I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Bush presidency: FIERY WRECK!
nice pic!
G'nite!
Moi?
Guckert!
Karl+Stephen
Rats. As if.
I need to go see who's shitfaced.
I don't see a link -- who was shitfaced?
Ya think John Negroponte is chillin' with Ludacris at this point?
Virginia:
The preznitwit.
Colbert was FUNNY! I don't understand why he bombed. And let's be clear -- he bombed. No matter how funny he was to those of us watching at home, the room was not with him.
I think he'll recover nicely once his appearance circulates on the web, but for now, I feel bad for the guy. Totally unappreciated in his time.
Nobody told me the Correspondents' Dinner was tonight, or that Colbert was beating everyone with a chair. So was Colbert drunk, or was that a comment about Commander Cuckoo Bananas?
Ya think John Negroponte is chillin' with Ludacris at this point?
I think he's trying to find out what flight Colbert's on.
Clooney: still surrounded by women.
Miserable bitches.
I don't understand why he bombed. And let's be clear -- he bombed.
Al Franken had the same problem when he joked to Judith Miller's face about going to jail. Which oops, she did shortly after that.
As for why Colbert bombed, it's probably because the cocktail crowd didn't like having their weenies pissed on.
Damn. I was watching the Kirk Cameron banana proof of god's existence with some friends.
C'mon, YouTube.
well, of course Colbert bombed. They knmow he mocks them, and, besides, he sounds too much like them, right???
Repost -
This is another Karl Rove special, now real Americans can see the hatred MSM and the liberal elitist have for the USA and President George W Bush.
COLBERT IS GAWD.
Gannon [bulldog] Ghuckert, did a 2 hour interview, privately with Blair, of course no interview was ever published of the "interview" [wink wink]
Hey have you ever wondered if Gannon was in the white house the nite the pretzel choked bush?
This is another Karl Rove special, now real Americans can see the hatred MSM and the liberal elitist have for the USA and President George W Bush.
Fred Eper
Mmmmmmm-kay.
RERUNS!
He had to have known that he would bomb if he took on that crowd. He decided to do it anyway. GOOD FOR HIM.
and YYZ, you know WHY he 'bombed' at the WH suckups dinner
dinner liveblogged
If Colbert bombed, George Bush is a great president and I'm Isadora Duncan.
He fucking killed.
ROVE GOT PUNK'D
OMG, I did catch the last part of Colbert. My jaw was just open the whole time. So were my kids'. I'm taping it (rerunning now) -- they want to see the whole last bit tomorrow.
Just... speechless.
If Colbert bombed, George Bush is a great president and I'm Isadora Duncan.
And I'm Anne Heche.
The audition tape went on too long....but the rest of Stephen's performance was dead on! True, he didn't quite have the room---but this was the same roomfull of clowns who guffawed over Bush's lame routine where he looked under cushions for WMDs. Screw them.
I'm still laughing to tears.
Why is an airport posting in this thread?
True, he didn't quite have the room---but this was the same roomfull of clowns who guffawed over Bush's lame routine where he looked under cushions for WMDs. Screw them.
Let's see them laugh at the same routine with disabled vets in the room. I didn't think so, punk ass bitches!
I hate to use the word "courageous" and "entertainer" in the same sentence, but that was one brave performance Colbert gave tonight. A few feet away fromt he president and playing to a crowd of self-important and humorless (at least about themselves) DC insiders. I really can't believe he kept going!
Stephen Colbert: A great American? Or the GREATEST American?
Even my daughter said she wanted to go escort him home. For his safety. I hadn't repeated what y'all were writing here.
Tell me that's not really Mrs. McLaughlin...
Coming into the hall:
"Joseph Wilson, Former Ambassador"
"Valerie Pflame, Former CIA Operative".
You just can't beat C-Span
The Gannon knob goes all the way to 8+, cut.
Is there going to be any place to see the segment post fact?
Most beautiful bomb ever.
Bill Hicks would be proud.
Fred Eper
Fuck you, jack.
Anyone notice that Laura wouldn't shake his hand after?
colbert had the guts to mock them in ways which didn't play to their egos.
Everyone has a sense of humor about themselves, within certain boundaries, but colbert went outside them
I called 3 people to tell them to be sure to watch the reruns -- C&L sez, video coming soon
Let's see them laugh at the same routine with disabled vets in the room. I didn't think so, punk ass bitches!
Monica_A: The Peeved
yup. especially the punk ass part.
No WMDs and thousands dead for no reason--Hilarious.
Colbert--Not so much.
