A quote by Stephen Colbert that seems particularly apropos at this point in time...

To the pretentious, complacent shit-hole we call our "news media":

"But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!"

- Stephen Colbert, White House Correspondents' Dinner, April 29, 2006



A hardy FUCK YOU to the media! You are as guilty as the narcissistic megalomaniac squatting in the White House for the needless deaths and unimaginable suffering of millions of people...a special place in hell is waiting for you.

We should repost that seminal Colbert piece on the WH Correspondents.

What did David Gregory have to say about that again. Hmmmm. They attacked Colbert.

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

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things were going and the cockroaches in government and the media that were making it happen.

THE corporate media kiss-assers can't handle the truth...

That performance, in the belly of the beast, was one of the few acts of courage and heroism any MSM journalist has ever done during this traitorous reign of Bush! Especially circa 2006.

And Scottie is the bravest of the ex-Bushies, as his expose is coming out before most of the others. Yeah, I know about Richard Clarke and Paul O'neil, but Scottie is one of the first of the major players to come close to TELLING IT LIKE IT WAS.

At least when he has his impending fatal "accident" he will have done some good before he dies.


-90% Jimmy

There are a few moments in the past disastrous 7+ years that really stick out as true courage and speaking truth to power...Colbert's performance was one of those moments and one of the only I can think of where the chimp was actually forced to listen to criticism. To stand up there and blast the press, the military brass and the administration with the truth took a lot of ballz (no offense to women, of course :)).

He was thinking "How the hell did this guy get through the screeners?" "I thought he was on my side, guess I never got his humor."

correspondents' dinner to the effect that someone on the planning committee must not have realized that Colbert's act was parody and not real, otherwise there was no way he would have been invited.

He got some really harsh criticism of the media in there too.

Cooper asked the reporter if he agreed with McClellan's assessment about news reporting on the run up to the Iraq war. The reporters reply was, "We asked the White House tough questions." He apparently thought this was a reasonable response. My first thought as a follow up to that reporter was, "Why didn't you investigate the answers?" Unfortunately, that question wasn't asked. The problem was not asking questions, the problem is that the MSM does not investigate to see if the answers are truthful. They took the answers to those "tough questions" and accepted them as factual. The media failed us and most reporters don't even realize why.

They got their e-mails daily from the Heritage Foundation--fine. But did they ever pick up a phone to get an opposing view? Comment from someone truly in the know?

The m$m's real downfall here is the utter lack of any discernible follow-up; the blogs like DU are more than ample proof of that.

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Exactly! And why Colbert's comment was so brilliant and damning at the same time...

"Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home."

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