The truthiness hurts

[SoCalDem]

The truthiness hurts

http://blogs.citypages.com/ctg/2006/04/the_truthiness.asp


President Bush had the press eating out the palm of his hand at last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner. (If you need proof, a Google news search reveals more than 300 articles dedicated to the celebration of Bush and his look-alike lampooning the president for such now-innocuous foibles as mispronouncing "nuclear." If you control them, they will follow...) But it was comedian Stephen Colbert's biting political satire, and the awkward silence that followed, that brought the real "truthiness" to last night's event.


If the mainstream press' allegiance to the current administration wasn't painfully obvious enough, so far only Editor and Publisher has extensively reported on Colbert's roasting, which, in the best kind of political satire, resonated as hard-hitting political commentary disguised as stupidity in the form of Colbert's faux-Republican persona. Colbert lambasted the president for Iraq, Valerie Plame, global warming, and his response to disaster. There's a video of Colbert's entire speech after the jump, as well as a transcript of Colbert's best "jokes" of the night. (Colbert will also appear on 60 Minutes tonight.)

On Iraq: "I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."

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[mdmc]

1. thanks for the link

[Just Me]

2. I can only respond that, I want someone to teach me how to be the lion,...

,...that EATS these empathy-emptied, exploitative, lying sonsablackholes ALIVE!!!

I've had enough of the this shit. I have no desire to be respectful or "nice" to assholes. They deserve no place on the stage of human dignity and I want to kick their asses OFF that stage.

ENOUGH!!! ENOUGH!!!!

[flordehinojos]

3. indeed!

and georgie boy is proof that, "the truthiness hurts"! just take a look at how he does not want to see it (eyes closed), he does not want to hear it (head turned away from the speaker's podium), he is cocking his chin at the truth like the arrogant snub that he is. O, Yeah! Truthiness Hurts:

[rocktivity]

4. As I watched the shot of Steve listening to his introduction

I wish I could have read what was going through his mind in those last few seconds...

:headbang:
rocknation

[peekaloo]

5. Says a lot about Boo$h's narcissism.....he talks, jokes and laughs

with himself.

Colbert was The Derider to The Decider.