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scottzak writes "Hail to the Chief! Stephen Colbert addressed the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday (attended by the President, the elite of Washington politics, and the White House Press Corps) and told the truth. Jaws dropped. Eyes popped. The live audience gasped. Scalia laughed his ass off. You want to see a brilliant comic display some real courage? Look no further. Enjoy the reaction shots, and Colbert's audition for Press Secretary job." The BBC covers the act just prior to Mr. Colbert's, where the President and a look-alike took turns making fun of his speaking skills.
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Crooks and Liars doesn't have the full footage. Instead, check out the 3 segments on youtube:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II
The transcript is also available here:
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/5981
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WTF? That BBC article was not only pointless, but about three paragraphs long. At least post an article that discusses the topic, like maybe... E&P story
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It is really worth the watch. Colbert starts about 40 minutes into the video. Get the torrent or watch it on youtube (part 1, part 2, and part 3). If you haven't seen the Colbert report - it is quite good. Comedy central has a bunch of videos up - my favorite is the "know a district" ones.
The Colbert Report is really high quality political humor, like the Daily Show with Jon Stewart - it is funny because so often it is true.
If I were ever to meet him myself, I would probably be confirmed in my opinion of him as an idiot, but I think his armed guards would keep my smart mouth in line.
Oh he didn't entirely lose the room. Far from it, considering the exceptionally dry speakers preceding the Bushes and Colbert. (All praise the invention of fast forward). Colbert's greeting of Scalia, comments regarding Fox, boxing a glacier, DC the mallowmar city, Plame, and Helen-Thomas-the-stalker were all priceless. The interviews of the press corps in their little caves and 'presidential humor - cspan style' segments were great too. By all means watch it if you haven't.
Unless you like the idea of someone pissing off the president on stage, the content wasn't humorous IMHO.
That was just the icing on the cake.
For us deaf peeps... http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811 /
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Stephen was on 60 Minutes this Sunday. Link to video. And the CBS text.
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I don't think you can Slashdoteffect Crooks and Liars. It hosts video all day every day. It is one of the top 20 blogs on Technorati (as of now, #17).
Q: What did the comedian say to the crowd?
A: If I knew, this joke would be funny.
You can register a message of thanks at ThankYouStephenColbert.org. Given his style (and segments like "who's honoring me now") I presume that if it gets popular enough he'll mention it on the show.
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"What's next, the NY Times not agreeing with the president on Iraq?"
Unless that was an attempt at irony, you really should pay closer attention to current events. The New York Times was pro-war from the beginning. Remember Judith Miller, the NY Times reporter who ended up in jail for contempt during Scooter Libby's grand jury hearing? She wrote one article after another for the Times backing up the Bush Administration's false claims of WMD. She was their star reporter, their headlining act, the woman with the (erroneous) inside information. When Joseph Wilson wrote his op-ed piece calling out Bush on his State of the Union lie, Scooter Libby leaked information to Judith Miller that he hoped would discredit Wilson. That's how she ended up in jail, because she refused to reveal Libby as her source. There's lots more to the story, but the crux of the matter is that the only difference between the New York Times and the New York Post as regards the war in Iraq is that the Times uses a classier typeface.
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By the way, as I am in old foggy Blighty I did not see it, but here is the full transcript: http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/5981
And all I can say, applause, applause...
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Have you watched the Colbert Report? Ok this is what he does, this is his shtick. He pretends to be a super patriotic to the point of stupidity pundent that supports the administration (Bill O'Reilly would be the closest analogue) but it's actually biting satire that's criticising it. Whatever he's pretending to make look good, he's actually ripping on, and masterfully so I might add. Since he's playing the government loving windbag, they are the most frequent target. The media is another frequent target.
Well, you ought to know this when you book him. This is what he does, so this is what you are going to get. Getting pissed that he ripped on the administration and the media is like getting pissed becuase you book Carlos Mencia and get racial humour. Of COURSE that's what you get, that's what he does! If that's not what you want, book someone else.
This was Colbert doing what he does best. That it fell flat on the audience because they don't like being made fun of is of no concern. If you can't laugh at yourself, don't hire a satirist because they are likely to pick on you. This goes double if you are already a favourite subject for them. I have no idea what the Whitehouse was thinking booking him. It's not like it's hard to find out what he's about. He's on national TV 5 nights a week for you to see.
I saw it live, and when Colbert came on I said to myself "are they fucking stupid?!" Stephen Colbert is of course no fan of the president and I was suprised to see him hold his own up there as the audience refused to really laugh. Stephen bombed, not because he wasnt funny, or truthfull but because the audience seemed affraid to laugh.
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The whitehouse bit with Helen Thomas stalking him wasnt that funny. Stephen was funny overall though. It was interesting to see him be polite towards the president after having just said "the country doesnt like you and this whole thing is a mess"
Stephen did well considering the audience...
