Link.
All I can say is:
Oh, snap.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to post the duplicate thread…
The incompetancy of the White House continues to astound. Who thought that Colbert would be a great guest to have at the White House Press Corresponent’s Dinner?
The thought of the WH response to that person is nearly as hilarious as Colbert’s performance. I think you can find it on CSPAN.
Come on now.
That cite is based on reality, and we all know that reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Oh, holy mother of Minnie Pearl. Both barrels. Right in the face. I swear to god, if I were Stephen Colbert, I’d be prepared to be audited.
I mean.
Damn.
This could be legendary.
Oh dear. Either someone in charge of getting the talent for this shindig pwnd the Prez, or someone in charge of the talent watched a few Colbert shows and didn’t get it.
I can hardly wait for the fallout.
Audited, I’ll bet Cheney has probably already has a cell in Gitmo picked out for Colbert. 
Oh. My. Jumping monkey JESUS. (The video in three links)
Wow, that was brilliant. One killer after another. I wonder if anyone told Bush beforehand that the Colbert character was a whoosh. He might have thought he was getting a real, true-blue supporter. I’m Glad Colbert didn’t hold back. Those were some real stingers. My favorite, though, was a shot at the press corps.
I also like the nickname “Snow-job” for Tony Snow.
While its obvious that Steven Colbert has balls the size of Utah, the picking of him to headline the event was no mistake. Even though he flayed the Pres and VP with stunning accuracy, the move allows the angry majority of the country to vicariously blow off steam without posing any real threat to the throne. That’s right, Steven Colbert has now become a live-action Dilbert figure.
The puppeteering will continue to payoff. Within two weeks, a Colbert backlash wave will crash upon the shore, causing many to start defending the President against the mean-spirited Colbert. And so, by allowing himself to be crucified publicly, Bush will gain back some lost popularity points.
PS, I thought the Presidents bit with the stand-in was mostly quite funny, but I thought it was in pretty poor taste joking about the guy who got his face shot off by our illustrious VP.
For the part where Colbert suggested that McClellan wanted to spend more time with <some other guy>'s children. Who was the <some other guy>?
Andy Card, the recently departed WH chief of staff.
The “government that governs least” joke was fabulous, and the Helen Thomas thing (was that a Terminator homage?) was pretty funny.
This is so 2003. 
You’re saying that people who are pissed off about Iraq and gas prices will rush to the President’s side over the Stephen Colbert issue? Maybe “Colbert” will replace “gay marriage” as the theme that unites the Republican base as they solidify the GOP hold on Congress in 2006. All for the nerve of a guy being funny at a comedy dinner where he was hired to be funny. Or maybe not. Maybe this is on C-SPAN, proving no one will watch or care, Bush laughed a little, and tomorrow it’ll be overwhelmed by coverage of the immigration rally thing.
Some of this speech is recycled from the Report, by the way. The “gut” material was straight out of the first episode, and the “68% of the people approve of the job he’s not doing” is a few weeks old.
If that was their strategy, I think it will fail. But I doubt they planned it like that. It’s quite possibly they just “screwed up” (from their perspective, of course. In my view colbert was the most appropriate choice) just like they screwed up when they picked Mike “Heck of a job” Brownie for FEMA.
Thanks commasense. I should have recognized his name.
I agree that this will generate some sympathy and rally support – you can see that already in some of the comments of the video link – I am not sure that Colbert’s relentless roasting was part of a greater plan by the administration to build support. I think it could be exteremly damaging to the president’s PR to have a video of Colbert openly criticizing a policy or decision while the president sits next to him, quietly half-smiling, without disagreeing. Sure Colbert is a comedian, but he is playing the part very straight.
(I tried to keep my response focused on the video and not politics. I apologize in advance if it strays too far…)
Also, I thought the press secretary try-out started out funny, but got really weak with the Helen Thomas part. It sapped a lot of the momentum from the roasting. Of course, his presentation was over so it did not matter much.
I’m sending a link of that to everyone I know.
Can Colbert win an emmy for that?
My interpretation was it was a Generic Over-Hyped Suspenseful Movie homage, but you could be right.
In any case, I suspect the Report will be pretty good tomorrow. I can’t wait.
Screw the Emmys, give him a Pulitzer. He was upset that they snubbed him this year.
By the way, a couple of people seem to have missed that the Associated Press chose Colbert as the speaker. [I guess they were trying to make amends for not crediting him with “truthiness.”] Not the White House. This isn’t some Karl Rove “whatever this is, it must be a brilliant strategy” thing.
Justice Scalia seemed to like it.
Wow, that was something. Somebody gave him an opportunity and boy did he take it. That must have been something to be able to say those things directly to the president.
I think I detected a bit of Phil Ken Sebben during his press conference.