Colbert roasts Bush, NYT omits it, youtube gives it a boost...
Different edits of the same C-Span video made it today (by 11pm est) into the top #20 most viewed segments in youtube, ranked as #1, #4, #6, #10, #17 and totaling >1 million views so far.
On April 29th, comedian Stephen Colbert was the invited speaker for the White House Correspondents dinner, and while standing <10 feet from president Bush he went on for ~30 mins worth of jokes ranging from Iraq to Global Warming... in what has been probably the most daring performance of a comedian in front of a US president ever. The type of performance that (whether or not you approve the strength of his remarks) you can NOT miss.
But The New York Times didn't even bother to mention Colbert's performance on its monday coverage... and many of the mainstream media (MSM) vehicles decide to down-play what happenned... but not the bloggers, and certainly not youtube.
If he wanted to make a point about MSM vs liberal media, he couldn't have planned it better...
On April 29th, comedian Stephen Colbert was the invited speaker for the White House Correspondents dinner, and while standing <10 feet from president Bush he went on for ~30 mins worth of jokes ranging from Iraq to Global Warming... in what has been probably the most daring performance of a comedian in front of a US president ever. The type of performance that (whether or not you approve the strength of his remarks) you can NOT miss.
But The New York Times didn't even bother to mention Colbert's performance on its monday coverage... and many of the mainstream media (MSM) vehicles decide to down-play what happenned... but not the bloggers, and certainly not youtube.
If he wanted to make a point about MSM vs liberal media, he couldn't have planned it better...
posted by dave at 8:04 PM
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