I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
she hit kelvin.
yawn......................
Fristed by truthiness.
This is going to cause Bush's poll number to go up 15% in 2 weeks, just you watch.
Colbert's the man! He should have done a bit or two with his "Phil Ken Sebben" voice from Harvey Birdman, though: "Ha HA! Uncomfortable silence!"
yawn......................
Fred Eper
wow fred, how did you ever train your mouth to open so widely?
This is going to cause Bush's poll number to go up to 15% in 2 weeks, just you watch.
Fixed your typo.
Preznit Drunkenstupor
>This is going to cause Bush's poll number to go up to 15% in 2 weeks, just you watch.
Just how many people do you think watch cspan, freddie?
impeach the bastard now
It's National Hand The Chimp His Ass Day. A fitting celebration of Galbraith's life.
Economics is a remarkable discipline. They awarded Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman and Amartya Sen Nobel Prizes in it. Imagine physics awards going to Einstein, Velikovsky and Hawking...
Speaking of Colbert, I presume.
Game.
Set.
Match.
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Bush to Rove, exiting Correspondents' Dinner:
"Have the Rolling Stones killed."
Quite the cockpunch.
Looks like I picked a hell of a time to *try* to set up my VCR.
Asking for an iPod for mother's day: is it wrong?
Who smiles after being cockpunched?
sallyh: if you're a mother, it's OK...
Sounds like Polly Prissypants to me...
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unsmiling, and left.
Proof the darts found their mark.
The 'journalists' cleared out pretty fast, too.
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Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged the president to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, “and reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
fantabulous Steven!
Colbert got Helen Thomas to help him out! Excellent!
ProfWombat--not just a mom, but almost a grandma!
Lyndon Johnson grew up dirt poor.
C-span2/BookTV
Sunday, April 30
ET Programs
12:30 am Ann Jones, Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan
1:45 David Mark, Going Dirty: the Art of Negative Campaigning
2:30 Charles Sanders, The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War
3:45 Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
5:00 Anthony DePalma and Samuel Farber, Cuban Revolution Panel
6:30 2006 Virginia Festival of the Book: Amy Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
8:00 Jeffrey Peck, Being Jewish in the New Germany
9:00 Jean Lipman-Blumen & Barbara Kellerman, The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians-and How We Can Survive Them
9:45 Matthew Continetti, The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine
10:30 Howie Carr, The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter of a Century
11:30 History on Book TV: Harry Bruinius, Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity
Looks like I picked a hell of a time to *try* to set up my VCR.
keith | 04.30.06 - 12:05 am | #
And Bush picked a hell of a week to give up sniffing glue.
MONEY MONEY MONEY. Bush got owned. Colbert's a pimp. His approval rating RISING because of being destroyed on TV? Uhhhhhh....(oh yeah, this is Amerkka. Don't you insult my preznit, librul media commy type. America America uber Alles)
LBJ really aged in those two years.
This is going to cause Bush's poll number to go up 15% in 2 weeks, just you watch
In two weeks I'll be looking for your comment telling us how right you were...
The rerun's on right now.
Asking for an iPod for mother's day: is it wrong?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere - 12:05 am
Well, if you're asking me specifically, I would say yes, it is wrong. Because after all, my dear, we're really not that close.
But then again you are a fine person, and if you truly can't persuade some family member to gratify your righteous desire, I'd consider it, I guess.
Keep me posted. 
Pop goes the bubble!
The right wing base is pissed, and not at the Dems.
.
Poor Stephen will probably be audited tomorrow. I sure hope his wife isn't a CIA operative too.
Humorless pricks all - Administration and MSM
Damn, that was fast. I news-googled "Colbert" and all I got was the earlier E&P article.
Asking for an iPod for mother's day: is it wrong?
Sallyh
you should get a new Intel IMac Sallyh, not just an iPod, you sure deserve one!
ProfWombat--tried the Tylenol and wine trick. Tried Sudafed.
Headache is being remarkably recalcitrant.
Farewell then John Kenneth Galbraith.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Asking for an iPod for mother's day: is it wrong?
Sallyh,
If you can swing it, I say go for it.
I wonder how alcohol much Bush will drink tonight.
Not enough to kill the pain.
...a new face for the $20 bill?
Plum P--PC user here.
Please, no Mac v. PC arguments.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Several notable journalists joined George W. Bush tonight in having their sphincters ripped open by Stephen Colbert in a comedy sketch he did that hit a little too close to home for most of them.
Appearing at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Colbert spared few and speared many in his pointed mockings of Bush and his lickspittle sycophants in the media. One of the few that he didn't mock was Helen Thomas, living national treasure, who actually aided Colbert at one point in reminding the assembled audience of what journalists used to be like before they were bought off by corporate interests aligned with the GOP.
Sallyh: Only way I can ever, ever get rid of a headache is to take 4 ibuprofen. It works almost every time. Nothing else does. (But that's just me. Accidental discovery while I was taking that dose for other reasons.)
Headache?
Narcotics are the answer.
