Apr 10, 2010 12:14pm
Colbert Has Some Fun With the ‘This Week’ Roundtable
EmailIn his look this week at the troubles of RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Stephen Colbert of "The Colbert Report" had some fun using our discussion on last week's Roundtable.
Have a listen:
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At least the round table was useful for once .
Posted by: nat turner | April 10, 2010, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
Wonderful Colbert Report episode. I learn more interesting factual news from that comedy show And the Daily Show than regular news programs.
Posted by: Lydia | April 10, 2010, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
This must be all you have to do/watch when the Pres (for the first time in decades) leaves the WH press pool in the dust on a Saturday morning. You guys are slipping. If W had left the WH without the press for a few hours (after months of no direct q & a) there would have been outrage yet abc no mention. Are you guys getting soft?
Posted by: GO | April 10, 2010, 9:28 pm 9:28 pm
If W had…
GO | Apr 10, 2010 9:28:04 PM
Wow, it’s official. We now have a more popular phrase from the right wingers than “But Clinton”.
Posted by: jhw539 | April 10, 2010, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
If W had left the WH without the press for a few hours (after months of no direct q & a) there would have been outrage yet abc no mention.
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Hah! I hardly think so . .. it was his daughter’s soccer game . … outrage?
My what a petty world.
Posted by: tierra | April 10, 2010, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm
Wow, it’s official. We now have a more popular phrase from the right wingers than “But Clinton”.
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Maybe the press should have followed him more closely might have helped a whole bunch.
PS the press has been with him at every other soccer game, whatever before. But t
Posted by: obieone4o | April 10, 2010, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
sorry hit enter by mistake
my last statement was but tierra if you hardly think the press wouldn’t have screamed about Bush you must not have been reading much press the past 8 years. Although I have seen you’re posts and when you’ve irrationally blamed him for everything including the weather well maybe you haven’t been reading the posts. He gets a lot of it don’t get me wrong but blindly, partisanly doing it is not beneficial. It gives others a pass and the shrillness diminishes some good criticisms.
Posted by: obieone40 | April 10, 2010, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm
if you hardly think the press wouldn’t have screamed about Bush you must not have been reading much press the past 8 years.
obieone40 | Apr 10, 2010 10:55:14 PM
I’m not tierra, but you are blatantly rewriting history if you think the press was critical on Bush. Bush got a free ride from them in the run up to the Iraq war, that’s documented fact.
Posted by: jhw539 | April 10, 2010, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm
The amount of media attention Sarah Palin gets clearly demonstrates there is no liberal bias.
Posted by: Skip | April 10, 2010, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm
I’m not tierra, but you are blatantly rewriting history if you think the press was critical on Bush. Bush got a free ride from them in the run up to the Iraq war, that’s documented fact.
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Wrong they were so busy painting him as stupid and continuing to focus on the 2000 election they did drop the ball with the serious stuff in the very beginning of his Pres which is my point. Yes I would agree during a brief time that there was a different tone right after 911 prior to the Iraq war. I completely agree the press dropped the ball with Iraq (as well as pressing all those in Congress with the same intel who held the same postion as Bush at the time and a lot of those same people are still in power one is our sec of state and Bush is gone). Afterwards since we don’t want to rewrite history the press became even more hyper intense with Bush but now seem to be very lax with the present admin. It’s this same laziness they are displaying with Obama that I think is not helpful. Just because he’s from another party he’s still a politican and our Pres he should have the same scrutiny which was my point. Yes this was one soccer game but his last q & a with the WH press pool was how many months ago. There haven’t been that many soccer games. His unwillingness to be straight forward with them should IMHO come under scrutiny from time to time.
Posted by: obieone40 | April 10, 2010, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm
Wrong they were so busy painting him as stupid and continuing to focus on the 2000 election they did drop the ball with the serious stuff in the very beginning of his Pres which is my point. obieone40 | Apr 10, 2010 11:44:07 PM
Uh, I was around in 2000. And the web actually existed then, go ahead and check out some of the archived pages. Bush’s press treatment didn’t really get nasty until his second term, when his popularity was in the tank with everyone. Part of the myth of Rove is his masterful use of the media to make Bush the guy everyone wanted to have a beer with, while Kerry the war hero was a vaguely traitorous flip flopper.
The self-persecution complex is getting old. Bush handled ‘the liberal press’ quite well, and it was key to his getting elected twice and advancing his foreign policy and tax cutting (“giving back” the trillions of forecast budge tsurplus) ‘legacy’ agenda. For kicks, note how Democrats in Congress allowed Bush to put in place his tax cuts and education agenda in 2000 – after the tight election and before his 9/11 bump.
Posted by: jhw539 | April 10, 2010, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
Bush’s press treatment didn’t really get nasty
old W clearing brush, all hat and no cow as ‘they’ say in texas,..[ did texas secede yet?]
when the lies and manipulation of intel were revealed, yeah, starting a needless war can get you some bad press…… torture as a policy will also add to negative coverage as well as asking invisible beings to determine whether to have a pre-emptive war…. 2 tax cuts with 2 wars, always good to show lack of economic sense with unpaid for wars…
so much more…..
Posted by: PO'd | April 11, 2010, 1:57 am 1:57 am
The amount of media attention Sarah Palin gets clearly demonstrates there is no liberal bias.
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Do you actually read the stories? There may be a lot of press but mocking her is mostly done (abc even on This Week this am as the latest example)continually does that. Just for kicks try comparing positive to negative articles between Obama and say anyone else. Hillary got her first taste of it in 08. I agree with obieone40 the scrutiny is currently hard to come by.
Posted by: GO | April 11, 2010, 1:29 pm 1:29 pm