i don't get it

Many on the otherside of the blogosphere have cited that Colbert's monologue was highly panned and inappropriate because it was outright insulting the President and offending him by hitting well below the belt.

Mind you, he took the stage right after Bush's own self-effacing skit with the clone in which he not only made fun of his disdain for the press but there were a couple of very uncomfortable minutes, in my opinion, talking about a drunken VP shooting people. Me, personally, never saw any of this as funny.

Colbert is satire literally personified and he did his job as advertised (*cough*). If the President and his aides are offended by Colbert's appearance, perhaps they should reevaluate how he offended not only the American public, but all the families of dead servicemen and women when he did a video skit of him looking behind drapes and under desk for those "pesky WMD's". Ha-Ha HELL.

And as for the lefties bouncing around in perpetual SQUEE over this past Saturday's events… Hey, we have to get our jollies where we can find them nowadays.

It was fantastic. Full of the truth. Obviously the audience who was being criticized by Colbert would not laugh! Tough crowd, but it took a lot of balls to say what he did. It's even funnier when you read the transcript. It's disturbing how many of the mainstream media outlets glossed over his performance, or didn't even mention it.

I loved his bit "Jesse Jackson is here, the Reverend. Haven't heard from the Reverend in a little while. I had him on the show. Very interesting and challenging interview. You can ask him anything, but he's going to say what he wants, at the pace that he wants. It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is."

Transcript can be found here: http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811

Colbert is brilliant. Even though I've seen him funnier, much funnier, it's not surprising at all that the many members of the media didn't like his routine. The fact is, he satirizes the sound-bite- shouting media know-it-alls, many of whom were sitting in the audience. Therefore, I don't really give a whiff what Chris Matthews at Hardball or any of these other self-important media pundits think about Colbert. He's so funny because they've grown so ridiculous.

People have been "polite" around George Bush all his life — he's the son of a president and the grandson of a Senator. He needs an earful more often. Might do him good. Might do the country good.

Colbert is my hero.

Colbert is a true Patriot.

Genuis!!!

I can't believe people are shocked that Stephen Colbert delivered exactly what his fans - which certainly includes a majority of the Press Corp - expected him to deliver! The press corp deserves the Stephen Colbert "Big Brass Balls" award for inviting him, and then Mr. Colbert himself deserves the new "Super Shiny Cha-Chas" award for getting in there and doing the right thing!
This was not his best or funniest speech, but I give Stephen Colbert MAJOR Props for delivering the goods directly under the confused and very slowly increasingly more irritated gaze of the W.

Watching that sour expression pucker more deeply by the second? Priceless!

an act of bravery, a stroke of genius, and hilarious.
hats off.

Brilliant, but probably went over Bush's head. Barbara had to read the transcripts to him later!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA

I just finished watching the full Stephen Colbert portion of the Washington News Correspondence Cotillion. Journalists in America should stand in line to ask this man for his autograph. He did what they won't do. In a bold manner, he told the truth. Mark Twain would have been proud of Mr. Colbert's use of satire.

Perhaps if more people had the anatomy Mr. Colbert seems to possess, Bush would not have been re-elected and the world would be a better, safer, place. Bush is intending to stay the course. He is a self-proclaimed prophet of doom. If history could be written after the apocalypse, it would archive Stephen Colbert’s delivery of truth and he would be standing on a pile of rubble: the Bush Administration.

Brilliant, bold, and lethal. If Colbert had been able to deliver body blows this effective before Bush shepherded two catholic conservative judges to the Supreme Court, and before he started the never-ending military industrial story of America as Middle East crusader, we'd be a healthier nation; a healthier world. But the people who own bush have already moved on. They are comfortable leaving this Texas clown to suffer the withering arrows of a belatedly enlightened populace.

There are new republican clowns waiting in the wings for Act 2 of this show. Their names are Mitt Romney and George Allen. Wanna grow up to be as brave as Stephen? Skewer these two at the polls…before they skewer you.

Stephen Colbert was courageous and full of truthiness and humor. A great effort!