OMFG, that Steve Colbert speech was fuckin hilarious

[Bill]

have you guys seen this yet? I recorded it off c-span this morning.

Colbert gave a comedy speech at the whiote house press corp awards dinner last night and he just skewered everybody.

You got to look for it.

[MeatPounder]

Here you go, in 3 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II
I love the look on Bush' face as Colbert walks infront of him back to his seat at the end

[Bill]

Link to a page with a video, about 9 meg

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104

more links

http://www.newshounds.us/2006/04/29/...re_my_hero.php

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1002425363

[Trev]

I love the Colbert Report.

[Ms Naughty]

I had no idea who this Colbert guy is, but I looked up the transcript of his speech and it's just priceless.

What's disturbing, however, is the way the mainstream media have completely glossed over what's happened, and are instead reporting about Bush's act with his impersonator, painting him as a witty guy who can take a joke.

Spin in action.

Edit: Here's an opinion piece on the media's treatment of things:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/200...N5bnN1YmNhdA--

[Linkster]

Im not really sure why this would even be news??? It happens every year and it is always a cut on whoever is the president - who is always present - and although Colbert seems to really rake him over the coals, its no more than every other years press corps party.

[krusher]

Colbert is god!

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Linkster

Im not really sure why this would even be news??? It happens every year and it is always a cut on whoever is the president - who is always present - and although Colbert seems to really rake him over the coals, its no more than every other years press corps party.

Linkster, it is news because none of the other times did the president get up and leave right after the comic relief. Most usually can laugh at themselves after, but bush didn't. He shook his hand without smile and left the room.

[MeatPounder]

Yup, news for first he did rake Bush harder then is done to the president in most years...much harder.
Second as Jim said, Bush was so pissed....you could see that painful grimace on his face from halfway through on...and that he left so abruptly afterwards.
Bush and his crowd are spinners, they want to manipulate the news exactly their way and will stoop to any low to accomplish this spin.
Hell they are constantly rewriting history to further their agenda.

Many presidents were slapped down, harder then this in the past, but never this hard at a WHITE HOUSE dinner with the president on the same dais.

Priceless!

[krusher]

I am a HUGE fan of the Colbert Report and I'm not sure they could have picked someone better. When you take any public office, you have to understand that people will criticise you even in jest. The fact that Bush cannot laugh at himself is a flaw in his character.

[tamara]

Stephen Colbert is my hero Biggest. Balls. Ever.

[MeatPounder]

Of course every single of his tax returns will now be audited, they will be monitoring all his internet activity, phone calls, credit card usage, etc from now on.

His neighbors will be interviewed by the FBI along with every public record of his life closely scrutinized...Bush and his crowd take a dim view on civil disobedience to any of their royal standing.

[Erick G]

Bush's Alter Ego.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_VK-...page=1&t=t&f=b
Very funny.

[Ms Naughty]

Now there's a website
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/

[MeatPounder]

President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution....


Far more than any predecessor, Bush has been aggressive about declaring his right to ignore vast swaths of laws -- many of which he says infringe on power he believes the Constitution assigns to him alone as the head of the executive branch or the commander in chief of the military.


Many legal scholars say they believe that Bush's theory about his own powers goes too far and that he is seizing for himself some of the law-making role of Congress and the Constitution-interpreting role of the courts.

Bush is the first president in modern history who has never vetoed a bill, giving Congress no chance to override his judgments. Instead, he has signed every bill that reached his desk, often inviting the legislation's sponsors to signing ceremonies at which he lavishes praise upon their work.
Then, after the media and the lawmakers have left the White House, Bush quietly files ''signing statements" -- official documents in which a president lays out his legal interpretation of a bill for the federal bureaucracy to follow when implementing the new law. The statements are recorded in the federal register.
In his signing statements, Bush has repeatedly asserted that the Constitution gives him the right to ignore numerous sections of the bills -- sometimes including provisions that were the subject of negotiations with Congress in order to get lawmakers to pass the bill. He has appended such statements to more than one of every 10 bills he has signed.

David Golove, a New York University law professor who specializes in executive-power issues, said Bush has cast a cloud over ''the whole idea that there is a rule of law," because no one can be certain of which laws Bush thinks are valid and which he thinks he can ignore.
''Where you have a president who is willing to declare vast quantities of the legislation that is passed during his term unconstitutional, it implies that he also thinks a very significant amount of the other laws that were already on the books before he became president are also unconstitutional," Golove said.

Defenders say the fact that Bush is reserving the right to disobey the laws does not necessarily mean he has gone on to disobey them.

''This is an attempt by the president to have the final word on his own constitutional powers, which eliminates the checks and balances that keep the country a democracy," Fein said. ''There is no way for an independent judiciary to check his assertions of power, and Congress isn't doing it, either. So this is moving us toward an unlimited executive power."

Boston Globe: Bush Challenges Hundreds of Laws