Oh, here comes the "we're making everybody mad so we must be doing something right" meme.
What a moran.
Kelvin Drum?
.
Is this double the same guy from Leno?
Oh my god, I have to see Colbert roasting the President alive!
Exit Booshie, to change his Depends.
JR--problem is, it's the sinus version. I have like this rock of congestion stuck in my face, and nothing seems to be getting it to move.
Dubya doesn't mock himself anywhere near as good as Stephen can.
okay, now the two Bush thing is funny.
Oh my god, I have to see Colbert roasting the President alive!
Balzac
smells like pork doesn't it?
OK, so I've been AFK, who was shitfaced?
I have like this rock of congestion stuck in my face, and nothing seems to be getting it to move.
Sallyh
Wasabi.
When C&L gets this up, they'd better have plenty of auxiliary ferrets.
OK, so I've been AFK, who was shitfaced?
Nim
GWB.
Headache?
Narcotics are the answer.
JR
I know you are joking, but don't go down that road.
.
okay, now the two Bush thing is funny.
have to disagree. still creepy
I have like this rock of congestion stuck in my face, and nothing seems to be getting it to move.
Sallyh
Try the little blue ones.
google
The United States reacted cautiously on Saturday to a Mexican measure that would make it legal to carry small amounts of cocaine, heroin and other drugs for personal use.
mexico may want to build a wall....
...
Um, does the prez understand that the impressionist's routine is pretty um, how do you say, damning?
I know you are joking, but don't go down that road.
.
agave
I'm not joking, it's the only thing that can touch my headaches.
I have a scrip therefor.
I know you are joking, but don't go down that road.
.
agave
I'm not joking, it's the only thing that can touch my headaches.
I have a scrip therefor.
Also hitting the press, Colbert complained that he was “surrounded by the libeal media who are destroying this country, except for Fox news. Fox believes in presenting both sides—the president’s side and the vice president’s side."
that's why it bombed there (but not here!)
Bush's idea to give a speech with his comedic double was sheer brilliance.
Special treat y'all, Frank Rich is back.
Bush of a Thousand Days
By FRANK RICH
LIKE the hand that suddenly pops out of the grave at the end of "Carrie," the past keeps coming back to haunt the Bush White House. Last week was no exception. No sooner did the Great Decider introduce the Fox News showman anointed to repackage the same old bad decisions than the spotlight shifted back to Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury room, where Karl Rove testified for a fifth time. Nightfall brought the release of an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll with its record-low numbers for a lame-duck president with a thousand days to go and no way out.
The demons that keep rising up from the past to grab Mr. Bush are the fictional W.M.D. he wielded to take us into Iraq. They stalk him as relentlessly as Banquo's ghost did Macbeth. From that original sin, all else flows. Mr. Rove wouldn't be in jeopardy if the White House hadn't hatched a clumsy plot to cover up its fictions. Mr. Bush's poll numbers wouldn't be in the toilet if American blood was not being spilled daily because of his fictions. By recruiting a practiced Fox News performer to better spin this history, the White House reveals that it has learned nothing. Made-for-TV propaganda propelled the Bush presidency into its quagmire in the first place. At this late date only the truth, the whole and nothing but, can set it free.
All too fittingly, Tony Snow's appointment was announced just before May Day, a red-letter day twice over in the history of the Iraq war. It was on May 1 three years ago that Mr. Bush did his victory jig on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. It was May 1 last year that The Sunday Times of London published the so-called Downing Street memo. These events bracket all that has gone wrong and will keep going wrong for this president until he comes clean.
To mark the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion last month, the White House hyped something called Operation Swarmer, "the largest air assault" since the start of the war, complete with Pentagon-produced video suitable for the evening news. (What the operation actually accomplished as either warfare or P.R. remains a mystery.) It will take nothing less than a replay of D-Day with the original cast to put a happy gloss on tomorrow's anniversary. Looking back at "Mission Accomplished" now is like playing that childhood game of "What's wrong with this picture?" It wasn't just the banner or the "Top Gun" joyride or the declaration of the end of "major combat operations" that was bogus. Everything was fake except the troops.
"We're helping to rebuild Iraq, where the dictator built palaces for himself, instead of hospitals and schools," Mr. Bush said on that glorious day. Three years later we know, courtesy of the Army Corps of Engineers, that our corrupt, Enron-like Iraq reconstruction effort has yielded at most 20 of those 142 promised hospitals. But we did build a palace for ourselves.
I have like this rock of congestion stuck in my face, and nothing seems to be getting it to move.
Sometimes I think it's a sinus headache when it's a light migraine. Imitrex works then.
Sally -- there's the hot-shower trick, there's the chicken broth with plenty of hot sauce trick, there's the hanging-off-your-bed trick, head inverted -- if you're bricked up worse than that, you need a doctor, dear heart.
Rich, Part 2
The only building project on time and on budget, USA Today reported, is a $592 million embassy complex in the Green Zone on acreage the size of 80 football fields. Symbolically enough, it will have its own water-treatment plant and power generator to provide the basic services that we still have not restored to pre-invasion levels for the poor unwashed Iraqis beyond the American bunker.
