paying job was as a shop assistant.
I have actually never heard any of them speak. I don't even know what their opinions really are at this point, so I cannot say whether they are right or wrong. That said, a recovering communist isn’t exactly someone whose political opinions have a history of being, you know, reliable.
Same to you.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:56 pmWell ... good to see that, instead of addressing the typographical beat down she received by yours truly, MA decided to take some pot shot at "gay Scout leaders." Not sure what in the holy hell that had to do with anything, but I'm sure she's stupid enough to think she somehow left on a high note.
I guess I shouldn't bring up the difference between "gay" and "pedophile" since she just wouldn't get it.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:56 pmClif -
Thank you for the scripture quotes. I'll be using themin the future for all self righteous neocoservatives I come across.
Especially this one:
May 1st, 2006 at 4:56 pm"Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 7:22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?’ 7:23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’ "
I would not find it funny either, but here is where we will differ. I don’t think it should be against the law.
I don't think it should be against the law either - unless you really mean it and then it falls under the stalking laws. The problem is proving that you really mean it. And I admit - it's delicate gray area.
What if I said (For sake of argument here) I really would love to hunt you down…., would that really change anything? What if I said I would like to make a plan to hunt you down….What if I said, I know people that will hunt you down?
I think it's the context and whether or not you mean it and I fear for my life because of it. Not that you should go to jail, but someone should certainly make a record of it and make sure you know the consequences of your actions. Know what I'm saying? That you could kill me with your bare hands. And because of that, if you threathen to use that ability, you some how have violated my right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness/property', because I am no longer free. I'm afraid for my life. If you meant it. I guess it's the same as yelling fire in a crowd, as a result.
In reality any one with half a brain could get around it and still get their point across. So we can easily grab the stupid ones?
Some days more than others I tend to feel that way :).
As do I lass, as do I
Comment by Tundra — May 1, 2006 @ 4:31 pm
Knew there was at least one thing about you with merit ; )
May 1st, 2006 at 4:56 pmMatthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 7:22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?’ 7:23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
Comment by Clif — May 1, 2006 @ 4:49 pm
Bears repeating to the confused transgendered troll who spews hate and intolerance.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:59 pmColbert was brilliant. The media blackout of Stephen's part of the event is inexcusable.
I'm glad to see FOX jumping on this, as the story will now stay alive, and maybe the rest of TV networks will stop acting like Colbert wasn't even there.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:08 pmThose quote from Matthew and Luke get me more angry looks from people whoi tell me they are christians, I for one do not understand why his very words make them soooo angry.....but i also will not repeating them.
Christs words NOT the translated version ala jerry Falwell_Pat Roberson et al need more open discussion.
I remember a letter that circulated from Charley Daniels right about the time we were invading Iraq, complaining about somebody saying turn the other cheek, and how he(CD) would like to punch him right in the nose...I e-mailed CD's fan site and basically told him someday he might get the oppertunity but probably would not have the testicular fortitude to actually do it before Christ stepped up to his father's throne to speak for him(CD).
May 1st, 2006 at 5:18 pmHoly crap I've lost brian cells reading these comments.
Anyone who missed the fact that he was dogging all media and not just the right wing media outlets is ignorant.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:20 pmThat is why the media members who attended were so quite. They knew they were included in the Satire. Colbert got everyone, and the only person with a sense of humour oddly enough was Scalia.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:27 pmThe best comedy performance under that kind of pressure/audience I have ever seen. Somebody come up with a better one if you can
May 1st, 2006 at 5:33 pmHoly crap I’ve lost brian cells reading these comments.
Anyone who missed the fact that he was dogging all media and not just the right wing media outlets is ignorant.
Comment by Jscro — May 1, 2006 @ 5:20 pm
NO. He exempts Christopher Buckley and 3 other left wing journalists. Not to mention Helen Thomas.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:34 pmAnd of course Fox news was singled out.......
Yes, I think you have lost some brain cells.
[...] Think Progress [...]
May 1st, 2006 at 5:36 pmI may be repeating since I didn't read all the comments, but
I wonder if the Faux argument that Colbert made inappropriate comments was taken by the President's side or the Vice President's side. If it were both sides, how could anyone challenge the truthiness of their stance?!
May 1st, 2006 at 5:37 pm"Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know -- fiction."
He said this about the rest of press outside of Fox News, I don't think this statement gives them a pass.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:39 pmIt keeps getting funnier and funnier. The media blackout of a hilarious and incredibly bold performance just makes it even more of a laugh. The is truthiness for you.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:41 pmObviously it was an overwhelming success if Fox disapproves.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:48 pmWell we knew it was coming. We've Bill O'Reilly and Hannity & Colmes to come yet tonight, (well Sean Hannity at least).
What odds would you get on Bill O'Reilly's 'Talking Point Memo' being about Stephen Colbert and his turn at the White House correspondents' dinner?
As Colbert so cuttingly remarked: "He was surrounded by the liberal media who are destroying this country, except for Fox News. Fox believes in presenting both sides-the president's side and the vice president's side."
May 1st, 2006 at 5:48 pmWhat a gutsy performance by Mr. Colbert. If only more people used truth instead of talking points and the press actually reported the truth instead of talking points, we could have a government that the entire world would envy.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:49 pmI thought his monolouge was hilarious also, but then again, I wasn't forced to sit on my hands throughout the performance.
Don't those assholes get it? It wasn't intended to be funny. That dumb sonofabitch has the blood of 250,000 dripping from his goddamned hands. There ain't nothing funny about that at all.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:52 pmHey Fox, we do not find it amusing that we are being "led" by an ignorant, incurious, dry-drunk who is only waiting to go meet Jesus in the clouds. Ohhhhh, I'm so sorry he was not amused. I wonder how amused the Iraqi civilians who have lost family members are. I wonder how amused our brave soldiers and their families are by Georges's Excellent Adventure in Iraq?
May 1st, 2006 at 5:54 pmSteve Doocy is the same genius who I saw going on a rant about how global warming is fiction. And he's their WEATHER GUY! He's total tool.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:54 pmFOX NEWS= A reservior of White House Whores.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:55 pmStephen was INVITED. His brand of humor and his schtick is no huge secret.
Get over it !
May 1st, 2006 at 5:55 pmColbert was absolute genius. Of course the press is slamming him. He did in 15 minutes what the press hasn't had the balls to do for 6 years. Truth to Power!
May 1st, 2006 at 5:58 pmColbert ruled. He hit Fox News and Bush right on the head with wickedly smart satire, all based on fact. Plus, Colbert himself (the character he plays) epitomizes the typical narrow-minded unethical Bushie jerk.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:00 pmWait, it just occurred to me, I wonder if the Right will start saying that the vast left wing conspiracy has now implemented a campaign to undermine the White House through the use of comedy and comedians. So now its treasonous to laugh at jokes.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:07 pmBasically Stephan Colbert gave George W Bush, the Press corps, Congress, The Supreme Court, and the repugs and Dems what he called a truthocution.....but all they wanted was funny...too bad they don't get it and probably never will.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:09 pmColbert is a genius and he walked into the Lions den which means he has courage too. He took the fight to the Tards. BadMormon
May 1st, 2006 at 6:10 pmColbert is a genius and he walked into the Lions den which means he has courage too. He took the fight to the Tards. BadMormon
May 1st, 2006 at 6:10 pmColbert was beyond brilliant. The man was Jonathan Swift, Andy Kaufmann, and Paul the Evangelist all rolled up into one. Speaking truth to power, when power is sitting 5 feet away from you takes cojones the size of basketballs.
Sir, the entire Free Voip Crew at Ideasip.com Salutes you!
May 1st, 2006 at 6:17 pmThat was absolutely priceless. The only thing funnier than his skewering of the administration and the media is the pathetic talking points coming out today -- "he wasn't funny," "he bombed," and, even more tellingly, the "ignoring him and hoping he goes away" strategy.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:25 pmIt was not suppposed to be funny…what it was supposed to do was expose the ridicuous lengths the right-wing and the press go to to sheild the President from unpleasant realities……
this bears repeating, because it goes to the heart of the problem in america.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:27 pmAnother example of the president's idiocy. He invites a liberal comedian, and then gets mad when he "roasts" him.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:36 pmIt takes some intelligence to understand Colbert's humor. Obviously, the majority of stenographers, "White House reporters" would not have understood it except for some very obvious lines thrown in so they wouldn't get completely lost.
Faux News taking a swipe at him only confirms what he said about "fair and balanced" Faux News gave both sides to a story, W's and the Wild Turkey hunter's. Well not exactly that but you get the picture.
And as far as him crossing the line. That line needs to be crossed a lot more every day by these horrible stenographers. White House correspondant only means they can take short hand at 80 per minute. (They had to slow down because Bush never talks that fast) Plus he rarely has a new conference. Well, if Faux news is pissed, you must be doing something right. Can't wait to see Colbert next TV show.
#166 you are on the wrong site to post a comment about a prog????? This site is about Colbert creaming W. Take a deep breath, you will be fine. You can always cut and paste to the correct page. But honestly, not too much correct in your comment. But then again, you must be a neo-nazi like the Repulsive party is today. Good use of starting with Repulsive talking point #2 Bill Clinton did it. Ken Mehlman will be proud that you got that in so quickly.
Stop this senseless war (and killings) and bring our troops home. Why not an all volunteer army of Republicans? That way they could really show their loyality to W in Iraq. Repulsives, sign up for your leader!! Opps, Lush can't sign up AGAIN, he has to pee in a cup.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:39 pmThis was the real shock and awe, the room was shocked, I was in awe. Colbert showed that the Emperor has no clothes, and showed that most of the Washington press corp, is nothing more than fashion reporters.
Right on!
May 1st, 2006 at 6:40 pmOVER THE LINE ?
I'll tell you what's over the line. OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD......
1) Lying to congress and the American people so they could start an illegal war.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:47 pm2) Torturing people or incarcerating them without trial.
3) Spying on Americans
4) Outing CIA undercover officers for political pay back.
5) Refusing to fully investigate 911
6) Ignoring warnings and doing nothing about Katrina
7) Giving huge tax breaks to the super rich.
8) Using the media (Jeff Gannon) (Fox News) to spin their political lies.
9) Holding secret energy meetings.
10) Being drunk and shooting people in the face.
11) Steeling three elections.
12) Taking bribes from Abramoff in exchange for political favors.
13) Stopping everything to make a special law for Terri Chiavo.
14) Refusing to meet with Cindy Sheehan and the end of the drive way.
15) Refusing to secure our ports and boarders.
16) Making protest a crime and creating a police state.
17) Giving tax breaks and money to the radical religious right wing.
18) Using the IRS to intimidate liberal churches.
19) Using propaganda on the American people using fake news reports.
20) Making government about huge give a ways to corporations.
21) Smearing any critic with lies and distortions.
22) Cutting veterans benefits.
23) Sending our troops into battle without armor or a plan.
24) Driving up out national debt beyond anything imagined.
25) Creating social programs which are really designed to increase corporate profit.
26) Allowing Osama Bin Laudin to get away.
27) Stacking the courts with politically motivated judges.
28) Corrupting and breaking the law repeatedly without accountability.
29) Allowing the extreme religious right to abuse separation of church and state.
It wasn't funny to them because they are hacks who march in lock-step with the embarassment that is our President. Colbet is hilarious, and really quite brilliant.
LDS
p.s. That Doocy guy, by the way, is probably the dumbest, most air headed person on the entire Faux News Channel. I mean really, he's dumber than hair in a box.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:59 pmLike all Republiscums, Fox has no sense of humor -- they laugh only when they are skewering a Democrat. Many Americans were not laughing when W pretended to search for WMD in the Oval Office two years ago. Many Americans thought Laura's sex-based double-entendres of last year were inappropriate for the first lady - whether or not she is a desperate housewife.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:08 pmNothing was said about Bridges (Bush's double) making fun of Cheney's having been drunk during the shooting incident - or for referring to the first lady as "hot" (something the Dobsons and Falwells and Robertsons might not approve).
