>
> --- In [email protected], anon_astute_ff <no_reply@>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > The annual White House Corespondents Dinner last night was pretty
> > funny. Its being rebroadcast on C-Span. Bush spoke side by side with
> > his comedic double -- who provided an inner world satirical view of
> > Bush. Some was pretty ripping, even though this portion was a White
> > House skit.
>
> Video clip of the second half of Colbert's performance:
>
> http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html
>
> The page includes a link to the C-Span rebroadcast,
> but it yields a "Page Not Found" error message. Hmmm...
>
> Complete (but imperfect) transcript on
> DemocraticUnderground.com:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/q8t47
>
> > Stephen Colbert -- former Jon Stewart alumnus and who now follows
> > Stewart's Daily show (Colbert, a brilliant interviewer, satirizes
> > O'Reily types, by feigning being one. 50% of his routine was quite
> > funny and skewering of Bush -- though it got only mild laughs from
> > the correspondents -- apparently too embarrassed to laugh too hard
> > at swords that went deep into the President who was sitting right in
> > front of them. Or, perhaps if they are not already Colbert fans,
> > and seeing him for the first time, they needed a digestion period to
> > fully absorb the nuances of Colbert's satire. (The other 50% of
> > Colbert's routine was a bit weak, but still the premeise of the
> > jokes showed promise -- but needed some refinement to rise above
> > mediocre humor. )
>
> This echoes my take. I'm not a huge Colbert fan, but
> he did get off some good ones. The video presentation
> of the faux press conference and its aftermath (which
> takes up most of the Crooks and Liars video, unfortunately)
> was quite weak, however, and ended the dinner on a really
> flat note.
Agreed. But it made me wonder if Colbert was trying for an Andy
Kaufmanesque moment -- making the audience squirm and feel
uncomfortable for a prolonged period to make a point The point in this
case being the opening question of the skit: "Mr. President, why did
we go into Iraq".
> My favorite line:
>
> "And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has
> the right to their own religion, be it Hindu, Jewish or Muslim. I
> believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your
> personal savior."
>
> Second favorite:
That was a good one.
I felt also the following section was great, paraphrasing, "I am like
you Mr. President, like a man I decide from the gut, I don't rely on
wimp ass facts. ... The president is steady as a rock, he believes on
Wednesday what he beleived on Monday .. no matter what happened on
Tuesday."
It was right-on satire for the president, and also relevant to some
discussions and posters here -- the fantasy world, non-rationalists,
logic-be-damned, gut feelers.
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