These days Mr. Bush seems to be hoping that we'll just forget every falsehood in his "Mission Accomplished" oration. Trying to deflect a citizen's hostile question about prewar intelligence claims, the president asserted at a public forum last month that he had never said "there was a direct connection between September the 11th and Saddam Hussein." But on May 1, 2003, as on countless other occasions, he repeatedly made that direct connection. "With those attacks the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States," he intoned then. "And war is what they got." It was typical of the bait-and-switch rhetoric he used to substitute a war of choice against an enemy who did not attack us on 9/11 for the war against the non-Iraqi terrorists who did.
At the time, "Mission Accomplished" was cheered by the Beltway establishment. "This fellow's won a war," the dean of the capital's press corps, David Broder, announced on "Meet the Press" after complimenting the president on the "great sense of authority and command" he exhibited in a flight suit. By contrast, the Washington grandees mostly ignored the Downing Street memo when it was first published in Britain, much as they initially underestimated the import of the Valerie Wilson leak investigation.
The Downing Street memo — minutes of a Tony Blair meeting with senior advisers in July 2002, nearly eight months before the war began — has proved as accurate as "Mission Accomplished" was fantasy. Each week brings new confirmation that the White House, as the head of British intelligence put it, was determined to fix "the intelligence and facts" around its predetermined policy of going to war in Iraq. Today Mr. Bush tries to pass the buck on the missing W.M.D. to "faulty intelligence," but his alibi is springing leaks faster than the White House and the C.I.A. can clamp down on them. We now know the president knew that the intelligence he cherry-picked was faulty — and flogged it anyway to sell us the war.
The latest evidence that Mr. Bush knew that "uranium from Africa" was no slam-dunk when he brandished it in his 2003 State of the Union address was uncovered by The Washington Post: the coordinating council for the 15 American intelligence agencies had already informed the White House that the Niger story had no factual basis and should be dropped.
I have like this rock of congestion stuck in my face, and nothing seems to be getting it to move.
Sallyh
Wasabi.
JR
Wasabi will do it. The other thing that helps is steam, but holding a towel over your head and bowl of steaming hot water isn't much fun, either. The surgery that planes out your sinuses so they drain isn't fun either. I just suffer.
"GWB.
Jay C."
That's not possible. Herr President is a man of God who is sober and pious and godly and entirely nonbibulous. Because if he wasn't, that would bring my worldview crashing down around me. So it's not possible. So who was it, really? Kerry, right? Hillary?
Peter Pace laughing his ass off at the Bush sex joke.
Rich Part 3
Last Sunday "60 Minutes" augmented this storyline and an earlier scoop by Lisa Myers of NBC News by reporting that the White House had deliberately ignored its most highly placed prewar informant, Saddam's final foreign minister, Naji Sabri, once he sent the word that Saddam's nuclear cupboard was bare.
"There was almost a concern we'd find something that would slow up the war," Tyler Drumheller, a 26-year C.I.A. veteran and an on-camera source for "60 Minutes," said when I interviewed him last week. Since retiring from the C.I.A. in fall 2004, Mr. Drumheller has played an important role in revealing White House chicanery, including its dire hawking of Saddam's mobile biological weapons labs, which turned out to be fictitious. Before Colin Powell's fateful U.N. presentation, Mr. Drumheller conveyed vociferous warnings that the sole human source on these nonexistent W.M.D. labs, an Iraqi émigré known as Curveball, was mentally unstable and a fabricator. "The real tragedy of this," Mr. Drumheller says, "is if they had let the weapons inspectors play out, we could have had a Gulf War I-like coalition, which would have given us the [300,000] to 400,000 troops needed to secure the country after defeating the Iraqi Army."
Mr. Drumheller says that until the White House "comes to grips with why it did this" and stops "propping up the original rationale" for the war, it "will never get out of Iraq." He is right. But the White House clings to its discredited fictions even though their expiration date is fast arriving. There are new Drumhellers seeking out reporters each day. The Fitzgerald investigation continues to yield revelations of administration W.M.D. subterfuge, president-authorized leaks included. Should the Democrats retake either house of Congress in November, their subpoena power will liberate the investigation of the manipulation of prewar intelligence that the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Pat Roberts, has stalled for almost two years.
SET against this reality, the debate about Donald Rumsfeld's future is as much of a sideshow as the installation of a slicker Fleischer-McClellan marketer in the White House press room. The defense secretary's catastrophic mistakes in Iraq cannot be undone now, and any successor would still be beholden to the policy set from above. Mr. Rumsfeld is merely a useful, even essential, scapegoat for the hawks in politics and punditland who are now embarrassed to have signed on to this fiasco. For conservative hawks, he's a convenient way to deflect blame from where it most belongs: with the commander in chief. For liberal hawks, attacking Mr. Rumsfeld for his poor execution of the war means never having to say you're sorry for leaping on (and abetting) the blatant propaganda bandwagon that took us there.