Greta Van Susteren is... kinda creepy.
(was that Patricia Clarkson?)
And this is the stuff of which legends are made . . . .
My so-called liberal press corp deserved every minute of it. The let this moron be (s)elected a second time knowing he has as much credibility as a monkey with its thumb up its ass. Fuck them!
Cspan will reaire this tomorrow?
Atrios: I completely disagree about everyone having a sense of humor about themselves. And I would say DC and LA are renowned centers of self-humorlessness.
EkCenTriK, I'm betting Crooksandliars will have Colbert's piece up as soon as they can do that hoo-doo that they do so well.
They're rerunning the whole thing on CSPAN right now, and as others have noted, it was streaming on the website too -- I don't know how they work, with clips of reruns.
Everyone has a sense of humor about themselves, within certain boundaries, but colbert went outside them
Atrios
This is why he is beloved.
I need to see what I missed!
Greta Van Susteren is... kinda butch.
(not that there's anything WRONG with that)
That's awesome.
Eli yes it was.
And Roethlisberger.
And Geoffrey Wright.
Joan Rivers would not approve of Jane Harman's outfit tonight.
Colbert Killed!
Sorry. I love Colbert, and I was hoping he would take these guys on. But, he bombed--big time--not because he was telling the truth but because, with some exceptions, he wasn't funny. And he ran on way too long. Am I really the only one here who thinks that?
Damn Ben Rothlisberger just walked in. He looks like fucking Gulliver next to all the media types.
Real Americans - Boycott Viacom!
Was Colbert before or after Bush and his twin?
It seems like 'wingers have their sense of humour surgically removed.
The trol brigade is still going on about how horrible it was that Ann Coulter was assaulted with, oh horrors, a pastry.
Eli yes it was.
And Roethlisberger.
And Geoffrey Wright.
This is like an episode of The Surreal Life...
From last thread...noblejoanie says...
Colbert held up a mirror to all of them and if it wasn't pretty, it's because it isn't pretty. Raw truth.
If our democracy survives it will be because of those with the guts to stand up and call bullshit when they have the microphone.
Thank you, Stephen Colbert.
noblejoanie | 04.29.06 - 11:22 pm | #
Exactly.
Weird... Plame, Wilson, & Dubya all in the same room.
Bet that won't ever happen again.
Anon6 is Billy Graham.
C-Span is running the dinner, NOW. They're on the arrivals. It's gonna go on for a while.
Oh yes, it's Ludacris.
And noted Jesus fan Ben Roethlisberger.
..Am I really the only one here who thinks that?
Probably.
I think Colbert knew exactly what the reaction would be, decided he would never again have the kind of platform he had tonight and went to the mattresses. Whoa - his wife is gorgeous!
Bush presidency: FIERY WRECK!
res ipsa loquitur | 04.29.06 - 11:15 pm | #
Really?
Ya think?
Did John McLaughlin come with his grand-daughter?
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Inviting Steve is just another example of this admistraions total imcompetance.
After Bush's twin.
Fred,
Did you think it was funny when the "press" attacked Chelsea Clinton? It's not funny to attack a 13 year old girl. Your boy got his comeuppence and I will be DVR-ing tomorrow.
It's Joey Pants!
Anyone notice that Laura wouldn't shake his hand after?
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Colbert was FUNNY! I don't understand why he bombed. And let's be clear -- he bombed. No matter how funny he was to those of us watching at home, the room was not with him.
The SCLM is deathly afraid of being percieved as Liberal.
Oh, and Steve's probably not too disappointed. I bet he knew what sort of reaction he was in for. Well, maybe a little.
(Following shortly after Joey Cheek, oddly enough...)
Next time hire Argus Hamilton. Now comes the real White House shake-up.
Weird... Plame, Wilson, & Dubya all in the same room.
Bet that won't ever happen again.
KG Prophet | 04.29.06 - 11:30 pm
Just wait for the civil suit.
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Weird... Plame, Wilson, & Dubya all in the same room.
Bet that won't ever happen again.
It will for the depositions.
Colbert was FUNNY! I don't understand why he bombed. And let's be clear -- he bombed. No matter how funny he was to those of us watching at home, the room was not with him.
Who the fuck cares what the "room" thought. That was the point. Those who didn't get it or laugh at Stephen's genius is because they're too fucking stupid - They don't have an individual or original fucking thought in them. If they had, Stephen would not have had as much material to throw in their faces. Is your real name Howard Kurtz?
Stephen was one of the few people (outside of Helen "I Love You" Thomas) with true Mucho Juevos Grande in that whole room. I love him!
