"reality has a well-known liberal bias"

[ironymaiden]

i thought Jon Stewart's visit to Crossfire was brilliant, icy truth told in a hostile environment. he has nothing on Stephen Colbert speaking directly to the president at the White House correspondents' dinner.

a landing page where you can stream the second half of the speech
a good summary article at Editor and Publisher

"This administration is soaring! Why, they're rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg." i feel like i should fly out to New York and wash his feet with my hair.


EDIT: mysticalforest has more video sources here.

Comments

[buhrger]

that's great! any idea where one could see the first half?

[ironymaiden]

i wish i knew. this was from c-span, which is a channel dedicated to broadcasting (although the term is wrong, since it's only on cable) things like sessions of congress. it's pretty much below the radar of your typical US television viewer, so i don't expect that it's up on bittorrent anywhere. i found it by accident.
i think that's the amazing thing about this performance. it wasn't done for his Comedy Central audience, but to speak directly to the White House press corps and the president. i'm curious to see the rest too. i'll see what my google-fu gets me.

[ironymaiden]

i was wrong. mysticalforest came up with more links here, although my cranky old computer doesn't like them much.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

According to your link, C-Span is going to replay it.

[buhrger]

my cranky old computer doesn't like them much
.avi files seem to be a problem here too. shall examine at work tomorrow.

[markbourne.livejournal.com]

Incredible. I wasn't certain Colbert -- as much as I enjoy his show -- had it in him. So many superb one-liners there, and you know that "Snow Job" is gonna stick.

Would so love to have been there sitting at George Clooney's table, at least for the clicking of salutory champagne glasses.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

Oh..My...God...

*rofl*

Permission to gank all and sundry for remain_awake

[ironymaiden]

yup. enjoy.