Kelvin Drum?
agave
A temperature given in kelvins, without further qualification, is measured with respect to absolute zero, where molecular motion stops.
so I guess by this definition she not only froze her mainframe but she hit W as well.
Sallyh, i know this may sounds stupid, but smoking a joint really helps me when i've got a migraine. Makes me forget i have one i suppose
that would be a definition of "sheer brilliance" that lasted only until Colbert stood up
Frank Rich, the cure for headaches, concludes
But their history can't be rewritten any more than Mr. Bush's can: the war's failures were manifestly foretold by the administration's arrogance and haste during the run-up.
A new defense or press secretary changes nothing. The only person who can try to save the administration from itself in Iraq is the president. He can start telling the truth in the narrow window of time he has left and initiate a candid national conversation about our inevitable exit strategy. Or he can wait for events on the ground in Iraq and political realities at home to do it for him.
jack:
I hate to agree with you, because I hate you: but it's pretty well done.
I liveblogged it on its first run, highlights are there. No video, but the C-Span link is, and Stephen comes on shortly.
Bush was the producer of this event.
Sallyh, if wasabi doesn't work, try hot & sour soup from your fave Chinese restaurant. Or Sinutab non drying. It will get anything to drain.
TOW, Queen of Sinus Pain
W, his hands dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands, simply ain't fucking funny.
that's one of the best ever Smigel's piece on SNL right now
Laugh you dirty motherfucker. Laugh.
Watching the replay... Did I see Rover?
Colberts up again.
Guess fucking necrophiliacs can laugh as the blood drips off their hands.
Here we go.....
Colbert is up
as much as I love the Smigel stuff, I GOTSTA watch Colbert again.
Sounds like a pinche puto culero to me.
Okay, I get it: Classic error - Colbert had to follow the headliner. I wonder if he knew that before he took the gig.
I have like this rock of congestion stuck in my face, and nothing seems to be getting it to move.
Sallyh
--
Wasabi.
Yeah, I do that one upon occasion. And Chinese hot chili sauce. And the hottest Mexican good I can find.
Also helpful - an OTC medicine called Mucinex. It's good for congestion, also.
For headaches - alternate hot compresses (about 2-3 minutes) with cold (about 20-30 seconds). Do it about three times.
It's been a terrible year for allergies and sinus problems. I'm sympathetic.
i've never seen anyone, much less a piblic figure or a US preznit, with such a wide array, and so bixarre of facial tic and physical postures.
When I was in college, i met a number or people with types of deformity or oddity. None were greedy psycho killers.
Among the ones I met was Phillip, semi-autistic, a talented musicican, very polite. He couldn't read faces or voices for expression, couldn't tell if you you ever joking or ironic, couldn't tell good actors or bad on TV or in movies. He couldn't figure out what you meant, but normal people forgave him, explained. Assholes didn't, treated him abusively, easy prey.
But as semi-autistics go, he make a much finer president than W. Last I heard of Phillip, he was employed as a music producer. With his perfect pitch and general likeability, he was doing well.
Man, that first joke bombed.
keith -- he takes a minute to warm up
This is the greatest work of political satire in 200 years.
he takes a minute to warm up
I see it coming...
Bush is sitting there like a dipshit thinking this is all about him.
About Dubya - the way he alternates over-enunciation with slurring drives me nuts.
And that peeved way he has of talking, while he's using the patronizing tone....as he's mispronoucing words.
Charming trait, that.
Colbert has a burden most speakers don't have to bear. Not only does he have to deliver a speech, he has to do it as a fictional character. I doubt that's been done before in front of a group like this. It's a little odd and discombobulating.
These are busy people, most likely don't even know who he is.
Of course, as we all know, he is God.
Laura was fingered backstage by condi and Lynn cheney.....place reeked like a tuna boat. Fuck You Laura assface Bush!
I have like this rock of congestion stuck in my face, and nothing seems to be getting it to move.
Sallyh
I used to use this thing called Rinoflow, which forced saline solution into your sinuses. Worked very well, but it was kind of a big production. But Echidne's been using a neti pot, on my advice, and says her sinuses have been pretty much trouble-free. Use sea salt, a pinch of baking soda, and a capful of hydrogen peroxide.
I can't believe someone from the DHS isn't dragging Colbert off the stage right about now. Bush has got to be shitting his pants right about now.
And that peeved way he has of talking, while he's using the patronizing tone.
My kid brother got over that at five.
Has Bush figured it out yet?
toldja, keith...
Sallyh, i know this may sounds stupid, helps me when i've got a migraine. Makes me forget i have one i suppose
Plum P
not stupid at all. i wrote an amicus brief to the 9th circuit on behalf of medicinal marijuana citing just such a study from a neuro-surgeon from the Midwest researching Migraine developement... something about operative noicepter pain release on the transgenic pathways or some shit like that ... but it was long long ago. damned rememories
uh oh, W's not smilin' no more....
I'm not joking, it's the only thing that can touch my headaches.
