Wow, this is like a whole other world

[sandnsea]

I've been busy doing some other stuff this morning. Went into GD and GD-P for a while. Then came here.

Do you mean to say the Senate's in session? Zarqawi is up to new tricks? There's TWO Democratic Iraq plans to debate??

Real things are going on in the world?

I'll be damned.

Thanks ladies (and gents), the sanity is refreshing. :)

[ProSense]

1. TNR is upset

because Colbert dissed their war-mongering hero.

ABOUT SATURDAY NIGHT...:

I'm a big Stephen Colbert fan, a huge Bush detractor, and I think the White House press corps has been out to lunch for much of the last five years. (Though, unlike many in the blogosphere, I don't think that's because White House reporters are lazy or stupid.) That should have made me the ideal audience-member for Colbert's performance at this weekend's White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD). As it happens, though, I laughed out loud maybe twice during Colbert's entire 20-odd minute routine. Colbert's problem, blogosphere conspiracy theories notwithstanding, is that he just wasn't very entertaining. Most of the funny lines had been recycled from his show; the new material was all pretty tired--including a way-too-long video presentation whose big joke was that ... Helen Thomas is old and batty. (Stop me if you've heard that one.)

Snip...

P.S. In the interest of full disclosure, I should link to my earlier criticism of "The Colbert Report," which I wrote a week or two after the show went on the air. My sense at the time was that it wasn't funny enough to be worthy of Colbert, though I think it's improved quite a bit since then.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=15455

If you haven't seen it, you can watch it here:

http://blogs.citypages.com/ctg/2006/04/the_truthiness.asp

[sandnsea]

2. Oh come on

I can get that in GD!!

I saw the second replay on Saturday, it was great. I thought the Helen Thomas bit was overdone, but still funny. But I liked the impersonator segment too.

So the truth is being trashed, what else is new.