Colbert ripped them all a new one.
PS- The reason he "bombed" is because the DC elite are so used to their little circle jerks and conventional wisdom 'debates' that to have them challenged, even in sarcasm, was to them the height of insult. Colbert was brilliant and the apathy of the audience does not change that. The fact that the press and the President did not like him proves he was good.
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FeralLiberal | 04.29.06 - 11:31 pm
BWHAHAAAA HAHAAAAAA
Colbert is the last speaker, so it'll be a while before his part is shown again.
Just saw his arrival. His wife is cute.
But I still want to have his children. 
Phil Simms!!!
If our democracy survives it will be because of those with the guts to stand up and call bullshit when they have the microphone.
noblejoanie
No doubt.
OMG, I did catch the last part of Colbert. My jaw was just open the whole time. So were my kids'. I'm taping it (rerunning now) -- they want to see the whole last bit tomorrow.
Mr. Geo and I were laughing so hard that our cat was alarmed.
Weird... Plame, Wilson, & Dubya all in the same room.
Bet that won't ever happen again.
Oh, I think they'll show up for Bush's execution.
Clooney: still surrounded by women.
No, as I said below, he's got a crew of female bodyguards, like Kaddafi.
Joey Pants was/is definitely drunk.
colbert had the guts to mock them in ways which didn't play to their egos.
Everyone has a sense of humor about themselves, within certain boundaries, but colbert went outside them
Having a sense of humor about oneself requires a certain amount of introspection and self-awareness.
I think Colbert knew exactly what the reaction would be
no doubt about that
Re-re-HICA, ever-body!
I hope sittenpretty is here, or saw earlier that I got her massive carton of goodies.
I have to lay low so that hopefully, Cadillac Man will keep the cable modem plugged in overnight, and I can finally catch that Colbert performance at C&L in a few hours.
.
does the General Still Sell Bumper Balls?
Maybe order a set & send to Cobert?
It is sad that the mere speaking of truth to power is enough to provoke jaw-drops, even among people who have been waiting to see it for so long.
I can't wait to see the whole thing. I came in about the time he was talking about Chocolate City.
Henry Kissinger quickly heads inside to look for John McLaughlin's prostituter, er, granddaughter.
Someone yelled "Bastard" when Kissinger walked through. lol.
I will have to catch it on C&L. We've had company since lunch and I need to go to bed.
Love you loonies!
Andrea Mitchell, freshly lacquered
Colbert is awesome. That is all.
Stephen Colbert does not play well with others.
Bless him
Good night sane, rational people.
Cobert showed great guts!
Forgive my left coast prejudice - but ladies in the East don't seem terribly self-aware of their presentation.... Odd, that.
Grrr.. no cable, must have linkies.
What an ugly fishlipped bastard Mehlman is.
Well, I am reminded of the guy who came on before Bush, who said the right hates us, the left hates us, so that means we are doing swell. It doesn't. I have seen referees who both sides hate because well, they stunk really badly.
The media have a way too inflated sense of ego. Colbert did bomb with them. But they can't handle the truthiness.
Lawrence Fishburne appears to be dating a goddess - who was she?
The best SNL EVER is starting right now: the best of Smigel's TV Funhouse!
Is that Fishburne's wife?
I forgot her name. The actress that was on Firefly?
Gloria something I think?
Thanks TOW!
And I raise a glass of NW Pinot to you.
Its bed time, go to sleep!
It seems like 'wingers have their sense of humour surgically removed.
And then go on and on about the Left having no sense of humor. The only thing less funny that a Winger comedian is a Fundamentalist one.
I forgot her name. The actress that was on Firefly?
Gloria something I think?
Rubens, maybe?
I think Colbert knew exactly what the reaction would be, decided he would never again have the kind of platform he had tonight and went to the mattresses.
yeah, and considering he's not a big name at all(except to us), it was really gutsy not to go for the easy laughs.
He had his big chance to show them all what he thought of them, or to give his career a big boost, and he picked door #1.
Colbert had to know it was going to be a tough crowd, considering his material. And he's such a pro, he just kept on going, and never looked back.
Bill Hicks would be proud indeed.
To those who think Colbert bombed--perhaps he did with the folks in the room, but were they really his audience or was it us...
He's a hero.
At least Stephen didn't have to present an alternative personality to represent his thoughts. He had the balls to say it to all who needed to hear it.
The one thing I found insulting was the preznuts choice of schtick(sp?) given the situation our country is in and the death and destruction for which he is responsible. He had to invent a separate personality to say all that he really feels. I knew he was schizo. Sorry, my apologies to schizos everywhere. Didn't mean to demean them.
