April 30, 2006
Peter Daou says the media is protecting Bush:
The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was televised on C-Span Saturday evening. Featured entertainer Stephen Colbert delivered a biting rebuke of George W. Bush and the lily-livered press corps. He did it to Bush’s face, unflinching and unbowed by the audience’s muted, humorless response. Democratic Underground members commented in real time (here, here, and here).
So Daou says the media is protecting Bush because they are not reporting on Stephen Colbert’s comedy act at last night’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner? Excuse me, but I don’t remember anyone reporting about Cedric the Entertainer’s performance at last year’s dinner. I love it how libidiots, including the socialist, whine that the Bush administration is waging a “War on the Media”, when they are doing the same exact thing. Like I said in my last post, don’t throw rocks at glass houses, fools.
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8:39 pm [ Quote ]
Ha! Is Karl Pilkington writing this blog now?
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Pilkington
I thought Colbert, as usual, was hilarious…but then again, I’m a “libidiot.”
9:06 pm [ Quote ]
If anyone thinks that the media isn’t playing these clips because they are “protecting Bush,” then you haven’t been paying attention for the last few years.
Also, Fox News has been playing these very clips of Colbert making fun of Bush all day long.
Isn’t Fox News supposed to be the cable network of Republican propaganda?
I am a supporter of Bush, but Colbert’s act was pretty funny and I don’t think this guy hates Bush so much that he is trying to mock him to his face.
If this guy hated Bush so much, I don’t think he would be doing this routine at a White House dinner.
Unlike so many uptight Libs out there, Bush has a sense of humor and pokes fun at himself quite often, so this is nothing new.
9:22 pm [ Quote ]
I wonder why Daou is surprised by this at all. While Colbert may have tore Bush a new one, he completely incinerated the press. So of course the press isn’t going to give it much coverage.
And while Bush may poke fun at himself quite often, he doesn’t seem to like it when someone else does it. The look on George W. and Laura faces was priceless as they were obviously not amused.
9:46 pm [ Quote ]
I think this is my first time commenting here. I figured I wouldn’t be welcome, because I think this entire “expose the left” blogging exericise is a hoot (engaging in a false and flawed argument).
Keeping this comment short and relatively civil, the first point that needs to be made is the supremely obvious fact that the Bush Admin is running roughshod over any semblence of constitutional govt. The idea that Ian is willing to shoehorn Colbert’s searing criticism of an out-of-control Presidency as a issue of Right or Left Wing politics is a sure sign that he is a stoodge for the Shenanigans.
10:06 pm [ Quote ]
Is that the same searing that was tatooed into Kerry’s memory?
Colbert was a boor and a bore, at a venue that has historically been used as an exercise in self-deprecation. It was supremely obvious.
10:55 pm [ Quote ]
While Colbert is obviously liberal, I think a lot of his criticism of the press was very legitimate, so no wonder they are not going to try to give it any more coverage.
As far as his criticism of the president, well, yes, it was there, but so? Most of it was quite funny and the president should step back and take it less seriously, after all Colbert is a comedian and making fun of people is his job.
11:44 pm [ Quote ]
No, the press loved every minute of it, even though they cant admit it.
Its their chance to shoot down the claims of liberal bias by pointing out that they have been attacked (by this one guy) as being somehow complicit with Bush. “See how fair we are, even the liberals come after us!”
11:50 pm [ Quote ]
Verve,
They loved every minute of it? Are you wingnuts claiming to have telepathic powers now? Sheesh. Mind readers, snake charmers, etc etc etc
12:43 am [ Quote ]
Just remember. A bunch of reporters knew who leaked Valerie Plame’s name to the press. They knew it before the 2004 election. They refused to REPORT THE NEWS (CRIMES). The press has been covering for Bush. Every person with a working brain cell understands Bush, and his friends lied repeatedly in the lead up to the war. It should be the #1 story top dead center of every paper, and leading every news show on TV. The fact that is is being “overlooked” is the proof the press is ignoring Bush’s lies, and crimes. There are so many Americans demanding accountability now it is changing. Watching New Orleans flood while Bush is busy fundraising was the iceburg. Oh I forgot he did a flyover, and then ignored New Orleans for another 2 days. Just remember, if it was 30,000 nuns at the Superdome they would be airlifting mre’s, and dropping doctors like there was no tomorrow.
