Stephen Colbert, ballsiest man alive.

[erica_z]

not a whisper of the whole event is available on any of the news sites online. None! (with the exception of a couple smaller sites...) CNN and a couple of others just highlighted the part where Bush did the routine with a look-alike.

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/..._id=1002425363

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/200...N5bnN1YmNhdA--

[MassLiberal]

Yeah, the press wasn't to happy about essentially being told that they are the real reason that everything is so out of control.

[Will]

Can anyone find the W look-a-like sketch (conducted by W himself)? Don't know if it was filmed or not...

Here you go:

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchiv...residents.html

[Knight]

http://www.thankyoustephencolbert.org/

[edg]

Here you go:

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchiv...residents.html

Thanks Will.

I thought that was more humorous than the Colbert sketch, but diminutio is a poor man's humor.

edg

[cj001f]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...041100879.html

[freshies]

awesome, simply awesome, but also sad that a comedian has to be the one to point out the obvious failures of the mainstream press and the shear ineptness of this administration. sweet.

[Turbo Honkey]

not a whisper of the whole event is available on any of the news sites online. None! (with the exception of a couple smaller sites...) CNN and a couple of others just highlighted the part where Bush did the routine with a look-alike.

This is one of those instances where the net trumps big media. I've gotten 3 e-mails with links to Colbert Speech today.

[Hutch]

"Everyone knows that reality has a known liberal bias."

[L7]

I (he) kind of lost it as his press secretary fantasy dragged on a bit too long. Hearing how uncomfortable people sounded when he spoke I can only imagine how much quiet seat shuffling went on during that. Great shots at them all though. Just backed away enough for someone to not quite rush the stage and yank him.

[El Chupacabra]

This was pure brilliance.

He won't get invited back. Ever.

[DocDuke]

Yes, I find it pretty funny that Comedy Central has the most esteemed newsmen in the country. (I know, it's a stretch, but I'll take it)

Jena, Germany: I was wondering if you could comment on the impact of Jon Stewart's Daily Show and the Colbert Report to journalists. In my opinion, The Daily Show and more recently the Colbert Report have started substantively "out perform" real journalists on holding guests to actual facts It seems on the cable networks, guest have a carte blanche in respective to their "truthiness", yet on Comedy Central, I feel, both shows offer a higher degree of veracity to the facts and intellectual honesty. Is it just me?
Howard Kurtz: No, you've got plenty of company. Of course, these shows have the freedom to make stuff up, be insulting, put fake reporters in front of green screens and pretend they're in Iraq, etc. But they certainly do a great job of nailing hypocrisy in ways that much of the MSM doesn't even attempt.

I got this off poynter.org, a journalist website. Granted this is just from an online chat BUT...


You know something is fucked up with mass media when an esteemed Washington Post columnist agrees with this sentiment

[summit]

As good as John Stewart on Crossfire calling them out.

[Samwich]

As good as John Stewart on Crossfire calling them out.

Heh.

"You're what? 35? And you still wear a bow tie?"

[Woodsy]

those vid liinks work like a AKPM porn try.

[mixedclimber]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...83917758574879

with links to other part of the dinner

and I didn't think that Helen Thomas clip was that funny untill the last shot where Helen Thomas was laughing really hard at the clip which made it subtantlay better

.

[Woodsy]

C-Span Asks Web Sites to Pull Colbert Clip By NATASHA T. METZLER, Associated Press Writer
Mon May 8, 8:56 PM ET



WASHINGTON - Political comedy often is intended to stir controversy, but this doesn't usually involve broadcasting rights and the public affairs network C-SPAN.


The cable network asked two Internet video providers, YouTube and IFILM, to pull clips of Stephen Colbert's April 29 performance at the White House Correspondents Association dinner from their Web sites.

C-SPAN said it contacted the companies because the copyrighted material was posted online without its permission.

Both YouTube and IFILM complied with the request.

Colbert hosts a satirical current events show on Comedy Central and performed his comedy routine at the correspondent's dinner.

YouTube posted the Colbert video shortly after the dinner ended and received the letter to remove it May 3, according to Julie Supan, senior director of marketing. The Colbert video was viewed 2.7 million times in less than 48 hours, she said.

"Our community was really passionate about it," Supan said.

After removing the video, YouTube received a large number of e-mails asking about the missing clip, Supan said. A misconception that C-SPAN is funded by the government led viewers to complain that the Colbert video should be in the public domain, Supan said.

IFILM declined to comment.

C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit company and holds the copyright on the entire correspondent's dinner.

On May 5, two days after YouTube received C-SPAN's letter, the Colbert video was publicly available through an agreement with Google Video.

Google had been talking with C-SPAN about a partnership before the dinner, according to Jennifer Feikin, director of video and multimedia search partnerships.

C-SPAN said it chose Google as a partner because it agreed to post video of the entire dinner, and to include a link to C-SPAN's Web site.

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On the Net:

Google video of correspondent's dinner: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...17448770513925

C-SPAN: http://cspan.org

[willywhit]

http://decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

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