Are they sure that's Tiki?
Did John McLaughlin come with his grand-daughter?
I sure hope she was his grand-daughter.
The only thing less funny that a Winger comedian is a Fundamentalist one.
I dunno, Kunt Hovind and Bill Dumbski are pretty funny...
The Ambiguously Gay Duo is hosting SNL!
sorry' but chuck town!
JR, it will be up at cspan.org at some point... but Colbert's part probably faster at crooksandliars.com.
Are they sure that's Tiki?
He's going to let Ronde in through the side door.
What the hell is Colbert thinking? Sumner Redstone is not going to be happy about this, especially after Sumner had to fix that "little" problem of Stephen's.
Well cspan is going to get nuked.
they're re-airing.
And Roethlisberger.
Fundie athletes are muy ultra annoying. I want a stoner atheist QB to win the next Super Bowl MVP.
Or at least a Culpepper, what who gets with strippers on boats and shit.
SNL, A voiced by...Stephen Colbert
Fishburne's way ahead in the who's-on-my-arm department, yes.
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perfect, the SNl Smigel special for 90 minutes, just about the right timing to switch over to catch the Colbert performance rerun
Lawrence Fishburne appears to be dating a goddess
Yes - and I loved her dress.
What was the poker champion doing there? hmmm...
At an affair like that, would it be appropriate to hang a laptop off your neck running Linux and consider it a Tux?
*Obsessively refreshes Crooks and Liars*
I thought the best part was when Laura walked down those steps and fell flat on her face.
What the hell is Colbert thinking? Sumner Redstone is not going to be happy about this, especially after Sumner had to fix that "little" problem of Stephen's.
Comedy Central Insider
Yeah, but Aaron Greene has the last word, no?
somebody sober live blog?
Ah imdb I love you.
Gina Torres is her name.
She was Glory on Angel too.
Mark Smith is boring me to tears.
The Ambiguously Gay Duo is hosting SNL!
Plum P
That's Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell (really!)- before they were stars.
Pinot, yummy! Thanks, ErinPDX.
OMG! Steven Colbert is my hero. That was better than crossfire. type it up,run it through spell check and go home. Steven Colbert, He better than Batman, He braver...
being the president would drive anyone to drink.
Gina Torres is her name.
She was Glory on Angel too.
Jasmine?
Oooooooooooooooooooooooh...... Pretty!
He is shitfaced. And it was way past his bedtime.
Having a sense of humor about oneself requires a certain amount of introspection and self-awareness.
SHUT UP! I'm sick of you always MOCKING me!
(runs sobbing from room)
Tell me that's not really Mrs. McLaughlin...
Eli
No, it can't be. He's still married to his second wife whi is now in her 40s.
you're right - Colbert voicing one of the ambiguously gay duo
busy guy
re: Colbert. I have no idea what any of you are talking about. What were you watching?
*Obsessively refreshes Crooks and Liars*
look on C-SPAN, they're staring to re-run it.
colbert had the guts to mock them in ways which didn't play to their egos.
Atrios
I agree - it sounds like it made them uncomfortable. I wonder though, could the audience sound have been turned down, so it sounded more uncomfortable then it was?
And the Ex-Presidents are the musical guest
(no, i don't get CSPAN in Canada dammit!)
GWPDA you are correct.
Glory was the crazy bitch on Buffy.
My initial reaction was, oh shit, he's bombing. But boy was I wrong.
He blistered everyone in the fucking room.
look on C-SPAN, they're staring to re-run it.
And you haven't missed anything. This opening pre-Colbert segment is painfully dull.
That's Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell (really!)- before they were stars.
Jay C
wow! Colbert = the most subversive man in America!
I love the behind the scenes stuff. See how hard we work and under such difficult circumstances. All to bring the news to you little people. Look how cramped our cubes are, look at the bad lighting and poor air quality we must endure day in and day out. Such troopers they are. Puh-leeze
Walter, Colbert capped off the WH Press Correspondents' Dinner, and it was unfuckin'believable. They're rerunning it now, but I'm not sure what time his bit will be up (or if you get CSPAN where you are).
SHUT UP! I'm sick of you always MOCKING me!
(runs sobbing from room)
Thers, Come Back! It was just a joke!!
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How's everybody doing in Madison?
C&L will have it up as soon as he can.
In washington press world:
Funny is Bush making fun of the failure to find WMDs.
Not funny is Stephen Colbert mocking their failure to call bullshit on WMD claims.
all you need to know
His second wife.
