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The Colbert Rapport (NPC Bush Bash 2006)

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Colbert not only called out King George and his lackeys on their irresponsible and downright fascist policies, he did it just seconds after the King himself walked from the podium. Colbert ripped the gloves off for this fight, which is exactly what the national press corps should have done three years ago, because King George and cronies never had their gloves on.

Now it may have been tasteless, to the folks at Editor and Publisher, but this is emblematic of how a majority of Americans feel about their King… err President. And Colbert gets ratings because people are tired of the White House lies and Fox News culture of victimization (yes, the real victim is Bill O’Reilly, whodathunkit.)

(And nuts to the Harvardian who thinks this dumbs down our youth. To the contrary, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert are the only ones on national television calling it as it is and not rolling over.)

Let the babies at Fox News and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave cry. This has been a long time coming.

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  1. You can catch the video over at You Tube

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    Favorite quotes:

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    Observing that Bush sticks to his principles, he said, “When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday – no matter what happened Tuesday.”

    Mayor Nagin is here from New Orleans, the chocolate city. Yeah, give it up. Mayor Nagin, I would like to welcome you to Washington, D.C., The chocolate city with a marshmallow center. And a graham cracker crust of corruption. It’s a mallomar is what I’m describing, a seasonal cookie.

    Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged the Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, “and reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

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    The spin by various right wing types the next day was probably just as funny.  These folks just don’t know how to take a joke, but they sure know how to get one elected. 

    • came in rapid-fire. It was great.

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      And, of course, he handily praises Helen Thomas, the only stalwart who stayed true to her journalistic principles through all that pre-war “coverage.”

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      What’s ballsy is he said all of this in front of his targets. He let it rip, and man was it refreshing.

  3. but certainly not surprising.

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    Here we are on Wednesday, and this is the best the NYT can come up with (and it is currently buried way below the fold on the home page (and appears to be in the “Arts” section of the print version):

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    NY Times: “After Press Dinner, the Blogosphere Is Alive With the Sound of Colbert Chatter,” by Jacques Steinberg, May 3, 2006.

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    It blows me away that when something is passed up by the corporate mainstream media, they get to refer to the arena in which a story is discussed as “the blogosphere.” Never mind the people on email lists who receive the links to the video or the text of the transcript. Then they would have to use the term “the Internet,” which is just not dyslogistic enough for them.

      • important stories which would have been buried years ago — for petty reasons, like a reporter’s ego and the media’s sense of pride — can come to the fore.

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        even better perhaps, is that there’s something of a democratic vetting of the stories, based on how many people choose to blog about the story and how much they blog about the media’s reluctance to cover it. that is the double-edged sword, of course, re: the swift-boat veterans, but has improved with the standards of bloggers.

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        again, it comes back to credibility — something journalists know all too well.

  4. My favorite part was when they showed Helen Thomas asking the WH Press Secretary something like “Every reason we’ve been given for why we invaded Iraq has proved false, so I’d like to know: why did we invade Iraq.” Here is a little hint Helen: oil, and contracts for companies owned by friends of the Bush and Cheney families. Here is the best place I have found to watch the clip.

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