US News: Skewering comedy skit angers Bush and aides

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060501/1whwatch.htm

Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert's biting routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished.

"Colbert crossed the line," said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.

"I've been there before, and I can see that he is ," said a former top aide. "He's got that look that he's ready to blow."

Colbert's routine was similar to what he does on his show, the Colbert Report, but much longer on the topic of Bush, suggesting that the president is out of touch with reality. Aides and reporters, however, said that it did not overshadow Bush's own funny routine, which featured an impersonator who told the audience what Bush was thinking when he spoke dull speech lines.

In fact, some aides crowed over reports that the president easily bested Colbert in the reviews of both comedy acts.

:nopity:

[adigal]

1. Bush's preemptive war and lies

anger Americans.

[DS1]

2. Since when do men of God let themselves get to a point where they're

"About to blow", and if everything he did was right, what could a man possibly say to him that would anger him in the first place?

/implied

[ComerPerro]

34. Very interesting point

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. Boohoo...for the first time in 6 years someone had the balls to tell

the truth to your faces asshates. cry me a river.

:nopity:

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. That's exactly how I feel about it.

Someone laughed at the Emperor's New Clothes. Someone should have done this 4 year's ago.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

14. oh the horror! won't someone think of the children...

how dare you point out the king is naked!

:rofl:

[rkc3]

11. "The performance was 'ballsilicious'." - Jon Stewart, 5/1/06

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

15. the best description yet

:thumbsup:

[swimboy]

22. I'm with you, man!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1071121&mesg_id=1071121

Did you hear Colbert later say, of shaking hands with the idiot-in-chief, "he has such soft hands. He must wear gloves when he's clearing all that brush."


Make them squirm.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

28. That was on his show last night

good stuff

:hi:

[Cronus Protagonist]

26. Yup, Colbert's gonads are HUGH!

No doubt about it.



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[MadAsHellNewYorker]

29. heh

:rofl:

[Puglover]

4. LOL...

too fucking bad for little lord pissypants....

:rofl:

[Rose Siding]

5. Oh bravo: Clown in Chief

That's what we all look for in a world leader

[BlooInBloo]

I guess the only thing to say to that is: So?

The only people who are bigger fools than those who used to be scared of gw are those who are STILL scared of gw.

[redqueen]

6. So not suprising...

that they would desperately cling to comedic value, while dismissing outright the damage they've done to this country.

Is 'traitor' too strong a word?

[BurtWorm]

7. "*reports* that the president easily bested Colbert?!"

:wtf:

[Protagoras]

8. Wow imagine that...Bush Aides talked up Bush and talked down

the person who skewered Bush...will wonders never cease?

[blm]

12. They did that after the debates, what does it say about their integrity?

That they deal ONLY in protecting BushInc at the EXPENSE of the truth and the expense of this country.

[xultar]

9. That is what not allowing criticism does to an asshole. I don't thing SC

was that devastating. Colbert really didn't say anything that we haven't already said.

BUT.

Bush has never had to hear criticism. Bush has been protected from hearing the truth. So, when he heard the truth for the first time it stung like a sonofabitch.

Funny thing is our thief in chief is a wimpy ass girly man basically. He can't take any heat.

The leader of what used to be the most admired and strongest nation in the country is a fuckin wimp ass.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. This Is Also Hitting over at Raw Story.

Bout time it made it across the internet.

[Ravy]

16. Impersonator who told the audience what Bush was thinking????

Wouldn't a better person for that be a mime?????

[Lisa]

21. Heh! Good!

Actually, I'm thinking that this "Bush's inner voice" thing might backfire. The skit basically proclaimed that he is insincere and can't be trusted ... and I really hope that everybody who saw it will be wondering from now on, "what is he really thinking?", whenever he pretends to make nice, or utters platitude-laden speeches.

[DearAbby]

17. Mien Gott, Der Furher was visibly angry...

...and when Mr. Bigglesworth gets angry....PEOPLE DIE!


Too bad that little snarky snip is true...PEOPLE ARE DYING, and no one is reporting it.

