After Press Dinner, the Blogosphere Is Alive With the Sound of Colbert Chatter
Stephen Colbert performing at the White House correspondents' dinner on Saturday,
with his primary foil, President Bush, sitting nearby.
Image source: NYT / Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images
with his primary foil, President Bush, sitting nearby.
Image source: NYT / Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images
Jaques Steinberg writes in The New York Times:
Mark Smith, a reporter for The Associated Press who is president of the White House Correspondents' Association, acknowledges that he had not seen much of Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central before he booked him as the main entertainment for the association's annual black-tie dinner on Saturday night. But he says he knew enough about Mr. Colbert — "He not only skewers politicians, he skewers those of us in the media" — to expect that he would cause some good-natured discomfort among the 2,600 guests, many of them politicians and reporters.More here.
What Mr. Smith did not anticipate, he said, was that Mr. Colbert's nearly 20-minute address would become one of the most hotly debated topics in the politically charged blogosphere. Mr. Colbert delivered his remarks in character as the Bill O'Reillyesque commentator he plays on "The Colbert Report," although this time his principal foil, President Bush, was just a few feet away.
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