Ouch!

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:41 am

Stephen Colbert speaking on the White House Press Correspondent Association Dinner.

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:16 am

haha love stephen colbert

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:38 am

I guess that's whatcha get for being a public figure. At the same time, that was quite rude.

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:52 am

At the same time it was hilarious.

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:36 am

loved this

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I thought it was mostly directed at the journalists, everyone knows the problems the president has, but journalism is in a sorry state too but who's job is it to abuse them?
Watch the journos cringe

ahhh, always nice to see someone biting the hand that feeds it.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:04 pm

I think they didn't know what they did when they invited him. But then, that wasn't the first time they didn't, right?

roid wrote:ahhh, always nice to see someone biting the hand that feeds it.

I don't think that was the hand that feeds him.

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:52 pm

he was invited, he gets paid for that show. bitebite

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:36 am

'The hand that feeds you' means the instance that constantly pays for your living, not just once on a special occasion.

You also don't know whether he got paid for this speech or not.

And then it was always the jester's task to tell the king the truth in a funny way. Although this speech was painfully funny.

Sir Sam II · Post by **Sir Sam II** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:54 am

I lost some appreciation & respect for Stephen Colbert with his comments in the beginning. Sure there were some funny parts, but I still think regardless you can keep the humor & not be rude about it. It looked like he was testing the waters to see how much he could get his feet wet.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:25 pm

I don't think he just looked how far he could get. Do you really think he was just joking? This man is deeply upset and angered about Bush, his administration and the role of the media in the events in the U.S. in the past 7 or 8 years. Actually he is taking the entire audience right on, and has no respect for them - for good reason, imho.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:54 am

The whole point of the dinner is to rip into the president in a humorous way. He didn't do it \"just to see how far he could get\" (Sam) OR because he is \"deeply upset and angered about Bush\" (Diedel). He did it because it's what you're supposed to do at the aforementioned dinner.

If he was \"deeply upset and angered\" he wouldn't have been invited to speak, and I'm pretty sure he knew his limits and didn't cross them.