Two weeks ago Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central fame was the guest satirist at the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner. President Bush was there also, and he took part in a funny skit with impersonator Steve Bridges. That skit was covered on every major network news channel. What those same networks did not cover was the best 24 minutes of television so far this year, that is, Stephen Colbert’s fantastic satire of Bill O’Reilly and Fox News’s common fawning on the President.
For 24 minutes, with President Bush effectively a captive member of his audience, our hero delivered blistering criticism of the President, the White House staff, the Press Corps, the mainstream news media, Fox News, and even a Supreme Court Justice or two. It is the best 24 minutes of television this calendar year, at least so far. All captured on C-SPAN’s excellent cameras with your tax dollars. You have a right to see this footage, and you want to – trust me. It is sad that the powers that be have already pushed google and youtube to remove their copies that were posted early on.
Democracy Now has a transcript, and there are copies of the video floating around C-SPAN and Google sites.
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