Truth to Treason - Colbert Clobbers Bush

My heart be still, I caught part of the clip of Stephen Colbert at the Correspondents dinner and felt I was watching the American version of a young man standing unarmed in front of a tank.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104


Saturday, April 29, 2006


Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner

Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner:

Was he snubbed? Stephen Colbert spoke tonight at the dinner and lampooned pretty much everything he could think of and Helen Thomas. I used the second half of his performance because it included the Generals, Scalia, the Faux press briefing and as E&P reported:

"As he walked from the podium the president and First Lady gave Colbert quick nods, unsmiling, and left. E&P's Joe Strupp, in the crowd, observed that quite a few felt the material was, perhaps, uncomfortably biting."

Video-WMP (low res) Video QT (it's a big file)

"Colbert complained that 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."

He noted former Ambassador Joseph Wilson in the crowd, as well as " Valerie Plame." Then, pretending to be worried that he had named her, he corrected himself, as Bush aides might do, "Uh, I mean... Joseph Wilson's wife." He asserted that it might be okay, as prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was probably not there.

Colbert's show on Comedy Central, is "Must See TV" at this point already and these types of performances are the toughest in the business to pull off when he's tackling issues that obviously made most of the crowd nervous.

C-Span is running it again in its entirety.
Atrios has a picture posted about Gannon.
TMV, The Sister, Blondesense, Democratic D, News Hounds weigh in.
Update: Here's a transcript of the complete routine.