Colbert ****** BURNS! Bush.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879
Colbert is funny, extraordinarily funny, but the cool thing is Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are both dead serious about politics, they only use comedy as a vehicle. Colbert wasn't being mean for the sake of being mean, though it might have seemed that way - Colbert was using his 30 minutes at the podium in an effort to bring issues to light that everyone else was too afraid to mention. Was he attacking the President? Yes, he was. But it wasn't to be mean. It was because it had to be done and no one else would do it. Not five feet away from the man. Not in front of everyone.
The President deserves little compassion; he feels no compassion. His politics themselves annoy me, but they're ordinary, Republican politics. The President himself bothers me--he's arrogant, cocksure. He needed to be taken down a peg, to know that America IS thinking about these things. That's what Colbert did.
The tragedy of our times is that it seems comedians are becoming our best political influences.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879
Colbert is funny, extraordinarily funny, but the cool thing is Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are both dead serious about politics, they only use comedy as a vehicle. Colbert wasn't being mean for the sake of being mean, though it might have seemed that way - Colbert was using his 30 minutes at the podium in an effort to bring issues to light that everyone else was too afraid to mention. Was he attacking the President? Yes, he was. But it wasn't to be mean. It was because it had to be done and no one else would do it. Not five feet away from the man. Not in front of everyone.
The President deserves little compassion; he feels no compassion. His politics themselves annoy me, but they're ordinary, Republican politics. The President himself bothers me--he's arrogant, cocksure. He needed to be taken down a peg, to know that America IS thinking about these things. That's what Colbert did.
The tragedy of our times is that it seems comedians are becoming our best political influences.
