I am now officially a Colbert fan.  All this time I wasn’t sure whether his ultra conservative persona was real or just an act.  I started researching more after I saw he get his head shaved by a General acting on a direct “order” from President Obama.  Anyway, I end up watching the 2006 White House dinner video and reading the transcript.  WOW!  The man is a master!  Who would dare go into the lions’ den only to insult the lions and fling flaming arrows their way?  Only a man with BALLS OF STEEL!  Incredible!!! Colbert YOU THE MAN!  YOU STUD YOU!!!  Someday you are gonna get a lifetime achievement award, and this video will be proudly played as one of your GREATEST MOMENTS! 

Live long and Prosper!

Where can I find an ‘embed’ link or url so I can post this video on my blog?

I’ve read the comments on this page and, for the most part, I am relieved to know that so many of our citizens are finally waking up to the truth. What I want to know is, when are we going to quit complaining and actually do something about it?

As I see it, we have been sheep… for who knows how long…. it’s terrifying to think of how long this has been going on…. and, I believe the terrifying control these people have over the world is directly related to our insatiable desire to believe their BS.

It is possible for us to fix this world and all it requires is information. Please turn as many of our fellow citizens as you can on to the truth. If enough of us quit following the herd, their hold will be broken. DO AS MUCH INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AS POSSIBLE!!! Know what you’re talking about. THE NEWS IS LYING TO YOU!!! And, it’s making us look like idiots. Check out ZEITGEIST THE MOVIE (zeitgeistmovie.com ). Watch it thru to the end. Please.

And, can someone please tell me…. I am aware that there are more people like us out there ready to make a change. Where do we go to organize our efforts? We desperately need to organize our efforts. How can we possibly succeed otherwise?

I do believe this is a brilliant bit of comedy. To be completely straight….let’s say this. Everyone had an opportunity to see Colbert’s show beforehand. If the Bush administration expected any less they wouldn’t have invited him. I am convinced that there actually some intelligent people somewhere in there… I think Cheney would have figured it out. He’s a bright guy…evil…. but bright. So they knew what he was….and they got what they asked for. Maybe they thought he would hold back a little… but he didn’t. And now he’s a hero. Cuz Bush is a monkey for his organ grinding master Cheney…. All hail Halliburton and OIL… Queue the Beverly Hillbillies music

I like steven colbert. His show is hilarious. But most of his jokes were in bad taste. I mean you get welcomed to the White House and you do that? I mean your supposed to make jokes but instead you basically make it an outlet for your political views? Like someone said. Funny knows no political party. But obviously MOST (not all) of his jokes were democratic rants disguised as jokes.

I just can’t believe that people actually thought he was a republican lol.

Now I have my doubts about Colbert and his real politics as he did the unpardonable. He put on his show one of our true right wing monsters and gave him legitimacy, I mean for yukes he had Henry Kissinger on his show and no one who has any leanings to the liberal side would put that liar and killer of hundreds of thousands of innocents. How could Colbert do that if he truly abhors the policies of Bush and Co. And you know, I answered my own question. Colbert is a fraud, thru and thru and for my money he is not better than O’Reily whom he is a knock off trying to appear as someone who makes fun of him. Someone try and reach Colbert’s people and explain how they could have Kissinger on to do what, increase his ratings, appease some higher up, because if he can’t justify whe he had that monster on I no longer will tune into a two faced hypocrit which I now annoit Colbert as a charter memember. Don Fahrney

I wonder when the Regime of Bush will assassinate him?

I watched the video very closely and could not help but notice Wilson and Plame cracking up with warm looks of admiration on their smiling faces during Colbert’s bit on the shameful WH outing of her as a CIA operative. No holding back on their part…
Scalia, troglodyte tho’ he may be, at least has a sense of humor about his Italian roots- he was clearly enjoying himself. And the venerable Helen Thomas was immortalized in the video bit. She was perfect! Bravo. The WH never knew what was about to hit them. Let that eagle soar, Stephen! And did anyone notice the way Colbert cooly brushed past the prez at the end? Brass balls for sure. If Duhbya was really an emperor he would have had that court jester’s head removed for going too far in his lampoons.Sorry King George, but this really is America after all! Land of the free. Home of the brave. Way to go Colbert!

colbert is a genious and if you don’t get it he making fun of you and what you belive in. stick it to their white money filled balls steven!!!! god bless the us and our white troops!!!

