Bush Lampoons Self at Press Corp Dinner

Associated Press ^ | 4/30/2006 | Elizabeth White

[saveliberty]

The President and Steve Bridges were hilarious. Steven Colbert was a let down.

[Rome2000]

He ought to be ordering half the SOB's in the room arrested and jailed for destroying our nations will to fight.

Instead he's partying with them.

Not too bright.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Look for the leftstream media to report that there was something that didn't go right, and that it was W's fault.

[Adder]

"I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq," Colbert said in a typical zinger."

LOL...Thats just funny...

[edpc]

Yet it's the Who's Who of power and celebrity in the audience — invited by media organizations to their dinner tables — that draws much of the attention. Joining ABC were former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame....

OK....they're neither famous nor powerful. An obvious ploy by one of the press members. Marginalize this person/paper/network. Give them the Helen Thomas treatment.

[ovrtaxt]

Too bad it's not true in DC.

[tobyhill]

It was obviously ABC's plan to create news instead of reporting it by inviting Walnut Brain Wilson and Where is Waldo Plame.

[leadpenny]

I just watched a replay of it on C-SPAN. The President and the impersonator were terrific. Colbert was pretty good, but the venue makes it difficult for a large crowd to whoop it up. The tape production that Colbert presented was excellent, imo.

[saveliberty]

Actually, I thought he showed a lot of class and that they shot themselves in the proverbial assets

[saveliberty]

LOL! I noticed that Elizabeth White had to say that Bridges stole the best lines, when it was clear that it was orchestrated that he deliver the funniest ones.

There were times when the President had a difficult time containing his laughter.

[Patriot from Philly]

Bush always turns the other check and he ends up getting slapped. You want a special prosecutor to hound my senior advisers in a time of war, sure. He's indicting my guys for trifling nonsense, well he's dignified.

Somebody has to take responsibility for Katrina, let me set the example and do it.

The only ones Bush gets tough with are the Minutemen and his base. For everyone else it's President Doormat.

[saveliberty]

ABC invited them to embarass the President and the Wilsons didn't even make an impression (except to the BDS afflicted members of the Press)

[saveliberty]

Wow, I came away with a different impression. I watched it last night and thought Colbert was not that good because his jokes seemed to be too small minded. He was funny when he first talked about the head vs gut, but then it was time to move onto something else. :-) The beauty of liberty is that there's something for everyone.

Captain Ed was watching Fox and he gave this perspective

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/006875.php

[saveliberty]

:-) That was a good one

[saveliberty]

LOL! It didn't work too well, did it?

[Patriot from Philly]

OK, I'll ask a girlie question. I didn't see it, was Val pretty or average?

[Rome2000]

But when the Chicago Times editorialized, “We then repeat the question as to what adequate motive we have for inaugurating a civil war?”

In a short time, a military officer arrived at the newspaper, shut it down and sealed its presses.

Eventually over 300 northern newspapers would be closed by Union troops and the journalists who dared question Lincoln’s actions were jailed.

-David O. Jones

[saveliberty]

She was pretty. She wore an ivory sleeveless dress.

[Past Your Eyes]

Yeah, he's no Claudette.

[saveliberty]

LOL! That's for sure. Was she a friend of Reagan?