If there is any justice in the world, that tape of Bush’s will be shown before the Hague when it comes time to sentence the bastard.

Colbert is a genius. I am smitten.

I haven’t seen the clip yet, but Colbert’s real strength seems to be that it’s almost impossible to get him angry.

Liberals need to go out and find more people like that…which is understandably difficult considering the current bunch of moral miscreants and tone-deaf half-wits among the Right.

I particularly liked Colbert’s name-check of Justice Scalia. He may have exhausted the entire dictionary of offensive Italian hand gestures with that one.

(For those who can’t currently get enough of the fellow, a link to a series of podcasts at sfGate from a recent lengthy interview with Colbert in San Francisco)

Does anyone know where we can find the video of this, other than at Crooks and Liars (for some reason my computer won’t load videos from that site…not sure why)?

All I know is that I was saying to myself while reading the transcript “please God, let this actually have happened. LEt me be awake right now reading this transcript”

Here’s some video at Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=stephen+colbert+correspondents+dinner&search_type=search_videos&search=Search

The first one’s just his speech, and the second one is his “audition tape” for press secretary. Pretty good stuff; most folks seem into it, with the exception of the Bushes.

It was an extremely classless move, especially in front of the President.

Colbert basically repeated a lot of left-wing lies in trying to humiliate the President.

Scalia was, to his credit, laughing his ass off when Colbert did his greeting. At least someone there from the harder-right had a sense of humor.

Heh. I’m really getting Gary now.

Maybe Gary’s really Stephen Colbert?

There’s a reason why only a few people laughed at the Colbert routine, because it wasn’t funny

I just saw the clip…the part with Helen Thomas at the end was a little long, but it was very good.

At least someone there from the harder-right had a sense of humor.

Scalia’s laughter really suggests he understands exactly the nature of his perfidy. Somehow, that’s not really comforting, although it does indicate that all of this amorality is deliberate.

Really good criminals are able to laugh at themselves easily.

I can see why bush would be pissed. When you’re a kid and you break a window and get called to the principal’s office, you ain’t amused. He’s just not used to having his dismal performance and unbelievable series of lies, crimes, errors in jugement and just plain nut-job hackery tossed in his face. Hell, condi and laura never bring it up.

I love the fact that, with the press unwilling to confront these thugs, it comes down to comedians like Colbert and Stewart to point out, over and over, that the emperor has, not only no clothes, but no clues.

As for the correspondents dinner, the best part to me is that Skunk Baxter was there. Now that’s politics!!

BTW, I’m boycotting gary. Until he’s willing to admit that, just MAYBE, there just might be a little tiny something wrong with the performance of this administration, that it just cannot simply all be “lies” and “smears” from “The Left ™”, I can only assume that he is really just a “leftist” plant, trolling the interwebs to further discredit the bush administration.

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There’s a reason why only a few people laughed at the Colbert routine, because it wasn’t funny

Or maybe the president and the press didn’t laugh because they were the butts of his jokes.

Pinko Punko: Where might one find this transcript of which you speak?

If I remember right, Clinton used to laugh his ass off at correspondents’ dinners.

Justsayin’.

The room wasn’t laughing either, because with Clinton, stuff wasn’t really that serious, because he wasn’t massively incompetent and he wasn’t destroying the world. Also, Colbert was just letting the press stew in their own juice. I liked how he essentially highlighted Moran, Gregory and Thomas, basically the only members of the WHPC that seem to wake up every now and then. I mean it wasn’t funny, ha ha funny, it was only funny knowing what those losers had to suffer through. I hope they were embarrassed for themselves.

Notice how the wingnuts are pissing themselves with laughter when talking about Bush’s gig. I will admit that it was funny – but the response to it shows how absolutely desperate conservatives are for humor.

Pam’s House Blend has a link to one of the fine minds that lurk in the sewers at Lucianne.com complaining that Colbert was “unpatriotic toward the President and First Lady”.

Unpatriotic? Toward the president? Is it just me, or have we now crossed over into “L’Ètat, c’est moi” territory?

Gaah! They’re going freaking nuts over at Lucianne.com. Break out the wet sheets and the ECT paddles.

“It was an extremely classless move, especially in front of the President.”

Right. Because at an event known to be a comic “roast” the last thing a speaker should do is make fun of someone.

The Ruppert household must be a laugh riot.

It’s not supposed to be a roast of anything, it’s supposed to be a correspondants dinner.