So I would remind Fox of their hypocrisy here and remind them that irony and satire are adult and appropriate forms of humor, particularly when the White House provides so much material.
I like jokes, as long as they're not TOO funny.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:13 pmI saw the colbert bit... I didn't think it was very funny either. Colbert on the Report is usually HILARIOUS, he just wasn't in stride at the dinner. FOX news probably took it as insulting rather than not funny, but on my own humble opinion I just thought it wasn't so funny.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:15 pmOver the Line?
Geez, that coming from the same network that hosts Bill O'Loofah, and Sean Whineitty.
Colbert is an American Hero!
May 1st, 2006 at 7:17 pmGod Bless Stephen Colbert for telling the truth into the face of pure evil.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:22 pmRepublicans are done , they will continue to collapse and lose control of all branches.
All because they have one weakness and they can't cure it, they can't tell the truth and
the lies they live in has caught up to the fantasy.
" Fox News Slams Colbert: ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’"
Now THAT'S Funny!
PoliticallyOutspoken
May 1st, 2006 at 7:22 pmNow THAT'S Funny!
PoliticallyOutspoken
May 1st, 2006 at 7:23 pmWhen the current regime is ultimately replaced by one that more closely resembles the rest of the world's take on reality and civility FOX will, also, ultimately vanish along with their foaming-at-the-mouth, barking hyenas.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:23 pm#166 - Bruce notes: "If somebody is simply operating on faulty data, and is saying something they believe to be true, then they are simply mistaken."
***** I had to read your first comment twice (a word of **CAUTION**) if you are serious about your definition of WMD's and lying... be careful - progs have bee known to throw people who stray from the "party line" straight under the bus - preferably one operating on natural gas....
#166 - again - "So in other words, if we think textbooks should reflect the truth, we are proud progs. If we think literary giants like Oscar Wilde shouldn’t be left out of our schools simply because of their sexual preferances..." Bruce - again
*****You didn't disappoint me, Bruce - you missed the point. Of course, the contributions of scientists, artists, authors, hairdressers, and interior designers should be included in whatever classes they apply to - BUT I don't think a pronouncement regarding the sexual proclivities of Michaelangelo or Oscar Wilde is necessary. In short, these people generally were not noteworthy because of their sexual preferences - they made contributions regardless of their orientation.
#167 - "guess I shouldn’t bring up the difference between “gay†and “pedophile†since she just wouldn’t get it." - Comment by Mooses
***** clever you, Mooses - How's this for spelling out the differences?
"Gay" is two adult men doing none of my business with each other.
"Pedophile" - Straight pedophile - is a sexual pervert who preys on young girls. (i.e.Jessica's Law in Fla. was spurred by the rape & murder of an 8 year old girl by a pedophile.
"Gay pedophile" is a sexual pervert who preys on young boys. (i.e. many of the Catholic priest abuse cases involve gay pedophiles.)
#201 - Mike - you must be bald, because those "off the top of your head" talking points" are refutable at each turn, i.e.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:28 pm#3 "Spying on Americans" - Listen slowly M-I-K-E: The NSA spying deals with "people in America" - they might be americans, they might be resident aliens, they might be illegal aliens - but what do they have in common? They like to talk to suspected terror cell members!!
#14 - He met with Cindy Sheehan once - no one has been able to haul her off poor Casey coffin since then.
#16 - Protesting isn't a crime as you falsely assert. Unfortunately, if you tried to protest in Saddam's Iraq, you'd be dead.
#26 - When you accuse the administration of letting Osama get away, you're discussing former President Clinton, right???
For us older folk it was a great monolog by Colbert and all true. I loved the stunned open mouth corporate press, what a waste there. The only disappointing part was when it came to an end. That the coward criminal George Bush or the equal cowardly press didn't like it is just to damned bad.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:36 pm#14 - He met with Cindy Sheehan once - no one has been able to haul her off poor Casey coffin since then.
Since Casey is buried in California and Cindy has been seen in Texas...DC ...and...New York City that out right lie is too easy to out. but do come here and lie and spin again...
May 1st, 2006 at 7:44 pmSteven Colbert just pointed out what anybody paying attention should already know. The president is a traitor. Mr colbert, you ARE the man. No longer should you be Robin to John Stewarts batman. The mainstream media is trying to act like this didn't happen, or that you bombed[without playing any of the footage of you]. This is rediculous. The only bomb was that nobody could possibly do a more moronic characature of the president than the president himself. What a freak! Download "Loose change 9/11" for free to learn the truth about what really happened on 9/11.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:46 pm#210, from your keyboard to God's eyes...
May 1st, 2006 at 7:47 pmColbert was hysterically funny! So much for that conservative meme 'Liberals have no sense of humor'. Looks like conservatives can dish it out but they can't take it. To laugh would be too self-incriminating I guess.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:53 pmGee, I wonder if Fox' opinion of Colbert had anything to do with his remarks about them?
May 1st, 2006 at 7:55 pm#26 - When you accuse the administration of letting Osama get away, you’re discussing former President Clinton, right???
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 1, 2006 @ 7:28 pm
No Tora Bora dumb one also this as well....
FROM THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMPANY. SO FAR, UPI IS THE ONLY CORPORATE MEDIA OUTLET IN THE U.S. WITH THE GUTS TO PICK IT UP:
Bush turned down chances to kill Zarqawi: ex-CIA spy
A former top CIA spy says the United States deliberately turned down several opportunities to kill terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
Mike Scheuer headed the CIA’s bin Laden unit for six years before resigning in 2004.
He has told the ABC’s Four Corners program the Bush administration had Zarqawi in its sights almost every day for a year.
He says a plan to destroy Zarqawi’s training camp in Kurdistan was abandoned for diplomatic reasons.
“The reasons the intelligence service got for not shooting Zarqawi was simply that the President and the National Security Council decided it was more important not to give the Europeans the impression we were gunslingers,†he said.
“Mr Bush had Mr Zarqawi in his sights for almost every day for a year before the invasion of Iraq and he didn’t shoot because they were wining and dining the French in an effort to get them to assist us in the invasion of Iraq.â€
The full story will air on Four Corners tonight on ABC television.
Comment by Bush Bites — May 1, 2006 @ 1:59 pm
May 1st, 2006 at 8:02 pmLong live Stephen Colbert! THANK YOU for making GWB and his sycophants in the WH and at Faux News uncomfortable by telling THE TRUTH. I hope that Bush and all Republicans are swiftly thrown out of office and investigated for all their crimes. It's impossible to "play at the margins," Dieboldically speaking, when a LANDSLIDE is coming down the mountain.
See you in the dock of the Congress, W!
Anyone who claims that Colbert was "over the line" and/or "not funny" is simply not paying attention, or is spinning hard, trying to keep the rest of America from seeing what is in front of their faces.
THANK YOU STEPHEN COLBERT!
May 1st, 2006 at 8:12 pmColbert was ALMOST as funny as all 6 years of watching Preznit Bush trying to convince the American public that he knows what he's doing. Almost.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:14 pmWhen the Fourth Estate cops out, thank GOD the Fifth Estate is Comedy.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:18 pmAt Post An Apology, we're asking "Is Colbert a conservative in liberal's clothing?" If so, wouldn't that be a good thing? You bet! We loved his drilling of Bill Kristol, who we believe is Dangerous to America - pushing PNAC and War in Iran. Love Think Progress' coverage of it all. Thanks! http://postanapology.blogspot.com/2006/04/going-ga-ga-for-steven-colbert.html#links
May 1st, 2006 at 8:19 pmColbert has King Kong-sized brass balls, and Fox News is beyond gutless. Colbert made history last night, and no matter how much you bland whores want to cover it up, it's getting out. Thank god for the Internet.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:22 pmof course it was funny. unless you knew you were implicated and guilty as charged. colbert, you are a hero for dishing it out. and that cowardly press, disgusting, sitting there with arms crossed, fidgetting and looking scared. they are a disgrace to our great nation. anderson cooper, soledad, i keep hoping you'll do what's right by your journalistic principles? i guess i and the rest of america can keep on dreaming.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:36 pmThe reaction was not surprising. It is quite clear that conservatives do not understand good satire. Being slapped in the face with the truth, sometimes leaves a mark.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:37 pm#210 #14 - He met with Cindy Sheehan once - no one has been able to haul her off poor Casey coffin since then.
aphrodite, I do believe that comment gets you the cold bitch of the year award. I am sure Cindy Sheehan prays every night that someone like you will never know the pain she has felt. but me--i'm not so nice.
A long time ago I remember this guy was making fun of a school nun because she was limping. He didnt like her becuase she was really strict and some said mean. She was dying of cancer. The cancer was eating her leg and marrow of her bones away. and he made fun of her, mimicked her. Well guess what? He lost his leg in a farming accident - just chipped it away bit by bit by bit. Justice is Gods some say. Justice is God's. You'll get yours, too. I have no doubt. But I wont giggle with glee. I will feel bad for you. So so bad...
May 1st, 2006 at 8:42 pmClif- you wouldn't know a metaphor if it bit you in the aspic. Must run!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 8:42 pmSince Bush doesn't read or watch the news, except for Faux News, it might have been a bit of a reality check for him. I couldn't control my laughter at a couple of places, and I was just reading the transcript. I certainly wouldn't be able to watch it in the office...
May 1st, 2006 at 8:44 pmhttp://thankyoustephencolbert.org/
Colbert is awesome.
THANK YOU!
May 1st, 2006 at 8:46 pmAnyone have a transcript of colberts bit? I am curious if he was over the line, or if FNC is yelling wolf.
Comment by Krazny — May 1, 2006 @ 12:50 pm
You can find it on youTube.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:53 pmClif- you wouldn’t know a metaphor if it bit you in the aspic. Must run!!!
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 1, 2006 @ 8:42 pm
I would but given your normal ranting just run away, straight to Fiji or Johnson Island please....
May 1st, 2006 at 8:55 pm#321
He met with Cindy Sheehan once - no one has been able to haul her off poor Casey coffin since then.
oh aphro-blow me -- spare us your bs. Anyone who cares about Cindy and her pain and her son would never say a line like you did above. Take your sacarine mounring and shove it. patriotic poser
May 1st, 2006 at 8:55 pmThe daily Kos had the entire transcript on their site here;
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811
May 1st, 2006 at 8:57 pmIt showed low class. You don't go to an event like that with a political agenda which is what this was. He could have made launched some jabs here and there but this was really ridiculous. The art of comedy is making people laugh. He could have used similar material and made it funny - instead it sounded like a dead-pan heckler.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:09 pmThank god for the Internet.
Comment by Hank Fox — May 1, 2006 @ 8:22 pm
Oh, Congress is working on taking it away from us.
Write your representatives. There are all kinds of petitions online that will send it to them for you even.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:11 pmStephen Colbert did what everyone with a clue wishes they could do. Stand a few feet away from a dictator and tell it like it is. To watch the audience and Hitler squirm in their seats was priceless. Gutless cretins every last one of them. Sadly as I was watching, I knew it would recieve no play in the 'liberal' press. I also knew the news of 350,000 people marching in NYC against the war would not recieve any coverage either. I'm so glad we have the MSM telling us children what they think we should and should not know. Colbert did indeed make history Saturday. It's a sad commentary that too few people will ever know about it.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:12 pmIt wasn't funny.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:17 pmIt was genius.
It showed low class.
If anyone would know, you would. Queen Skank that you are.
You don’t go to an event like that with a political agenda which is what this was.
