Johnny Flatline - Stephen Colbert
You might have missed this story, because when a story is truly meaningful, truly smart, truly important for our country, your honorable media will see to it that you never find out about it if they can. Well, a truly big event happened this past weekend that nobody in the media wanted to talk about. After 4 days, the NY Times reluctantly admitted this even happened. But only after tons of pressure from an overheated blog world. If not for that, history had almost erased it.
If you were lucky enough to tune in CSpan this past weekend, you might have seen the White House Correspondants annual dinner. It's been a cute little ceremony for decades, full of cheap forced chuckle political humor and idol worship by all the powerful insiders that feed us their crap all year long. It's like a celebration of all the lies they got away with in the previous 12 months.
For what seems like an eternity, the thinking portion of our population has been totally excluded from power. Little wonder our country is doing so poorly. The cream doesn't rise to the top anymore. But for 30 minutes, at one dinner, an accident occurred. Somebody with a brian, and a conscience, accidentally got a microphone inside the same room as George W. Bush and his lap dogs. This wasn't supposed to happen. And confusion was rampant, once people figured out this most serious of errors of letting in somebody inside with a brain.
Stephen Colbert, standing just several feet away from a red faced President, was able to spew out more truth in 30 minutes, than has been spoken in 5 years. If you missed it, go find it. The videos are all over the web. Air American Radio, CSpan, DemocracyNow, and many others are now publishing the text, and offering downloads of the video. But this was not just a speech. This was a work of art. A work of art Andy Kaufman would have been proud of. Colbert crossed a line that has never been crossed in my mind. He passed up the Smothers Brothers, Dixie Chicks and Michael Moore on this one. This was one of our own, on the inside, telling it like it is directly to the faces of those who are ruining this country. He forced them to listen to truth. They could not run. The cameras were watching. They could not arrest him, like they often do mothers of dead soldiers who want to speak. No, Colbert drew his sword, and there was no apology. No letting up. He gave them all exactly what they deserved.
I've watched the video several times, and I cannot express the total joy I feel each and every time I see it. I'm going to have this speech printed, framed, and hung by my desk. This is the single greatest political act on behalf of my country that I've seen since the release of Michael Moore's Farenheit 911. And it's very sad that this is the single greatest political act in years. It simply shows us how far we have fallen, when only a comedian is able to communicate honestly to the highly sheltered faces of those in power. And you can bet he won't be invited back. They will be more careful next time. So, please, go find this story. See it. Learn it. Know it. Because a lifetime may pass before something like this ever happens again.
I bow to Stephen Colbert. There is really nothing else worth talking about this week other than this. I urge people to go to www. thankyoustephencolbert.org and thank him. They have tens of thousands of thank you notes posted already.
If you were lucky enough to tune in CSpan this past weekend, you might have seen the White House Correspondants annual dinner. It's been a cute little ceremony for decades, full of cheap forced chuckle political humor and idol worship by all the powerful insiders that feed us their crap all year long. It's like a celebration of all the lies they got away with in the previous 12 months.
For what seems like an eternity, the thinking portion of our population has been totally excluded from power. Little wonder our country is doing so poorly. The cream doesn't rise to the top anymore. But for 30 minutes, at one dinner, an accident occurred. Somebody with a brian, and a conscience, accidentally got a microphone inside the same room as George W. Bush and his lap dogs. This wasn't supposed to happen. And confusion was rampant, once people figured out this most serious of errors of letting in somebody inside with a brain.
Stephen Colbert, standing just several feet away from a red faced President, was able to spew out more truth in 30 minutes, than has been spoken in 5 years. If you missed it, go find it. The videos are all over the web. Air American Radio, CSpan, DemocracyNow, and many others are now publishing the text, and offering downloads of the video. But this was not just a speech. This was a work of art. A work of art Andy Kaufman would have been proud of. Colbert crossed a line that has never been crossed in my mind. He passed up the Smothers Brothers, Dixie Chicks and Michael Moore on this one. This was one of our own, on the inside, telling it like it is directly to the faces of those who are ruining this country. He forced them to listen to truth. They could not run. The cameras were watching. They could not arrest him, like they often do mothers of dead soldiers who want to speak. No, Colbert drew his sword, and there was no apology. No letting up. He gave them all exactly what they deserved.
I've watched the video several times, and I cannot express the total joy I feel each and every time I see it. I'm going to have this speech printed, framed, and hung by my desk. This is the single greatest political act on behalf of my country that I've seen since the release of Michael Moore's Farenheit 911. And it's very sad that this is the single greatest political act in years. It simply shows us how far we have fallen, when only a comedian is able to communicate honestly to the highly sheltered faces of those in power. And you can bet he won't be invited back. They will be more careful next time. So, please, go find this story. See it. Learn it. Know it. Because a lifetime may pass before something like this ever happens again.
I bow to Stephen Colbert. There is really nothing else worth talking about this week other than this. I urge people to go to www. thankyoustephencolbert.org and thank him. They have tens of thousands of thank you notes posted already.
posted by Johnny Flatline at 5:03 PM
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