Somewhere along the way, the Great Debate over Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (Google Video) has morphed into an argument about a vague cliché. No longer is it a question of whether Colbert’s…

then you quote something that colbert said…but the president…the president…said about the first lady in his comic monologue…she is “hot”…muy caliente…I found that totally inappropriate.Sounded so much like some jock bragging that he nailed the head cheerleader… We are at war and the president has time to practice from January til the end of April on what amounts to a high school skit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/washington/01letter.html?_r=1&oref=slo

White House Letter
A New Set of Bush Twins Appear at Annual Correspondents’ Dinner

By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: May 1, 2006

With his approval ratings in the mid-30’s and a White House beset by troubles, there is some evidence that Mr. Bush worked harder on his performance this year than in the past. At the very least, he started focusing on his stand-up as long ago as January, when he asked Dan Bartlett, the White House counselor, to contact Mr. Bridges and Landon Parvin, a longtime speechwriter.

Just hit me today.

I must note this up front, Rick says: “Much of it was actually pretty funny.”

Yeah it was Rick. Comedy is the one institution where ideological blinders are exposed so fully. Your remark, “’speaking truth to power.’ I always have to scratch my head in wonderment over this little prevarication by the liberals,” is evidence of that fact. Speaking truth to power is not a liberal prevarication, it is, rather, the essence of free speech in a democracy. The president is always the power, be he Republican or Democrat, and the fourth estate’s duty is to make sure the president does not mislead the public or distort the truth. End of story.

Stop and think once. If there was a Democratic president that was condoning torture, running a gulag network, and illegally wire tapping American citizens you would be all over him. These things are as un-American as “Mother Land” and borscht.

Right-wingers like to say the ‘liberal msm.” I would rather characterize it as the ‘corporate media’ which is sensitive to profits, a punitive administration and (I know you’ll flip when I say this) the PC rightwing.

Ed, the fact that you cannot grasp that Rick is skewering Colbert for making such an ass of himself, unlike many others who are attacking him for what he said and not simply for the fact that his actions were in bad taste speaks volumes on the lack of comprehension on your part.”

From Rick Moran’s original post:
“Full Fledged Moonbattery is the only way to describe Colbert’s performance. All the canards were there; Iraq, WMD, the press as White House lap dogs(??), Bush the stupid, Bush the incompetent, Bush as Machiavelli (the stupidity of trying to show Bush as both dumb and evil genius lost on the clueless Colbert), as well as the usual jokes that liberals find funny about 9/11, religion, and ordinary Americans.”

kender, would you like to try that again? Colbert’s comments and content were attacked, see quote above. The fact remains that Mr. Moran started the post by saying “I disagree with those on the right who are skewering Stephen Colbert for his performance at the White House Correspondents dinner on Saturday night.”, then skewered Colbert’s perfomance on many grounds. I called the writing self-contradictory, and if can’t see that fact, then you are truely blinded by your partisanship. I like Moran’s writing, even when disagreeing greatly, and hope for more internal consistency that I often see. That was the point of my original comment.

I must admit that I don’t have cable — is there anything funny on Comedy Central but South Park?

In fact, they were laughing uproariously over anything and everything he did.

I guess one can’t take the heat…..