AMEN! Colbert is a true patriot. One of the bravest things I have ever seen.
It was fabulous. That little voice that tells to think twice about taking advantage of a golden opportunity like that fortunately was silent for Steven Colbert.
oh man, lookee at the chimp. He not happeee.
Class clowns get so miffed when they're upstaged by the nerdy kids.
Blessings on the head of the beamish boy! He did beautifully... I applaud his wit AND his courage.
Between those well-shaped ears is some of the most valuable mental real estate on the planet!
eeeeeew, check out cellulite in chipmy double chin. beady eyes. nose veins. chimpy die soon. YAY!
Three fucking cheers for Colbert's and Helen's Industrial Barbed Wire!!!
HipHip! Hurray! x3
The blood stains will be FOREVER to get out of George and Pickles' suits... Damnit!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
WOOT WOO!
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I am floored!
That's got to be worth a drop in the chimperor's ratings by at least a couple points!
I wonder if Steve Colbert is still breathing and free?
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...btw just read that chimpy was "not amused"...hmmm lets see my thoughts on that:
HA HA FUCK YOU GEORGE W. BUSH!!!
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Stephen Colbert is the nutty goodness you can sprinkle on top of your "chocolate city with a marshmallow center and a graham-cracker crust of corruption" Mallomar™ that is Washington, D.C.
When he's not spending more time with his family in Siberia.
That's my final non-answer,
Colbert didn't just rip Bush a new one--he then served it to Bush as the main entre at the White House Correspondents Dinner, sauteed with a little garlic!
YOW!
I loved his big "Hello" with abscene gesture to Scalia. The film short was priceless.
Colbert reminds me of a crude little ditty I used to sing:
Oh if I had the wings of an angel
And the balls of a hairy baboon.
I just watched the replay of the entire dinner on C-SPAN. The crowd was hardly a sympathetic or supportive group for what Colbert did...most seemed to be of the Bush ass-kissing crew. What Stephen Colbert did was to put the mirror to these syncophants and expose them as active supporters of the dictatorship George Bush is building for himself and his political architects.
It took more than balls to get up in front of these people and do what he did...it took patriotism and a belief in the values of humanity and integrity the United States has been so proud of before the neocons came along. I salute Stephen Colbert.
Here's hoping that the next president awards Colbert the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Oh, and takes back the ones awarded to Tenet and the other nitwits.
It's weird. I'm actually really worried for Colbert. 'Scott McClellan, resigning to spend time with Andy Card's kids.' That's just. Wow, not going to make Steven any friends in the 'elite' media.
They'll spin it as 'going too far,' 'pandering to the moonbats who watch the Daily Show,' and praise Steely-Eyed Rocket Man for his resolve. Pickles didn't look too happy, I must say. Nor did General Pace. And the NSA cocktail line did not get love so much as a sharp, collective, in-drawn breath. Scary.
The dinner won't be televised next year.
Can we send roses to Colbert? That would be great. Hundreds of dozens of roses to say thank you for saying in public what the public has been saying unheard for so long.
Well, I have a new hero now.
That was balls out, tits-to-the-wind, full-tilt boogey amazing...
...and depressing that the only person brave enough to tell the truth to the world is a comedian.
Regards,
...and depressing that the only person brave enough to tell the truth to the world is a comedian.
The character of the Fool in King Lear , Shakespeare's greatest play (in my judgment--Hamlet's a third behind Othello), sets a high standard for the "wise fool", the jester who understands motives of the principals and is the outspoken loyal opposition. (The right will "spin" Colbert's performance as an enemy attack...it wasn't. He is loyal to his country and its principles and only held up a reflecting glass to the mugging poltroon who endangers those things.)
Colbert belongs right up there with Lear's Fool. We could use more of them...and fewer of the other variety of fool, of which, at present, we appear to have a supereabundance!
Well-said, Tengrain!
God.Bless.Colbert.
ans keep him safe.
amen.
Tengrain: It is always the comedians who tell the truth first. And some in the audience titter uncomfortably at first, but pretty soon other people join in and then it is too late--everyone is laughing at the formerly powerful. I have a friend whose father was a congressman in the late 50s/early 60's (democrat, naturally), and he told my friend that "once they start laughing at you, you are done." It's starting.
ans=and.
but god knows that
My mother is 93 years old. She just moved into a wonderful assisted living residence. But she nearly refused as the cable service they have does not carry Comedy Central. I tape TDS and CR every night and take the tape to her on the weekend so she can still watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert before she goes to bed. Today I called her to tell her C-SPAN was carrying the rebroadcast. Later, she called me saying the same thing, "When they start laughing at you, you're done."
From her mouth to God's ear...
leslie, your mother's my kinda lady! Good for her...and good for you for making sure she doesn't miss the shows!
i loved colbert's quick dismissal of mccain--you know he's a rebel because he doesn't use the correct fork on his salad. oh and by the way, john, have fun sucking up to the knuckle-draggers at Bob Jones University. devastating, especially because he then moved on to something else, as if it was a waste of time to say anything more about mccain.
Yes the guy did well dishing it out, and please may I also get a gannon button to press but, to be honest, compared to the way that politicians (and others, especially the royals) are villified over here (UK) at times, he wasn't quite as vicious as i've seen
then again, the object of his derision was on the same podium so yes, he had guts
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emale_n7, it's always amazed me -- Americans are usually thought of as brash and boorish compared to the British (and it's undoubtedly frequently very true). But when it comes to take-no-prisoners-savagery in lampooning public figures, there's no contest. You have raised it to a fine art form.
And your public figures actually sometimes get within sporting distance of the public...which is more than can be said of our bubble-wrapped president.
Still, I admire what Colbert did. To speak out to a less than receptive group, all decked out in their best bibs, tuckers, and quirked little fingers, took guts. And that he did it with such needling wit made it just so much better.
I just watched again the old Peter Sellers' flick, "I'm All Right, Jack". Neither labor nor unions nor the government came out with a whole skin. No one pokes fun at the English as well as the English do it!
xristim--may i also suggest seller's "the mouse that roared" and "dr strangelove" for your consideration.
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I may be entering the wrong keywords, but I cannot call up the video over at C-SPAN.
Am I in error or is it down already??
I would say that Colbert showed more balls in ten minutes than the entire Democratic party has in the last ten years.
... Colbert belongs right up there with Lear's Fool. We could use more of them...and fewer of the other variety of fool, of which, at present, we appear to have a supereabundance!
Well-said, Tengrain!
XristiM
Thanks...
I was thinking about the Fool, too, XristiM -- but I as you know, the Fool meets a terrible fate, one that I hope does not meet Mr. Colbert.
Regards,
I posted the full video, in three parts, on my site There is No Such Thing as Half a Stick for anyone having trouble finding it.
It would have been more dramatically effective if Colbert had first thrown up, then begun writhing on the stage in vomitus, then tied a tourniquet around his neck, tightened it until the cerebral arteries burst and his nearly headless body lay there in a puddle of puke, blood and body fluids.
But reality is always first sanitized and rendered fit to print in DC. They don't like reality.
Kudos to Colbert who seemed very very close to saying what he really thinks of this group of psychopathic scoundrels.
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Colbert: brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. And, God knows, that took some nerve to stand within 10 feet of your target and crack on the president.
One thing -- Former Pres Bush was a highly decorated fighter pilot during WWII, so Colbert's guts might have to take second place to 41's resolve.
Joe
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