He's not running for office. He has no agenda. Unlike you coming here to convince people to read your powder puff pink make-believe webiste.
He could have made launched some jabs here and there but this was really ridiculous.
Less riduculous that 2400 dead soldiers? You need to re-arrange your priotities. You have them backwards.
The art of comedy is making people laugh.
Because you wrote the dictionary? I suggest you invest in one. It will be research well worth teh investment.
He could have used similar material and made it funny - instead it sounded like a dead-pan heckler.
Comment by MXXLENT — May 1, 2006 @ 9:09 pm
Look up satire www,dictionary,com (it's free for gold-diggers like yourself). Clearly your pea brain isn't capable of understanding what it is or how it works. Colbert was brilliant. But as usual, it just went right over your head. Just like your ankles.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:19 pmHe could have made launched some jabs here and there but this was really ridiculous. The art of comedy is making people laugh.
He did make people laugh you rube. It's just everyone else that's drinking the kool-aid who doesn't find it funny.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:20 pmIn this one small speech, Steve Colbert has ascended into comedic history. Right up there with Lenny Bruce, Red Skelton, Phyllis Diller, you know the rest.... This work will be repeated for many years to come. Thanks Steve.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:21 pmI think the Stephen Colbert thing has all to do with what Sister Wendy calls comfort art. Jesse Helms was comfortable with labeling Robert Mapplethorpe's work obscene, instantly, he knew how he felt about it. Uncomfortable art is when your not quite sure about it. Stephen crosses over flawlessly from predicatble partisan hack , to realist, just simply responding to the lack of logic of the situation.He uses hey Your with me here , commrade aren't ya, gestures and this bounces him back to the loyality camp but will mock a position while sounding sincere. That's very uncomfortable art to me. Belittling humor just pushes the truth further away.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:24 pmIt showed low class.
Like the low class to promise NYC 20 Billion for 9-11 and NOT deliver....no pl,an for Iraq except the moronic we will be welcomed with flowers and hugs,.... or the promise to louisiana and new Orleans that they will have everything needed, and then go to McCains B-day party......show up about a week later promise to aid in recovery but not fund it....make military members scramble for body armor and vehicle armor, but no rich a$$ left behind....that LOW class?
You don’t go to an event like that with a political agenda which is what this was.
Like the Mission Accomplished statement?...Standing Atop the rubble claiming to get who ever did this...and a year later don't really think about it much....stage a photo op on Jackson square and clear everything out right after the camera stop running....Hide the dead in the dark of night...never go to ONE funeral of those you send to war......like that?
He could have made launched some jabs here and there but this was really ridiculous.
Only to the 32% of people who still support the Idiot you know the Backwash......
The art of comedy is making people laugh.
AND THINK...but somebody is always the butt of the joke...don't feel good for once does it...after all bush has been making the vast majority of us the Butt of his sad joke of a presidency for the last 5 years....
He could have used similar material and made it funny
It was to those who understood that almost everyone in the room was part of the problem not the solution.....and that is why they didn't like it they got called out by the truth for once on national TV in front of ther world, Colbert stated what 68% of us thinks...to the IDIOTS face GOOD for him.
- instead it sounded like a dead-pan heckler. Only to a KOOL_AID drinker like you, but since you live in 32% BACKWASH believe the lies because I've going to get mine yet rant on....and on....and on ... it ain't gonna get any better for the Foole you shove your nose up.
Comment by MXXLENT — May 1, 2006 @ 9:09 pm
May 1st, 2006 at 9:26 pmYou people all come from the lower echelons of society - the alleyways, the communes and the welfare offices - you don't go to events like that and launch into a tirade. There were Democrats there who prolly agreed 100% but they didn't laugh either. He just doesn't have class. Colbert wasn't addressing the audience there, he was addressing the people at Think Progress. Jon Stewart went to the Oscars and didn't go all out - it's normal. There is a reason why Jon Stewart is funnier - it's because he knows how to be funny and biting without being low class and obnoxious. Colbert has a lot to learn. He will learn after this.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:27 pmGOT your panties in a bunch doesn't he, well I guess you need MORE of him.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:29 pm"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
---Edward R. Murrow
May 1st, 2006 at 9:30 pmYou people?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:35 pmTruth,over the line? Corporate media with an agenda draws this line?Not for the thinking person.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:35 pmColbert has a lot to learn. He will learn after this.
Comment by MXXLENT — May 1, 2006 @ 9:27 pm
He has his own show, was invited to be the guest speaker at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and was featured on 60 Minutes last night. You are in a liberal blog begging people to come read your on-line diary.
I say spoiled little brats in pink glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Oh, and since you don't do any research, he's a news flash. Demographics suggest that poorpeople do not have internet access. And people with higher education tend to lean left. Since you can't add, I'll tell you what that equals. We're not poor or uneducated.
Shoo now.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:36 pmActually the reason you all love what Colbert did, and the reason why you think it's funny, is because of the shock value, not the humor. You love the fact that he tried to embarrass the President in his face in front of all the invitees, including Democrats. You like the fact that he was low class, crass and obnoxious at a White House event. I happen to believe he went way over the line of common decency and so it was unfunny. Shock value is not funny. Andrew Dice Clay was similar I am told. He was becoming famous at some point 10 years ago, but he didn't know how to retool his act to play different types of audiences. The result: just people who love shock value thought he was funny. Now he's a giant nobody playing small rat-infested venues in Nevada. Colbert will be there too, very soon.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:36 pmNow he’s a giant nobody playing small rat-infested venues in Nevada. Colbert will be there too, very soon.
Comment by MXXLENT — May 1, 2006 @ 9:36 pm
I repeat, Colbert has his own show, was invited to be the guest speaker at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and was featured on 60 Minutes last night. You are in a liberal blog begging people to come read your on-line diary.
We don't care what you think.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:40 pmColbert has a lot to learn. He will learn after this.
No you've got alot to learn you simpleton. Typical right wing-nut, shoot the messenger. Can your lame ass be any more predictable. Everything Bush touches turns to shit and morons like you feel compelled to make excuses and apoligize for him. Oh poor George got a dose of reality. The emporer was exposed by the jester and the right comes to his resuce. how utterly pathetic.
he will learn after this
Yeah I'm sure Adolf will send his SS agents out to correct the problem. Spoken like a true NAN. (New Amerikan Nazi)
May 1st, 2006 at 9:41 pmI have certainly been very critical of President Bush on my 360 blog but this thread is not about President Bush - this thread is about Colbert not knowing how to retool his act to fit the audience and so he bombed and just used the event to try to get his name in headlines. I just think he made a bad career move. You'll see.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:44 pmMurderers,liars,torturers,traitors,war profiteers etc. etc. talking of CLASS . NOW THAT IS FUNNY!!! Is this an attempt at advanced ironic humor by the right? Best to stick to your own lowly bigoted victimizing predjudiced brand of sub-moron reichwing humor.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:45 pmNo the reason we like it was because to a non intellectually stunded koolaid drinker like YOU it was funny....REALLY funny given the staged events poor silver foot in his mouth georgie 3 bankrupt companies before bankrupting the state of Texas and doubling this countries debt has hid behind, a lot of repugs I know never got that his show was a mockery of Bill the hypocrite O'Liely, you must have been one of them and are MAD now that you find out he fooled you too.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:45 pmI just think he made a bad career move. You’ll see.
Clearly you are unable to process just how historic an event this was. Bad career move? Colbert is bullet proof now. You'll see, nitwit.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:49 pmWhat Colbert did is similar to someone showing up on a tennis court with a baseball bat. He might have brought a good bat, and he might have hit some homeruns I admit ~~ but it's tennis. I think Colbert learned a valuable lesson.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:50 pmI sent an email to NYT to complain their lack of coverage of events in NY particularly the NYC march and our figment of our imagination 'Colbert'. My first bold effort in years, maybe I'll try walking out the door too, go to the end of the block and back again, not too much the first day. Thank God for the internet and wonderful places like TP! Colbert will inspire through the ages, it was a defining moment.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:52 pm"historic an event this was" LOL Is that why you can only read about it on some left wing blogs and it gets only casual mentions here and there. Next week everyone will have forgotten this heckler, except for you looneys. Historic event ~~ haha yeah right.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:52 pmI think Colbert learned a valuable lesson.
Comment by MXXLENT — May 1, 2006 @ 9:50 pm
If this is you best thinking do as your hero GWB did and find yourself another to act as your brain
May 1st, 2006 at 9:52 pmDo you not get it?! He took a piss on the dictator and his minions. He didn't need to pander or tailor his act to these cretins. That was the whole point. He exposed them for what they all are. Spineless cowards. Got any more lame analogies?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:54 pm" He didn’t expect laughs from the people he was skewering! He wasn’t trying to entertain those people at the conference. He was trying to expose them for the evil, lying, cowardly, weak bastards that they are"
I agree with the idea that he was there just for politics. I made that point in my first comment on this thread. I also said Democrats who were there didn't laugh either. It was just a low-class obnoxious stunt.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:55 pmMxxless, re tool his act? You have pure blog envy. Why even argue against a taste. His delivery was based on the editorial, opined handing of the head on the plate ritual that was bestowed upon him in his capacity of his job. It was art, the right doesn't get art.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:58 pmYou people need to get your thoughts together. Half of you are arguing that he was just there to "skewer" President Bush in his own house and in his face not trying to be funny but to make political points, and the other half of you are trying to say that this person was there to be funny and refuse to admit that he bombed. You can't have it both ways. Once again, your group behavior here is Kerry-esque.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:59 pmIt was not very funny.
Doocy obviously didn't get the jokes! Maybe they will become more clear if someone explains to him that we aren't laughing with him, we are laughing at him. Heehee!
May 1st, 2006 at 10:00 pmIt was just a low-class obnoxious stunt.
Comment by MXXLENT — May 1, 2006 @ 9:55 pm
Panties still in a bunch.....oh well ain't it grand Colbert DOESN'T feel your pain
May 1st, 2006 at 10:01 pmIt's basically like taking a handi capped , victim approach every time some one 180 degrees from your political hub asks you to answer a question regarding your latest well articulated idea.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:01 pm"It was art, the right doesn’t get art."
We get art, we just don't think the government should subsidize art. Colbert's "art of comedy" if you insist to call it that, is no longer funny if delivered in a shock-value type manner - it would be much much funnier if it was satirical and artfully delivered in the right places. That is why Colbert won't be remembered for this. Even all of you will forget this stunt very soon. It was low class, crass and obnoxious - just not funny. Only left wing extremists like most people here will be amused but once again, you are amused only at the fact that he tried to embarrass President Bush in his face.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:03 pmevery time i do a search on 'stephen colbert' on any mainstream news channel, i get a link to king george and his double looking for wmds. this, my dear friends, and you MXXLENT you who is hanging on the thread that colbert was classless, come on, what about the content, care to speak to that? anyway, none of these mainstreams are touching colbert. i bet foxy newsy will now stop mentioning him they must have realized how their 'not funny at all' verdict must have mobilized people to look for the video.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:04 pmGive it up MXXLENT your way out of your league here. You keep repeating yourself over and over only proving that you do not get it. Isn't it time for you to go watch FOXNEWS so you'll know what to think?
May 1st, 2006 at 10:11 pmDamn that Colbert, how dare he. Why can't he be "fair and balanced" like good ole Fox News? I mean look at it this way, he didn't call liberals or Democrats "terrorists or siding with the enemy" like Fox anchors or O'Reilly does daily attacking the left on his "Talking Crap Memo".