Like a fine burgundy the performance of Stephen Colbert will build with time. Fifty years from now any historian who wants to come to grips with the failed presidency of W will have no choice but to review this brilliant satire: it masterfully captures how, at this juncture, America has so shamefully completely lost its way. The video is a historical document of incredible importance: and oh, by the way, it is bloody funny!

Yes, the courage to sling propaganda while hiding behind the claim that its a comedy show. Any inaccuracies can be blown off because they repeadly say its just comedy, not a real talk show. Therefore anyone who retorts looks like a spoil sport who cant take a joke. Yes, MUCH better then what Limbaugh and crew does! Man politics is so lame.

It sad that there are still over 30% of the population that still can’t recognize an idiot when they see one.

Alright, here’s some truth.  Things are not going well for this administration, that is obvious and I won’t begin to come to the president’s defense.  However, lets talk about the American people; nobody seems to want to “roast” us.  Lets start with some topics from Colbert’s dialog:

Oil.  How is it that most of us say the Iraq war is, “all about oil” and how wrong it is to war over oil while, at the same time, giving low marks to the president due to the price of oil.  A poll last week showed that 3 of 10 Americans still plan on buying the gas guzzling SUVs we’re addicted to.  How many of you reading this owns an automobile that gets less than 22 MPG?  Yes, like Bush, we believe the same thing Wednesday that we believed on Monday: oil prices will go down, there’s an oil company conspiracy, it’s the government’s fault, and this is not a rationalization for my Tahoe purchase. 

Saudi Arabia: the religious police, within the past few years, forced female children back into a burning building because they did not cover their faces properly.  Oh, but they have a lot of oil.  Can’t wait to get that new Trailblazer, though, right?

Trade.  Most of us demand something be done with our newest, greatest trading partner, China.  Then there’s all the fuss about NAFTA and jobs lost.  Amazingly, though, most of us also cannot wait to rush down to the local Walmart to “save” on all those Chinese goods. 

I have to stop now.  This is all too easy.  Read these remarks and rationalize to yourselves, “it’s not me because I own a Civic” or some such nonsense.  We are the root of all these problems.  Sadly, our leaders bear a startling resemblance to us, the American people. 

Remember after 9/11 when the average American displayed the full extent of his or her patriotism by purchasing a $5 flag (probably made in China) to waive around? Ironically, some then complained that the price of flags inflated and this was somehow wrong! Many of the same people would never send their sons or daughters to war, though as was demonstrated after countless polls. 

I spoke with a military recruiter in the NY area to ask him, “after 9/11, did the recruiting numbers go up?  You know, once we identified Afghanistan as the country that the attack was based from?  Let’s leave Iraq out of the discussion as we had not gone to war yet.  Surely those who were closest to the attack were motivated to serve!”  The answer, “recruiting stayed exactly the same.”  Such patriotism demands that, “your sons and daughters serve” while I wave this flag, that is, by the way, too expensive and we should investigate the manufacturers for inflating the price in such a time of great need for “price gouging.”

Seems like we deserve everything we get to me.  Enough truth for ya?

Soldier
Currently in Iraq following deployments to Afghanistan and Bosnia

While I praise Mr.Colbert for his “remaining in character performance”, I would ask those who are ready to enshrine this persona in the same vein as Mr. Murrow, don’t you think those who put this thing together already knew what Colbert was going to say?  Why would Bush and Co. deliberately give a platform to this guy?  Think about it.  Most of you have praise the courage and “balls” of Colbert for his performance.  You need to pass on some of that praise to the man he was ridiculing.

I am starting to feel like we live in China because, I don’t know if you noticed, but the Colbert Roast of the Idiot President has been scrubbed from the net.  Well, neither I or my friends have been able to find it.  I wish I had downloaded it somehow when i had the chance.

Please help support Colbert at these sites:
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org
http://www.asktheherd.com/main/comments.aspx?q=63

Go Colbert!

- Ed.

