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May 1st, 2006

Stephen Colbert: The Last Third Is Usually Backwash

Stephen Colbert delivered his show the other night at the White House Correspondent Dinner. Being that he has already captured the admiration and imagination of the 18 - 34 demographic, I think it’s safe to say that with this speech, Colbert is giving Pappa Bear O’Reilly a run for his money in the numbed, geriatric demographic.

My favorite moment:

Most of all, I believe in this president. Now I know there are some polls out there saying that this man has a 32% approval rating, but guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in “reality.”

And reality has a well known liberal bias.

So Mr. President, please, please, pay no attention to the people that say that the glass is half-full.

32% means the glass… heh… (looking directly at the president) it’s important to set up your jokes properly, sir. Sir, pay no attention to the people that say that the glass is half-empty.

Because, 32% means it’s two-thirds empty… There’s still some liquid in that glass is my point… But I wouldn’t drink it… The last third is usually backwash, okay…

Unbelievably unflappable.

UPDATE: The mainstream media isn’t covering this event at all. Chris Durang:

…Stephen Colbert was the star attraction at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night, and his performance was thrilling or insulting or uncomfortable, depending on your point of view. Apparently, according to Editor and Publisher.com, President and Mrs. Bush looked very uncomfortable, and quickly left right afterward.

But the mainstream media is apparently ignoring this part of the evening, and instead is covering the early entertainment where Bush and a look-alike imitator do a “he says this, he’s really thinking this” routine. Moderately amusing, but very mild.

This, by the way, is the same Washington event where Bush previously charmed many (and horrified others) by pretending to have trouble finding Weapons of Mass Destruction (after we’d started to realize they weren’t in Iraq), and wandered the room looking under tables. Really cute, huh? They should send videos of that to the families of soldiers killed…

Tags: activism, approval rating, Bill OReilly, funny, George Bush, politics, righteous, satire, Stephen Colbert, video.

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1 darkmoon May 1st, 2006 at 1:04 pm

I had another crazy but brilliant idea. You know that saying how a great leader is usually one that doesn’t want to be the leader?

I think that we should start a write-in campaign. Screw Democrats and Republicans. Stewart/Colbert for 2008!

If they won, I would be so amused. Seriously. And politicians would quake in their boots for pissing off America. Ahh… We should totally do this.
2 Sean Coon May 1st, 2006 at 1:08 pm

let’s set up a blog. seriously, that’s brilliant. if you can set up a wordpress.com blog, i’ll pull together the stewart/colbert identity for the theme.

wanna do it?
3 darkmoon May 1st, 2006 at 1:35 pm

Sure. I don’t have bandwidth on my site though. But I can do the setup. Maybe we can get some cheap hosting somewhere. I wonder if Comedy Central would be interested. Hahaha. Even as a joke, it’d be hilarious. And truthfully, I believe our age group probably watches more Jon Stewart than CSPAN. haha.
4 Sean Coon May 1st, 2006 at 1:38 pm

wordpress.com is like blogspot; no hosting investment necessary. get it working, i’ll make it pretty (damn funny)!
5 darkmoon May 1st, 2006 at 1:40 pm

Oh right. the hosted one. :p You still need to send me an e-mail or something so I have some contact info offline. haha. I’ll let you know.
6 darkmoon May 1st, 2006 at 1:47 pm

Need an email to add you as an administrator. But stewartcolbert2008.wordpress.com. Haha.
7 Sean Coon May 1st, 2006 at 1:49 pm

i just sent it to your account. sweet! now i get to play! ;-)
8 Che Jun 1st, 2006 at 12:56 pm

Great Idea!

We’ll donate the site hosting and donate the url (stewartcolbert2008.com or .org, maybe?)…

Excellent!

~ Che
9 retro Nov 20th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

Colbert for President! I love the guy and even though he’s wacky and wierd, he’d be better than any of the other candidates.