Part 1 - http://video.freevideoblog.com/video/wm/AAC7FA18-2DDC-4D3E-B1BB-9D6CBD83E27F.htm

Part 2 - http://video.freevideoblog.com/video/wm/C91DDBB4-28AD-4E6F-BD52-822BC77DF696.htm

cool - thanks. I wanted to see that

I thought he was hysterical. What did they think Stephen Colbert was going to do?

I dunno......It was interesting though

I <3 Colbert

Apparently Bush was very pissed...

Colbert is normally pretty funny - but I thought his "speech" was lacking in laughs & a bit of a let down.

Why was Bush pissed?

Colbert is normally pretty funny - but I thought his "speech" was lacking in laughs & a bit of a let down.

It wasn't a friendly (to Colbert) crowd Drew, hence the lack of laughing. In fact, several walked out in protest.

The video with Helen Thomas was just TOOO funny!

It wasn't a friendly (to Colbert) crowd Drew, hence the lack of laughing. In fact, several walked out in protest. The reason it wasn't friendly to Colbert is because he revealed the media to be made of mostly spineless lackys to chickenshit to call ush on his BS. Kinda reminds me of the Democrats...

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=10024260 15
When the President Joked About Not Finding WMD
Many say Stephen Colbert went too far in lampooning President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner, or was just "not funny." Where was all that disapproval when Bush, at a very similar gathering two years ago, built a whole comedy routine around not finding WMD in Iraq?
By Greg Mitchell

(May 01, 2006) -- For two days the battle has raged on the Web: Did Stephen Colbert go too far in lampooning President Bush, to his face, at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night? Is that why his barbs did not generate more laughter around the room of 2700 journalists, celebrities and other guests? Or was it because he suggested the press was spineless in failing to confront the president on Iraq? Or was Colbert just not that funny?

In any case, the event has inspired debate on hundreds of political and media blogs, the posting of the video on dozens of sites, and massive traffic to E&P, where the first in-depth account of Colbert’s performance was posted Saturday night.

You’d think from all the criiticism that the guy had based his routine on joking about launching a war and not finding the WMDs that inspired it. Oh, right, that was President Bush, two years ago.

Nevertheless, Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, appearing on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC program Monday night, joined the ranks of those who attended the dinner who felt Colbert “was not funny.” On the other hand, he said the president’s routine that night with a Bush impersonator was a howl.

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=10024260 15

Heres a site where you can pay your respects-

Thank You Stephen Colbert.
39842 Responses to “Thank You.”
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/wordpress/archives/3


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Colbert Reaction Shows Media Are Frightened Of Bush
Another alarm bell warning that dictatorship is near
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | May 3 2006

It wasn't the reaction of President Bush that interested me, nor the meanderings of Fox News. The way in which the media received Stephen Colbert's act during the White House Correspondents Dinner should set alarm bells ringing about the real state of the union.

The attending press whores were frightened to laugh at Colbert because they didn't want to upset their boss, George W. Bush.

Anyone with half a brain could see that Colbert's routine (watch the video) was funnier than the Bush lookalike 'dumb and dumber' skit, an over scripted painful bore that nevertheless garnered loud guffaws from the audience.

But Colbert's expertly honed Neo-Con Bush worshipping performance was met with guarded silence at many points during the keynote address.
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When a satirical routine that mocks the President is treated with hushed tones and darting glares from the very supposed guardians of free speech, it spells danger for the ability to dissent in America without being castigated as a misbehaving gadfly.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/030506colbertreaction.htm

Thanks for the link, guerilla. It seems odd to think we need to thank someone for speaking out. 60 Minutes also did a piece on Colbert last week:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/27/60minutes/main1553506.shtml

He's lucky he wasn't hauled off to Gitmo or wherever they dragged that lady who heckled Bush Lite's ruthless-but-useful little China buddy, here in the Fourth Reich.
See, the US only attacks dictators who have outlived their usefulnessto this country.
Saddam was a dick, but he did more to help the US fight the commies than most Republicans ever did.

Saddam was a dick, but he did more to help the US fight the commies than most Republicans ever did.

?!?!?!!?

I agree with you that Saddam was probably of more benefit to the U.S. than most of the Republikkan assholes in Congress, (or, was at least less HARMFUL) but what "commies" did Saddam fight?

He's lucky he wasn't hauled off to Gitmo or wherever they dragged that lady who heckled Bush Lite's Or like the woman who was arrested for insulting President Clinton (but this actually happened)

or this story
The Washington Post reported Rev. Schenck's account of it, that "while waiting to receive communion, he leaned over the altar rail toward the president's nearby seat and quietly told Clinton: 'God will hold you to account, Mr. President.'" There was no further interaction between the two men, but Rev. Schenck was nevertheless physically detained by the Secret Service while leaving the cathedral, had his wallet searched and his driver's license extracted, and during this search was told he could not contact a lawyer.

http://www.dailyrepublican.com/clintoninsulted.html

http://members.aol.com/basfawlty/shake_bc.htm

Quit living in the past and riding a fence rider. Clinton was no more democrat then he was republican. Besides the fact that it was over 6 years ago. Not that you can't talk about the past or bash Clinton when it actually fits into the discussion but where the hell did that come from...

He's lucky he wasn't hauled off to Gitmo or wherever they dragged that lady who heckled Bush Lite's ruthless-but-useful little China buddy, here in the Fourth Reich.
Or like the woman who was arrested for insulting President Clinton (but this actually happened)OMG your a fucking idiot. Why don't you bother reading up on a claim before calling it bullshit?...

1. Quit living in the past and riding a fence rider.

2. ....where the hell did that come from...

3. OMG your a fucking idiot. Why don't you bother reading up on a claim before calling it bullshit?...
1. I don't recall you dishing similar advice when your compatriots discuss Prescott Bush and the Nazis.

2. As a response to fictitious speculation about the Fourth Reich sending a lady to Gitmo. I thought a factual story carried a little more weight.

3. Again....What?

1. I said its fine if the discussion is about such but your "look at Clinton" BS is beyond old. No one was talking about clinton or anything remotly related to such.

2. and 3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4931914.stm

try to bring attention to a mass mudering torturous scumbag and ...surprise surprise the other massmurdering torturous scum bag defends his precious little ears and delicate feelings...

i don't understand the "colbert wasn't funny because he went too far"

he just plain wasn't funny.

Yeah Guerilla, I guess charging someone with a violation or minor misdemeanor is just like the "Fourth Reich" carting her off to Gitmo.
Exaggerations always make the reality more acceptable. Keep it up.

It was an exaggeration. Just like because charging someone with "harassing, intimidating and threatening a foreign official." for shouting...

"Stop oppressing the Falun Gong" and "Your time is running out".
and "President Bush, stop him from killing."

is an exaggeration. The difference is that when the government does it people face "up to six months in jail and a fine of $5,000"