I couldn’t stop laughing because it was so true and many people in attendance knew they shouldn’t be laughing but they did.  I will continue to watch his show even more because he has balls to say what everyone in America wants to tell the President. The President or should i say the “the decider” looked so stupid the entire performance.

What Colbert did was a thing of beauty!  Odd, but this is one of the rare moment in American history that I witness a public display of compassion.

Bravo for Mr. Colbert! Awesome display of comic brilliance and huge shining brass ones!!

YOU ROCK!

Wish there were alot more like you.

Talk about the lone voice in the wilderness !  Mr. Colbert makes America believe in heros once again.  Great job ! 
Colbert accepted his “fifteen minutes of fame” and used every single second wisely. He did not shirk. His words and ideas were very well considered.  Each point made against the outrageous policies of this government were on point and on principle.  Hooray for Stephen Colbert !  It was a great night for Americans !

The most unsettling thing about all these comments is how many refer to Cobert’s courage. Of course he is courageous, and brilliant, but when did we all start to be afraid to tell the truth…Why is it so terrifying to say what you think, no matter where or when.
I think that one of the main points of the USA
is to be able to speak up.
Think it over.

i just wanted to repost what i thought was the best one liner on this forum:

“Colbert secured his place as a hero to the masses with no voice in politics today.”

i also wanted to add that dispite what anyone says about how funny or not funny his speech was, he was not even booed or heckled as far as i heard.  if it wasn’t all true, they would have removed him.  since it is all true, everyone in the room was forced to sit there and face up.

How does the man walk? Colbert has got HUGE STEEL BALLS!

The crowd in there may be too nervous about their necks to laugh, but not here. LOL.

Is it still a joke if nobody’s laughs?

Clearly, this was the wrong forum for this kind of satire.

The “liberal press” might have enjoyed this in a different room.

But frankly I think this routine was awkward on so many levels:

1) The Bill O’Reily Mean Guy Act instantly makes you uncomfortable
2) Liberal reporters nervously want to appear “balanced”
3) This administration is somewhere between the Nixon White House and the Third Reich in terms of openness to criticism
4) War is not funny
5) This war is particularly not funny
6) Less is more. Edit.
7) Next year, get one of those Branson comedians. They’re funny!

Scalia was laughing, how come no one mentioned that?  I for one gained more respect for Scalia after seeing that.

Doesn’t the story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” teach us to applaud the one among us with the courage to tell us the truth even if the truth is humiliating, disgraceful or embarrassing?  I think the president owes Mr. Colbert a warm and heartfelt “thank you.”  We all owe Mr. Colbert a “thank you.”  Our president needed to know he really is naked and an embarrassment and shame to our country everywhere in the world.

Colbert has muchos huevos grandes.
Atta boy.
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org

STEPHEN COLBERT IS SO HILARIOUS, AND RIGHT ON THE MARK WITH HIS HUMOROUS JABS AT BOTH POLITICOS AND LAZY WH PRESS CORPS.  HE REALLY SHOWED HIMSELF A BRAVE WARRIOR FOR TRUTH-INESS!  MY HERO!

Colbert was the good knight, come to rescue (in his inimitable way) Lady Helen Thomas.

if you think about it, in this era of “Free speech zones”, no one has ever been allowed to have 15 uninterrupted minutes in the presence of bush to enumerate some of the ways his administration has lied and failed. and this event was remarkable, if 4 years overdue.

The best part:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060501/1 whwatch.htm

“Colbert crossed the line,” said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.

“I’ve been there before, and I can see that he is [angry],” said a former top aide. “He’s got that look that he’s ready to blow.”

Stephen Colbert was in the right place to deliver the right material to the right audience and had the right stuff to deliver it.

Why shouldn’t the mainstream news media whinge and moan about the inappropriateness of Colbert’s venue?  They’ve just been bagged.  They had their pants pulled down in public, and their lack of manhood exposed.

For future reference, it’s called guerilla comedy.

Ray Mann is typical of the Republican Simpleton.  He thinks that Colbert was actually going for maximum laughs at this event and failed.  GET A CLUE!  Colbert knew exactly what he was doing and knew that this audience would gasp instead of laugh. He wasn’t going to be their clown and tell “nice” jokes and be like the boot-licking press corps that only worries about enhancing their individual careers.  Damn motherf*cking straight, Steve-0.  All those a-holes needed a reaming and they got it.

