Colbert's Bush Roast

Here is the entire 24 minute video of Colbert at the Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner.



If you haven't yet seen the video of Colbert speaking truth to power, here's a great synopsis of the evening from blogger Billmon, courtesy of Washington Post's Dan Froomkin.

"Colbert used satire the way it's used in more openly authoritarian societies: as a political weapon, a device for raising issues that can't be addressed directly. He dragged out all the unmentionables -- the Iraq lies, the secret prisons, the illegal spying, the neutered stupidity of the lapdog press -- and made it pretty clear that he wasn't really laughing at them, much less with them. It may have been comedy, but it also sounded like a bill of indictment, and everybody understood the charges. . . .

"Colbert's real sin . . . was inserting a brief moment of honesty into an event based upon a lie -- one considered socially necessary by the political powers that be, but still, a lie."