April 30, 2006

Online viewing tip.

Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert roasts W. Via Waxy.org.

As this latest Internet wildfire spreads, you can find commentary all over, and not just where you'd most expect to. In the comments at City Pages, for example; or John Rogers: "The President was upset? Good. I hope the President was sleepless with rage. At least then he'd know how most of us have been spending every night for the last three years."

Update, 5/1: W and Steve Bridges; pretty amusing, too, though not in a stand-up-n-cheer sort of way.

Update, 5/4: Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin looks into why the Colbert videos were removed from YouTube. So... here's an alternative.

Update, 5/6: Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin on how video wound up on Google Video - with CSPAN's consent.



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Posted by dwhudson at April 30, 2006 4:44 PM

Comments

Dan Froomkin has a great roundup in today's WAshington Post on the ongoing media reaction to allegations that there was an attempt to downplay Colbert's speech by giving more play to Bush's sketch with the impersonator.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/05/02/BL2006050200755_pf.html

Posted by: Matt Carter at May 2, 2006 12:51 PM

My, sometimes I think I go a little overboard with the "Shorts" around here, but that is quite a roundup on a single performance.

FWIW - and given how much commentary there is out there already on this, that's admittedly not much at all - I do think Colbert was more daring than funny, but that doesn't make his appearance - as an event - any less fascinating.

Posted by: David Hudson at May 2, 2006 1:49 PM