May 1st, 2006 at 10:14 pmColbert's stunt at the White House was unfunny and designed to make political points. On left wing blogs, I see people talk about it as "an historic event" (lol) and something that "will resonate through the ages" (lol again). Talk about hyperbole. On some right wing blogs, Colbert's stunt, if mentioned, is described as unfunny. On Yahoo, the story is in the "Oddly enough" section of newsies. But for mainstream America, Colbert's stunt is just not important or newsworthy in any manner. Sorry.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:14 pmActually I don't watch Fox News. I think it's too biased. I form my own opinions. However, you people only read liberal blogs so you know what to think, and you can virtually high-five people with similar opinions without being called on it. So next time you accuse people of watching biased channels, ask yourself about how many times YOU opened your minds. My guess is never.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:18 pmNot funny? It was so scathing it took your breath away! Of course FOX and the Bushies hated it -- it spoke truth to power. What's shocking though is that the New York Times wrote an article about the dinner and didn't even mention that Colbert was there. I guess they, too, weren't happy with his indictment of the press. So they just don't mention it, as if it never existed. I'm grateful for the blog sites; without them, we'd never get any real news. And shame on the Times. Its motto used to be "All the news that's fit to print," and that should be changed to "All the news that fits our politics we print."
May 1st, 2006 at 10:18 pmVERY SIMPLE... The Bushies don't get irony. They know Colbert is making fun of them, but the just don't understand how and why and that is *&$^@ing funny and ironic in itself. Comic Justice, I love it,
May 1st, 2006 at 10:19 pmStephen Colbert was playing the character he plays on his show, which happens to be Stephen Colbert-ultra right wing neo-con. He was in character the WHOLE time. Irony and sarcasm are his weapons. Just throwing that out there for the people who "don't get it".
May 1st, 2006 at 10:19 pmBut for mainstream America, Colbert’s stunt is just not important or newsworthy in any manner. Sorry.
That's because the zionist controlled MSM has made damn sure it got next to zero play you nimrod. One day you'll wake and realize that we have a dictatorship and not a democracy. Catch the one about Bush thinking that over 700 laws do not apply to him?! Nuff said. Time for your medication and bed MXXLENT, you friggen tard.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:20 pmBut for mainstream America, Colbert’s stunt is just not important or newsworthy in any manner. Sorry.
Comment by MXXLENT — May 1, 2006 @ 10:14 pm
So why are YOU here ranting away for over an hour trying to PROVE your point or just mad that Bush got a tenny bit of what hje really deserves.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:20 pmAHHHH! this FOX BS reminds me of their reaction to Rev. Lowery's critcisms of Bush at Coretta Scott King's funeral. The Right just can't be troubled with,or exposed to any kind of truthiness. They would clearly rather write their own fiction as they go along.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:25 pmColbert was freaking brilliant!
May 1st, 2006 at 10:31 pmIt was SO good that it made me uncomfortable. I mean it was in your face GOOD!
May 1st, 2006 at 10:37 pmM.A. Once again you're afraid to address the Colbert issue as I have done a few hours back. I challenged you on what defines a comedy and you still duck out of the issue by either retreating or changing the subject.
I guess you don't have an answer which means....I WIN!
May 1st, 2006 at 10:40 pmFox News is just pissed cuz Colbert went on 60 minutes and compared his fake news with theirs.
Yep, Colbert makes us laugh and so does Fox News.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:51 pmI wish there were more people like Colbert who would say it to Presidents face. He (Prez.)needs to feel uncomfortable. He needs someone to keep the bur under his saddle. Because I don't see how he can sleep at night. I hope he is having nightmares about what he has cause and I hope it haunts him for the rest of his life.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:00 pmMy god MXXLENT, you are incredibly stupid. WE come from the lowest echelon of society? Where do you get that shit? If we were would we be on-line? You craven, psychotic bitch, join up.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:03 pmMXXLENT is a gop operative trying to minimize Colbert to save face. Colbert was hilarious, the MSM didn't get it because the joke was ON them. So much for liberal media bias. proof the reality does have a liberal bias
May 1st, 2006 at 11:09 pmhttp://www.thankyoustephencolbert.org/
Fox News makes more Bush bashers famous than anyone else.
I bet these stupid neocons never heard of Stephen Colbert until their mighty leaders of Faux News mentioned him.
Such dumbasses, republicans.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:16 pmBOTTOM LINE, for all the right-wingers who posted here: Steven Colbert was BRILLIANT and completely on the mark the entire time. About W., the press, democracy, everything. What irks me the most is that no one in the supposedly "liberal" media is reporting on this. Clearly it's newsworthy. I mean, if Fox is going to attack Colbert and say he went "over the line" why the heck isn't CNN talking about it and showing clips on Anderson Cooper or Larry King Live??!!! Why? Because they're all a bunch of chicken shits who're still kow-towing to our know-nothing president even when 68% of the American people now DISAPPROVE of him & the job he's doing.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:16 pmHappy Mission Accomplished Day!
Happy Stephen Colbert Day!
May 1st, 2006 at 11:17 pmMXXLENT- I wonder if you are really Mighty Aphrodite, and you are using another name to hide yourself from addressing the issue as yourself. If not, either way
May 1st, 2006 at 11:17 pmLEAVE YOU LITTLE SAD PATHETIC TROLL!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
It was as funny as funny gets. And that the morons in the press who were there, were largely not amused, made it just that much funnier.
150 million people to the MSM: He hate you, you suck, and we laugh when someone smacks you upside the head.
That was for the so-called liberal media (yeah right).
Fox? Please.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:25 pmRight on chris #292, mainstream media is hyping the immigration bullshit because Mission Accomplished Day and Stephen Colbert Day hurts the neocon agenda too much.
Real Americans ignore mainstream media. Blogs Rule!
May 1st, 2006 at 11:25 pmchris you said it all.
May 1st, 2006 at 11:29 pmi only wish colbert had said more.
what a guy.
DOOCY: He was playing a good sport as his body double was there. But shortly after that, the paid performer, Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report, took the stage and did about 15 minutes and it was very uncomfortable. Personally I felt like he went over the line. Today in Lloyd Grove’s column, he says that Colbert “bombed badly.†It was not very funny.
You know, what we got here is a White House with its spin machine that has NO SENSE OF HUMOR! Helen Thomas Got it. Here response was as if to say, "Oh come on, you guys, it was wall in fun!"
I say, HELEN THOMAS FOR PRESIDENT!
We need someone in the White House who can stand the heat in the kitchen!
(... instead of these frightened flousies on Fox.)
May 1st, 2006 at 11:51 pmB A L L S
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:00 amI would think it's hard to criticize a president with a president at such low approval ratings. Stephen Colbert did an awesome job which i commend him for. I laughed my ass off in that segment. It seems that being truthful isn't polictically correct and of course VERY UNCOMFORTABLE.
-"silence is golden, but duct-tape is silver."
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:00 amSteve Doocy (stupid name, by the way) is the biggest sore loser in the history of the planet. He was jealous that he didn't have the humor or the money that Mr. Colbert makes. Maybe because he was passed over for that Daily Show gig. Apparently it help Craig Kilborn, Stephen Colbert and the most famous of the alumni... Steve Carell.
Like Nick Lachey, Doocy is a plastic Ken doll with no clue.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:03 amHey zookeeper...
I have replayed the Bush looking for WMD (insult to American troops) fiasco many times over in my head. It rates as one of the most disgusting things that any president has ever done in my memory or any that I have read about before JFK.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:11 amThe whole premise behind this is that he is one of them, but one who mistakenly tells the truth.
He exposed them at their core. Good for you Steve, you used your opportunity to enlighten more that entertain.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:18 amRe: #245
"You people all come from the lower echelons of society - the alleyways, the communes and the welfare offices - you don’t go to events like that and launch into a tirade."
Obviously, you are a completely ignorant moron. First, I hardly think Colbert's routine could be called a tirade.... and second, if you review history, what they do at the white house correspondent's dinner is make fun of the administration.
I am sorry you are ignorant and have no sense of humor. I want you to know that I have been on the net for over ten years, and this is the first time I have felt compelled to be rude to another neitzen. But your grasp of the language and of reality appear so tenuous that I hope I shock you back into the USA in 2006
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:26 amCome on FOX News guys, where is your sense of humor? ;)
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:42 amI guess now the Stephen Colbert's BIG Brass Balls Award worth a LOT
Boy this thread has been hot on this subject all day > maybe this thread will reach 500 posts before its retired?
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:42 amHELLO!? The Fox jackasses saying it's "not funny" or "over the line" had nothing to do with their actual opinion of the humor. THEY ARE SIMPLY ADVANCING ROVE TALKING POINTS. PUH LEASE. It was all but ignored on the "MSM" (i.e. non Fox, non blog)... at least Olbermann broadcast a lot of it, but he was compelled (by upper management?) to question Colbert's act along the same lines "Did this go too far??" OF COURSE it didn't go "too far", and OF COURSE it was freaking funny - incredibly bold, biting satire, all based in the sad truth of this pig's policies - utterly roasting the Commander in Thief in hilarious fashion, harkening back to Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and the Smothers Brothers (that's how far back we have to go for quality political satire).
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:01 amBut then, isn't that the point of this silly dinner? What could possibly worse and more tasteless than kids coming home in body bags, and this absolute soulless psycopath does a sketch where he's "looking for the WMD's" under his desk, etc.
According to the "facts", the US is a democracy, where the citizens control the nation's destiny and the press is free to report on it.
According to our collective "gut", the US is not a democracy whatsoever. Our gut tells us not to question decisions because we don't want to make things uncomfortable. Our gut is afraid of getting sued. Our gut is afraid of getting fired. Our gut is afraid of becoming marginalized. Our gut is afraid to admit mistakes. Our gut says to respect those in high offices. Our gut says to not rock the boat. Our gut says we need to be unified during this time of history; there will be a time and place sometime in the future when we can reflect on what was right and wrong.
As in the past and in the future, we'll continue to hear more politicians and pundits saying "coulda shoulda woulda", "I said this but they didn't listen to me", and then brushing things under the rug as they meet opposition. At the end of the day, the only thing left in our gut is regret of opportunities we didn't take.
Thank you Mr. Colbert for (1) having the brains to report things clearly; (2) having the balls to stay consistent no matter what the audience; (3) having the talent to deliver it in a forum that works.
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:30 amThank Stephen Colbert:
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:33 amhttp://thankyoustephencolbert.org
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:34 am[...] If you haven’t seen Steven Colbert recent routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner, then you are missing a very biting critique of the President. It’s made even more stinging because the President was sitting less then 25 feet away. Colbert attacks the President on his low polls, his handling of Iraq, and his “beliefs” despite the facts with a savage fury. The audience remained relatively silent, not because the monologue wasn’t funny, but more because it was so devastating in it’s attack on the nearby President that it bordered on uncomfortable. Surprisingly there has been little mention of it in the press (I don’t count The Huffington Post as press), with Fox News mentioning it briefly and calling it “unfunny” and “over the line”. It was definitely very funny, bitingly so, but I do agree that it may have been the wrong place, though there wasn’t one thing that I disagreed with. But whether it was the right or wrong place, Steven Colbert is a great political satirist and showed it on Saturday. You can catch him at 11:30pm on Comedy Central. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:41 amColbert was funnier than hell. Unfortunately, Hell has of late been funnier than the Bush administration, which currently reeks of the lowest pits of greed and deptravity, explaining the obvious jelousy espoused by GW and his/her flying monkeys.
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:57 amFox news upset at Colbert. Too bad. As Jon Stewart,& steven Colbert are probably the most honest of any media in the US. (Canada included)
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:03 amThey have been my main source of newsfor years, ( and for the benefit of the young 'uns, I
LMAO every night at them,& I'm 72)
Everything said in the comments is true. George Moron Bush is certifiable. He jokes when thousands of boys are dying, or being horribly maimed in Iraq, who are there because of his lies.
God bless Steven Colbert.By the thousands of positive comments,maybe he's woken more folks up to the truth.