Interesting that 2,700 assumingly astute “correspondents” essentially sat on their hands during this presentation.

In America, about the most venomous charge that can be laid against a person, other than being a “fag,” is being UN-AMERICAN.

It’s my opinion that the silence was deafening at the dinner because to be heard laughing in the face of the President would be considered by members of that privileged audience a sin of the highest order.

It’s a puzzling phenomenon… GWB seems to get away with just about every dumb-ass, peace-threatening notion that crosses his mind. But you just watch the hysteria if he ever gets caught with his pants down. American morality seems only to cover the body from the neck down. It’s “anything goes” from the neck up.

I thought that Stephen Colbert hit the nail on the head in his roast of GWB.  I too noticed that the laughing quieted down after the first few statements.  I guess that the truth hurts.  It’s too bad that the president is criminally insane and thinks that God talks to him.  If that isn’t adequate evidence that he should be removed from office per the 25th ammendment, I don’t know what is.  By the way, he likes to torture people and regularly breaks the law. Hello!  Read Charles Savages article in the 5/1/06 Boston Globe, talking about GWB’s 750 signing statements, “because he interprets the Constitution” differently and doesn’t need to follow the law if he “sees” it differently.  But as Molly Ivins wrote in her latest article, Congress has no clue how bad their graft and conlusion with this war criminal looks to “we the people”.  I sincerely hope that enough democrats are elected in November.  But EVERYONE should be replaced.  Leiberman and Feinstein both are listed as democrats and they’re anything but.  It’s too bad that officials need to join a party and follow the party code.

Steven Colbert..  The Man with Testicles so large, he has to buy 2 tickets whenever he flies commercial airlines.  For a half of a second I almost felt sorry for “W”.... ALMOST…..

Someone wrote: “If Colbert’s comments were meant to be funny, where was all the laughter!  His performance was completely tasteless.”

Colbert has incredibly witty and shrewd. Obviously, that person didn’t get it.

There was laughter but is was restrained and subdued. Because, out of respect I would guess, laughing would basically have been laughing AT THE PRESIDENT. Get it?

Also, perhaps, the audience, being White House CORROSPONDENTS where also being ripped apart by Colbert. Get it?

Colbert, under the guise of comedy, exposed all of the colossal mistakes, the blatant illegal actions and the sheer stupidities made by those “spineless politicians” that are in the White House Administration, as well as exposing the complicity of those spineless journalists in the audience.

Steven Colbert is perhaps the most courageous man in America.  Or should I say his alter ego, Pundint Colbert (pronounced ‘Pundin Colber’), has more balls than MLB.  I have not see a performance as sharp, hilarious, intelligent, and personal since Andy Kaufman last appeared as Tony Clifton.
The idiots at the White House asked for it… I mean really, what did they expect?  Did they actually think Colbert’s satirical rants on his show are genuine?  No wonder this administration is going down in flames…
Who’s the host next year… Michael Moore?

Comments about the “restraint” of the audience?  The news people and special guests (are there any more liberal minded people in the country???).  If Colbert’s comments were meant to be funny, where was all the laughter!  His performance was completely tasteless.  He’s an IDIOT!  And yes, I’m a conservative Republican and seriously worried about the direction in which our country is headed (down the tubes, thanks to the spineless politicians - both democrats and republicans - who cannot come up with a sensible plan on anything!).

I am afraid I may have missed a few of the jokes as I was laughing so hard I was having trouble hearing everything!

Steven must have his pants custom made!

I was disappointed in the audience reaction. Perhaps the “truthiness” was a little too close to home?

COLBERT THE EGO-HEAD: FAUX OR NO?
The Press Dinner is traditionally a bipartisan oasis. Metaphorically speaking, the President did his part by artistically displaying a humorous, self deprecating graffiti appropriate to the evening. Colbert threw fecal matter on the wall.
Either he did not understand the historical context of his assignment or his ego drove him to make the evening about himself: in which case he morphed into his own faux ego-head character.
I have the “Daily Show” on my T.V. speed dial and would gladly stand in line to cast a vote to impeach this administration but I found Colbert to be “boorish.”

