http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14506President Bush Ambushed by Malicious 'Comedian' at Correspondents' Dinner
by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
Posted May 03, 2006
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In effect, Colbert acted as the Trojan Horse for the Left's most despicable leftwing blogs. He was brutal, agenda driven, one-sided. His calculated diatribe was antithetical to acceptable taste. The President was portrayed in front of all, countless times, as highly unpopular. Colbert accused the President of being incapable of changing his mind even in the face of new facts.
Yes, it's soooo brutal to bring up Bush's approval rating. Oh, the cruelty of reality, with its well-known liberal bias!
What an unnatural place is this region they call Inside the Beltway. There is something frighteningly weird about a group of people who context issues of life and death, national security, and the safety of its citizens as simply fodder for gossip and comedy. Most normal people out there called Americans ascribe to these matters an utter gravity, not springboards for a "good time was had by all."
I guess no one told Spero about Bush's good time joking about not being able to find any WMDs. Or maybe the rabbi was in the audience that night, yukking it up along with the rest of *'s sycophants.
How much respect can the average principled citizen feel for a press corps and even Inside the Beltway supporters of the President when wimpishness and need for "high society" approval stymies them from even booing and hissing remarks that are degrading -- and intended to be so -- watching as their own President squirms in public embarrassment? A political culture such as this reminds one of Rome during the Decline.
But booing and hissing a comedian invited to address the audience wouldn't remind him of Rome during the Decline...
The "outed" Valerie Plame was there in her most conspicuous gown relishing being spotlighted and publicly acclaimed by a comedian using the opportunity to assign her a credence and virtue he denied to the President and Vice president. Score one for the blonde -- victory handed to her over the Republican administration, courtesy of Stephen Colbert. And all laugh. One begins to wonder: Is this C.I.A. "outing" a grave matter as the Press contends or simply an Inside the Beltway game, simply the amusement de jour of the trendy D.C. political class?
His remarks about Valerie Plame are incredibly tacky and sexist. Hypocritical, too -- what does he think the rightwing women in the audience were wearing? -- but then the entire column reeks of hypocrisy. It's rightwing dementia at its most pompous and self-righteous.
He ends the column by suggesting that the government be moved away from "the D.C. establishment...in their Beltway land of cynicism, mockery, indulgence and political decadence" and instead set up someplace where "real people, serious Americans" live. Such as Omaha.
Please. Omaha has enough problems already.
And someone needs to tell this twerp of a rightwing pundit that BushCo IS the establishment. Not to mention the epitome of "cynicism, mockery, indulgence and political decadence."
Maybe one of Bush's pals now under indictment could explain it to him...
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