Had to be a niece or child of hers from a previous marriage.
Why can't SNL be like that every week?
WalterNeff - www.c-span.org C-Span Two, I believe.
The internets are really something. Say THANK YOU MR. GORE....
OT: R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith.
David Gregory is showing us his 409 Cleaner that he keeps in his office. Wierd...
Funny is Bush making fun of the failure to find WMDs.
Not funny is Stephen Colbert mocking their failure to call bullshit on WMD claims.
Horse masturbation is a guaranteed laugh line as well.
I'm looking fwd to seeing this later, this computer has no sound.
Anybody who's watched Stephanopoulos week after week and seen them choose the most horribly banal clip from The Daily Show for their 'funnies' segment, EVERY TIME going for something nonpartisan, or even anti-Dem, instead of the show's priceless digs at the administration, will not have been shocked at what apparently was the SCLM lackeys' discomfort with Colbert tonight.
Oh now they are converned about the Geneva Convention.
David Gregory is showing us his 409 Cleaner that he keeps in his office. Wierd...
This segment is sapping my will to live...
What the hell is Colbert thinking? Sumner Redstone is not going to be happy about this, especially after Sumner had to fix that "little" problem of Stephen's.
Comedy Central Insider
bwahahaha -- colbert did some damage. the smear artists aren't wasting any time -- are ya 'comedy central insider'
For those who missed the announcement, CSPAN is repeating it tomorrow, 12:30 PM Eastern time.
er concerned
Colbert was already my hero of the week when he "did" Kristol, but this sounds as brillant (if only i had CSPAN)
Watching the new show on TLC called 'Little People, Big World'
A sort of real world documentary series about the daily life of a family of little people.
http://tlc.discovery.com/
fansite...k=netmain_feat1
The show's quite good and does a great deal to detail the daily routines and issues involving people who were born with dwarfism.
The parents are both little people but 3 of their 4 children are normal size.
So far I've seen two episodes and I can't stop watching it. My kids watch it too and I think it's great that here is a show out there that helps remove stereotypes some might have when meeting or encountering little people.
It's on Saturday's on the Learning Channel.
I highly reccomend it based on what I've seen so far.
Anyone else seen this show yet? I think it only started this year so it hasn't been on for too long.
MYOB'
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OT: R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith.
ProfWombat
damn.
Greta Van Susteren is... kinda butch.
she's a Arubutch!
...and fuck that room full of whores or whether or not you yourself chortiled out loud- there is much more to good humor than laughter (see Mark Twain)
Colbert not only killed but he mocked the fuckin' zombies...
all you need to know
Word
A la camita.
Buenas noches.
...Sumner had to fix that "little" problem...
what little problem?
OT: R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith.
Oh No! A gentleman and a scholar.
OT: R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith.
ProfWombat
Bummer.
Fuck!
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Look how cramped our cubes are, look at the bad lighting and poor air quality we must endure day in and day out.
Yeah - this is teh annoying. Lots of people get cubicles & would like the offices they are complaining about.
CSPAN is repeating it right now.
The current SNL skit is unbelievable.
How's everybody doing in Madison?
Tired. A hotel trip with our 136 children is quite a chore. We should sell some of them for medical experiments.
OT: R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith.
ProfWombat | 04.29.06 - 11:46 pm | #
Really? Shit. Thought about him today, as I sat in the audience at the L.A. Times Book Fair watching Gore Vidal hold court. (mentioned this downthread, nobody else attended? that'd be a shame...)
sad, but galbraith's son is carrying on the good fight
OT: R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith.
ProfWombat
No.
I didnt see it but from what i read he is just to brilliant for newwsman and especially neo cons
Okay, I've C-Span opened in my browser - some guy from US News & World Report is talking - is that what I'm supposed to be watching?
I like my office. I like that I can lock the door and take a nap under my desk if I want. I think of this as the entire reason I got a job requiring an advanced degree.
Bush Lampoons Self at Press Corp Dinner
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20060..._correspondents
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Bush Lampoons Self at Press Corp Dinner
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20060..._correspondents
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OT: R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith.
ProfWombat
damn.
JR
i second that
merde
This young man Stephen Colbert has a lot of potential, but he did not reach his audience tonight. He could learn a lot from Saint Paul, who knew how to speak the language of the people and was not too proud to resort even to slapstick.
Well, Galbraith had quite the life. Hard to ba sad...
Where's the Galbraith news coming from? Hasn't hit CNN.com or the google news yet.