Colbert, just called you on it. Take your medicine. When the press is afraid of angering Lord Pissypants... Jaysus, what a bunch of weenies.

[Johonny]

18. Out of touch

The presidents bit WAS funny IF the very image of him on your TV set doesn't make you ill. However for ~60+ % of the country it does. So while the aides and MSM chuckled away most Americans looked away cause they don't find Bush funny. They dislike him. The aides are simply part of the backwash.

Colbert on the other hand told the president exactly what most of the country is thinking, to his face, in a style that was infact a bitter praise of him. This was a Andy Kaufman type of routine where the joke was on the audience. It's more funny the less the audience laughs to those in on the joke.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

19. Boo frickin hoo to Chimpy and all the other asshats in

the White House. :nopity: :nopity:

What a bunch of "girlie men". They get their knickers in a twist when confronted with reality.

Oh but I forgot, "reality has a liberal bias."

[July]

20. Right, it was over the line.

But there have never been ANY limits on what could be said by comedians, newspeople, "pundits," Republican members of Congress, and right wing gasbags about not only Bill but also Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Waaah, waaah, waaah, Mr. I'm Humble himself can't bear criticism.

[chookie]

23. Eat it, George, Karl and Pickles

You've had that coming to you since 2000, you creeps. Colbert wiped your noses in your slime trail.

[stanwyck]

24. The Bushies don't know when to shut up

they're making it worse. They're looking even older and stuffier and more Grandpa than ever.
Bush should have sucked it up and laughed. Then embraced Colbert. Clinton would have.
But, then, Clinton is not a spoiled rich brat who grew up having everything handed to him.
Bush doesn't have the fortitude.
And yet he dared to pretend to be a warrior and land on the carrier in a flight jacket.
What a poser.

[deaniac21]

25. In fact when Imus did something similar to Clinton at the same

dinner Bill and Hillary invited him to stay overnight at the Whitehouse!

[Neil Lisst]

27. It wasn't BUSH who was funny, but his impersonator.

How sad that the president's lackey's have to get out a story to shore up Bush's bruised ego.

What a loser! 32% George. It means no one who thinks thinks you're doing a good job!

[heartofthesiskiyou]

30. Here's one the very few things I've ever agreed with the backwashers

It was funny, seeing two Bush's the ego and alter ego skit. Fumbling words and white bald guy jokes. All that was significantly funnier. There wasn't much you could call funny in the Colbert section. That stuff was as serious as a heart attack. Fact is I didn't see Colbert laugh one time when he delivered it. Nothing but serious shit as far as I could see.

It is in fact a sad day in America when it takes a comedian to wipe those smirks off their faces IMHO.

[SPKrazy]

36. Colbert Is A Satirist-He Doesn't Laugh When He Delivers

and he was delivering the truth as you say

[wizdum]

31. Colbert upstaged dubya (bigtime!) and that's a fact Jack. That's why ...

...there is so much complaining and wringing of hands at Bushco. Next year the (p)resident in chief and the cowardly mainstream media corp should hold the White House correspondence dinner at the Palestine Hotel in Central Baghdad. Then we'll see if they have anything to laugh about. Dubya is treasonous bastard.

[TexasLawyer]

32. Magazines, tabloids, papers, pundits:

keep the articles coming. The sheeple need to know of the balls-o-licious feats of Sir Colbert.

[fishwax]

33. where is this "line" I wonder

When Carter offered very measured criticism of bush in the past, we heard that he "crossed a line." When kanye west said "bush doesn't care about black people," I remember hearing that he'd crossed some sort of line. Criticize the president during war time? You better believe that crossed a line.
Stephen Colbert makes fun of the president at an event specifically designed to poke fun at the president? I guessed he crossed a line.

This line gets crossed any time bush gets criticized, it seems to me.

So when, exactly, is it permissible to tell the truth about the president?

Or is being honest about his administration and the effects of his decision automatically crossing the line?

Bah!

[marions ghost]

35. he's ready to blow...

...blow up Iran it seems.

I could see that being payback in his twisted mind...