A little late to the party.

[ysobelle]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879

So I finally got around to the link that morriganswitch posted: Stephen Colbert roasting the President at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Wow. And not just roasting the President. He took a swipe at everyone in the room. Even, very obliquely, the First Lady. Or, rather, the irony of a push for literacy done by a woman whose husband is an avowed idiot.

I wonder what it was actually like in the room. I saw the President's face turning a little red around the edges as he kept a smile forcibly pasted on his face. I wonder who tried not to laugh, wondering if it meant their next juicy interview suddenly cancelling on them. I wonder if Stephen Colbert has a solid offshore retirement account. I wonder if I have Comedy Central?

Was it last year, or the year before? Everyone was saying the Dinner had become a roomful of fawning sycophants, no one saying anything remotely controversial, no one wanting to draw undue negative attention to themselves. Hm. Not so much this year, I suppose.

Comments

[emalia.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I laughed.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Probably more than Dubya did.

[morriganswitch.livejournal.com]

Always glad to shine some light dearie. :)

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you. My parents were actually talking about it when I went over for dinner the other night. Now I know why!

[morriganswitch.livejournal.com]

Too cool. Hope you're doing okay. :) BTW check my Zen post. :)

[mirroreyes.livejournal.com]

now THATS what I need at 430 in the morning...

THAT WAS AMAZING!!!

sigh... remind me sometime when we have a snb to have you listen to america the book... ;0)