I believe hat Stephen Colbert did at the White House Press Correspondence dinner will go down in history as the shot heard round the world, without the aid of the press.
And he's only the beginning...
I don't know about the rest of you, but ever since I've watched Colbert's roast of Bush in its entirety I haven't been able to get it out of my head. I'd watch it, a couple of hours went by and I'm thinking, "It wasn't as good as I think it was, I'm reading too much into it, I'm too close to the story." So I watch it again, and it's even better than I remember it. As soon as I completely filtered out the audience and focused solely on what he was saying, I was in utter shock.
Think about it, who-WHO-in the past six years, in front of a national audience, among those in the highest level of power of our country, has ever looked the president in the eye and held him verbally accountable for his actions? And by adopting the mentality of his own admirers and apologists at that??!
No matter if anyone else agrees with how I perceive the importance of this event, because it has me fired up for the first time since I first laid eyes on Howard Dean (and you Deanies know what that felt like).
So how am I going to channel my newfound energy towards doing something for the party? Well, by using the Colbert address.
I'm taking sketch writing 101 at the Upright Citizen's Brigade in New York. In lieu of tomorrow's assignment, I will be playing the Colbert roast of Bush to my class in its entirety. And hope that it entertains and charges up some of them as much as it has for me.
Besides that, do any of you have any other suggestions for tomorrow's presentation to the class?