If Bush can be allowed to kill people, why shouldn't Stephen Colbert be allowed to be funny?
Celebrity pundits are on their way out
Gene Lyons
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
In my experience, there’s no bigger bunch of crybabies in American public life than the fops and courtiers of our Washington press corps. If Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner did nothing else, it surely proved that.
Two years ago, the same crowd guffawed at a White House video depicting that playful scamp, George W. Bush, searching the Oval Office for Iraq’s missing weapons of mass destruction. Yet they were offended to hear Colbert, doing his dead-on impersonation of an adoring FOX News pundit, telling Bush, “I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.”
Faking phony sincerity is hard. Yet Colbert remained in character throughout. “I stand for this man,” he declared, “because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things, things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world.”
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Gene Lyons
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
In my experience, there’s no bigger bunch of crybabies in American public life than the fops and courtiers of our Washington press corps. If Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner did nothing else, it surely proved that.
Two years ago, the same crowd guffawed at a White House video depicting that playful scamp, George W. Bush, searching the Oval Office for Iraq’s missing weapons of mass destruction. Yet they were offended to hear Colbert, doing his dead-on impersonation of an adoring FOX News pundit, telling Bush, “I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.”
Faking phony sincerity is hard. Yet Colbert remained in character throughout. “I stand for this man,” he declared, “because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things, things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world.”
(The rest is here.)
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