I have a scrip therefor.
JR
OK.
Just knew/loved/lived with someone that got drugs from her doc and friends for headaches and just plain became a drug addict. It ruined us.
Fucking horrible.
.
Right about now I should be laying off the Turkey.
Little Dubya looks like he'd like to tear Colbert's face off. Yow..
Colbert, and God love him, is repeating jokes I've heard: "68% agree with the job he's not doing?"
Newsweek has the current 'anonymous' Luskin spin in the guise of 'investigative journalism'.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12554162.../site/newsweek/
Boy Heidi, Colbert nailed journalistic mendacity dead on.
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But Walter, that joke KILLED at TDS watercooler
Jeebus, Colbert has these fucks in his scope.
Damn.
Colbert is like an opposition cruise missle hitting home.
He came in under the radar
Here's my collection of Colbert quotes from this evening.
Right wing website like lucianne are already calling Colbert "unpatriotic". Guess the Hannity-O'Reilly smear machine will be cranked up Monday.
Right wing website like lucianne are already calling Colbert "unpatriotic". Guess the Hannity-O'Reilly smear machine will be cranked up Monday.
Was Olbermann in the place? He laughed i'm sure!
I'm squealing with joy @ Colbert and the dogs just ran over to me to see where the mouse was!
The audience does seem to be focused on Colbert.
My kid brother got over that at five.
Bush's has a busload of habits that most parents nip in the bud by the time a child is 10 or so, I think. A 12 year old slurring and using slang in public the way Bush does would send a normal parent into a fit.
The Ex-Presidents on SNL now
Colbert is trying to incite the audience to attack bush.
Colbert is certainly doing the skewering, but he's not funny.
Sallyh--For all my ailments, i don't know what a rock of congestion might be. What is it? On your face? I've maybe had a little one up my nose, but never on my face. What's happening?
Anyone remember Harry Shearer's speech to the press club? That was pretty brutal too.
Colbert is trying to incite the audience to attack bush.
too bad they didn't "get it"
Mash - cool, thanks!
I want to pass those on.
As often as I can.
Draco--it's as if one's sinuses are clogged but the congestion won't move.
Colbert is certainly doing the skewering, but he's not funny.
If he was funny this wouldn't be worth watching.
Cobert got Big BALLs
does this go over the Freeper's Head?
I'm watching the replay now.
Jeebus! Colbert is just REAMING the crap out of the Thugs!
Woo Hoo!
I love the Joe Wilson material
"Colbert is certainly doing the skewering, but he's not funny.
WalterNeff"
Funny may not be the right word for it. More like Skelton doing a piece that seemed to start funny and ended up generating tears.
colbert has balls.
unlike this guy:
Kerry Sponsors Collective Punishment of Palestinian's : Perhaps he could blame intimidation by the American Israeli PAC organization or a need to pander to his Jewish benefactors as he makes another run for the Presidency, but Kerry’s recent co-sponsorship of the Palestinian Compliance Act of 2006 is a violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids collective punishment and states
Okay, I get it: Classic error - Colbert had to follow the headliner. I wonder if he knew that before he took the gig.
WalterNeff, Pacific All-Risk
I thought the last act was the headliner.
here comes the video..
ok the Ducks score!
I can't wait to make copies of this and send them off to people..
Thanks P O'Neil.
Funny may not be the right word for it. More like Skelton doing a piece that seemed to start funny and ended up generating tears.
EkCenTriK
Or Richard Pryor.
Cocktail Chatter With Clooney, Plame, Snow at D.C. Bash
http://
www.editorandpublisher.co...t_id=1002425360
By Joe Strupp
Published: April 29, 2006 7:40 PM ET
NEW YORK Saturday night’s much-awaited White House Correspondents Dinner, featuring appearances by President Bush, George Clooney and Valerie Plame, among others, kicked off with a round of cocktail parties scattered over two floors at the Washington Hilton. At the Reuters’ party you could get a drink called The Cheney Shot—made with Wild Turkey.
snip
About 15 protestors from the conservative Web site Free Republic raised a fuss outside on a sunny evening, passing out baby pacifiers with “CNN” written on them and carrying signs. One featured a picture of Osama bin Laden and the words: “My best friends are Dana Priest, James Risen, and Eric Lichtblau” (all recently named Pulitzer winners).
Inside, Valerie Plame and husband Joseph Wilson were in the crowd spilling out of the ABC News party (they are guests of the network at the dinner). Plame was pleasant, but asked by E&P why she came tonight she said, “I’m sorry,” adding in mock-red carpet lingo, “I’m wearing Armani.” Her gown was ivory.
Asked what might happen if she met the president, she repeated, “I’m wearing Armani.”
Off that subject, she explained that since leaving the CIA in January she’d een taking care of the couple’s kids. “It’s more fun and more difficult” than working at the agency, she said.
“We thought it would be fun,” she finally said about the dinner. “We look forward to a delightful evening.”
