{"id":1529,"date":"2007-04-30T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T17:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2017-05-21T00:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T06:29:12","slug":"all-the-presidents-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/all-the-presidents-press\/","title":{"rendered":"All the President&#8217;s Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/colbert.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/colbert.bmp\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>entertainer, Stephen Colbert, &#8220;fell flat,&#8221; as The Washington Post summed up the local consensus. To the astonishment of those in attendance, a funny thing happened outside the Beltway the morning after: the video of Mr. Colbert&#8217;s performance became a national sensation. (Last week it was still No. 2 among audiobook downloads on iTunes.) Washington wisdom had it that Mr. Colbert bombed because he was rude to the president. His real sin was to be rude to the capital press corps, whom he caricatured as stenographers. Though most of the Washington audience failed to find the joke funny, Americans elsewhere, having paid a heavy price for the press&#8217;s failure to challenge White House propaganda about Iraq, laughed until it hurt.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that l&#8217;affaire Colbert would have led to a little circumspection, but last Saturday&#8217;s dinner was another humiliation. And not just because this year&#8217;s entertainer, an apolitical nightclub has-been (Rich Little), was a ludicrously tone-deaf flop. More appalling &#8211; and symptomatic of the larger sycophancy &#8211; was the press&#8217;s insidious role in President Bush&#8217;s star turn at the event.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>entertainer, Stephen Colbert, &#8220;fell flat,&#8221; as The Washington Post summed up the local consensus. To the astonishment of those in attendance, a funny thing happened outside the Beltway the morning after: the video of Mr. Colbert&#8217;s performance became a national sensation. (Last week it was still No. 2 among audiobook downloads on iTunes.) 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