Johnny,
Ont. Canada
Balls ... Big brassy balls ... Journalists take notice...
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:05 amThis is the perfect time to quote another great satirist, Jonathan Swift: “When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.â€
Colbert is the genius; you can guess who the dunces are.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:06 amabsofugginlutely side-splittingly funny. watching the Impeachable Preznit get zinged continuously and repeatedly was worth it more than anything on any media since dick Cavatt called Strom Thurmond a bigot on national TV.
Priceless.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:26 amBush is so retarded he probably didn't understand half of Colbert's humor. If he felt uncomfortable, good. I have felt uncomfortable with the Bush administration for 5 years. Maybe he will be humbled by the event. Colbert had some huge huevos to do it in his face!
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:40 amBush is so retarded he probably didn't understand half of Colbert's humor. If he felt uncomfortable, good. I have felt uncomfortable with the Bush administration for 5 years. Maybe he will be humbled by the event. Colbert had some huge huevos to do it in his face!
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:40 amBahah, this is hilarious.
"HE WENT OVER THE LINE!"
Gimme a break ;X
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:07 amHe went over the line!! Way over the line!!! That sort of rubbish is not tolerable in a our civilized society!!! Stephen Colbert is my HERO!!! Wish Jon Stewart had the ballz to do a little of that at the Oscars.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:48 amLike dissident antipoliticians in the formerly communist Czechoslovakia, who used satire and absurdity to highlight the fact that in a post-modern consumer society the “line of complicity runs through each of us,†the new American generation distrusts political grandstanding and even traditional forms of organized politics.
Hence, the popularity of the so called "No Brow" satires like South Park, The Colbert Report, and The Daily Show. Growing up with the quintessential Boomer technology, the television set, has made us literate consumers of electronic stories.
Despite whining from every denomination of social commentators about today's generation's apparent apathy. The political blackout is all pervasive, and flows from the intoxicating polemics of the previous generations’ culture war that eclipse most public discourse about the shifting boundaries of our social geography and economic life. “Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world,†writes Vaclav Havel former antipolitician later turned President of the democratic Czech Republic.
On the left, critics bemoan the commodification of art and corporate America’s co-option of the symbols from the former bohemian and newer alternative counterculture. “Hip is how business understands itself,†writes Tom Frank suggesting that the emerging culture is just another aspect of capitalism.
On the right, detractors echo analogous themes on the moral decay and devolution of society. David Brooks describes the members of today’s generation as “The Organization Kid,†part of the “Future Workaholics of America, obsessively career conscious and deferent to any authority that will get them ahead.
This new generation, argues Brooks, lacks defining concepts of “character and virtue,†for they have been reared in “a country that has lost, in its frenetic seeking after happiness and success, the language of sin and character-building.†“When I asked about moral questions,†writes Brooks, they “often flee such talk and start discussing legislative questions...These young people are not part of an insurrection against inherited order. They are not even part of the conservative reaction against the insurrection.†writes Brooks, “[i]t's not that they reject one side of that culture war, or embrace the other. They've just moved on.â€
Indeed, they have. Boomers are wired to view creativity as a choice between “selling out†or “sticking it to the manâ€; and the quest for the great society is a dogmatic battle between the mediocrity of relativism and the virtue of absolutes. To use former bohemian terminology, today’s generation do not have those hang-ups.
The result is a generational gap, largely unnoticed by boomers and their progeny alike. “They have relatively little generational consciousness,†writes Brooks, “because this generation is for the most part not fighting to emancipate itself from the past.â€
This suggestion is provocative considering that while “the baby boom included the largest U.S. birth cohort to date, the game generation will ultimately outdo the baby boom in size, in scope, and presumably in influence,†notes John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade in their study of the game generation’s influence on organizational values in business. In fact, “the total size of the game generation is already greater than the baby boom ever was,†and the whole generation of gamers, “including X and Y and letters to be named later-simply approach the world differently than their predecessors.â€
The playwright Heiner Mueller remarked that the potency of theater in his native East Germany was based on the absence of other ways of getting messages across to people. "As a result," Mueller says, "theater here has taken over the function of other media in the West." That is until now. While the never ending surface chatter on the left and the right erodes the currency of words, it inflates the space between the lines.
HP
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:49 amMy Dad was a Washington correspondent for over 50 years, so I have been
connected with these people for decades. My take on this whole thing is a little
different from some here. I thought Colbert was spot-on live. I thought his video
was great until he did his little flight from the podium routine. That got tedious--an
unfortunate out-take that got left in.
What I got out of this was that Colbert wasn't even aiming at Bush. Bush just took hits
as collateral damage. Colbert was aiming straight at the media who have cowered for
the last 5 years as if they were afraid of their own shadow (or Bush's shadow, or maybe
that of their corporate sponsors). In this, he scored a direct hit. Over the line for the
occasion? Yes, but only slightly. And it was about f***ing time!! Sure, it might have
been better, but not much. Colbert made a point to a lot of people that sorely needed
to be reminded what they learned in journalism school, and not what they learned from
an editor beholden to his coporate masters more than to journalistic principles. Fox
is no more journalism than Göbbels' Propagandaministerium was the Associated Press.
Being one of the few to say so in the presence of the assembled WH Press coprs, and
in clever terms, Colbert may bring down the wrath of the ones he mocked, but his
performance will not fade into obscurity any time soon, and neither will he. To the
statement made earlier that he will learn, I'd amend that to say that he will learn to
get even better at what he does, and he is no slouch at that already.
If I were he, I wouldn't fly in any light aircraft any time soon.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:07 amOh, I see Fox and Friends...so you're saying that Bush, Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld filiming a short video to show these bafoons looking all over the place in the Oval Office, under seat cushions, under desks, behind clocks while 'looking for the missing WMD to show as HUMOR at the Correspondents Dinner WAS funny and appropriate???? Now we all know that there were no WMD's to begin with and that Bush and his pals were pulling a fast one on the American people and thought it would be so cute to to ridicule the American troops and Iraqi Civilians that were killed up to that point for a War that was based on your own damn lies????
THAT'S APPROPRIATE???????
UNBELIEVABLE! Stephen Colbert was brilliant. Biting, yes! But what should one be at this point after all of the lies, failures, incompetence and corruption that we have been given by the Bush Administration. Just what the F do they expect at this point?!
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:08 amYou journalists can continue to kneel in line waiting to give Bush a blow job. You lost any credibility you had BEFORE the war even started by not doing your jobs to investigate or verify the (bogus) Intel and evidence while this vile Admin. was cooking up a war based on complete lies and manipulated intelligence. I was proud that Stephen Colbert ripped on all of you as well.
MA
I would say that his homosexuality was fairly central to his life. It got him 2 years of prison and hard labour. If you are going to teach kids about who Oscar Wilde was, you have to teach them who he was. It would be like teaching Van Gogh without mentioning that he was a raving luny who cut his own ear off.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:26 amWatched Colbert Monday night. Played part of his speech met with cricket noises. That was funny too. He did ruffle feathers and good for him. The WHPC are mostly spineless jerks who do just type whatever the press secretary says without questioning the truth or accuracy of any statement. If I were a reporter, I would ask NOT to be put on the WH beat, because the non-answers, the lies , and the weasling by the administration through a sycophant would turn my stomach.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:49 amAs to the free speech debate going on, freedom brings responsibilities, and sometimes free speech has consequences. When you exercise free speech, you have to let the other fellow exercise his too. You may disagree, you may dislike it, but you may not censor or quash it. Exercising your rights makes them stronger. And to quote countless fitness gurus, "No pain, no gain."
Colbert was great! Truthiness hurts!
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:59 amLaugh only when the Li'l BoyKing laughs, you terrists!
Not funny! Not Funny!
Tools, every one of them.
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:21 amColbert was fantastic!
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:46 amFAUX NEWS would not know the difference between honest commentary and propaganda unless Armstrong Williams told them.
What is still sad is that the rest of the media has been so SILENT! Has anyone seen any other mainstream media refer to Colbert's brilliant expose of Bush? I didn't think so.
To honor Colbert please help legislation against BEARS!
Colbert's performance was the stuff of legends; it will not fade into obscurity--thousands of downloads on bittorrent sites and free video sites attest to that.
"..That thing about not yelling fire in a crowded theatre because some things do cross the line..."
Uh, I think it's a good idea to alert others if the theatre is on fire; would you rather they burned? And if the theatre isn't truly on fire, if the exclamation is merely a prank, then you are deserve what you get if you are too stupid to realize it is a hoax when you don't smell smoke.
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:49 am"then you deserve what you get if you are too stupid to realize it is a hoax when you don’t smell smoke," I should say!
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:51 amYeah, it sure is great to be in a forum like this where everybody agrees about everything, I could read "Way to go Colbert" and "Take that Faux News" all night. Its about time more comedians stood up and started being totally unfunny.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:06 amIt would have been funny if it were not true. The truth hurts a lot when places like Faux News spends it's time being the bush news network. I don't watch your crap and spend my time trying to persuade people not to watch your foul lying programs. Faux news the worst thing that has ever happened to America!!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:39 amFOX is to News as WWF wrestling is to sports.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:42 amIt made me sick to sit and watch the correspondents dinner thinking that all of these so called news reporters are just perpetuating the problem we have. Laughing at Bush's BS. They are complicit as all of us are that Bush isn't out of office. The media just compounds the problems we have by not reporting the truth and holding those in power accountable, president, cabinet, house, senate etc. The only saving grace was Colbert bringing those things to light. We are in trouble America just you wait and see how much the next 10 years will tell. If it even takes that long. The mainstream press feeds the lies to the mindless masses. Enjoy.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:46 amUh, I think it’s a good idea to alert others if the theatre is on fire; would you rather they burned? And if the theatre isn’t truly on fire, if the exclamation is merely a prank, then you are deserve what you get if you are too stupid to realize it is a hoax when you don’t smell smoke.
Comment by Jason Baron — May 2, 2006 @ 6:49 am
Uh, the exception implies dishonesty. Don't be a jerk for the sake of being a jerk. The person I was speaking with knew what I meant.
Do you even live in reality? If someone yells fire in a crowded theatre, then I'm not going to be stupid enough to wait to smell smoke. Being right isn't always preferable to being dead. Especially when my chances of surviving a fire increase if I leave the area. Too many years designing buildings for fire protection to agree with your ego on this one. Find a better argument.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:49 amColbert was magnificent. I never enjoyed "serious" TV fare so much. The truth, packaged in comedic ways, is far far more impactful than normal oral conveyance. It is an art form splendidly displayed that evening by Colbert. MSM failure during this Bush administration could not be more appropriately conveyed full faced to those responsible for that failure. Bravos to Colbert!!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:52 amIts about time more comedians stood up and started being totally unfunny.
Comment by big man — May 2, 2006 @ 7:06 am
It's okay dear, not everyone is smart enough to get satire. It was funny. Very funny. But requires a brain, and awareness of the world (which you can't have if you think everyone in here is agreeing with one another) and a sense of humor to get it.
Try Sesame Street. I think that's more your brand of humor.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:54 amIt's probably been said dozens of times on this thread, but Fox News' reaction is one of countless indications that, for all of their bravado, for all of O'Reilly's "Shut up!" schtick, they're nonetheless a gang of gutless sycophantic wimps with nothing to say except what the treasonous, murdering bossmen tell them to say. They'll be whores until there's nothing left but a puddle and gravity.
What I like about their recent criticisms of Colbert is that they are tacitly acknowledging the rhetorical stake in the heart that Colbert drove mercilessly into their chest. And they deserved every hammer blow.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:32 amThe Helen Thomas skit, being panned here, was meant as a last remaining, giant turd that landed on the head of the MSM. Of course, it was long, and some would say, overextended. But it worked. And Colbert designed it that way. The level of sophistication that went into the production of the skit should have been the giveaway that MSM viewers were the target audience, while earlier pieces of the live script were meant for us, the television viewers.
