Colbert at WH Press Correspondents Dinner

Below is a link and copy of a recent post to Crooks and Liars.

It's easier to post in reaction to an existing framework than it is to build one afresh...anyway, for the record, here it is.



http://www.haloscan.com/comments/crooks/8104/#1015688



Yes, this was way more than just comedy.

Colbert was as direct and as cutting as the Democrats in Congress should have been from day one, and have yet to be.

Yes, it was funny and I laughed, it beats crying. The shame of this inept and corrupt administration is that many many thousands of people all over the world have died, and will likely continue to do so...all because Bush is an asshole. The contemptuous fool has no bloody idea that he's just a pawn himself.

We have to get off this Bushist path or, eventually, comedians like Colbert just might end up routinely found dead with "suicide" notes next to them.

I'm not sure it's possible to be too cynical about this bunch of "crooks and liars".

Anyway, thanks Colbert for sticking your thumb in the eye of the monster.