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Jai4WKC08

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Thu May-04-06 02:38 PM
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18. Poniewozik lets the audience off too easy

I don't think that, "Cringe humor, too, is something probably lost on much of the Washington crowd at the dinner."

This was the WH Correspondents Dinner. A fairly sophisticated audience, imo. The people who sat and sweated in silence are the fawning media whores Colbert parodies, and they were the direct target of many of his barbs that nite. That's why they didn't laugh -- not that they didn't get the joke because they are "on the square side," but because he was pounding them, hard, right where they live. Some of them even know he was right.

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