Colbert was magnificent.  But this would be better:  every time the president gets up to make another lying speech the press should get up and walk out.

Monsieur Colbert deserves a Noble Prize for that speech/performance… omg, the whole thing seemed so surreal… you’re the MAN Stephen… btw, pleeeeeeeease i want, i need the Colbert sperm kit

O.K., let’s talk talent, not politics.
From a comic standpoint, it reminded me a little of Andy Kaufman in that Colbert was able to totally immerse himself in his persona, and stay there under what must have been enormous pressure.

The jokes themselves were very funny, indeed. I got the feeling the audience was spending more time thinking about how the jokes would be received than the actual content. I’ll bet there would have been a much different response had the prez not been there.  But that’s what made it such great theater, eh?

As with Kaufman, I’m not sure how much Colbert’s real persona is reflected in his performance. Does he really despise Bush?  Dunno, but it was the most subversive performance I’d ever hope to see.

My congratulations to Steven Colbert!  It took lots of guts to say all those things with HIM sitting just a few seats down! I will now be a member of the Colbert Nation because I understand the Leader!  You are a good actor and at times on the Colbert Report had me confused!!!  I understand now and Steven Colbert, you are my new hero!

It’s about time the President joined the rest of country…..we are the OFFENDED’ERs,  by the DECIDER’ER

Thank You Mr. Colbert aka Truth’ER

Fox News will air Stephen Colbert great performance lampooning George Bush and company. Yes, only in our dreams!

Be very PROUD of your BALLS.  Too many have none.

What a combination; brilliance, courage and hilarious.
Stephen Colbert was absolutely heroic.
I laughed my ass off.
Thanks Stephen.

colbert pulled the mask off bush and it was ugly. i laughed my ass off. colbert is a genius.

Must have been a lot of lapdogs in that audience, who perhaps also think Bush is one of those divine-right kings and who probably laughed hysterically at his little just-where-are-those-weapons-of-mass-destruction demonstration in the Oval Office. Cruel humor is the only kind Bush understands.

Finally, someone said it like it is.

Colbert, it seems like, has been working for a gig like this for the past 5 years. He has been a working his “Republican/Religuous/Self Righteous/Nut Case” persona he plays on ‘The Colbert Report’ so well that I’ll betcha that many in the MSM did not see this coming, believing that Colbert actually was what he was acting as.

Many pundits, we know, talk about TV and movies (and hollywood in general) without actually watching. (We hear all the time, scathing reviews of movies which have lines like, “I didn’t watch it, but…”)

Many of those interviewed by Colbert, we learn, had not watched his show.

So, while Colbert was “pretending” to be this Religious Right media person, those who simply talk among themselves to get their knowledge of what actually is going on, I am sure, did not see this coming.

The silence of the audience was deafening—and oh so telling—as he said one of his best lines: “You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know—fiction.”

Stephen Colbert = Big, Shiny, Brass Balls

I’m proud of Colbert. Why do we even watch or read the “mainstream” bootlickers instead of the fabulous alternatives? However, I wish he had also issued some prison jokes for the President and Cheney and Rumsfeld to relish.

You love your country. You feel safe here in the United States, thanks to your president who talks to God.

How about this prophet in the White House? Not the nation’s appointed, but God’s anointed.

We are one nation under God. It is in God we trust. To God we do pray for the blessing upon America. We are God’s elect.

We must be God’s elect because the president is doing the will of God by starting wars for our national benefit and the global good.

This is true isn’t it–what’s good for us is good for the …

http://www.godisajoke.com/2006/04/30/churchstate/th e-president-talks-to-god/

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Our response to Colbert’s humor is revealing! I mean, he was great, wasn’t he?

Click on my name to see the entire Colbert video on youtube.com.

I have loved Colbert since I first saw him - but after last night I am DELIRIOUS over the man!  I watched on C-Span and cheered his COURAGE…uncompromised, untamed, unintimidated…he was the bravest human being in the whole place.

