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Ouch!

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:41 am
by Diedel

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:16 am
by Battlebot
haha love stephen colbert

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:38 am
by snoopy
I guess that's whatcha get for being a public figure. At the same time, that was quite rude.

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:52 am
by Topher
At the same time it was hilarious.

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:36 am
by roid
loved this :).
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 :twisted:

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

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:04 pm
by Diedel
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? :P
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.

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:52 pm
by roid
he was invited, he gets paid for that show. bitebite

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:36 am
by Diedel
'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.

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:54 am
by Sir Sam II
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.

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:25 pm
by Diedel
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.

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:54 am
by Lothar
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.