Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert's biting routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished.
"Colbert crossed the line," said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.
"I've been there before, and I can see that he is [angry]," said a former top aide. "He's got that look that he's ready to blow."
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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Skewering comedy skit angers Bush and aides
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I wonder if they realize that Colbert's 'routine' was not a comedy routine. From my point of view, he was being a dead-pan serious has you can get. There's a fine line between being bitterly cynical and being funny, and Colbert is a master of understanding that line.
Yeah, I agree. He wasn't playing to be funny. He is smart enough to know that many people in the room would feel uncomfortable, which, as you say, was the goal. Hell, even I felt uncomfortable the way I did when Stewart went on Crossfire. But some things need to be said.
Anyway, this group has a strange sense of humor, as long as the joke isn't on them. This group laughed at the "DC is the chocolate city with the vanilla center" joke and guffawed hartily when Bush last year did his "looking for the missing WMDs" skit. Ha Ha. That wasn't funny at all. Here he is making a joke about the rationalization for war. The press for the most part are insulated thin-skinned babies who are so in love with their positions and proximity to power that they have lost all perspective.
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