well what do you expect when the vice president is on the senate floor telling people to go **** themselves? the discourse in this country has really gone down the toilet since the "uniter not a divider" took over.
You do realize he doesn't write his own stuff, right? He has a team of writers who write most of his stuff.
I believe that that was a private conversation that was overheard. He didn't say any such thing from a podium, with a mic, in front of an audience.
Actually he does write a significant portion of his own stuff. Yes, he does have writers, and it is a different medium than the playwrites and author I mentioned. But he does do highly effective social/political satire, that might offend or upset the powers that be.
If anyone didn't get to see this, here's a link to the 60 minutes interview with Colbert. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Did Colbert really warrant an 11 page debate ? You either thought it was funny or you didnt. If you didnt ( for the most part) it is because you are a Republican.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/28.html#a8079 click the link to watch colbert "nail" project for a new american century stooge william krystal. pretty funny stuff.
its weird how nobody likes the video or thinks its funny, but its the most Downloaded video on google.
What struck me about that interview was how much our own Hayestreet's views and arguments sound just like William Krystal's down to the particular criticism of the current Admin.. Hayes you're not William Krystal are you? No wonder you couldn't make it to lunch at Yao's..
Number one with a bullet... (May 22) -- The after-dinner speech that refuses to go away has scored another distinction: top of the charts. An audio version of the roast of President Bush by Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central rose to the rank of No. 1 album at Apple's iTunes store on Saturday, three weeks to the night of the White House Correspondents Dinner. http://news.aol.com/entertainment/t...peech-remains-a-favorite/20060522072809990001
Don't mention the war (or bash Bush) Look, we realize that the White House Correspondents Association dinner is a "fun" event, and it would be nice, in theory, to free it from the shackles of the supposed adversarial relationship between the press corps and the president it covers. But sometimes, life and art imitate each other just a little too closely. When we saw earlier this week that the WHCA had chosen Rich Little -- who we used to watch imitate Richard Nixon and Bob Hope on Johnny Carson in the early 1970s, if we were allowed to stay up that late -- to follow last year's ruckus over in-your-face funny Stephen Colbert as the main entertainer, we were willing to let it go. But then we read this (huge h/t to occasional reader Phoenix Woman). The cowardice of these people -- who sat there on mute for months while the president made plans to start a war under false pretenses -- is astounding. Little now says he has an understanding not to bash Bush or mention the war: Little said organizers of the event made it clear they don't want a repeat of last year's controversial appearance by Stephen Colbert, whose searing satire of President Bush and the White House press corps fell flat and apparently touched too many nerves. "They got a lot of letters," Little said Tuesday. "I won't even mention the word 'Iraq.'" Little, who hasn't been to the White House since he was a favorite of the Reagan administration, said he'll stick with his usual schtick -- the impersonations of the past six presidents. "They don't want anyone knocking the president. He's really over the coals right now, and he's worried about his legacy," added Little, a longtime Las Vegas resident. OK, free speech means you also have a right NOT to say anything or criticize anybody. But for the White House press corps to instruct Little not to "knock" the president smacks of a kind of censorship, from the very people that we've placed in the front line trenches of free speech. We won't belabor the point, because it's too obvious, but America desperately needs a press corps that's more eager to offend the White House, not less eager. It was funny when Basil Fawlty said "don't mention the war." We're not laughing now. http://www.attytood.com/2007/01/dont_mention_the_war.html
