Last weekend, Steven Colbert was asked to speak at the White House Correspondants Dinner, an affair that includes the entire Washington press corps, the Presdient, family, and other influential people. Whoever booked him to speak at the event had either a great sense of humor, or was looking for a way to get fired and wanted to go out with a bang.
He gave an amazing performance– roasting Bush, identifying how rediculous the administration conducts itself, and then turns the speech on various members of the press for not questioning the legitamacy of Bush’s actions. It was a brilliant display of true American free speech, right in front of the Prez (though he did look annoyed during the entire talk) This was broadcasted nationally, if not internationally on Cspan.

However, I find it amazing how little coverage this bold move got from the media, after the fact. There is little, to no ripple when Colbert just laid it out there for the general public to view. Reminds me of the little boy who exclaimed that the emperor had no clothes, except the people look at him and say, “but he said he does! Emperors don’t lie!”

Here’s a video of the performance and an article about the lack of media interest.

ps, you may not be able to watch the video anymore because the powers that be seem to have taken it off the net!

Update check this out. Turns out I wasn’t the only one who noticed it was taken off the internet!