Colbert was saying metaphorically, "Let 'em squirm." Let 'em sit in their seats and watch Thomas pursue the truth. Let Thomas leave the whores behind. Screw the bastards.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:51 amI saw the entire clip and I thought it was not disrespectful and there was not much new that Colbert has not already said. I think it is healthy to lampoon the press and politicians in an open forum. This is a free country after all and political correctness goes hand in hand with government excesses. God bless America and God bless Steven Colbert for having the balls to get in front of our self annointed press and politicans and give them a does of what we must endure from them each day.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:02 amIt was truly a courageous piece. He managed to savage almost everyone who was there. No, it wasn't funny; nor should it have been. The media has been tapdancing to whatever beat Bush calls for 5 years now. That this pile of self-congratulatory crap goes on every year while Rome burns is offensive. Blame Colbert for pointing out the obvious if you wish, but he had the balls to say what no one else would. Good for him. Too bad we have to get our truth from comedians.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:04 amI'm an old white person and thought (and think) Colbert is absolutely hilarious. He's the equivalent of the little boy who shouted, "The Emperor has no clothes!"
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:09 amThe funniest thing about the Colbert flap is that he was invited in the first place. His Comedy Central show is so over the heads of the dinner planners that they thought he was going to be soft on the "President." He is so to the right of even Bill O'Reilly in his satirical delivery that these people did not understand that he is has been saying "To Hell with the Chief!" instead of "Hail" to him. The outrage by some pundits and the press is the shock and awe that anyone had the cahunas to look the frat brat ass jerk in the eye and call him out to his syncophantic horde. Yeah, they were squirming like a bunch of wormy dogs with a bad case of mange. Bless you Mr. Colbert. You sold them the tainted flesh eating fungus they deserved and they had to sit there and eat it all. The stinch rising afterwards was somewhat like a mushroom cloud of their own pent up fecal matter that hopefully will leave a permanent stain on all those who were offended.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:15 amBrian K is a joke. When Pres. Bush was doing his belated flyover Katrina last year...Brian was laughable with his foolish spin. He said something to the affect of, "Pres. Bush, WASTING NO TIME, is flying over to survey the situation. " I guessing even the Faux News regulars knew that was a laugh (in a sad kind of way.)
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:24 amBrian K is a joke. When Pres. Bush was doing his belated flyover Katrina last year...Brian was laughable with his foolish spin. He said something to the affect of, "Pres. Bush, WASTING NO TIME, is flying over to survey the situation. " I guessing even the Faux News regulars knew that was a laugh (in a sad kind of way.)
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:24 amWhen a seducer's tricks are exposed, the seduced first reaction is to deny having been seduced and react angrily toward the one that revealed the truth.
Bush, the Grand Seducer and the Modern Version of the other well know Seducer that once ruled Germany could not have been happy seeing his con line being exposed for the lie that it is.
The Media, for there part, having served as the conduit of the Grand Seducer's propaganda were probably shocked and embarrased by the fact that the truth they have ignored for years was served back to them by a "comedian." "That's crossing the line."
In the mindset of the Media, the Colbert commentary was an intrusion on their turf and a "how dare he" to revealed what they thought they had censored and controlled all this time to maintain our profitable relationship with the Grand Seducer's "unnamed sources."
Like little children caught having dipped in the cookie jar, they sat on their hands, mouth aghast not believing they had been caught in their own duplicity.
The fact that the so-called "Liberal "media ignored the Colbert satire is proof positive that the label is a myth and that it is nothing more than a modified version of the Faux news Network.
Look at the way they showered Snow with accolades when he switched his hosting position on Fox to the White House Network, "Crosssfire" imitation and you can only conclude that seduced Conservatives control the Media.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:26 amGWB has been using the WHCD as an opportunity to boost his own ego, and has had no shortage of willing participants, eager to play along. Given his declining popularity, he was no doubt counting on this event to give him some measure of reassurance. And it almost worked. And what choice do they have, but to say it wasn't funny? If they laughed, it was a betrayal of GWB, as it implied an agreement with what Colbert was saying. And that would never do. But they should remember that it's the cover-up that causes all the problems.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:42 amColbert of the Colbert Report, took the stage and did about 15 minutes and it was very uncomfortable.
it was uncomfortable because it was true. here's what i think is uncomfortable:
2400 soldiers dead
osama bin laden
mission accomplished
refused release of pentagon "jet" footage
refused release of black box info from the "hijacked" planes
WTC building 7's odd collapse
ommitted 9-11 commision pages
* Feb. 7, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to U.S. troops in Aviano, Italy: "It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
the pnac group
administration business ties to the middle east, halliburton, carlyle group, bin laden....
the patriot act
wiretapping
no WMD
the secrecy of the administration
why does the gov't seem to want to know more about me and me know less about them?
AIDS
we can spend billions to fight and uneccessary war while we have American citizens who cant get a good meal
Abu Ghraib
....and it goes on and on. But you know what, yeah you're right Stephen Colbert was uncomfortable. Another example of excellent news coverage by fox and friends. Keep up the good work guys.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:48 am[...] Throughout the blogosphere people are lamenting the lack of coverage of Stephen Colbert’s presentation to the White House Press Association Dinner. Crooks and Liars has a video clip from the speech. Think Progress links to one of many reports where Colbert’s performance was considered “over the line.” All this because he made remarks that skewered the President and, more tellingly, the press—with the exception of Helen Thomas. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:56 amsometimes telling "truth to power" HURTS!! good for you colbert!!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:09 amIf there really were cough "terrorists" cough they would drive a truck bomb up to Fux Snooze live on Fox and Friends, oh howl they would be crapping their bunnypants!
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:17 amWhat do you think would happen if somone like Hillary or John were Pres! and some comedian from the right side of the group slithered up to the podiun and did a little number on them?
Ohh I forgot comedy don't work too well on neo's and they don't have any comedians to speak of.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:29 amToo funny. Hey Dumbya and all you criminal repugs...can't take the heat? Get out of the kitchen
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:34 amStephen Colbert was RIGHT-ON target. It's no wonder he left the crowd befuddled, they were ultimately LOST. His comment about the reporters spending more time with their family and writing that book they always wanted to, about uncovering some corruption in the WHite House and breaking a killer story, calling it 'fiction' was precious. If I hear another talking head spew how great the Bush Clone skit was , I'm gonna puke. The Bush Clones were littered throughout the audience, I'm afraid. That is why they were so freakin' lost.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:35 am[...] First of all, I’m sure that all of Washington, not to mention the corridors of media outlets far and wide, we all buzzing in reaction to Stephen Colbert’s 20-minute lampoon on not only the Preznit but the media in general - if not in print or on video, then at the very least in whispers to one another. Colbert, now my favorite human being in the universe, was asked to host the White House Correspondents Dinner. Rather than taking the easy route and just doing a simple comedy sketch, Colbert used his time to turn the mirror on the White House and the media coverage that has excused itself from real reporting for the better part of five years. If anything summed it up, it was Stephen’s quip, “I am appalled to be surrounded by the liberal media that is destroying America, with the exception of Fox News. Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the president’s side, and the vice president’s side.” Oddly enough, this joke was probably the one that drew the most laughter — even if Fox didn’t much appreciate it. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:36 amIt was FuNNy! Obviously, the White House knew what it was getting itself into when Stephen Colbert was invited to the White House Correspondents Dinner. Sometimes, the President needs to laugh at himself, because...guess what? A lot of people are already laughing at him. If I were the President, I'd like want to know why people are laughing.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:36 am[...] At the correspondants dinner, standing only 5 feet from President Bush, Colbert roasted the President like he's never been roasted before. His performance has been decried by conservatives (including Fox News). Mr. Colbert proved that he does indeed have a huge set of brass balls. You must watch this performance. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:41 amI must say, Stephen Colbert has guts. He pulled off a comic coup.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:44 amTexas Loves Stephen Colbert!!!
pulled from The American Chronicle...
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:55 amFOX News, also a target in Colbert’s routine, reported in one of the few mentions of Colbert’s performance that Colbert “bombed†at the dinner. They noted that the crowd was uncomfortable and the president didn’t appear to find it funny. That is not because Colbert was bombing in the comedic sense, it’s because Colbert was dropping bombs on those in attendance. Yes it was uncomfortable. Yes, it was quiet. Yes, Bush looked annoyed. Colbert delivered what this administration could not, shock and awe.
Thank him yourselves:
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:15 amSteve Cobert was great. A brick of truth through a plate glass window of lies. Finally, someone got a chance to stand up and put a mirror up to these people and they didn't like what they saw. Well, guess what, we don't like what we see either.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:22 amWith Colbert's performance we finally have someone who, instead of preaching to the choir for the feel good laughs, turned around and lambasted the church goer audience with a huge satirical sermon that bit them all on their fat lazy asses.
Little wonder they didn't like it.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:26 am[...] Colbert-gate has quickly became the hot topic on the Internets. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert had, not surprisingly, some witty barbs regarding the speech. Stewart employed the fabulous new word "balls-a-licious," while Colbert remarked that The Decider's hands were surprisingly soft. "He must wear gloves when he is clearing brush." For the other side's perspective, check out this Fox News transcript and video. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:26 amI thought the routine was brilliant and made fun of just about EVERYONE who needed it--including Justice Scalia, who obviously is a very good sport with a very good sense of humor.
And yes, Don Imus and others did much, much worse to Clinton, in his presence.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:28 amAnd to think, there are people out there
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:36 amthat still watch Fox news and are NOT embarrassed to admit it. Even the worst
drunks that hang out at the local bar here know that Fox news is a bunch
of worn out republican journalist grasping at straws while sinking in mire. Even
the republican worst drunks.
Uh oh, are the Fox news special forces
going to show up at my local bar now?
My god man! Colbert was great!
Way to go Stephen!
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:37 amFor once Bush had to sit and have his shit thrown back at him....and Colbert didn't even mention all the innocent dead or the people in NO....Colbert was decent....Bush deserves to hear much more about he destroyed 2 countries...and is doing the same to ours....How dare the Repubs think with all the disasters in the world their butts should be stroked...Thanks Stephen
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:44 amWhat else can one expect from the Bush News Network. Bush and friends can only bitch and moan when confrontced with the truth. Sadly the American public has lost trust in the faux president and executive branch of government for their despicable lying and deceit.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:51 amColbert is the man. It took some serious guts to stand up there and keep going after everyone stopped laughing. It's a sad day when america has to rely on a comedian to defy the president. Our press is a total joke.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:52 amI wonder if the guy who hired Stephen Colbert still has a job. It is not surprising that most of the people attending the dinner didn't think he was funny. They didn't think it was funny because he was speaking the truth and sometimes the truth hurts. The only criticism I have of his performance was that I think his "audition" tape went a little long. Other than that, I think his performance was brilliant.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:55 amToo bad that Fox Faux News can't emulate Stephen Colbert. Colbert's news is the truth about events,Fox mimics Dubya & Co; with their lies & disdain for the people of the U.S.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:04 pmAs many people have already commented, by trying to discredit Stephen,they only give him a bigger audience. Folks who missed him at the Correspondents Dinner, will hear about it from
Fox,60 Minutes,etc.
He's (along with Jon Stewart) one of the most outspoken people on events of importance.'The Daily Show', with these guys,has been my premier source for news for a long time. It's announced in a comedic way, but it's the truth!!!!
Last night I watched 'Good Night,and Good luck', Colbert has the guts of Edward R. Murrow.
What happens in the States affects the World,& as one of your Canadian neighbours,Dubya & Co; are too close for comfort.
I hope,fervently, that some Democrat, with massive cohones,emerges to kick The Pretender to the non-existent throne in the ass, but good.
