Friday, May 05, 2006

More Colbert

. . .So just what in Hades did Bush and his sycophants (you know who you are) think was going to happen when Colbert took the podium and wrecked shop -- right in Bush's face, I might add? That he would be cowed, awed, intimidated into cojone-less humor? Didn't they watch Stewart on Crossfire? Don't they remember how he handed Begala and Carlson's asses to them, then got their show canceled as one last kick in the nuts before he was done with them? Does anyone even look at Tucker Carlson now without laughing? One suspects that neocon William Kristol, who helped diagram our war of choice in Iraq, wishes he never said that he deserved thanks for helping Colbert get the gig in the first place.

Those, of course, are all rhetorical questions. The answer is, plainly, yes: The Washington establishment thought they could cow Colbert the way they cowed the rest of the media, government and listless American people, who have given Bush free reign to do just whatever the hell he thinks God is telling him to do. To the Iraqis, to the homosexuals, to the Democrats, to the economy, to the nation, to whoever and whatever. That, suck it up, is reality. That is what happened. To all of us. . ."

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