Her husband was a bit more blunt: “We have no reason to hide.” He said some Republicans blamed him for the president’s low approval ratings, but he said that was not his fault, “although I do have a W in my name also.”
Kerry Sponsors Collective Punishment of Palestinian's :
My days of expecting anything better from him ended some time ago.
colbert is like a stand-up comedian who ends up driving the money lenders out of the temple with a rope.
something 'other' than funny haha.
About 15 protestors from the conservative Web site Free Republic raised a fuss outside on a sunny evening, passing out baby pacifiers with “CNN” written on them and carrying signs. One featured a picture of Osama bin Laden and the words: “My best friends are Dana Priest, James Risen, and Eric Lichtblau” (all recently named Pulitzer winners).
I'm really a pretty peaceable person. But if I could push a button and put these people out of their misery, I'd be very sorely tempted.
"Or Richard Pryor.
Elmer"
True, but Skelton was the teacher I think.
Jeebus! Colbert is just REAMING the crap out of the Thugs!
Woo Hoo!
Chris Tucker
But they can pretend he didn't, bacause, hey, nobody laughed! Now who sez the Press Corpse doesn't know it's job.
clone anna nicole smith and marry 'her' off to the freepers
there is hell on earth
I love Helen Thomas.
good ol' helen
my parents would never have tolerated me for a second faking a redneck accent like W's.
He's the only one in his family who talks like that. Apparently nobody ever told him it wasn't cute or appealing or funny, and wasn't Texan either
I knew from living in Florida, the guys with the most rip-roaring redneck accents were invariably from New Jersey or Wisconsin or somewhere.
The actual Floridians had soft pleasant accents.
OH, BOO HOO! Dubya and Pickles didn't get to YUCK IT UP about MISSING WMD. tough.shit.
There are plenty of dead soldiers and Iraqis that would have gladly traded places with Dubya and Pickles tonight. It sure look like they CRAPPED THEIR PANTS, though, didn't it?
Cobert was so good, I'm watching the re-run on C-SPAN! Cobert deserves an AMERICAN FREEDOM OF SPEECH MEDAL!
If Bush had any sac at all he would have got off his sorry ass and punched Colbert in the face by now.
I wish to god I could see the expression on his face right about now.
we have all experienced funny *not ha ha* but I always remembered it and thought why...
Betcha the sycophantic pussy press is still in MAJOR SHOCK! lol!
Helen is loving this.
OH, BOO HOO! Dubya and Pickles didn't get to YUCK IT UP about MISSING WMD. tough.shit.
Yeah, why couldn't Colbert have done some tasteful humor, like that?
Talk about a Cockpundh
"Colbert is certainly doing the skewering, but he's not funny
Don't think his point was being funny, more like documenting the atrocities.
C-
Goddamn, bush is pissed. That grimace would never pass as a smile.
C-
familiar, eh?
Wow, whomever that woman speaking with Pony Blow is, is pissed off.
"Colbert is certainly doing the skewering, but he's not funny
Oh it was Sooooooooo Funny
The Helen Thomas thing was funny - but it was the wrong venue, and not wrong because the audience didn't appreciate it; wrong because it's a television bit and not an 'I'm drink and trying to bone the babe next to me at this dinner" bit.
Same reason Oscar hosts (except Crystal) always bomb - they don't understand that it's an away game.
Draco - same here. My parents grew up in small towns in East TN - neither one went to college and they could outspeak Bush any day of the week.
I figure he was just too lazy to speak peoperly and then he figured that might help him shed his blue-blooded, Ivy-league background.
George Allen, apparently, has some of the same traits if you read that New Republic piece . They think people are idiots.
It's about time someone had the balls to say in front of chimpy what we've all been talking about for so many years. Colbert rocks!
Perhaps what was most intolerable was being humiliated in front of the Doobie Brother's Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
"Colbert is certainly doing the skewering, but he's not funny"
Oh that was funny. Just not laugh-out-loud funny.
I don't get jack at all--is he a troll, or trying, failing to be decent?
It's about time someone had the balls to say in front of chimpy what we've all been talking about for so many years. Colbert rocks!
tbsa
I think the main thing that's infuriating Bush - more than the content - is that Colbert's not a sniveling coward like him.
Yeah Colbert has BIG BRASS Balls...He displays then on his show sometimes.
Frankly, I'm surprised the dude is still alive.
Ok people, can we finally put it to bed now that Colbert is NOT a right wing fanatic??!
You'd be surprised at how many people on the right side of the aisle actually think Colbert Likes The Decider
Cobert's passport with the Washington, DC visa will be revoked before the sun comes up tomorrow. Loved the Helen Thomas video.
I don't get jack at all--is he a troll, or trying, failing to be decent?
Draco
He's basically an attention troll who'll say anything that comes into his pea-brain. Ignore him, is my advice.
I had one good belly laugh at the general tone and audacity of the piece.
Ok people, can we finally put it to bed now that Colbert is NOT a right wing fanatic??!
Althouse will be crying into her pillow tonight.
