Friday, May 05, 2006

Media Bearded by Colbert

The Opinion Mill:
". . .It's one thing to march into the lion's den and yank a fistful of hairs from his mane. It's quite another to march into a den full of people who think they're lions and rub their noses in the fact that they're nothing more than fat, spayed tabby cats who are less interested in exposing the powerful than they are in curling up by their feet. That's what Stephen Colbert did at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and for his perfidy he will now be subject to their endless mewling and kitty-kat clawing. Even if he loses his nerve and backtracks with an apology -- something I don't think for a second he would actually do -- he will always be their target. After all, the eunuchs of the court were often the most devious and vengeful of the players surrounding the king.

Uberblogger Matt Drudge is arching his back and hissing that Colbert's ratings aren't as high as the Faux News evening lineup -- a pretty sad line of attack, but there will be others. The master narrative now taking shape around that scalding evening is that Colbert the professional comedian got hardly any laughs while Bush and his doppelganger rocked the house with boffo guffaws. Of course he did! This is, after all, the same crowd that whooped and chuckled a couple of years ago as Bush showed slides and pretended to look for weapons of mass destruction under the furniture. Their laughter is a badge of dishonor. Courting their praise was never Colbert's goal. . ."

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