I think the intent of the GW/Bridges routine was to diffuse criticism, lull the audience - and the public…“If they see me laugh about this stuff, they’ll think ever’thangs OK”...an example of the puerile BushCo mentality.  And I thought…“Oh no, this has upstaged Colbert before he even utters a word”.  WRONG.  He and the venerable Helen Thomas were just superb.

To those who are piously whining about Colbert being over the edge, disrespectful, etc. I want to point out: GW’s “jokes” about Cheney were condescending, snide and inappropriate for a President to direct at his own VP.  My guess is that Dick & Lynn are livid.  Watch your backside, GW, you may have crossed the line this time.

Stephen Junior’s pinfeathers must be quivering with pride!

Steven Colbert was brilliant. It made me feel so good that someone was finally able to stand up and tell Bush and the White House Press Corps the truth about their lack of competence.  As Rummy would say…they now know what we have known for the last 5 years. Thanks Steven!

Thank you, Stephen Colbert, for saying to the president and the press what so many of us have been thinking but have been afraid to say. It was an astounding performance.

I declare April 29th Stephen Colbert Day for the man with the biggest balls in the universe. That was something special.

Mr Colbert, you’re my hero

Obviously, Truthiness can prevail when accuracy has not.  Thank God and Cobert.

Colbert deserves a Pulitzer-Emmy -Tony and Academy Award—-also a Bronze Star to go with his brass——, and a big FAT raise.He was great !Didn’t miss a lie or cover-up or arrogant guise.

Colbert secured his place as a hero to the masses with no voice in politics today.

Let’s not talk politics; let’s talk talent. I can see why the President was not amused; Stephen Colbert was not good, that’s all there is to it. (Let’s say average, to be charitable). But Steve Bridges was excellent. So funny. And President Bush obviously has a future in comedy.

Steve the only man at the dinner who brought his huevos, oh and Helen Thomas, how come so few heros in a nature so large, but idiots rule and down we will tumble. Keep up the good work Steve

STEPHEN COBERT PRESENTED THE BUSHY BUNCH WITH “SHOCK AND AWE”.

I was surfing thru channels last night & saw Stepen Colbert, so I backed up and about swallowed my tongue laughing.  Stephen was wickedly funny, and all of his comments were filled with ‘truthiness’.  I’ve said since the beginning that Beelzebush would go down in history as the worst U.S. president EVER!  The part that amazes me, is that like a woman who doesn’t want to face the clear facts that her husband is cheating on her, most Americans STILL want to look the other way at the attrocities this administration is committing.  Thanks Stephen for the in your face humor!

first off, my new truthdig hat fits great!

ok,

im a huge fan of the colbert report, but i thought mr. colbert went too far last night.

it was like kicking a man when he is down.

if what happened last night was on the colbert report, fine.

but in person was distateful.

keep up the good work mr. scheer

I loved Colbert last night for all the reasons stated here.  And I love that he was exactly like the Colbert we see every night at 11:30.  an early morning C-Span caller (or maybe it was a guest?) said that Colbert’s humor is so fast and complex, relative to Bush’s humor for example, that the audience was possibly quiet b/c they didn’t have time to react fully to each joke before another one came along.  I wonder how many in the audience know his show or his shtick (schtick?).

I saw Safer’s interview of Colbert on 60 minutes and reviewed the earlier comments, and I want to follow up on the theme I raised in my comment #8243 posted on the story re Colbert’s interview of Kristol. Most succintly: If Colbert were viscerally committed to the values which stand behind his critique, wouldn’t he have taken the opportunity to just deck Bush? (Throttle the man about his neck until removed by bodyguards…) I was struck that through the course of Safer’s interview, Colbert displayed some sense of moral ambiguity about what he does - e.g., his confession that he does not let his children observe that he makes his living trucking insincerity. Maybe it is true that his balls are brass and he’s the bravest man in America, or it could be that he is first and foremost a performer and entertainer who found a niche. I don’t claim to know, I only want to know that at least the point I raise (I don’t claim to invent it)has been raised. Years ago somebody (I forget who) observed, upon seeing Nancy Reagan seated on the lap of Mr. T., that political and social satire had become useless - reality had become a characature of itself. As much as I enjoy Colbert’s talent for expressing my own sense of exasperation, I cannot shake the sense that he is, despite whatever he may believe he does, just some of the shiny bubble distractions observed, oh, by Rob Cordrey? What could any of us accomplish with a staff of 80?