Bruce Gorton, Would you say being a raging drunk was central to the artistic contributions of Jackson Pollock and Richard Burton? Do you think the unconventional sexual proclivities of Errol Flynn, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Tyrone Power, etc. are any of our business?? I don't.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:12 pmAnyone working on that station and towing the line should be horse whipped.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:15 pmYes, fear that one might lose one's unearned status makes a lot of things seem less funny.
Can Colbert be awarded any medals for heroism?
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:30 pmMaybe Colbert should be taking lessons from Ann Coulter; you know, telling "jokes" about assassinating Presidents or Judges, or chuckling about bombing newspapers. That stuff has the rightwingers rolling in the aisles and the cable news producers clamoring to get her on their shows.
But don't dis Fox NEws or Dear Leader...especially not in a way that reveals some truth...
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:36 pmIs the New York Times now owned by Fox News? They (some crony named Elisabeth Blumiller who's obviously angling for a GOP/Fox job) wrote a thousand words on the dinner saying how funny the two Bushes were but didn't even mention Stephen Colbert.
Shock and awe indeed.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:38 pmI was completely repulsed by the press jackanapes sitting around braying with laughter
at that stupid Bush double. How about being in opposition, pressies? You should not need
a fake newsman to remind you of the mess this person has made of our country and various
other parts of the world. If this guy was roasted and got all peeved, it's still no substitute
for investigative reporting.
And yes--the posters here who reminded us of the lame Laura routing about jacking off
horses or the completely unfunny "search" for WMDs under the desk keep this in focus.
Don't eat with this guy, don't laugh at his canned crap that speechwriters crank out,
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:43 pmand try to keep us informed of his latest outrages--from a distance!
Almost FOUR HUNDRED comments on this ONE article!
I bet that is the most Faux Mews has got in a LONG time...
That's a lesson to all the SPIN PEDDLERS there in TV land. The "Republican Entertainment for the Masses" that FOX passes off as News will not win any credability, will not win higher rating, will NEVER win over the RESPECT that Stephen Colbert has EARNED by exposing the media for what they are; Castrated White House Dogs.
No wonder they did not laugh.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:51 pmTheir master was getting a long deserved verbal whipping.
And now, as one would expect, they are doing EVERYTHING to pretend it did not happen.
The fact that Fox News did not find it funny makes it even better. If I worked for an organization that supports the president instead of telling the news and I and the president I support got douched on I wouldn't be amused either. Luckily Fox News is losing credibility by the day; even the guy that runs the station in a recent interview called it 'alternative news.' Stephen Colbert is quickly making a name for himself as having the largest balls of anyone in terms of standing up to the President, the hypocrisy of the Republican Party, and Fox News.
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:21 pmLong live Stephen Colbert!!! Political satirist extraordinaire!
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:24 pm[...] Update: Fox News (predictably) thinks Colbert was “over the line” on this. I guess because they were specifically called out as being yes-men. Gosh — I never saw this coming. Think Progress » Fox News Slams Colbert: ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’ BRIAN KILMEADE: We’re also going to talk about what happened at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The inside story about the Steven Colbert speech: was it really over the line or is that just typical when the President goes to these Washington correspondents dinners? [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:38 pmOf course the Faux News Channel would have their shills go after Colbert! After all, Colbert's TV persona of a right wing commentator looks only slightly more foolish than the real ones on Faux.
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:49 pmFaux's response is also quite ironic when you consider some of the stupid, mean comments made on their channel by Madcow, Ana Coulter, etc.
Maybe lying about a stain on a blue dress was really not that bad?!
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:52 pmHow rude are these people? They invite a guy to perform and then dump on him for doing what he does EVERY NIGHT on TV. They owe Colbert a huge apology.
It's as if they invited Bruce Springsteen to perform and then got angry he didn't dance ballet.
Rude. Unprofessional. Empty-headed, thoughtless children.
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:53 pmNews to Turn Horses Into Glue (it’s true)...
And I ran! Iran my nuclear testing straight into the heart of the Zionist pig! Well, in preemptive response to American action against it’s nuclear program, Iran has threatened to attack Israel. And for those of you short on your Middle East hi...
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:59 pmStephen Colbert is one of the funniest men on the planet!!!! Of course, Fox didn’t care for his speech because of all the cleverly crafted and truthful JOKES!!!! Colbert’s whole show makes fun of Fox and there methods and it’s friggin hysterical!!! I like him better than John Steward! Fox complains about Colbert and Steward regularly and it just gives the writers at Comedy Central more stuff to make fun of WHICH IS THEIR JOB being in the comedy business and all.
I think the Fox methodology of stress, anger and fear induction and manipulation of the masses for the greedy, corrupt, selfish, abusive, lying republican party and their owners must be getting to them! They really need to get that shtick out of their ass.
If you don’t “get†Stephen Colbert’s humor you must be old. Seriously, if you want to motivate young people to pay attention to politics and what’s going on in the world and maybe VOTE for a change THEN WATCH STEPHEN!!!
I LOVE Stephen's BALLS!!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:04 pmI think Fox News and the other attendees of the function who are now criticizing Colbert owe him a huge apology. They invited him to perform. He did exactly what he does on TV every night. Now they’re scandalized? That’s like inviting Springsteen to perform and lambasting him for not doing ballet.
Colbert did what he always does the way he always does it. They invited him. What did they expect him to do? Or did they screw up on inviting Colbert the way they screwed up reporting on 9/11, Katrina and Iraq? Can’t they do anything right?
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:06 pmhe was absolutely dead on. bush and his ass-wiping yes men just can't take jokes at their expenses...especially when they are based on truth. they're dead to me.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:33 pmSo now we must pass all comedy bits by Roger Ailes and his Nazi henchmen(women) for approval. Why does it seem like Fox is now the arbiter of all things cultural and political? The morons who work there have no credibilty, give me a break, Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade? If it wasn't for Fox hiring them and putting their manhood in a blind trust they would be managing a Wendy's on Route 17 or being a game show host on the Game Show Network.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:40 pmAs for the rest of the so-called Mainstream Media, when you lie with down with pigs(Bush and his crime family) expect the stench to stick, until a disinfectant comes and cleans up your profession.
#14 - He met with Cindy Sheehan once - no one has been able to haul her off poor Casey coffin since then.
Comment by mighty aphrodite #211
puny hermaphrodite,
...You hypocritical, ovaryless inbred Bushite who*e...
...weren't you just on this board at Easter...
...trying to elicit sympathy for your kid (whom you probably aborted...
...but wanted US to believe died tragically somehow)?
You're a disgrace to humanity...
...I'm ecstatic every time UNBELIEVABLE cleans your barren, worthless a*s clock...
Does that Mr. hermaphrodite you're so fond of parroting about...
...know you aborted IRI's love child?
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:47 pmElisabeth Bumiller is writing a biography about Condi Rice - an obvious conflict of interest. How can she possibly report on the very people she needs to please so she can have access to them for her book. It completely compromises any shred of journalistic integrity this fawning bush cheerleader may still have. The NY Times should remove her from her white house beat immediately.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:48 pmThe bit was very funny. If you are a part of this joke of an administration (or it's corporate contemporary: Fox News), you have to at least be able to laugh at yourself.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:48 pmrethuglicans have no ability to appreciate humor, especially when it points out their own evil ways.
shouldn't have invited them, dumbasses
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:49 pm[...] Somewhat buried in the weekend histrionics of the NFL draft and Stephen Colbert’s nuclear performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, was the news that in Saturday’s playoff game between the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Clippers, Nuggets forward Reggie Evans grabbed Clippers center Chris Kaman’s nuts while jockeying for rebounding position. A couple of reactions: [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:01 pmThis is appalling, yet not surprising. :P The thing is, I think that by inviting Colbert to the dinner, they simply just didn't realize exactly who the man is. I think that they may actually believe the stuff he spews out as satire is what the guy really believes himself. Ha! If they are deluded enough to think they can keep americans and the world at large in the dark for so long, it would not be much of a stretch for them to think that Colbert is this great republican guy who's on their side. ;)
Sometimes I wonder if people have forgotten exactly why Fox News was created...
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:02 pmColbert is new Voltaire. Witty humor, great balls. Go and watch.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:25 pmMy big bro, Steve, works for Fox News and he says he is paid to be a "propagandist", pure and simple, because as Stephen Colbert said "reality has a well-known liberal bias!"
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May 2nd, 2006 at 3:50 pmMA
Wilde's career was ended through his sexual preferences, and though he did release a play after getting out of prison, the end result was that he died a pauper in Paris. If you are going to teach your kids about Oscar Wilde, you have to include what was ultimately his downfall.
You can't pretend that all of history's major figures where straight any more then you can pretend they were all male. While his sexual orientation is unimportant now, back in Oscar's day it was the crime which ruined him.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:11 pmOf course, he "bombed". His audience was the group he was ripping into. He did well at my house.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:13 pmHold it, Chantell...I'm "old" (63) and I thought every word Colbert said was right on the money, funny and biting as hell. I enjoy Stewart a bit more than Colbert on a regular basis but they both are a hoot to any relatively quick thinking individual regardless of age!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:53 pmhe read bush for filth on target all the way
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:03 pmColbert was incredibly funny, poignant and brilliant! I laughed through the entire piece. The bobbleheads who are saying it wasn't funny are irked because it apparently hit far too close to the truth. Yep, the truth sometimes hurts people, but at least Colbert made it hilarious to watch!
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:07 pmThe only people who didn"t think Mr Colbert was funny were the ones his comments were directed at, namely the incompetents in the shrub administration and the shills in the msm who have been covering for their criminal ineptitude for lo these last six years. Stephen Colbert spoke more truth the power in 20 minutes than Washington and the establishment press has since this fool was selected president by diebold and the supreme court...Thank you Stephen Colbert !!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:09 pmMighty Hermaphrodite: "I mean, who can top the reasoning abilities of Al Franken..."
Yeah, definitely not you, a-hole!
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:42 pmColbert's material wasn't nearly as inappropriate as Bush's "looking for WMDs" bit.
But I remember the right wingnuts laughing their butts off at that joke.
At least Colbert's jokes haven't killed anyone.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:36 pmI just rewatched the webcast of Colbert's speech. What a man. And he picked the perfect venue, as retaliation at this point would be an obvious cover our asses backlash by the administration or the MSM.
Oh - can i speak a word to the brainless lemming who's been ranting for the last two days... Mega Aphroditzy or something... You need counseling Darlin'. Try the Republican Rehab Program. Either that, or take the Rush route and just become an oxycontin junky. At least then you won't be spewing your crap to the rest of us.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:13 pmThe comments on this site and others, in support of Colbert (or, at least NOT in support of the administration), make me think there may be hope for mankind yet.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:14 pmSome speculate that Colbert was hired for this gig by Scott McClellan for getting fired by Bush. A goodbye gift
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:37 pmKudos to Stephen Colbert for his command performance. I just bought the DVD from the CSPAN store:
http://www.c-spanstore.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=192243-1
I sat through all 3 hours on Saturday, and I have to say, without hesitation, that Stephens performance was the highpoint of an otherwise boring and far too self-congratulatory evening.
The press is just jealous of Stephen’s “Huevos Muchos Grandes†because the Washington press core does in fact have little hairless mouse balls
and Stephen’s “Gravitas†was too much bear in light of their glaring inadequacy.
A Tip of the Hat to Stephen Core and a Wag of the Finger to the Washington Press Core!
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:15 pmStephen Colbert's "roast" of Bush may not have gotten much media play, but it certainly has not gone unnoticed, nor..."un-thanked."
Thanks to http://www.TheRandiRhodesShow.com and various other websites...those who want to view/listen to the entire performance can access it at: //ThankYouStephenColbert.org.