Gina Torres was on Alias, as Anna Espinoza. I knew I'd seen her before. Thank you HBK and IMDB.
A sort of real world documentary series about the daily life of a family of little people.
A show about your average American?
Ann Compton frightens me.
I like my office. I like that I can lock the door and take a nap under my desk if I want. I think of this as the entire reason I got a job requiring an advanced degree.
Thers
I can put tape on the floor to indicate a 'door' and am thinking of getting some cardboard to cover the top of my cube to simulate a 'ceiling'. G_d knows this is why I got an advanced degree. And, and, they've installed a water cooler with -hot- water, just right nearby. What more could I possibly want?
A hotel trip with our 136 children is quite a chore
It was easy for us...
The current SNL skit is unbelievable.
attaturk
the jihad kids cartoon? you bet!
Tired. A hotel trip with our 136 children is quite a chore.
hmmm..That's a lot of kids.
I hope they're all having fun with the pool & jumping on the beds!
Funny is Bush making fun of the failure to find WMDs.
Not funny is Stephen Colbert mocking their failure to call bullshit on WMD claims.
Lucky for them this was on C-SPAN.
The rest of the country was watching "American Idol" (or whatever entertains the masses on Saturday night network tv)
buenos noches.
OT: R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith.
ProfWombat
Agreed.
...and after reading the earlier posts please accept my families many blessings to you and your good wife Prof.
And, and, they've installed a water cooler with -hot- water, just right nearby. What more could I possibly want?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Some tea?
An Actual Office is the perk of the academic.
Though, admittedly, Working From My Couch is mine.
Okay, I've C-Span opened in my browser - some guy from US News & World Report is talking - is that what I'm supposed to be watching?
WalterNeff, Pacific All-Risk
There are three c-span channels. I think this is on No. 2, but you must check.
"Yeah - this is teh annoying. Lots of people get cubicles & would like the offices they are complaining about."
One office (If you call it that)I had in the past.
Long and narrow (6 foot deep) with a 12 foot unfinished ceiling. Next to the Men's room in a very warm manufacturing plant. An 80 foot cloth cutting table just off the front with tons of lint pouring through the door daily. Poor lighting with several dangling fixtures, cinder block walls and a leaky sewage pipe from upstairs.
Those press cubicles look like heaven from that perspective.
...Colbert capped off the WH Press Correspondents' Dinner...
Yes, yes he did, didn't he? Someone knew what he would do, and wanted it. There's a mole in the Press Club...
My god the White House Correspondents Dinner, is rubber chicken dull.
E&P's pre-game article: Grin and Colbert It
And one HAS to wonder if this was written before the event came to a close...
I missed this part the first time around, but it makes the contrast with Colbert's appearance even more amazing.
Re: RIP JK Galbraith: NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/
3...artner=homepage
A good man who led a long and fruitful life.
I like my office. I like that I can lock the door and take a nap under my desk if I want.
Mr. Geo shares an office as a lowly TA. One of his office mates pretty much moved in last semester. He was taking way too many credits & pretty much stoped bathing. It was a problem.
I like my office. I like that I can lock the door and take a nap under my desk if I want. I think of this as the entire reason I got a job requiring an advanced degree.
Thers
It's worth it to not have to wear shoes all day.
Some tea?
Anonymous Bosch
I bring my ownself's Red Rose teabags, and sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly giddy in the Borg's embrace, I break out the instant soup!
Good Newsday story about West Point cadets:
"One cadet said he felt Rumsfeld should apologize to the American people over the flawed rationale for the war, the weapons of mass destruction never found.
"We question his judgment, but as a soldier, we can't stand up and say anything. We have to follow it," said this cadet, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "A lot of people say, 'All we want is an apology -- just admit you were wrong and move on,' but it hasn't happened."
Now Rahon shares a larger worry of the generals, that the United States risks taking its eye off the broader war on terror in its involvement in Iraq.To some extent, Rahon said, that's all looking backward instead of focusing on what's important now -- how to deal with the problems in Iraq and bring the troops home.
"I'm really one for trying to fix it as much as we can and then get out," said Rahon, 21. "I just hope we can get the war done efficiently, do a good job -- and not create any more terrorists."
The rest of the country was watching "American Idol"
I was really tempted to buy a pair of boxers I saw recently, had a pic of Homer Simpson on a couch with the caption "American Idle".
thanks, focus
MSNBC was carrying the end live
Okay, I've C-Span opened in my browser - some guy from US News & World Report is talking - is that what I'm supposed to be watching?
