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rfunk at 05:56pm on 01/05/2006 under evil, george w bush, humor, politics, satire, stephen colbert
rfunk at 05:56pm on 01/05/2006 under evil, george w bush, humor, politics, satire, stephen colbertThis seems to be all over the blogs in the last couple days, but it deserves to be everywhere....
Saturday night was the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, in which the White House press have dinner with government officials from the President on down. The press reports afterward seem to have focused on Bush's comedy routine with a Bush lookalike, but the real highlight was the final speaker, Stephen Colbert. In his I-support-the-president persona, mercilessly skewered most of his audience, including Bush (sitting ten feet away), the Washington press corps in front of him, and some other government attendees such as John McCain. The audience reaction was somewhat muted, both because much of the audience was targeted and because they were amazed he had the guts to say what he did directly to his targets. As I watched it I was certainly amazed that he was saying these things to this audience.
C-Span has RealVideo of the whole event; Bush's routine is about 53 minutes into it, and Colbert's follows at about an hour and six minutes into it.
There are a few different sources of just the Colbert speech. Here's one: part 1 / part 2
And a transcript at dKos.
Update: Bush wasn't exactly pleased with Colbert's performance.
Meanwhile.... "President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution." This is the guy who hasn't vetoed a single bill in five years -- why risk the chance of Congress overriding a veto when you can sign the bill while declaring that you won't obey it? And he can have his government listen in on your phone calls without fear of a court stopping them. Because after all, it would certainly be easier if this were a dictatorship, just so long as he's the dictator.
Saturday night was the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, in which the White House press have dinner with government officials from the President on down. The press reports afterward seem to have focused on Bush's comedy routine with a Bush lookalike, but the real highlight was the final speaker, Stephen Colbert. In his I-support-the-president persona, mercilessly skewered most of his audience, including Bush (sitting ten feet away), the Washington press corps in front of him, and some other government attendees such as John McCain. The audience reaction was somewhat muted, both because much of the audience was targeted and because they were amazed he had the guts to say what he did directly to his targets. As I watched it I was certainly amazed that he was saying these things to this audience.
C-Span has RealVideo of the whole event; Bush's routine is about 53 minutes into it, and Colbert's follows at about an hour and six minutes into it.
There are a few different sources of just the Colbert speech. Here's one: part 1 / part 2
And a transcript at dKos.
Update: Bush wasn't exactly pleased with Colbert's performance.
Meanwhile.... "President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution." This is the guy who hasn't vetoed a single bill in five years -- why risk the chance of Congress overriding a veto when you can sign the bill while declaring that you won't obey it? And he can have his government listen in on your phone calls without fear of a court stopping them. Because after all, it would certainly be easier if this were a dictatorship, just so long as he's the dictator.
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