The truth hurts, doesn't it, George?
He looks like he is going to blow to me
But I understand Bush's sense of humor is the talking point today.
Colbert Was Funny And Dead-On, Except To Those He Was Targeting
So I watched the spiel and my take is that I liked it because it was political and I don't mind lampooning President Bush, but if I stepped back, it wasn't really all that funny. It's like when I compare the comic strips
Doonesbury and
Mallard Fillmore. Doonesbury is political and funny. Even when I don't agree with the politics, it's still funny. Mallard is political. It is almost never funny. If you agree with the politics, you like it. If you're looking for a good laugh or a sharp wit, you're in the wrong place. I think Colbert was more Mallard than Doonesbury.
McGentrix - unbelievable. totally predictable, but unbefrikkin lievable.
snood wrote:McGentrix - unbelievable. totally predictable, but unbefrikkin lievable.
Don't you know? Bush pinches his lips together, flares his nostrils, grinds his teeth, and glares whenever someone makes him laugh....
I just wonder if some of these guys even know how sold out they are...
I was channel surfing and tuned in just as Colbert was beginning. I thought it was funny, but much too long. Laura bolted immediately afterwards, GW wasn't far behind.
Funny, I watched the whole clip over at crooksand liars today. How do you figure he was. how did you put it? "pinches his lips together, flares his nostrils, grinds his teeth, and glares"
Colbert was the last presenter. No one is allowed to leave until the president leaves (secret Service and all that.) I assume you heard the announcement right after Colbert was finished, right?
More ado about nothing from the typical much adoers.
Snood is right though... you guys are totally predictable. But, not so unbelievable.
Tico, Bushie was entirely predictable leaving in a huff. Maybe that's why Colbert went on so long with Helen Thomas. I thought his piece was as much praise for Helen as it was a truth telling on Bushie. Colbert got what he wanted from Bushie. "He's got that look that he's ready to blow." hahaha.
Hey, this is worthwhile, anyone posted this link yet?
The Colbert Blackout
Not because it adds the x'th column re the "Colbert blackout" - but because it neatly summarises and links in what all's been written and said about it in the different newspapers and other media. Very practical!
Clearly a man that is about to burst into laughter at any minute.
That is good, nimh, thanks!
If you watched the clip, you would see that he does.
I don't blame you though for only regurgitating what your fellow non-conservatives tell you though. It's better to think Bush was insulted somehow by a comedian. It makes him seem less human that way.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/2/11532/98245
Quote:Stephen Colbert was not funny.
Helen Thomas is old and batty.
Mexicans are taking our jobs.
Iraq sent its WMDs to Syria.
Democrats don't want to wiretap terrorists.
Joe Wilson admitted that Valerie Plame wasn't covert.
Karl Rove has a faulty memory.
Scooter Libby has a faulty memory.
Tom DeLay is like Jesus Christ.
No one could have anticipated that the levees would be breached.
We do not torture.
There is no global warming.
There is global warming, but humans didn't cause it.
Howard Dean can't raise money.
John F. Kerry is a flip-flopper.
George W. Bush is a decider.
John McCain is a straight-shooter.
Dick Cheney is a sober shooter.
Nobody at the White House knows Jack Abramoff.
Democrats do.
The economy is great.
Evolution isn't supported by the facts.
Diebold voting machines are secure.
Fox News is fair and balanced.
Mission accomplished.
Bill Clinton did it too.
No one could have anticipated the Iraqi insurgency.
The budget deficit will be cut in half in four years.
Anyone who thinks Dubai shouldn't control our ports is racist.
No one who thinks we should build a wall along the Mexican border is racist.
George Allen isn't a racist... anymore.
Terry Schiavo wants to live.
Andrea Clark wants to die.
We've turned a corner in Iraq.
There's a war on Christmas.
There's a war on Easter.
There's no civil war in Iraq.
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Up is down.
Black is white.
In Republicanville, everything is hunky dory these days.
Cycloptichorn
Cyclo, that one is absolutely hilarious!
Re: the "Mission accomplished" one, this quote from Monday's press briefing with Scott McClellan is also in the link I gave above, and seems in place on this thread, especially after that post of yours...
