Yes it's the speech that has gone around the world via email.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias
And did you see that Colbert thanked Bill Kristol for helping him write the address? I personally got 7 emails with links to the ifilm's compendium of Colbert's little gig at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. And someone very dear to me has fallen in love with Colbert and his young dshing looks.
Here are various blog entries on the subject.
Mike the Mad Biologist and comments on Richard Cohen's OpEd (another comment on Pharyngula)
Dispatches From the Culture Wars
Strange Fruit I and II (with a nice photo of the Hindenburg)
Compendium of Colbert related articles and Posts at the Huffington Post
Daily Kos: Why they didn't laugh
NY Times on Blogs and the Colbert Speech
From BloggersBlog the number of blog entries (in the blogosphere) on Colbert:
BTW my favorite of all clips from the Colbert Report came from interviewee Richard Clark. He told Colbert that according to Rumsfeld these are the old and new terms:
old: War On Terror
new: GWOT (Global War On Terror)
old: insurgents
new: ELGI (Enemies of the Legitimate Government of Iraq)
In other words, we will only win GWOT once the ELGIs are defeated.
It's simply amazing to have a middle-aged Catholic satirist/comedy writer from Charleston, South Carolina rise to the occasion like no one else in the White House Press Corps could over the last 5 1/2 yrs; that is, with the exception of Helen Thomas.
If you hear when this will be out on DVD, let me know. Colbert's speech and skit are going in my daughter's collection of American history from her childhood.
It tickles me that I wrote a blog post last month titled Reality is liberal. Such good company to be in!
'reality has a well known liberal bias'
*snort*
I'd bother to point out the conflicts between leftism and reality, but it'd fall on closed-off deaf ears.
This kind of misses the point, don't you think? It's mocking the tendency to brush off uncomfortable facts by attacking the 'liberal media' presenting them. In other times or places, you could replace 'liberal' with 'right wing' and it would still be funny.
Colbert is really genius. I have his show on permanent Tivo. The most amazing thing about him is that he can hold his character through some great moments. I was shocked that he was invited to give the speech 'in character' as his character is a Bush/Media mocking machine. He calls O'Riley 'Papa Bear', brilliant.
What is also funny is that the speech does not go over well in the room he is in. This is the media that reports on the president. They laugh at a lot of weak jokes by Dumbya but they cringe through Colbert's speech. Sounds like liberal bias to me (that is sarcasm).
IndianCowboy,
If you can't laugh at yourself, or take criticism badly, perhaps deep down it's because those jokes/criticisms ring true.
Acme, I ditched the Republican Party (and conservatism) before I was old enough to vote. *shrug*