After being first
ignored and then
scorned by the MSM, Stephen Colbert's stunning satire of the Bush administration and its lapdogs is the #1 downloaded album on
iTunes this week.
From
The New York Times:
That After-Dinner Speech Remains a Favorite DishAn audio version of the roast of President Bush by Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central rose to the rank of No. 1 album at Apple's iTunes store on Saturday, three weeks to the night of the White House Correspondents Dinner. Also in the Top 10 were new releases by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam and Paul Simon.
...Mr. Colbert's speech has also become a cause célèbre among many commentators, writing online and off, who charged that the mainstream press ignored his performance because it was so mocking of the president and of the Washington media.
Last week, the public editor of The New York Times, Byron Calame, writing on his Web journal about the paper's lack of initial reporting on Mr. Colbert's speech, printed a statement from Richard Stevenson, a deputy bureau chief for The Times in Washington.
Mr. Calame said he agreed with Mr. Stevenson that there should have been "a separate story that anticipated the reaction the routine generated and explained its political significance, rather than waiting to capture it after the fact." [emphasis mine]
Apparently they're finally getting it -- and regardless, the word is getting out, through a most unusual conduit. I have to believe that the large (unspecified) numbers required to make it to #1 on the iTunes charts has to involve many more people than just a few devoted "moonbats" ordering twelve dozen downloads apiece.