Colbert’s career is going to be on the decline, because he just aroused the ire of millions of Patriotic Conservatives.

Colbert’s career is going to be on the decline, because he just aroused the ire of millions of Patriotic Conservatives.

Are you sure you’re not a fan, Gary? You’ve got his schtick down pat.

Gary, you are a fool. The correspondent’s dinner traditionally features comedy at others’ expense.

Was the President’s little comedy act out of place? (can’t wait to see how Ruppert logic tackles this one — let’s see, Colbert being funny, wrong; Preznit being funny, just the right thing.)

Is it just me, or have we now crossed over into “L’Ètat, c’est moi” territory?

Well, duh! There is such a cult of personality around Dubya, more than Clinton and possibly even Reagan. I believe that, unlike those (strongly personality-driven) administrations, this is the first modern presidency in which the fervent members of the cult actually accuse anyone who dares question the President of treason. Gary, to the extent he is for real, is the perfect example of a cultist: No matter what travesty the president and his coterie initiate or perpetuate, the Dear Leader is infallible and anyone who points out the errors or even simply disagrees with policy is a pro-terrorist traitor to the country. (Some of the less whacked-out cultists merely accuse the dissenter of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.” Hmm, where else have we heard of mental illness as the preferred diagnosis for dissidents and detractors?)

Colbert’s career is going to be on the decline, because he just aroused the ire of millions of Patriotic Conservatives.

Colbert is going to see a huge spike in popularity, because he just aroused the ire of millions of Patriotic Conservatives.

Colbert’s career is going to be on the decline, because he just aroused the ire of millions of Patriotic Conservatives.

What are they gonna do, stop watching a show they already don’t watch?

You wingnuts, if you could get your pee-pees aroused as easily as your “ire,” maybe you wouldn’t be so petty and violent.

By the way, which Gary is posting today? Is it the O.G. (Original Gary)? Is it Gary II– Electric Boogaloo? It’s just so hard to tell anymore.

We are all Gary. He’s a manifestation of that small (very small) part of our brain that sometimes becomes convinced that reality is only what we choose to believe.

In wingnuts, that part of the brain is all they’ve got…well and the speech centre, much to our chagrin.

What are they gonna do, stop watching a show they already don’t watch?
Perhaps the million of conservatives didn’t get the joke until now.

I thought the beginning with Bush speaking was pretty good. Didn’t watch afterwards though, was kind of busy at the time.

It’s all in good humor. People need to complain about something, it comes as no surprise people would be complaining about this. Democrats will get mad at Bush’s making light of world problems, then remember it was all supposed to be in fun, when it comes time for him to take the brunt of the jokes.

That’s life. Read what you will, watch what you will, speak and think as you will.

He also finds illegal domestic spying funny enough to make jokes about

It’s all in good humor.

They hired Colbert, and his whole brand of humor– his whole act– is poking a hole in the absurd self-righteousness of wingnut America. Colbert was just doing his act. If BushCo didn’t think it was funny, too fucking bad. They could have hired Larry the Cable Guy if they wanted someone who would lick their ass.

Strange, back in March Rep. Jack Kingston and the right-wing bloggers who participated in his Theme Team workshop on blogging seemed pretty excited to be with Colbert.

JK47: I would fear Ice T’s wrath if I were you. There is only one OG.

Colbert should have made some jokes about teh Pretzeldent masturbating a horse.

Now THAT’S some red-state yuks for ya, right there. Tried and true. Kills ’em every time.

Ain’t nuthin’ funnier than the first lady tellin’ everyone that the leader of the free world “accidentally” got hisself a handful of horse-pecker!

If there is any justice in the world, that tape of Bush’s will be shown before the Hague when it comes time to sentence the bastard.

If there is any justice in the world, that tape will be dubbed into Arabic and played before a marketplace full of Iraqis, shortly before Bush is released into their midst without his SS minders…

When bush got up there and started cracking jokes about the “missing” WMD’s is when my hatred for him really kicked into overdrive. “Not over here.” “Eep, not under my desk”. That shit was sickening, he insulted every man and woman who fought and died for his joke of a war. Fucking inexcusable.
The only reason Bush wasn’t laughing and smiling is because it’s the first time he’s been confronted with ugly truths in a long time. He didn’t like it, but he better get used to it. It’s all downhill from here.

