The Colbert Blackout

The traditional media's first reaction to satirist Stephen Colbert's uncomfortably harsh mockery of President Bush and the press corps at Saturday night's White House Correspondents Association dinner was largely to ignore it.

Instead, the coverage primarily focused on the much safer, self-deprecatory routine in which Bush humorously paired up with an impersonator playing his inner self.

The result, however, was a wave of indignation from ... Full Story »

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Judith Davidsen
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by Judith Davidsen - Oct. 1, 2008

1. Somethingin graph 3 seems dismissive of the liberal side of the blogosphere. 2. The quote of Moraes makes it sound as though Jon Stewart thinks Colbert was stupid. Full disclosure, I think the media should be taken out and shot for the way it collapsed in front of this administration, BUT Colbert's performance really was lazy.

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