Stephen Colbert: Biggest Balls EVER!

Holy shit. When I first heard months back that Colbert was asked to MC the White House correspondents dinner I thought two things: what a great opportunity for him and that will probably be very awkward. And I was right on both. He went up there in character and gave the ballsiest, most blistering roast that any President has had done to their FACE in the history of this country probably, unless Charlie Chaplin zinged Presdient Hoover pretty good or something back in the day that I don't know about. I mean it was brutal and Dubya looked pissed when it was done and had to shake hands with his assailant. The best part was that the crowd really never laughed once. The press yesterday never said anything about it and Matthews said it was "inappropriate". Instead they covered how funny-funny Bush was with the impersonator guy. And one reporter said Colbert is usually hilarious, but not that night. It reminds me exactly of the Crossfire incident with Jon Stewart where they had him on to laugh it up and Stewart tore them a new one, finally giving them a dose of reality about how bad their show was, that was brutal too and they kept asking when he was going to be funny.

I mean how big of pussies do we really have in the press when again it takes a comedian to be the only one to stand up to the President and tell it like it is. And that's exactly what he did. If Colbert wanted to pander to the crowd and have them rolling with laughter he could have, he's a brilliant performer. But he chose not to, he stood up there and looked right in the President's face and basically gave him a "fuck you" through the roast. It was a big moment for the young liberal generation out there who have sought refuge from this Repbulican theocracy and the press core who refuse to fight for the 48% of the people who didn't vote for Dubya by tuning into Stewart and Colbert every night.

What exactly should Colbert had done differently, they invited him to MC the dinner. Should he have light heartedly jabbed about the 2,400+ soldiers who couldn't be there that night because they are buried in the ground, or how about the thousands of homeless New Orleans people courtesy of the Prez's great job during Katrina, don't worry Mr. President who needs education, health care and affordable fuel to get to work when their are millionaires who need tax breaks. Haha, illegal wire tapping and torture are hilarious, civil rights are a hoot, and widespread corruption on the highest level is funny as hell. I read a news story last night that when the President signs laws, he can then use a signing veto document to take out any part of the bill he wants. Well Presidents in the past never used this until Reagan, go figure and Clinton only used it 154 times. Guess how many times our jokester Dubya has used it already, 762 times. And not just on little things, like the torture ban bill, he signed it then signed the document saying he didn't have to follow the law. And this is with a Republican congress, so guess which parts he takes out, I'm guessing every time, it's the amendments that the Democrats put in. Because of course we need to take away the 5% of power that those liberals have left. Where are the jokes there, where is the press there, where is our democracy when it's "inappropriate" for someone to make a political statement and use their 1st Amendment rights to the President's face. God forbid.

In closing, I guarantee every day that passes, what Colbert did will grow and grow in historic value. I'm being very serious here, it will be the day a comedian stood up to the President when nobody else had the balls to step up to the plate themselves.