Fox News Slams Colbert: ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’

[kpete]

Fox News Slams Colbert: ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’
Stephen Colbert’s routine at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner “left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.” (Watch the video or read the transcript.) Not suprisingly, the hosts of Fox News’ morning show “Fox & Friends” felt the same way. They shared their reviews of Colbert this morning.

Transcript:

BRIAN KILMEADE: We’re also going to talk about what happened at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The inside story about the Steven Colbert speech: was it really over the line or is that just typical when the President goes to these Washington correspondents dinners?

STEVE DOOCY: There you’ve got the dueling Dubyas. Stephen Colbert — I have been to twenty of them and he was over the line.

KIRAN CHETRY: What I was wondering though, because we did show some clips and at times it looked like the President was not laughing. Do you think he was annoyed by that or he thought it was not funny?

DOOCY: He was playing a good sport as his body double was there. But shortly after that, the paid performer, Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report, took the stage and did about 15 minutes and it was very uncomfortable. Personally I felt like he went over the line. Today in Lloyd Grove’s column, he says that Colbert “bombed badly.” It was not very funny.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/01/colbert-fox/

[annabanana]

1. Colbert Slams Fox. . . . .

nuff said...

[Maat]

2. Deal with it, Faux Flunkies:

Colbert was wonderful!

[pilgrimm]

3. Now watch his rating skyrocket

[bullimiami]

"i know those weapons of mass destruction are here ...

somethere..."

was that fucking funny? what disgusting assholes they are.

[Johonny]

4. You know

What Bush has done to America the last 5 years... it isn't that funny. That the press has sat around and watch him do it. That isn't funny either. For some Stephen was a breath of actual funny truth, for most in the media it was an unwelcome momemt to remind them Bush does infact suck and they aren't reporting it.

[Spazito]

5. Well, seeing as Faux reports both sides

"the President's side and the Vice President's side", I guess neither liked Stephen Colbert's scathingly brilliant performance, awwwwwwwwwwww, poor babies, roflmao!

:rofl:

[Richardo]

6. I haven't seen one reference to Imus' shitstorm treatment of the Clintons

Wonder why?

[NightOwwl]

7. Considering Colbert exposed Fox News as the shills they are,

and proceeded to rip them a new one in front of a huge audience, I can't say I'm at all surprised.

Go Stephen! :applause:

[KyndCulture]

8. Which is a victory. When we offend fux news.. we WIN!

[niyad]

9. just wondering how either of these two would KNOW what chimpboy

was "thinking" (and I do use that term advisedly)
did they say anything similar about the clinton dinner? forget who it was who was so nasty.

[katty]

10. luv it when W & Laura are pissed off-screw them, they're being

decapitated day by day

[Ian David]

16. Go easy on poor Laura...

she's probably still all torn-up about killing her ex-boyfriend with her car.

Some people say.

You know... If I were in Colbert's shoes, I would have dragged that up. But there were only so many things he could have said in the time allotted.

He also forgot to mention that Cheney has a lesbian deferment-baby-daughter and two DUI arrests.

[librechik]

11. No surprise there--Steven stung them pretty good

They are NOT good sports. Even the president told Steven he did a good job.

[SoCalDemocrat]

12. video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v1sxGj5UxI&eurl=http://videosift.com/story.php?id=2046

[IndyJones]

25. Wow! I hadn't seen it. Now I'm going to go find the whole thing!

[jsamuel]

13. This makes me so happy! This validates his performance :)

[Ian David]

14. That's right, Fox... just keep talking about O'Reilly's Doppelganger

Keep sending him more publicity.

Outrage!

Keep talking about the outrage, but please just keep talking about it!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

15. i've never heard of

brian kilmeade, steve doocy, or kiran chetry.

[Rex]

17. They have to, orders from Snowman Foxnews Fluffer/WH Press Sect.

Fox and the WH are one and the same. Hurt daddy and baby goes waaaaaa!!!

[malaise]

18. Fux Fox n/t

[sandrakae]

19. Well I donn't find what George Stupid Bush has done to our country funny.

[Up2Late]

20. Sometimes, the Truthiness hurts!

Sux to be Fox right about now.

[tishaLA]

21. Glad to hear it

It shouldn't be any other way; they want to protect an their Humble Leader.

On Washpost.com chat this morning, the correspondent said she was surprised at all the questions about Colbert and thought that it might signal that the corporate media will start talking (spinning) about it. I hope so.

[Rocknrule]

22. Notice that with these people, free speech ends with any negative

statements about Republicans, especially Bush.

[AX10]

23. So it's only "over the line" to mock Republicans?

Seems so. It's the Fox "News" Channel way.

[anarch]

24. The Bush Presidency: Inappropriate, Over the Line, and Not Very Funny

[johnfunk]

26. How anyone can take Dookie, Killmeat and their FOX Morning Zoo seriously

is beyond me.

[walldude]

27. Yeah.. Cry to someone who gives a shit Fox..... Babies. n/t