[B]I apologize if this has been posted on here already, but this is well worth a multiple post.

[URL="http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/Colbert+roasts+Bush/1686945/"]Stephen Colbert is a God![/URL][/B]

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That's a riot. I realize it's a roast and he's supposed to poke fun, but that dude has balls of steel -- he was taking some pretty big cuts.

I'm stunned they asked him to do the roast -- he rails on Bush every night. Good for him for staying true to what he does, though...

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Might I add, I think Colbert definitely crossed the line as to what is acceptable conduct at such an event. On the other hand, I think Bush crossed the line as to what is acceptable conduct of a President a long, long time ago. Cobert's poking fun of him pales in comparison to the things that have happened on Bush's watch, IMO...

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I didn't know Colbert before I saw the roast, but damn damn damn that guy is fantastic. Of course leveling Bush like that is gold, but I loved the fact that he was honest and fair enough to make the press and others look like morons too. Just picking on the administration would've been too easy and quite lame too since the press (amongst other stake holders) has a responsability in the events during the past six years or so...

Quite remarkable to see a guy making a speech like that on an event like the CD while the president is even in the same room. And in the US of all places... Really surprised me! In Belgium we have a stand up comedian who has a show during the holidays reviewing the events of the past year and taking a piss on politicians as well as on the royal family. But it's not as hard as Colbert's speech and the people he targets rarely are sitting in the theater...

@ toasty: he might've crossed a certain line of decency (I was sometimes like: "did he just say what I think he said???"), but Bush had a thing like this coming. I think it's great it happened during such an event and with him present. Although I think he didn't get 10% of the jokes judging from his face (or maybe he just got botoxed in the morning).

Colbert for president :p

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After I saw a show or two of him I thought he was an idiot then his humor started to sink in. Like previous posts say "He has balls"

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[quote=rbuffetta]After I saw a show or two of him I thought he was an idiot then his humor started to sink in. Like previous posts say "He has balls"[/quote]

That's what I like about him. The way he says it, is quite subtle. What he says is sharp as a razor blade.

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[QUOTE=KinKyJ]@ toasty: he might've crossed a certain line of decency (I was sometimes like: "did he just say what I think he said???"), but Bush had a thing like this coming.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I couldn't agree more. In the world of evil deeds, taking arguably unfair advantage of an invitation to roast the president to offer some really stinging criticism isn't even on the same page as Bush's actions over the last 6 years. Besides, Bush is a politician -- he should have a pretty thick skin about people critiquing him...

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[B]Something to add to the hilarity.

[URL="http://www.devilducky.com/media/45151/"]http://www.devilducky.com/media/45151/[/URL][/B]

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Colbert is hilarious and his show "the colbert report" keeps me laughing all the time! I love it when he runs out to interview his guest.

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You know, as some time has passed since Colbert's speech, it has been interesting to see how it has been reported. Initially, it really wasn't reported at all -- perhaps because he skewers the press as much as the President. The President of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, is mocked by a guy standing 10 feet from him, and no one would have known about it except for the dorks that watch the White House Correspondents' Dinner on C-SPAN were it not for the internet. Only after people began forwarding it, posting it, talking about it online did the mainstream media determine that it couldn't credibly ignore it anymore.

Only time will tell, of course, but history might look back on this as a significant milestone in ushering in an era when the mainstream media lost the ability to tell the public what is and is not newsworthy, and the internet gained strength as a viable news source. I'm probably overstating it (but I'm not feeling much like working today, so bear with me), but the point is that this got out into the mainstream despite the fact that it wasn't really covered by any of the major media outlets. Word of mouth forced the networks to discuss it. Pretty amazing, IMO.

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[quote=toasty]You know, as some time has passed since Colbert's speech, it has been interesting to see how it has been reported. Initially, it really wasn't reported at all -- perhaps because he skewers the press as much as the President. The President of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, is mocked by a guy standing 10 feet from him, and no one would have known about it except for the dorks that watch the White House Correspondents' Dinner on C-SPAN were it not for the internet. Only after people began forwarding it, posting it, talking about it online did the mainstream media determine that it couldn't credibly ignore it anymore.

Only time will tell, of course, but history might look back on this as a significant milestone in ushering in an era when the mainstream media lost the ability to tell the public what is and is not newsworthy, and the internet gained strength as a viable news source. I'm probably overstating it (but I'm not feeling much like working today, so bear with me), but the point is that this got out into the mainstream despite the fact that it wasn't really covered by any of the major media outlets. Word of mouth forced the networks to discuss it. Pretty amazing, IMO.[/quote] You're not overstating it at all imo. I've been following the internet as a mass medium for some years now (wrote my thesis on the impact of internet journalism on media and society, buy my book: [URL="http://www.webjournalistiek.be/boek/index.php"]click[/URL] :p) and this trend has been going on for some time now.

During the war in Bosnia for instance, the only objective and impartial information coming from the area was being spread by journalists via internet. Nowadays you see the same thing happening: in Iraq and China for instance, people are letting the world know what's going on by publishing their experiences on blogs...

We're way past the point that the internet was nothing but a porn vault and a playground for shady entrepreneurs with a lot of buzzwords. And that's a good thing: it's the first truely democratic mass medium. Anyone can be a broadcaster and send his message to a worldwide audience with nothing more than a PC and a connection... So yeah, the "classic" mass media have lost their monopoly as gatekeeper. Finally!

Btw: another aftermath article: [URL="http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=49129&provider=top"]http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=49129&provider=top[/URL]