Honest News Coverage from Washington
Aside from the topics covered in my last post, I would also like to point out a truly great moment from last weekend's White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington, DC.
Almost all of the media's coverage of this event mentioned president Bush's routine with a Bush interpreter, and most of the coverage neglected to mention what a failed attempt to raise his poor poll numbers the routine was. But, what stands out as the most glaring omission by the media, was their lack of attention to the skewering that Bush received from the performance that followed Bush's.
Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, did a twenty minute routine in which he did a wonderful job of bringing into focus the failings of the Bush administration, it's supporters, and the news media that claims to be covering it.
Fortunately, video of this routine is available and I present it to you here.
This is the first of three parts of Colbert's speech. All three parts can be found here.
For many who don't pay a lot of attention to the Bush White House, or the controversies surrounding the American news media's coverage of it, some of what Colbert may not make sense, but anybody who knows even a little about the debacle in Washington known as the "Bush Administration" will get a laugh from it.
My hat's off to Colbert for this performance. It's one thing to be on stage on in a sound stage somewhere cracking on the president--it's totally different to have the guts to do it with him sitting less than 20 feet away. This is the first real show of character, honesty, and bravery to be seen in Washington in a long time. Even if it is just a comedy routine delivered for a paycheck.
Hope you enjoy and learn from it.
Almost all of the media's coverage of this event mentioned president Bush's routine with a Bush interpreter, and most of the coverage neglected to mention what a failed attempt to raise his poor poll numbers the routine was. But, what stands out as the most glaring omission by the media, was their lack of attention to the skewering that Bush received from the performance that followed Bush's.
Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, did a twenty minute routine in which he did a wonderful job of bringing into focus the failings of the Bush administration, it's supporters, and the news media that claims to be covering it.
Fortunately, video of this routine is available and I present it to you here.
This is the first of three parts of Colbert's speech. All three parts can be found here.
For many who don't pay a lot of attention to the Bush White House, or the controversies surrounding the American news media's coverage of it, some of what Colbert may not make sense, but anybody who knows even a little about the debacle in Washington known as the "Bush Administration" will get a laugh from it.
My hat's off to Colbert for this performance. It's one thing to be on stage on in a sound stage somewhere cracking on the president--it's totally different to have the guts to do it with him sitting less than 20 feet away. This is the first real show of character, honesty, and bravery to be seen in Washington in a long time. Even if it is just a comedy routine delivered for a paycheck.
Hope you enjoy and learn from it.
posted by Chymera at 5/02/2006 09:03:00 AM
Who: Ron Nicolas
1 Comments:
OH but... this is just another sign of the liberal media bias. ;)
Colbert is awesome. I saw snippets of this speach on his show the last couple nights.
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