Stephen Colbert whacks Bush

Stephen Colbert is the host of the Colbert Report on Comedy Central in which he plays a faux conservative. He was invited to speak at the While House Correspondents' annual shindig, where he uncompromisingly hazed Dubya, who was actually on the same podium (with Laura).

Check out this video -- it is quite incredible.

If you hear this mentioned in the MSM, all they'll say is that it bombed as comedy. What I say is: who cares? It was news. And if you jokers in the news business did your jobs, this wouldn't even have been that.

Sad state of affairs when our journalists are wusses, and it is only the comedians who have the courage to criticize the president.

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Some choice quotes:

"Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!"

And...

"I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."

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Update: Here's a letter I sent to the LA Times after they printed something pitiful about the event.

Paul Brownfield, in his pointless essay, points out that what was missing in the blogsphere's referendum on Colbert's hazing of President Bush in the White House Correspondents Assn. dinner, was that the "red carpet was awesome."

If he had read the blogs carefully, he may have noticed that that was exactly the observation from most bloggers. The attendees of the dinner, and the press which gave scant attention to Colbert's remarks in printed and televised coverage of the event, were only too focused on the redness of the carpet, and in having a jolly time with their fellow revelers.

The pundits of the media, who were taking a holiday from reality that night, didn't need to be reminded from a comedian about a reality they had failed to hold the president accountable for. They found that decidedly unfunny.