You'd be surprised at how many people on the right side of the aisle actually think Colbert Likes The Decider
PoliShifter
Somehow I'm not surprised.
Remember their confusion over the whole South Park thing 3 weeks ago? (Well, I was confused about it too, but I didn't go making any 9/11-themed Comedy Central logos...)
Who was that George Bush look alike?
Perhaps what was most intolerable was being humiliated in front of the Doobie Brother's Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
James Jesus Rimbaud
You know that fucking schmuck is a big wheel in GOP defense circles now, right?
Walter, it wasn't about suiting the material to the room.
It was about rubbing the past 5 years right in Bush's face, and doing it right in front of the people who enabled Bush and his gang of thugs since before the 2000 election.
Colbert wasn't looking for laughs, per se, he was there to cockpunch the fratboy coward!
Well Done, Mr. Colbert!
It's too bad cspan didn't have a split screen while Colbert was up, with one of them on George. I'd give up sex for a month to see that.
You'd be surprised at how many people on the right side of the aisle actually think Colbert Likes The Decider
See, I always found it unbelievable that they thought he was really one of them. Then I remembered that a sense of irony requires higher cognitive functions.
He's offended by Colbert? What about the man he chose as his new Press Secretary? From the Economist:
"No sooner had the announcement been made than various liberal groups started circulating some of the choicest things that Snow-the-journalist had said about his new boss. Mr. Bush is a "dime-store Democrat" who has completely "lost control of the federal budget deficit". He is "more eager to please than to lead". He does not have "the drive and work ethic to succeed". He speaks like a soul tortured with Tourette's". He is "something of an embarrassment". His domestic agenda is "listless"."
All charges are true of course, except the first one.
I think the main thing that's infuriating Bush - more than the content - is that Colbert's not a sniveling coward like him.
Phila
I loved every last second of it. Although, I am a little worried for Colbert's personal safety after this one. The look on the chimps face was priceless.
Damn that Colbert, I'm not getting a hard on when I look at the Bush flightsuite pictures now. How will I jerk it now?
Got to see the whole thing, finally.
It was painful in a "hurts so good" kind of way. The gentler jokes got bigger laughs. But he wasn't going for laughs. He was going, as Watertiger put it hours ago, to skewer everyone in the room, and he didn't miss.
Regarding Jeff Baxter...you got to be kidding me.
"One of the cameras"
This is my last drink, I swear.
See, I always found it unbelievable that they thought he was really one of them
More unbelievable than them thinking that Bush is one of them?
That was priceless. He left no turd unstoned.
"See, I always found it unbelievable that they thought he was really one of them."
I would love to know if anyone "talked to him" and got assurances. After a minute of thinking about it, he did the same thing the freeway blogger does. He just spread the message out for all of them to see. They can't say they were not told now.
I also noticed that as they scanned the audience, many of the women seemed amused, laughed or had a bemused MOG expression. Many of the guys, well, dour fits the look.
Regarding Jeff Baxter...you got to be kidding me.
James Jesus Rimbaud
Dead serious. He actually has a great deal of clout on, for instance, nuclear issues.
What you didn't hear was the comment Colbert made to Bush as he left the podium:
"And that, Mr. President, is how you pronouce 'PWN3D!'".
What do you think they say to one another after something like that? They both get what was so brutal about it, right - which we know from the pained way they interacted with Colbert and from the miserable expressions on their faces. What the hell does Laura say to him when they get in the car? uhh. It's gotta be hideous inside that marriage, man. Hideous.
You'd be surprised at how many people on the right side of the aisle actually think Colbert Likes The Decider
Even the idiots residing in the alternate reality can make no mistake about the political ideology of mister Colbert now.
"bemused MOG expression"
should be
"bemused OMG expression"
Phila - how the fuck is that even possible?
Who-oting owls.
It's gotta be hideous inside that marriage, man. Hideous.
KC
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The punk resident's double gag was so long and painfully lame and then Colbert burned it down! Wow!
Phila - how the fuck is that even possible?
James Jesus Rimbaud
How is any of this possible?
'PWN3D!'". ????? What does this mean.
'PWN3D!'". ????? What does this mean.
Google is your friend.q
Thank you, thank you!
'PWN3D!'". ????? What does this mean.
tbsa
It means Bush is teh sux0r who n01 lieks!
Lucky Ducky | 04.30.06 - 12:56 am | #
I can't figure it out--i grew up with a chronic Florida accent--a New York ethnic accent that wasn't ammeliorated to Florida.
Other natives were quite forgiving, as they knew the transfers. No big deal.
They didn't expect us to talk southern, often picked up our NYisms. So what?
It annoys me W should fake Texanisms, and people with no idea of real accents might be deceived
Frankly, I'm surprised the dude is still alive.
Seriously, (mostly) - at the least, he better move his parents and any pet to an undisclosed location.
It annoys me W should fake Texanisms, and people with no idea of real accents might be deceived.
Yes - and it's many of the same idiots who write for National Review and such, who live in Bethesda or Chevy Chase and think affecting an affection for country music or NASCAR makes them in touch with real Americans.