Colbert deserves a Pulitzer Prize for Truthiness!

I watched it live on C-span last night and could not stop laughing even though I could feel the prickliness from the audience!  Bravo to Colbert for not selling out and speaking the only way he knows how, with truthiness!!!!
NYTimes and WAPO don’t even mention Colbert’s performance this morning.  WAPO has a picture of Bush with his impersonator, Steve Bridges, but nothing regarding Colbert performance?  Mainstream media, what cowards!

For a year I have been driving around with a bumper sticker in my rear window saying:
“Liberal - And Proud OF It”

If the democrats would take back their liberal and progressive heritage they might find more of a following.  The people are crying for some leadership.

Mr. Colbert is the bravest man on television.  All I could see was W’s profile, but he was turning to stone.  No doubt either that the little woman was livid.  Thank you, Stephen.

The folks at my house found Stephen Colbert’s
‘tribute’ filled with his usual sharp and subtle wit.  We wondered at the lack of response from his audience (the President’s response was predictable), and were undecided whether said audience was just too mainstream, or inhibited by circumstance, or could it be? just didn’t get it.  Maybe they were just stuck in the usual expectation of boredom.

Thank You Mr. Colbert.  I watched in disbelief last evening as you so courageously spoke the truth to (what seemed to be) a stunned WH and WH media.  I applaud you (with Standing O - I might add!!)!

IPORTANT NOTICE !!!  Stephen Colbert will be on “60 Minutes” tonight, April 30th.  I wish, but doubt, that his segment was done AFTER the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Steven Colbert is brilliant, it was so funny. I watched it and I couldn’t believe he was making some of the jokes that he did. “Steven Colbert Lite” wouldn’t have been as funny.

Colbert has proven that he has massive balls of steel.

Colbert was GREAT. Showing the balls that the white house press corps have lost . What a bunch of lackeys!
Colnbert was great.
Hey and Stephen - the fat, ugly woman from ABC onnthe platform slagged you off to Snow right after you finished - expressing shock and outrage.

Good for you!

Wow! Wasn’t Colbert great?Especially about the press just reporting the “facts” given to them by the administration.
Mr.Bush is not used to hearing the truth.

Click on the “did not seem amused” to read the entire article.  It’s hilarious!!!  I love the Colbert Report and would LOVE to have been there to see the look on Bush’s face when Colbert was saying these outrageous (and true) lines.  I’m elated that SOMEONE finally had the balls to really slam our Insulated Emperor.  Wish the Main Stream Media had a pair too.

Good for Stephen Colbert.  He’s got balls.

Colbert was brilliant.  Satirical. Truth with humor.
The Bushes seemed not amused, not unlike some who were not amused when GW “searched undr his desk” for WMDs, mocking the deaths of so many in his illegal war.

three cheers for colbert!

“They are re-arranging the deck chairs—on the Hindenburg.”

We can only hope.

If I were Cobert, I’d be very worried.
Will they find child porn on his computer at work? Connect him to a terrorist cell at Comedy Central? Disclose his charitable contributions to the ACLU and The Interfaith Alliance for Seperation of Church and State?

I recommend he beef up his image with the Neocons with a good false accusation of sexual assault or dealing in prescription drugs. Those are always easily settled out of court and forgotten the next day.

Steven Colbert was brilliant. Of course, he had a lot to work with. Bush comedy really writes itself. I loved the “liberal media is skewed toward reality” line. The “use the glacier metaphor now, your grandchildren won’t understand it” bit, the Sicilian gestures to Scalia, the outing of Valerie Plame, the Hindenburg, the glass 68% empty, the Iraqi government governs best that governs least, Helen Thomas asking why we invaded Iraq, all were sadly funny because they ring so true. This President is more than an embarrassment. He is a serious threat to American values, to world peace, to financial stability, to our constitutional freedoms, to trust in government and to rational thought. We all must work together to gain a Democratic majority in Congress that will investigate all his lying unlawful actions and hopefully file articles of impeachment.

The country is not laughing either at the President’s antics and crummy remarks on every subject that affects peoples lives as he clowns around town.