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05/01/2006

THIS is real satire - Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner

Take note, would-be satirists, THIS is how it's done.

Stephen Colbert's bit at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner (tip of the hat to Peter Caputa at PC4media, first place I saw it)

Other links of interest: Editor & Publisher's report on the event; a number of threads on Atrios -start here.

See it on YouTube.

UPDATE 5pm: Two interesting posts by Peter Daou and Chris Durang on The Huffington Report about the major media essentially ignoring the Colbert perfomance, and focusing instead on Bush's appearance at this event. I originally posted this item in awe at Colbert's masterful performance. Funny, disconcerting, uncomfortable, courageous.

But given the way the coverage has played out, I think it will have far more long term impact than perhaps even he realized as he wrote his material.

As Durang points out, before C-SPAN and blogs, many of us (myself included) wouldn't even KNOW about Colbert's performance. How important are blogs? What HAS happened to mainstream media? For a great essay on this, check out Lap Dogs of the Press by Helen Thomas in the March 27 06 issue of The Nation. Not surprising that she had a supporting role in the Colbert video.

I'll be coming back to this.

Tags: Stephen Colbert, White House Correspondent's Dinner