And thats what i'm really insulted by... (I'm not insulted by Stephen, i loved it) but the audience, the members of the press, the celebrities, the politicians, lawyers, judges, lobbiests...
Something just feels off when the press has a dinner with the whitehouse administration, plus celebrities. It just seems like a big get together of the wealthy and powerful for no reason.
For example, anyone that watched it on C-span, you would have seen George Clooney surrounded by 10 or more girls at a time after the dinner. There were no guys around Clonney, and i just found it histerical because they let 30minutes pass before showing clooney on tv again, and there he was with another 10 girls surrounding him wanting pictures
OK Clooney has political motives, but what about Phil Simms? Tiki Barber? Ludicris?... What could they possibly have to do with the whitehouse reporters?
It just seems like a slap in the face to the public. I dont think the Press should be "hanging" with the press. And i certainly dont think it should be a big celebrity dog and pony show.
What i found histerical is the number of old white men with young hot dates
The whole thing is rather phoney, and by that i mean the government, and the press
Part of the "illusion" of minimal crowd reaction was likely due to CSpan's audio configuration, which leaned heavily on the speaker and very little on the crowd. Since most comedy shows mic the crowd for cheering and laughter, it's somewhat strange to watch a comic when you can't hear that live reaction. I think that this is the case here, and I'm guessing the laughter was quite a bit stronger than it seems in the video.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/413575p-34
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And let me guess . . . these same levies somehow were stronger during Clinton's terms in office?
The failure of the levies in New Orleans was not the fault of the federal govt . . . it was a system of incompetent and corrupt LOCAL leadership. The Dems and Reps on the federal level had nothing to do with it.
As an anarcho-capitalist / neo-objectivist I have no patience with either party, but let's put the blame where it belongs. Squarely on the head of the New Orleans leadership.
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However, Cedric the Entertainer was very funny last year when he talked about the two sides of Condoleezza Rice. There's Connie, the self-assured and accomplished diplomat, and there's Doleezza who doesn't want to miss her shows on the WB and don't take sh*t from nobody.
That was hilarious.
The White House Correspondent's Dinner really is something worth recording every year. Lewis Black did one recently that was also hilarious (though not nearly as biting as Colbert this year).
Oh, I think he was playing it for laughs, which shows he doesn't know the way to play the game.
Self-righteousness and humor don't mix.
No, first you're self-righteous, then you make an indignant and self-serving appeal to humor after you've been called out for lying and pandering to ignorance and bigotry.
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This one talks about Colbert's performance
And let me guess . . . these same levies somehow were stronger during Clinton's terms in office?
Well, yes, they were. Things decay over time, and require routine maintenance.
The army corps of engineers determined the levies required maintenance. There was money in the federal budget to work on those levies. The money was taken out of the budget and redirected to a war in Iraq.
Now, I'm not saying they money should have been there in the first place. Personally, I believe we should have a small federal government, and stronger state governments, and even stronger municipal governments. But I'd rather see my tax money going to reenforce levies in New Orleans than spending it on the destruction of Iraq.
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The thing about Imus was that he wasn't funny in any way - his speech 10 years ago for Clinton was basically him being disgusting and rude and insulting the President and his family. He was completely humorless and the only people who enjoyed it were people who hated Clinton and wanted to call him names. I imagine that is a little ballsy to stand next to the President and his family and explicitly insult them instead of make fun of them but considering that it was Clinton who was already used to that sort of thing it's not as big of a deal.
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"We don't want guesses, we want facts."
The facts are its almost a certainty George W. shirked his guard responsibilities. He may well have refused a physical which lead to him being grounded which is a bad thing for a trained pilot, and he may have ducked it for fear his cocaine use would be detected.
Its also a fact that all the evidence to prove it has disappeared.
So what do you do in the case where someone who did wrong was successful in destroying all the evidence. He gets away with it. By your standard if Nixon and the plumbers had only been a little better at their coverup, or Woodward and Bernstein a little less persistent in their investigation, or if Deep Throat hadn't put his neck on the line, Nixon would have gotten away with subverting our government and it would have been OK.
George W.'s once exceptional political skill has been his ability to cover up his embarrassing past and getting away with it. The cocaine use (and probably arrest in Texas for it) that was expunged from his record thanks to his dad's power in Texas, his out of control alcoholism, and the fact that not only did he duck the war in Vietnam but he also shirked his National Guard service which was the condition for avoiding the draft. Again his family's connections secured him a spot in the Texas Air National country club though he did supremely bad on the testing and he was picked over people far more deserving.
There is just immense irony in a spoiled rich kid using the National Guard to duck his generations war, and not even fulfilling his limited obligations, while he is sending this generation's National Guard to die in Iraq wholesale.
"Now that's a reputable source!"
As a matter of fact she is, since she is one of the few people that was around when George W. ducked his guard service, who is still alive and still willing to talk.
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