Posted on 05/02/2006 11:07:14 AM PDT by MC Miker G
NEW YORK Probably to no one's surprise, Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "Daily Show," hailed the performance of his stablemate Stephen Colbert at Saturday night's White House Correspondents dinner. Colbert's lampooning of the president and the press has generated a good deal of praise and criticism.
"It was balls-alicious," Stewart said. "Apparently he was under the impression that they'd hired him to do what he does every night on television" -- that is, make fun of conservatives, public officials, and the press in the guise of an O'Reillyesque talk show host.
"We've never been prouder of him, but HOLY ----," Stewart added.
He also described the annual dinner as "where the President and the press corps consummate their loveless marriage."
Colbert then followed Stewart, on his own show, "The Colbert Report," describing the "honor of appearing" at the big dinner. He said the room was full of "power players," so he "fit right in."
I thought Stephen Colbert was the perfect speaker for that event. Colbert is to political commentary what President Bush is to cogent policy.
The jokes weren't even about the President. They were about the person the left portrays the President to be.
Colbert is to Stewert what Sideshow Bob is to Crusty the Clown.
Good point.
susie
Clearly, we are old (altho the other day a poster accused me of being very young!)
susie
Examples?
It was the timing. Pearl Harbor, followed by one damned Jap victory after another ... and then that thunderbolt from Jimmy D!
You want examples? The entire bit.
Reality has a leftist bias?
"The media is bad for America," said in character as a paranoid right winger.
The press secretary running in fear from Helen Thomas because she's asking the "uncomfortable" question, "Why did we go to war with Iraq?" and then running into other people with the same question, as if a valid reason were never given.
In character as a right wing press secretary, advising the media that it shouldn't report on secret prisons, wiretapping terrorists, tax cuts, and so forth as if there's something to hide about those things and if the people knew the truth, they'd vote the Republicans out.
And on and on and on.
"when he attacks his guests he attacks their liberal views and makes fools of them even though the people in the crowd are definitely democratic voters."
It's called sarcasm. He's laughing with them, not at them.
He made fun of the president, and in a hateful way.
I can handle humor.
He wasn't funny. He was vindictive.
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