Common Sense

Peter Daou has links to media reports and reviews from Colbert’s performance at the White Correspondence dinner Saturday night (which I also missed, damnit).

Mash at dKos says, “Standing at the podium only a few feet from President Bush, Colbert launched an all out assault on the policies of this Administration. It was remarkable, though painful at times, to watch. It may also have been the first time that anyone has been this blunt with this President. By the end of Colbert’s routine, Bush was visibly uncomfortable. Colbert ended with a video featuring Helen Thomas repeatedly asking why we invaded Iraq. That is a question President Bush has yet to answer to the American public. I am not sure what kind of review Stephen Colbert’s performance will get in the press. One thing is however certain - his performance was important and will reverberate.”

Without watching it, I can’t really tell you whose spinning and who is being completely upfront here, but my sense is that the White House press corps doesn’t like being told just how horrible a job they are doing. So, instead of giving an actual news report on how this went, the AP and Reuters were content to underreport Colbert’s performance.

The lead weight called Objectivity that Washington’s press corps seemed to cling to tenaciously in rough seas seems to have been thrown overboard in favor of simply diving in and seeing how far down they can swim. How’s that for a metaphor?

Peter Daou has links to media reports and reviews from Colbert’s performance at the White Correspondence dinner Saturday night (which I also missed, damnit).

Mash at dKos says, “Standing at the podium only a few feet from President Bush, Colbert launched an all out assault on the policies of this Administration. It was remarkable, though painful at times, to watch. It may also have been the first time that anyone has been this blunt with this President. By the end of Colbert’s routine, Bush was visibly uncomfortable. Colbert ended with a video featuring Helen Thomas repeatedly asking why we invaded Iraq. That is a question President Bush has yet to answer to the American public. I am not sure what kind of review Stephen Colbert’s performance will get in the press. One thing is however certain - his performance was important and will reverberate.”

Without watching it, I can’t really tell you whose spinning and who is being completely upfront here, but my sense is that the White House press corps doesn’t like being told just how horrible a job they are doing. So, instead of giving an actual news report on how this went, the AP and Reuters were content to underreport Colbert’s performance.

The lead weight called Objectivity that Washington’s press corps seemed to cling to tenaciously in rough seas seems to have been thrown overboard in favor of simply diving in and seeing how far down they can swim. How’s that for a metaphor?