Stephen Colbert blasts Truthiness all over White House press corps dinner

Reports having been coming in that Stephen Colbert absolutely killed at the White House Press Corps dinner this weekend, doing his performance in-character as Stephen Colbert, the Host of The Colbert Report, and he was unrelenting in his pointed commentary of the Bush administration. I've just finished downloading the torrent and will watch it with glee tomorrow. If you want the quick and easy way to view it, check the links below. If you want to thank Stephen Colbert for bringing the truthiness, go to Thank You Stephen Colbert.

The Colbert Report airs Mon thru Thur at 11:30pm ET on the Comedy Network and Mon thru Thur at 12:35 p.m. ET on CTV.

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Stephen Colbert's routine at last night's White House Press Corps dinner sounds like one of those perfect moments of comedy and commentary -- someone, find me a transcript!

Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged the Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, "and reality has a well-known liberal bias."

He attacked those in the press who claim that the shake-up at the White House was merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. "This administration is soaring, not sinking," he said. "They are re-arranging the deck chairs--on the Hindenburg."

Colbert told Bush he could end the problem of protests by retired generals by refusing to let them retire. He compared Bush to Rocky Balboa in the "Rocky" movies, always getting punched in the face--"and Apollo Creed is everything else in the world."

Link (Thanks, Stefan!)

Update: Thanks to Butter71 for links to the transcript and video! w00t!

Update 2: Here's a high-quality torrent of the video.

Update 3: Youtube mirror (Thanks, Jon!)

Update 4: Alternative Quicktime link, Quicktime of Colbert's "audition reel" (Thanks, Krup!)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:33:31 PM

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