Were we just insulted on The Colbert Report???

[iiguns]

It is meant to remind us we can do anything if we only put our mind to it.


Or maybe they miss our 100,000 emails-per-week.

I agree!!

 

[angelatc]

better than killing people.

If the contest is merely who doesn't sink the lowest, we're already screwed.

Colbert is a comedian, and a professional who was hired to make an audience laugh. Instead, he insulted his host and the guests. It wasn't a roast, and it certainly wasn't Colbert's show - it was a dinner, and his behavior was not appropriate.

 

[votefreedomfirst]

If the contest is merely who doesn't sink the lowest, we're already screwed.

Colbert is a comedian, and a professional who was hired to make an audience laugh. Instead, he insulted his host and the guests. It wasn't a roast, and it certainly wasn't Colbert's show - it was a dinner, and his behavior was not appropriate.

That was the greatest thing Colbert has ever done, and probably will ever do. Those people are the scum of the Earth. We are way past the point of politeness. The corporate and media overlords that have ruined our country don't need your pity. They got off easy; they should be shot for treason.

 

[SnappleLlama]

I thought Colbert's speech at the White House dinner was hilarious. How could anyone have invited him and not expected him to be his usual sardonic self? He's pretty much always in character. LOL...

 

[No1ButPaul08]

It was rude.

I'm no Bush fan, and I love Colbert but that was a horrible thing to do.

Colbert is a comedian, and a professional who was hired to make an audience laugh. Instead, he insulted his host and the guests. It wasn't a roast, and it certainly wasn't Colbert's show - it was a dinner, and his behavior was not appropriate.

What wasn't appropriate was hiring him in the first place. They had no clue what Colbert was about, and that is their fault, not Colbert's. Colbert had to do what he did, otherwise he would have damaged his career. Maybe he shouldn't have accepted, but then again, that would have damaged his career. This speech is probably his most famous moment. The person to blame for this speech is Mark Smith, the man who invited Colbert without having a clue what he was about.

He was hired to make an audience laugh, and he did, just not the audience that hired him.

Time magazine TV critic James Poniewozik thought that Colbert's critics missed the point: "Colbert wasn't playing to the room, I suspect, but to the wide audience of people who would later watch on the Internet. If anything, he was playing against the room."

Stephen Colbert did his job that night, however, Mark Smith, did not. Colbert can't be blamed for this.

I thought Colbert's speech at the White House dinner was hilarious. How could anyone have invited him and not expected him to be his usual sardonic self? He's pretty much always in character. LOL...

Exactly. He would have let his fans down if he had done light hearted comedy. That simply, was not going to happen. Stephen's fans are ultimately the ones who pay him, not the President or the press, who got what they had coming.

 

[speciallyblend]

i hear you

Why won't he support candidates that are running against Republican incumbents...?

i actually called the hq on this,when i heard some things in colorado. It was politics, he has to deal with these folks on the house etc,so he said he wouldn't campaign against incumbents,but that doesn't mean we can't

 

[SeanEdwards]

Uh, the Colbert of the Colbert report is a character. A fictional representation of Bill O'Reilly, multiplied by Sean Hannity and raised to the power of Rush Limbaugh. Colbert himself has described his fictional character as a well-meaning, sincere idiot. Anything that the Colbert character says on the show, can pretty much be interpreted as something the real-person Colbert finds absurd.

Would an amplified Bill O'Reilly have anything good to say about Ron Paul? If the Colbert character starts endorsing Ron Paul, then that would be the time to worry. The Colbert character calling Paul a crazy surrender-monkey means the real person Colbert thinks Paul is a righteous dude.

 

[RonPaulwillWin]

It amazes me that half of RPFs still doesn't understand Colbert's satire

 

[Kludge]

It amazes me that half of RPFs still doesn't understand Colbert's satire

Maybe you don't understand half of RPF members' satire, eh?

 

[angelatc]

What wasn't appropriate was hiring him in the first place. They had no clue what Colbert was about, and that is their fault, not Colbert's. Colbert had to do what he did, otherwise he would have damaged his career. .

Nonsense. He turns down 100 gigs a week. "Scheduling conflict."

