Steven Colbert Links
“….It’s not just that Colbert’s jokes were hitting their mark. We already know that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that the generals hate Rumsfeld, or that Fox News lists to the right. Those cracks are old and boring. What Colbert did was expose the whole official, patriotic, right-wing, press-bashing discourse as a sham, as more ‘truthiness’ than truth.”
-Michael Scherer, Salon Magazine
For any of you who don’t know, Steven Colbert took a huge dig at George Bush at a dinner he was attending the other night. The mainstream media has pretty much pretended it didn’t happen, apart from a few little pieces of info, but the blogosphere is eating it up.
[Transcript of what he said]
The Video: Part1 Part2 Part3
[Salon Article]
[Video Torrent]
... said,
May 5, 2006 at 8:48 am
youDIRTYlittleWASTER said,
May 19, 2006 at 3:32 pm
So little time trying to understand that I, trying to make a move just to stay in the game, I tried to stay awake and remember my name, but everyone is changing and I don’t feel the same