What can we say, reality is more astounding than what we could come up with.
Quote:"Q I'm asking you, based on a reporter's curiosity, could he stand under a sign again that says, 'Mission Accomplished'?
"MR. McCLELLAN: Now, Peter, Democrats have tried to raise this issue, and, like I said, misrepresenting and distorting the past --
"Q This is not --
"MR. McCLELLAN: -- which is what they're doing, does nothing to advance the goal of victory in Iraq.
"Q I mean, it's a historical fact that we're all taking notice of --
"MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think the focus ought to be on achieving victory in Iraq and the progress that's being made, and that's where it is. And you know exactly the Democrats are trying to distort the past.
"Q Let me ask it another way: Has the mission been accomplished?
"MR. McCLELLAN: Next question.
"Q Has the mission been accomplished?
"MR. McCLELLAN: We're on the way to accomplishing the mission and achieving victory."
nimh wrote:Cyclo, that one is absolutely hilarious!
Re: the "Mission accomplished" one, this quote from Monday's press briefing with Scott McClellan is also in the link I gave above, and seems in place on this thread, especially after that post of yours...
What can we say, reality is more astounding than what we could come up with.
Quote:"Q I'm asking you, based on a reporter's curiosity, could he stand under a sign again that says, 'Mission Accomplished'?
"MR. McCLELLAN: Now, Peter, Democrats have tried to raise this issue, and, like I said, misrepresenting and distorting the past --
"Q This is not --
"MR. McCLELLAN: -- which is what they're doing, does nothing to advance the goal of victory in Iraq.
"Q I mean, it's a historical fact that we're all taking notice of --
"MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think the focus ought to be on achieving victory in Iraq and the progress that's being made, and that's where it is. And you know exactly the Democrats are trying to distort the past.
"Q Let me ask it another way: Has the mission been accomplished?
"MR. McCLELLAN: Next question.
"Q Has the mission been accomplished?
"MR. McCLELLAN: We're on the way to accomplishing the mission and achieving victory."
Nothing beats their actual, double think, awful words for black, black humour.
I guess he could have just got up there and started looking around for lost WMD while our troops and Iraqis are dying, then they would have thought it was funny.
Judging from the expression on Bush's face and the media pundits reaction to Colbert (which I have read), he must of struck a nerve. For that alone he deserves an award, funny or not.
Cohen, 'Wash Post' Columnist, Says Colbert was 'Rude' and a 'Bully'
Greg Mitchell / Editor And Publisher | May 4 2006
Related: Colbert Reaction Shows Media Are Frightened Of Bush
NEW YORK Richard Cohen, in his Thursday column for The Washington Post, lets readers know right at the outset that he has been known as "a funny guy" since way back in elementary school.
So they should listen up when he weighs in on the controversy surrounding Stephen Colbert's routine at he White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday by declaring that Colbert was "not funny." In fact, he was "lame and insulting."
Then Cohen, who watched the event on TV, goes on to assert:
--Colbert was "rude." He took advantage of President Bush's "sense of decorum" and "civility" that kept the president from "rising in a huff and leaving."
--Actually, Colbert was "more than rude. He was a bully."
--Colbert used a "mixed metaphor" in suggesting that the administration has been "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenberg."
--He showed no courage because in this country when you openly criticize the president you don't get tossed "into a dungeon" or lose your job.
--Self-mockery (presumably as displayed by Bush on Saturday) "can be funny" but mockery "that is insulting is not."
--Colbert, rather than illuminating the president and the Washington insiders, merely played to the "like-minded" while "alienating all the others."
If that's not enough, Cohen also took a shot at the White House Correspondents Assocation, claiming that if presidents stopped attending their gala dinners, "the organization would have to transform itself into a burial association."
With Cohen coming out of the closet as a self-professed funny man, perhaps he will now claim that he only joking when he famously wrote, a little more than three years ago, that Iraq "without a doubt" had weapons of destruction, adding. "Only a fool -- or possibly a Frenchman -- could conclude otherwise."
With all this criticism of Colbert, Lou Dobbs claims that maybe the liberal media bias is to blame of why Colbert is not getting more criticism. It makes as much sense as
most of the media complaining about liberal media bias.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200605030008