Stephen Colbert... I can't hold back

Stephen Colbert

Thankfully neither did he. I just watched the entirety of Mr. Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents dinner. Click here to be taken to Google Video. No, I'm not in the camp that believes every wind of thought that floats across the minds of a "liberal", nor do I hardline the President's decisions. I do however enjoy knowledge, and making sure facts are known (and in that same respect knowing facts). Colbert's uncompromising satire gave me goosebumps, and showed me what the media should be doing. Everything should be questioned. People need reasons to believe things, and without those reasons decisions should be called into question.


Perhaps it was uncouth of Colbert to launch into such politically charged commentary in a "respected" forum, even if it was satirical but it was the delivery that was genius. It separated him from Al Franken, Michael Moore, or any other popular critic of the Bush administration. To be completely fair I'm not sure that Colbert truly believes everything he comments on, whether faux bluster, or dead-pan open satire. I have to applaud him for saying what needs to be said, and not pulling any punches.


It won't change anything. "By the people and for the people," has long been forgotten and replaced by, "by the elite, for money". Paraphrasing Colbert: What he believes on Wednesday will always be the same as what he believed on Monday regardless of what happened on Tuesday.


I do have to fault him on his continued stance on global warming. Every decade it's different and every decade our fears were induced by an overreacting media and hype machine that wants to sell a huge story. Sure global warming exists, but overpopulation, ozone depletion, and the global cooling crisis of years past faded into nothing even though the causes of each have not been addressed. Maybe if the media yells more the government can subsidize something else like installing photovoltaics on the backs of gila monsters, instead of pushing forward a domestic nuclear energy initiative.

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  1. joeMay 29, 2006 at 3:58 PM

    (I thought adding those numbers was just a silly thing you included, until it rejected my post. hehe)
    Anyway, The Untied States of (insert corpration here) definitley needs more shows like this that are not bound to some neutered role as a proganda machine for big business.
    I love Colbert. Only two words to describe him: Pure Balls.

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