12:49 am [ Quote ]
If Woodward, Miller, Novak, and Cooper told “The American People” what they knew about the leaking of the NIE, and Valerie Wilson’s name before the election, Bush would be in a prison cell by now. It seems that anyone who wants the truth these days is painted as an unpatriotic Al Queda sympathizer. Exactly the opposite it the truth. Running from the truth is what is helping Al Queda. Not demanding investigations, and accountability, and the truth is unpatriotic. Ignoring reality is unpatriotic. Without a free press America is doomed.
1:02 am [ Quote ]
He did it to Bush’s face, unflinching and unbowed by the audience’s muted, humorless response.
Colbert sucks at stand up and he just proved it. Other people have done this dinner and have done a job, who was that… what was it last year they had to follow Laura Bush, big shoes to fill but they did OK, Colbert on the other hand laid a big fat turd and he looked like an idiot.
1:08 am [ Quote ]
Just remember, if it was 30,000 nuns at the Superdome they would be airlifting mre’s, and dropping doctors like there was no tomorrow.
Maybe your dumbass democrat mayor shouldn’t have stuck those people in the Superdome? OR maybe those stupid ass people should have gotten the fuck out of dodge!
Take a knife to a gun fight you’re gonna lose, tell a dumbass a hurricane is coming and he sticks around to keep tabs on it.
1:21 am [ Quote ]
The media are protecting themselves, not Bush. Colbert took them to the woodshed.
By the way, is this post really deserving of “liberal hate”? Never mind, the last post without that tag was in February.
2:00 am [ Quote ]
The media covers for bush like hitler covered for the jews. Bush approval ratings are reported the second they get a blink lower and I don’t remember any reports on bush approval ratings when they were anywhere north of 45%. Dan, just because the press doesn’t cut and paste far-left talking points into every front page story doesn’t mean they are covering for the president. Unlike changeamerica.net the press has to actually put some research into their stories.
Secondly, Colbert is freaking hilarious. I love his show and I can’t imagine that he bombed too badly. Finally I know good and well that stephen colbert stands by our president like any true patriot should. George Bush great president or the greatest president?
2:52 am [ Quote ]
Like I said in my last post, don’t throw rocks at glass houses, fools.
You know that’s not the saying, right?
2:52 am [ Quote ]
Move over Keith, Stephen is my new hero.
10:50 am [ Quote ]
I think the media is trying to protect Bush. Even a fair and balanced blog like Expose the Left was ignoring the story most of Sunday and was instead focusing on things like Howard Kurtz and SNL and United 93, which really surprised me. Colbert was on fire last night. He made jokes that completely ridiculed the liberals, and their was so many liberal White House press reporters in the room that’s why they weren’t laughing, he was mocking them. Scalia and other conservatives thought it was hilarious though, and so did I.
12:49 pm [ Quote ]
The Media had to protect Bush from the foxiness that is valerie plame. She was looking hot. Thank you scooter libby it was about time someone ‘outed’ her she is sexy. You can’t keep that covert for too long.
5:42 pm [ Quote ]
The media may or may not be protecting Bush. But they certainly are protecting themselves. Colbert BROILED them.
Also lampooning the press, Colbert complained that he was “surrounded by the liberal media who are destroying this country, except for Fox News. Fox believes in presenting both sides—the president’s side and the vice president’s side.” He also reflected on the good old days, when the media was still swallowing the WMD story.
Addressing the reporters, he said, “You should spend more time with your families, write that novel you’ve always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know—fiction.”
6:23 pm [ Quote ]
Bush upstaged Colbert. Libs are furious that their latest dashboard saint didn’t shine. Get over it.
11:56 pm [ Quote ]
I’m with Bill Giltner. All the way.
12:30 pm [ Quote ]
I chose to stay out of commenting on Colbert until about now…
He sucked. No other reason why he sucked other than that he simply is not funny at all. Case in point, catch any reruns of “Whose Line is it Anyway?” (the U.S. version) episodes with Colbert in it, there’s one or two when he appeared. Although it might be unfair to compare him to Colin Mockrie and Ryan Stiles in Improv Comedy.