When bush got up there and started cracking jokes about the “missing” WMD’s is when my hatred for him really kicked into overdrive. “Not over here.” “Eep, not under my desk”. That shit was sickening, he insulted every man and woman who fought and died for his joke of a war. Fucking inexcusable.
The only reason Bush wasn’t laughing and smiling is because it’s the first time he’s been confronted with ugly truths in a long time. He didn’t like it, but he better get used to it. It’s all downhill from here.

When bush got up there and started cracking jokes about the “missing” WMD’s is when my hatred for him really kicked into overdrive. “Not over here.” “Eep, not under my desk”. That shit was sickening, he insulted every man and woman who fought and died for his joke of a war. Fucking inexcusable.
The only reason Bush wasn’t laughing and smiling is because it’s the first time he’s been confronted with ugly truths in a long time. He didn’t like it, but he better get used to it. It’s all downhill from here.

When bush got up there and started cracking jokes about the “missing” WMD’s is when my hatred for him really kicked into overdrive. “Not over here.” “Eep, not under my desk”. That shit was sickening, he insulted every man and woman who fought and died for his joke of a war. Fucking inexcusable.
The only reason Bush wasn’t laughing and smiling is because it’s the first time he’s been confronted with ugly truths in a long time. He didn’t like it, but he better get used to it. It’s all downhill from here.

When bush got up there and started cracking jokes about the “missing” WMD’s is when my hatred for him really kicked into overdrive. “Not over here.” “Eep, not under my desk”. That shit was sickening, he insulted every man and woman who fought and died for his joke of a war. Fucking inexcusable.
The only reason Bush wasn’t laughing and smiling is because it’s the first time he’s been confronted with ugly truths in a long time. He didn’t like it, but he better get used to it. It’s all downhill from here.

When bush got up there and started cracking jokes about the “missing” WMD’s is when my hatred for him really kicked into overdrive. “Not over here.” “Eep, not under my desk”. That shit was sickening, he insulted every man and woman who fought and died for his joke of a war. Fucking inexcusable.
The only reason Bush wasn’t laughing and smiling is because it’s the first time he’s been confronted with ugly truths in a long time. He didn’t like it, but he better get used to it. It’s all downhill from here.

When bush got up there and started cracking jokes about the “missing” WMD’s is when my hatred for him really kicked into overdrive. “Not over here.” “Eep, not under my desk”. That shit was sickening, he insulted every man and woman who fought and died for his joke of a war. Fucking inexcusable.
The only reason Bush wasn’t laughing and smiling is because it’s the first time he’s been confronted with ugly truths in a long time. He didn’t like it, but he better get used to it. It’s all downhill from here.

When bush got up there and started cracking jokes about the “missing” WMD’s is when my hatred for him really kicked into overdrive. “Not over here.” “Eep, not under my desk”. That shit was sickening, he insulted every man and woman who fought and died for his joke of a war. Fucking inexcusable.
The only reason Bush wasn’t laughing and smiling is because it’s the first time he’s been confronted with ugly truths in a long time. He didn’t like it, but he better get used to it. It’s all downhill from here.

When bush got up there and started cracking jokes about the “missing” WMD’s is when my hatred for him really kicked into overdrive. “Not over here.” “Eep, not under my desk”. That shit was sickening, he insulted every man and woman who fought and died for his joke of a war. Fucking inexcusable.
The only reason Bush wasn’t laughing and smiling is because it’s the first time he’s been confronted with ugly truths in a long time. He didn’t like it, but he better get used to it. It’s all downhill from here.

Ok, wow.

This proxy trial and error stuff is shitty.

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Ok, wow.

This proxy trial and error stuff is shitty.

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Ok, wow.

This proxy trial and error stuff is shitty.

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Ok, wow.

This proxy trial and error stuff is shitty.

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Ok, wow.

This proxy trial and error stuff is shitty.

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Ok, wow.

This proxy trial and error stuff is shitty.

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Ok, wow.

This proxy trial and error stuff is shitty.

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Ok, wow.

This proxy trial and error stuff is shitty.

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The truly sad thing is that I really think that the right-wing has isolated themselves from reality so much that they had no idea about Colbert’s comedy. Either that or they really sound that insane and delusional in their own heads.

It crossed my mind too that Gary was either Colbert or doing a similar bit. A bit too much of the eliminationist rhetoric though.

Timmah – you win for best comments ever. seriously I cannot stop scrolling and laughing.