"Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass if half empty. Because 32% means it's two-thirds empty... There's still some liquid in that glass, is my point... but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash."
If a comedian rips apart the Bush administration and the media craftily, handily, and unashamedly, in front of all the nation's important political reporters, does it get coverage?
Apparently not. A quick Google News search for Stephen Colbert's night-ending performance yielded three results from blogs, and a story at Editor and Publisher.
So we bring you the full blistering and jaw-dropping 26-minute speech from the dinner last night here [BitTorrent link]. Crooks and Liars has a tiny Quicktime of 15 minutes of it if you're wanting to stay in-browser.
Some highlights include the following:
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. “If anything, they are re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.”
Turning to the war, he declared, "I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq." WA reader Preston says "every single person in that room needed to visit the burn ward after that [performance]." I must also tip my hat to him for pointing me to this thing in the first place.
Now start copying and pasting that link for your friends.
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