WalterNeff,
Now Ann Compton of ABC is on. If the US News guy gave out scholarships - that's the right chanel.
I hope Veronica Mars got her scholarship.
The WHCA dinner is on c-span tv, and streaming at c-span.org. The stream runs a few minutes behind apparently. Quite a while before Colbert come on.
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The WHCA dinner is on c-span tv, and streaming at c-span.org. The stream runs a few minutes behind apparently. Quite a while before Colbert come on.
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Colbert and and unhappy McFlightsuit
I wouldn't think the show would be up yet on cspan.org -- don't they need time to get it mounted if it's a rerun, instead of streaming it live?
It was on C-SPAN 1 here.
This woamn on now, she sounds like she has loose bridgework.
An Actual Office is the perk of the academic.
Though, admittedly, Working From My Couch is mine.
Atrios
If I had to work from home, I'd be out of a job in a week. The work must be away from the house, or it will never get done. I can work 12 hr days, but I can't do it in my own comfort zone.
attaturk
Colbert may want to move his family to an undisclosed location.
Huh. I used to have an office. With a door that locked. And a big window. And my OWN THERMOSTAT. Those were the fucking days.
Mr. Geo shares an office as a lowly TA. One of his office mates pretty much moved in last semester. He was taking way too many credits & pretty much stoped bathing. It was a problem.
Ah, grad school, or, the Carnival of the Neuroses.
Ann Compton sleeveless: WTF was she thinking? Ugly does not begin to describe those puffy discolored wobbly chunks of flesh oozing out of her dress. It's like someone took a hideous color of Play-Doh and squeezed it out of a Fun Factory. In the dictionary under "coyote ugly" is aays "see Ann Compton in a sleeveless dress."
One day I dream of working from Atrios's Couch.
I doubt Bush has ever heard of Stephen Colbert. Thank Jeebus TCR and TDS are on iTunes.
Wow these guys are really bad at humor.
John Kenneth Galbraith was a valiant scion of a great and wacky family of Scots-Canadian Galbraiths. This was my Galbraith, John Semple Galbraith who was just as great and just as much missed.
Wow these guys are really bad at humor.
Is that what they're doing?
I bring my ownself's Red Rose teabags, and sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly giddy in the Borg's embrace, I break out the instant soup!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
I prefer Red Rose to that "other brand" that makes instant soup. I thought you might get tea at a Peets Coffee or someplace. I like Peets teas, the Scottish Breakfast is very robust and keeps me from overdoing their coffee.
Oh, duh, of COURSE it's streaming now on CSPAN 1 because they're rerunning it on the TV station right now. It is gonna be awhile -- this was, what, 2 hours long?
I'm stupid enough tonight to fall asleep before we get there, but tape is rollin'.
Office? We don't need no stinking offices in the elementary school. What possibly could we do with an office?
cold robotic owls
"Wow these guys are really bad at humor.
Is that what they're doing?
Eli "
I never realized that they may have had another goal in mind.
I think it's official. My head will explode. If not Republicans, then sinuses.
I could tell you stories about offices. About my friend who lived in her office when she was a grad student at Rutgers. She had this net hammock that she would string up every night.
Another time when I worked in IT, we had a guy who was virtually homeless, and it took a while before people caught on he was sleeping at work. We just thought he got in early and worked late every day.
(from the NYT about Galbraith - birn canadian buyt the way)
"The Affluent Society" appeared in 1958, making Mr. Galbraith known around the world. In it, he depicted a consumer culture gone wild, rich in goods but poor in the social services that make for community. He argued that America had become so obsessed with overproducing consumer goods that it had increased the perils of both inflation and recession by creating an artificial demand for frivolous or useless products, by encouraging overextension of consumer credit and by emphasizing the private sector at the expense of the public sector. He declared that this obsession with products like the biggest and fastest automobile damaged the quality of life in America by creating "private opulence and public squalor."
Anticipating the environmental movement by nearly a decade, he asked, "Is the added production or the added efficiency in production worth its effect on ambient air, water and space — the countryside?"" Mr. Galbraith called for a change in values that would shun the seductions of advertising and champion clean air, good housing and aid for the arts."
50 years later...it's all true
If I had to work from home, I'd be out of a job in a week.
I guess that's why my diss. isn't done yet.
The coffee shop helps a bit.
"Tony Snow Show"
That was the best they could do?
If you removed the words tribute, my wife, my children, I would like to thank, and It's my honor these clowns would have nothing to say.
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Those press cubicles look like heaven from that perspective.
EkCenTriK
Worked at a place, the more people they hired the smaller our cubicles.
