According to this story below it appears to me that CSPAN is attempting to erase all record of Colbert's White House Correspondents Dinner speach.  Or at least make it very difficult for people to find it.

Can Colbert host the speach himself, or does he need CSPAN's permission as well?  How can we make sure that this continues to be available for people to view?

Check out the front page of my local free daily newspaper in New York.  

http://www.nynewsday.com/other/special/amny/

I always thought this was a conservative paper but they really let fox have it.  They also include an editorial which lays bare foxes lack of objectivity, and hypocrasy in pushing for Rather's dismissal.  The entire article could have been pulled from Daily Kos.  

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/07/21/torture/index.html
July 21, 2004  |  Kabul, Afghanistan -- Three Americans went on trial Wednesday on charges they tortured eight prisoners in a private jail, with the group's leader saying he had tacit support from senior Pentagon officials who once offered to put his team under contract.

The U.S. military says the men were freelancers operating outside the law and without their knowledge.

Am I the only one that has not seen nor heard anything about this?.  Shouldn't this be a huge story?  

God, How I miss Howard Dean as my nominee.  I miss the clarity of his positions on Iraq and how they so clearly coincided with my own views.  I miss how he would issue press releases every few days that eloquently and passionately expressed what all of his supporters were feeling.  Now that the Iraq war is going worse than ever expected, I am looking for our democratic leader to be a pillar of moral strength and clarity in these uncertain times.  I look to Kerry and I get none of what I loved so much in Howard.  What little fire Kerry had  while running for his life against Howard, seems now to have gone out completely.  Someone needs to tell Kerry to start being a leader and stop being a politician.

As a Dean supporter I am sickened by how the media was able to manipulate public opinion in the Iowa caucuses.  Dean was attacking the president when the rest of the congressional candidates (excluding Kucinich) was rolling over on everything and would not say a word.  Dean charged forward calling the president's administration on every lie for two years.  And he paid the price being labled the angry candidate, and getting attacked from all sides.  But even so his campaign only grew stronger.  The other candidates finally took notice and only then began to aggressively attack the Bush administration's policies.  Then those in power within the media conglomerates made the decision to push Kerry up and Dean down.  The media began jumping on Dean's every mis-step with a vengeance or ignoring him all together, all the while pushing Kerry 24/7.   Dean re-energized the democratic base when the rest of the democratic party was ready to passively await the coronation of King George.  He became the target for all attacks from inside and outside his party, which allowed Kerry and his incredibly inept campaign to prance forward unscathed.  Kerry is an opportunist who made a calculated decision to vote for the Iraq war based on his own ambitions, and not his own conscience.  Tell me again why he deserves to be president?