Only vaguely, probably. Bruce’s post over at theriverblog the day after Stephen Colbert’s bravura performance at the White House Press Correspondent’s Dinner is so history now. Just a little plink in a big tub o’ shit.
I find it useful to remember that it was only 46 or 47 days ago.
Three days after the performance Joan Walsh wrote a piece for Salon.com titled "Making Colbert Go Away". Seems to me to have worked.
Over the past three or four years I’ve wondered why we haven’t seen much cultural response to our abysmal government. Shocked into silence after 9/11. Afraid to criticize. Whatever. Out here on the Web, we’ve been laboring, pushing, pulling, trying to make it happen. Amusing ourselves if nothing else. Now, in the culture at large, it seems it’s finally starting to happen. Thank you, Stephen Colbert
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June 16, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Anonymous
Shortly after the performance, the thank you site went up. Shortly after it went up, it started using Colbert as fundraising prop for the Democrats. And shortly after that, the rate of new signatures started to dwindle. I expect the dissonance of funneling money to the same people who eagerly legitimized the chimp was too much.
June 16, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Anonymous
No doubt you are at least partly, if not completely right. From Rage against The Machine to Wages For The Machine …
June 17, 2006 at 10:27 am
Anonymous
The other part of it is they can all see him on television, every time his show comes on he’s there. No need to do anything. The rest of it is as soon as it became it clear that he “went too far” — with much of the outrage over his “excesses” led by liberals — It became the media copycat buzz to start talking about everything _except_ what he said. Salon included.
June 17, 2006 at 10:34 am
Anonymous
up … talking for three days about whether it was excess or not made it so .. there are standards to be maintained after all. This was the C-in-C, after all. It just isn’t done, and that was’t the time or place. He should have known that, everyone agrees. The place for those kinds ofmessages is / was Freedom Pens.