Last night when I discovered the website at 7:30 (Pacific), about 16,000 people had already posted their personal "Thank You's." By 11:30pm it had risen to 19,000... by this afternoon to 26,000 and a few minutes ago to...31,730.
Go to the website and send your own "Thank You."
Let's see how many in this country are truly grateful for Colbert standing a few feet from the President and voicing what they all would like to say.
I do believe...we have a new hero.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:20 pmPraise the Lord, Buddha, Sufi Sheik, Rabbi....and pass the truth. Also, may we praise the military officers who have had the courage to speak out lately. I also praise every person in our military who has the cajones, no, that word trivializes it... i praise every person in our military who has had the patriotism and courage to stand up for the rest of us. They risk their lives for us every day, regrdless of how we view the rationale for this war, and we owe them the utmost respect. The Generals are speaking. The Little Guys are speaking. Come on people. Please don't just blog. Write to your reps and senators. We CAN make a difference.
Hey Donna... yeah - we might just have a new hero. But it's his attitude more than his person. Help us in daring people to be as balls out as he is -- we are inches away from the cod piece of presidential power...
How sad is it really that our comedians are our most profound philosophers?
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:20 amStephen Colbert was not only funny he was right on target. Of course Foxites don't agree - you're the butt of the joke.
But then, you have been all along. You'd think you grow accustom to it by now.
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:24 amI agree with another blogger - Bush's own searching for WMD in his office skit was in terribly bad taste. Stephen Colbert dished it out where dishing was long overdue.
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:27 amIt sounds as if bunches of us are pissed right now. I am sick -- to be quite honest -- of blogging and hearing people talking about how they disagree with this sick administration. (And this is the first day i have ever blogged.) I agree with the previous sentiment about Randi Rhodes. She speaks 'truth to power', a very over used phrase these days. But it's something we should all be willing to do -- just as Stephen did. Hey, all you people who care about the "So Called Little Guy." Maybe you even are one. Can we please raise our voices and speak in our own defense for once? Stephen Colbert had the guts to do it.
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:49 amIs this surprising? Now that Dubya hired Tony Swan, everybody at Fox News figures kissing up to Bush = high government post. And the sad thing is, they're probably right.
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:48 amf
May 3rd, 2006 at 11:00 amI laughed at some of Colbert's remarks, but found the audience reaction even funnier. More people need to stand up to this group of renegade politiciians. Bush is not the brighest bulb, but he is the most dangerous because of that. Speak out! That's the only way to change the sad state of the union and avoid a huge war in Iran.
May 3rd, 2006 at 11:03 amFat, Racist, Pervert "Dad" - Why am I not surprised that some "person" such as yourself would agree with every school-marm morsel??? Thankfully, your audience is limited to the 30 - 40 Left-o-phants who applaud every one of your filthy, unimaginatively vulgar posts. Will they be holding a promotion ceremony for you and your classmates in 4th grade?? Yours is a fine example of "social promotion".
Bruce, thanks for fine tuning your Oscar Wilde argument. However, you failed to answer my q's regarding the "artists and personalities" who also happened to be drunks, junkies and perverts. FYI - while information of a "personal sexual" nature may interest you and Fat, Racist, Pervert "Dad", it's really none of our business. Why not explain why it is your business.
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:26 pmThings President Bush should have said to Stephen Colbert after his comedy speech...
11. The only reason you weren't heckled, is because everybody was asleep.
10. My last speech at the NAACP got a warmer reception.
9. You might consider trying your luck at accounting.
8. Andy Kaufman wouldn't even get your speech.
7. I can't believe you replaced Colin Quinn's show. They must not have a sense of humor over at Comedy Central.
6. If Paula Abdul was judging your comedy performance tonight, all she would say is you looked good.
5. Your Secret Service name is now Nytol, cause you put everybody to sleep.
4. Are you sure you're a comedian Stephen???
3. In comparison, you made last year's guest speaker, Cedric the Entertainer, look like Richard Pryor.
2. Comedy is hard work. It's hard... hard, hard, hard work.
1. I now truly understand what they mean by the phrase: "the silence was deafening".
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:13 pmFox wasn't supposed to like it! Along with Bush and his criminal accessories, they were the BUTT of the joke! We are laughing AT them, not with them.
Fox's propaganda is regularly inapprorpriate and "over the line" of journalistic responsibility and the jokes on America. Saturday, for once, the joke was on the Reich wing and no one cares whether they are laughing along.
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:19 pmfox must obey its master...at all times, no matter what!
May 3rd, 2006 at 4:01 pmthe dark lord cheney remained at an undisclosed location (ruprt murdochs ahole) and phoned this script into fox and friends from the shoe phone.
mighty aphrodite, lol. morelike feeble eyesore. i find your posts loveless and ugly. i'm just sayin'! i fail in my attempts to understand why you would continue to come back, time and again, only to be ignored, run over or ridiculed.
to the topic at hand & the reason i write : mr. colbert's performance was neither inappropriate nor overly harsh. as if we should care or be surprised fox might make those lame comments. the audience mr colbert spoke to and about deserved every word he delivered to them-- then some.
amy goodman's voice spoke volumes when today's edition of 'democracy now' ended with a replay of a portion of his routine from saturday night. she could barely contain her own laughter & to hear that in itself was music to my ears.... i laugh once again.
bravo, stephen colbert.
May 4th, 2006 at 12:13 amWhen it came to roasting, the invited comedians were supposed to ridicule Bush's style. Nothing more. Our man Colbert had the courage to ridicule Bush's content. A "No-No".
May 4th, 2006 at 3:27 amWhat a rare event; and one to savor!
Yours is a fine example of “social promotionâ€.
Comment by mighty aphrodite #422
...struck a nerve did I, huh puny?
...and here I thought a high priced paraillegal like yourself...
...didn't have time to pay attention to my "racist" rants...
Oh and btw...
...that last post (# 392)
...should've read:
"does Mr. hermaphrodite know that you aborted IRI's love PIG?"
May 4th, 2006 at 1:08 pmHa ha ha ha, Oh Fox and Friends. It appears you didn't get the joke? THe Bush Administration and the media, are the joke! Colbert just pointed it out in a satirical style. It seems like a lot of people that aren't in that select media category got the joke.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:15 pmNot funny? It was knee slapping funny - and dead on. Colbert doesn't do comedy like Lewis Black. He does a parody performance of Bill O'Rreilly. You have to get that to really see the genius in the routine.
Over the line? - Oh COME ON! Has the concept of the REAL reason to have Freedom of Speech in the US been left completely behind? Here was a press dinner, where the chief politician was present. If there ever was a place to have challenging remarks - even challenging comedic remarks - it was here.
In many other countries (who don't claim to be the seat of the Free World) comedians are allowed to comment on, and lampoon elected leaders without everyone getting jittery. Here in Canada, where similar groups consistently ridicule officials and the monarchy (who supposedly rule by divine right rather than through the electorate, but still manage to not demand we show utmost respect), such a question would never come up. How is it we've got more freedom of speech than the US? What happened? Did you give up on that ideal?
May 4th, 2006 at 2:29 pmNot only was Colbert's speech SCATHINGLY funny-- he slayed, flayed and fileted those WHC mofo's, but a lot of these posts are frigging hilarious. #366 had me LOL.
May 4th, 2006 at 6:24 pmYou would have to be a retard to not find alot of it funny
May 5th, 2006 at 1:57 amWhy is everybody so hard on the president? I can't belive you are all so ignorant.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:25 amWhy does everyone give him such hard time? I think it's time you stopped being so ignorant.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:31 amthe only reason it wasn't funny to conservatives...is because it was true.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:40 pmColbert Rules - Just shows that fox are totally pro Bush, Colbert speaks the Truth
May 5th, 2006 at 1:59 pmColbert's commentary to me was a grave message wrapped in a comedic facade. I found his words deeply haunting in the following passage:
"Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration."
These are serious matters -- Colbert was just expressing himself in the way that comes natural for him. Analysis of his comedic value is just an extension of American apathy to the Truth. God Bless Freedom of Speech and God Bless Truth!
May 5th, 2006 at 2:06 pmYou know what! The cast of fox and friends think they are so funny and I am so serious i watch them every morning and it is always the same old thing. steve or Brian says something funny and kieran laughs. But steven colbert on the other hand always does something different and doesn't drone on for 3 hours everyday about high gas prices and immigration and at least he shows real humor!!!!!!!
May 7th, 2006 at 1:33 amPlease help support Colbert on these sites:
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org
http://www.asktheherd.com/main/comments.aspx?q=63
Go Colbert!
- Ed.
May 7th, 2006 at 1:49 amFox doesn't think Stephen Colbert was funny? Truth hurts, doesn't it? I laughed and laughed, because Stephen Colbert had the GUTS to tell the truth to all you want-to-be journalists at FOX. Stephen got you people right -- on target. That's the real issue here.
May 9th, 2006 at 3:54 pm[...] Anyway. The arguments boil down to, basically, was he funny? And was he appropriate? “Funny” is totally subjective (like when Ann Coulter talks about poisoning a supreme court justice, she says it’s funny and I totally disagree) but as to appropriate, the findlaw article here provides the best analysis I’ve yet read. As the late Chief Justice Rehnquist recognized, in discussing Nineteenth Century political cartoonist Thomas Nast, “The success of the Nast cartoon was achieved ‘because of the emotional impact of its presentation. It continuously goes beyond the bounds of good taste and conventional manners.’” According to Rehnquist, despite the caustic nature of such satires - ridiculing the presidents of the time - they “played a prominent role in public and political debate” and “[f]rom the viewpoint of history it is clear that our political discourse would have been considerably poorer without them.” [...]
May 9th, 2006 at 7:58 pmNothing is funnier than the truth. Steven Colbert is a genius!
May 10th, 2006 at 4:28 pmThe routine was hilarious. And the Fox News team can keep drinking the grape cool aid.
May 13th, 2006 at 12:03 amThe routine was hilarious. And the Fox News team can keep drinking the grape cool aid.
May 13th, 2006 at 12:03 amgo to googel-video....and the Colbert bit at the white house dinner is one of the top 10 videos right now.....
colbert is the man!! colbert for prez!! he tells it like it is, FOX news is a crime! and they should all be put in jail.
May 16th, 2006 at 1:22 pmOh, hell the only reason FOX criticized this was because they're in the right wing pocket.
I watched this entire clip on Google and found parts funny, and some parts....Well, not funny. But the only reason that Bush had a look on his face that would kill a boner, and reason his aides left the room, and why FOX and other media criticized Colbert's performance is because they've had an axe to grind on how The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report have lampooned the right-wing big wigs and their lapdog media outlet that is, FOX news.
Comedy is comedy.....Don't get prissy when you pay the man to come do your show.
It's sad when I can't watch CNN because they talk about crap all day long....And that the only reason I watch FOX is because whatever they endorse or lean towards.....I know, for most instances is neo-conservative elitist leaning. And that the only real, "fair and balanced" reporting you see is fake anchors, like Colbert.
He who is over the line is he who is on Fox & Friends in the morning....They're a bunch of quaking jackasses anyways.
July 22nd, 2006 at 7:33 am[...] Think Progress Fox News Slams Colbert: Inappropriate, Over crowd it was great, for the stuff old white people crowd It s only funny to the people with a brain and have the mental The joke is on the morons at the White House who approved this absolutely [...]
October 14th, 2006 at 1:59 pmFox News is pathetic.
Guteless right-wing media outlet. Of course they're going to blast the speach - Colbert BURNT them like there's no tomorrow!
November 16th, 2006 at 8:25 amProtecting Seats While Your Pup is In the Car
If you have a pup, you will inevitably run into the situation where you need to take them somewhere. If you are not careful, your seats can get ripped up something fierce.
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