It is rude to insult the guest of honor.

You can justify it any way you choose, but it was rude.

 

[kathy88]

As I watched that last night, I thought to myself, "this is gonna cause some crap on the forums....."

Why is it funny when he pokes fun at Bush or Clinton or McCain, but not when he does it at Paul? It's satire. I laughed out loud.

 

[The One]

As I watched that last night, I thought to myself, "this is gonna cause some crap on the forums....."

Why is it funny when he pokes fun at Bush or Clinton or McCain, but not when he does it at Paul? It's satire. I laughed out loud.

That's a pretty easy question to answer. It's funny when he makes fun of Bush, Clinton, and McCain because I hate all three of those dick-lickers. It's not funny when he makes fun of RP because I love him.

 

[Danke]

Maybe you don't understand half of RPF members' satire, eh?

Why you I oughta!

 

[No1ButPaul08]

Nonsense. He turns down 100 gigs a week. "Scheduling conflict."

It is rude to insult the guest of honor.

You can justify it any way you choose, but it was rude.

Where did I say it wasn't rude? Stephen Colbert (the character) IS rude. To expect anything different or light-hearted out of Colbert would have been silly. Of course, they didn't know much about him, so they didn't know what to expect.

Maybe he shouldn't have accepted the gig, but I doubt those 100 gigs he turns down a week present the career opportunity that the Correspondents dinner did. The speech was a huge success for Colbert's career, rude or not. How many offers does Colbert get to criticize the President and Press right to their face for 20 minutes uninterrupted, on national TV? I would assume he's received one of these offers in his life, not 100 a week.

Guest of honor? Maybe so, but why in the hell is the supposedly objective press holding a dinner glorifying the President. I find the whole event rude and despicable, much more than Colbert's speech. Thank God Colbert was there to call these people out at their own pathetic event, rude or not.

After the 2007 dinner, New York Times columnist Frank Rich implied that the Times will no longer participate in the dinners. Rich said that the event is "a crystallization of the press's failures in the post-9/11 era" because it "illustrates how easily a propaganda-driven White House can enlist the Washington news media in its shows."

 

[steph3n]

Yeah, I think he was pretty much calling us delusional.

We just got seriously dissed by one of the only allies we ever had in the media.

Thanks a pantload, Colbert.

ummm don't you know his character is a severely brainwashed neocon!?

 

[The One]

How has this thread gotten almost 3,000 views in under 24 hours?

 

[constituent]

Nonsense. He turns down 100 gigs a week. "Scheduling conflict."

It is rude to insult the guest of honor.

You can justify it any way you choose, but it was rude.

i thought the press was the guest of honor at the white house press correspondents dinner?

 

[Knightskye]

Found the video.
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/index.jhtml

Just scroll down and click "The Word - Placebo".

And there you go.

Colbert doesn't say it verbally. It shows up on the right side of the screen, in that blue area where the jokes are supposed to be.

 

[angelatc]

Where did I say it wasn't rude? Stephen Colbert (the character) IS rude. To expect anything different or light-hearted out of Colbert would have been silly. Of course, they didn't know much about him, so they didn't know what to expect. "

Actually, I think you underestimate Colbert. I think he quite possibly the most brilliant comedian alive today. and perhaps thats why I find that particular performance especially distasteful. He has proven himself more than capable of so much more many, many times.

Colbert was not invited there by the President. And the President was locked into a situation that required him to maintain the proper decorum by merely sitting there and not striking back. Bush was essentially a captive audience, and Colbert was nothing more than a loud mouthed bully.

You can justify it, guffaw at the brash behavior, or decide that rude doesn't really matter, but that doesn't mean it was not rude. I don't like rude.

As long as we both seem to agree that it was rude, I'm not sure there's any more to say.

But I'll probably find something, because that's the way I am.

 

[angelatc]

i thought the press was the guest of honor at the white house press correspondents dinner?

No, the WH Correspondents Association is a group of journalists who cover the White House. They hold the dinner to present awards, and the President or Vice President usually attends.

(In America, the President is almost always considered a guest of honor, unless he is holding a dinner to honor another person.)