Ended up there was a about enough space to roll your chair into and back out.
Then we all (seriously, down to about 5 from 30) got laid off.
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As long as we can't sing the NA in Spanish, let's go all the way and rename our cities in English, too.
Los Angeles = Angel City
San Francisco = St. Francsis
On now on now!!
They're started the 2nd broadcast of Colbert now.
Mark Smith of AP booked him. He's so screwed.
The last third is usually backwash
Beautiful...
He didn't bomb...what you saw was Shock & Awe. Truth is the most powerful weapon in the world.
Some waiter bumped shoulders with Bush.
Helen Thomas is too cool.
Mark Smith could book him because he was leaving, and probably gave him the go-ahead to be as uncensored as he wanted to be...
It doesn't matter IF Colbert bombed or not, those a-holes for once had to sit there and take it.
Well, when W was on I thought this dinner was the most disgusting display I've ever seen. This criminal who is destroying our country -- and much of the rest of the world -- getting laughs and a standing ovation from that sickening crew of enablers and fellow travelers. I wondered how Colbert could allow himself to be a part of that sycophantic, elitist circle jerk. Then he went on and spoke the truth directly to the whole damn hall, including the godfather himself. It was one of the most courageous public moments I've ever seen. One line sticks out. He said he wished Bush had considered him for press secretary. "I'd be perfect for the job. I have nothing but contempt for these people." The truth.
CSPAN will have it on again tomorrow at 12:30 pm eastern.
On Sunday that is.
Colbert spoke TRUTH to POWER. And guess what, POWER didn't like it.
Probably didn't help that he was mocking them to their faces either.
crooksandliars.com has the video.
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There is a God.. Good Job Colbert.
SMACK. DOWN.
I think he'll recover nicely once his appearance circulates on the web, but for now, I feel bad for the guy. Totally unappreciated in his time.
YYZ
Please, you don't think he knew he wasn't going to get that many laughs? He's been doing this a hell of a long time. He went there to make them uncomfortable. I don't think he's too upset.
And he ran on way too long. Am I really the only one here who thinks that?
Anon6
Sounds like you need a laugh track to go with your humor.
WOW - can hardly wait for the rerun in half an hour. And don't forget - Morley Sather interviews Stephen on "60 Minutes" tonight.
Bombed? You bet! A bunker-buster, and it was aimed squarely at Bush's cement head. Oh, and BULLSEYE!
"I don't understand why he bombed. And let's be clear -- he bombed."
Colbert's audience was NOT in that room. Those were his sworn enemies sitting there uncomfortably. All of them, Bush, Scalia, and the entire WH press corps, even the so caleld harsh ones. His audience is HISTORY, his audience is mankind thru the Ages, and he hit one straight out of the park, while ripping the cover off the ball and cracking the bat over his opponent's skull in the process. Repeatedly. Then, as the sparks from the shattered scoreboard rained down on the field, he ran the bases in glorious 120 FPS slo-mo, with lots of glamorous backlight and fancy filters in front of the lens. BEST.... TV... EVER.
The media and Bush are exactly the people who needed to hear this. They should be forced to listen to two hours of this type of commentary every day of the week.
It's probably the first time that the 'decider has heard that much 'news' in the past 6 yrs.
Nominate Colbert for a Congressional Medal of Valor!
Of course the reeeption was cool, the room was filled with grim, humorless Bush supporters. There must be dozens of sick Republican candidates tonight. Helen Thomas, given the opportunity for "pay-back", has to be one of the happiest members of the press. Thank God, the 1st Amendment prevails. She may be the last to be banished to the back of the room for having asked Bush the reason for his obscene unprovoked war on Iraq,the country that had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11.
Colbert was the only one with balls and the courage to use them. Sure he didn't get any laughs, since when did conservatives ever have a sense of humor. If anyone was drunk it was Bush as he is really on the sauce. Oh yes I don't want to forget the other one with the big heuvos, Helen Thomas but will it bring down these monsters, not a bit. But keep doing what you're doing Steve and make Steve Jr proud to soar for you. Ciao, don ex-Marine
Truthiness hurts don't it? When it comes to Colbert, they're large and they're brass! Perhaps now the knuckle dragging Bushie Buttlickers know that he has little if any support amongst the truly patriotic people of this nation. Colbert is a prophet, the first to point out the BURNING BUSH.
Isn't YYZ Toronto's international airport? So maybe it's a Canadian?
I could sign my posts TUL or 918 to let you know I live in possibly the stupidest state in the nation.
Prolly YYZ is just bragging.
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