Freaking ninnies.
"'PWN3D!'". ????? What does this mean."
It means that Colbert made George his bitch, in public.
Colbert has perfomed a public service with courage, wit and venom. A truly heroic and historic perfomance. He walked into the room and pointed out the criminal mendacity of the administration and sycophatic press corp which enables it. He dropped a steaming pile of liquid crap (tm stephanie miller) on people who so justly deserve to be so besplattered.
BG
Jeff Skunk Baxter is a has been guitar player (and hasn't played with the Doobies in over 15 years. A Fascist wanna-be and I believe the inspiration for Steely Dans "Jack of Speed"
Janeys party, there a case in point
That right-wing hooey sure stunk up the joint...
The expressions of the faces of the press folks was almost as telling as Bush's.
I think I saw Rita Cosby laughing, but with a stunned expression. Come to think of it, that's probably how I look when I have the misfortune of seeing her.
Nice job on the key quotes, Mash.
brad--How did Colbert do so? Honest question as I'm not sure how he can maintain his stage persona and do so.
What a major bitchslap!!
my finger ache from typing while Colbert talked!
Has Rita blown her fucking nose yet?
ABout Rita Cosby - the Daily Show called her "Rita McHusky" or something like that.
I thought she was an intentional joke the first time I saw her. Then I thought she had a terrible cold.
"Awful" doesn't come close.
Sorry..I think it's "Throaty McHusky".
lol..
Thaks for the Rich P. O'Neil.
Crooks and Liars already has the Colbert bit up for those of us who missed it.
http://www.comedycentral.com/
hel...stionsWeb.jhtml
Show him the love!
I love Colbert's guts.
Bush wasn't mad at what was said.
Bush was mad because it was past his bedtime.
Is it just me or the audio odd on the CSPAN footage? Or, did the press corps really hate parts of the routine? They didn't really laugh at the parts that lambasted the press but they did laugh at some of the raw bits, like the Scalia part. It's hard to tell because the audio is so clearly up and down.
Well someone in the Press Corps booked Colbert and even Justice Scalia was laughing his head off.
The worms are turning and this could be the tipping point.
"Muchos huevos grandes" officially awarded to Stephen Colbert.
NEWS FLASH... SOMEONE TELLS BUSH TRUTH
Colbert almost made Chevy Chase cry at the Comedy Central roast; all while "praising" him. He has a wonderfully vicious wit. I wouldn't want to have him mad at me.
Rough transcript of Colbert here (SEE UPDATE 2) -
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.c...ily.com/?
p=2819
That's pretty telling that the Bushs can't take the heat, any heat. Shit, even Hillary let out a chuckle when Don Imus joked about the missing Whitewater documents (offhandedly, calling Hillary a crook to her face by doing so) when their correspondents dinner years back, IIRC.
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(and can somebody make sure she sees this?)
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Peppermint is an old gypsy remedy for congestion, one that scientifically works, which is why we have mentholatum rubs, syrups, cough drops... or a nice cup of tea where the steam aides the penetration.
When I was a kid, we'd put Vick's "vaporub" directly into the nose, but there are warning not to do that anymore... probably because of the petroleum jelly base. Generic brands are supposed to have the same ingredients, but don't smell as nice (probably to keep it out of the nose). Rubbing it in the hands briskly (friction warmth) and then inhaling deeply helps, as does a steamer if you own one. (I don't)
However, what if you are so congested that you can't breathe through your nose? That is where the washcloth technique comes in. Hold cloth under running hot water until it is as hot as you can stand. Squeeze excess water out and hold hot wet cloth over the entire upper face until it cools (maybe 20 minutes). Keep eyes shut and don't press on them, but ok to press on the sinuses around them. You should feel the congestion loosening a bit... help it with some Vicks or sips of tea (the mint oils from the tea can rise up in back of the throat and do a rearguard attack). If you aren't enthusiastically blowing your nose by the time the cloth cools, run more hot water over your cloth and repeat.
HTH,
Carolly
truthiness to faux power.
Or, did the press corps really hate parts of the routine?
The corrupt DC press, visible on C-SPAN's tape of the dinner in all there grotesque glory, clearly was NOT amused by Colbert's material.
Comedy at the WHCD, like Bush's videotaped office "hunt" for WMD of a few years ago or this year's look-alike, is normally used to soft-pedal or misconstrue controversial information or ultra-prickily personages.
Go to Crooks and Liars or watch C-SPAN today at noon or 12:30 and listen carefully to Colbert's almost word by word zingers...
How do you think the Bush's feel about being common objects of public ridicule? A few days ago, the President, in his fake answer to a press question about leaks said "people's reputations are at stake"...They sure are, at least what's left of the tattered and stained Bush legacy.
Colbert is a genius. They'll be sending him off to Gitmo any day now.
That piece was beautiful. I love colbert even more...if that is even possible.
aagh!!! I mised Colbert!!! Its being talked about on CNN now..
I think giving the star rating to Bridges...not Colbert.
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