Did media miss real Colbert story? (????? ALERT)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 7, 2006 | DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic

[9999lakes]

I didn't see it, and clearly Colbert has hurt his career by doing it, but for the record, I like Colbert's half hour -- Like Jon Stewart only much BETTER, AND, I always thought -- with a conservative edge.

He IS a practicing Roman Catholic, and makes no bones about it, but sees the problems that church has too -- "The Pope may be infallible," he said once, "But that does mean he never makes mistakes."

I think that's a funny line.

[Jack Deth]

Colbert's humor works well in a controlled, Tele-Promptered, Canned Laughter enviornment.

Considering that nearly all of his "jokes" TANKED before a silent audience. I can kind of imagine the MSM's hesitation in airing Colbert's miserably un-funny diatribe.

Jack.

[redhead]

It's a sad commentary. Things must be bad for them if they think crap like " "I stand by Bush," Colbert cracked, "because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble, and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world." is funny. It's hard to read stuff like this without just shaking one's head at the way the left takes itself so seriously. Talk about hubris...

[Doctor Raoul]

The liberals are pissed because Colbert's bombing marks the fact that all the "Bush Is An Idiot" jokes have jumped the shark.

[Moose4]

Hey, uh, Elfman? You're the frigging TELEVISION CRITIC. Leave your damned politics out of your column and just tell me what new shows suck, OK?

}:-)4

[redhead]

Wow, Doctor. I think you have hit the nail squarely on the head.

[noblejones]

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. . . only CNN still plays the journalism-school middle ground . . .
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Ha. Ha ha ha.

Ha ha. Ha ha ha, ha.

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[conservative blonde]

I agree. I have no trouble listening to Pres. Bush. As far as I am concerned, he speaks English articulately. This writer is just flapping his gums. I wish the moderator would put up a "Barf Alert" to these kind of liberal rampages.

[noblejones]

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. . . a president whose approval ratings stand at 32 percent, a whisker better than Nixon's before he resigned in disgrace.
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And a full ten points better than Harry Truman, the democRAT who, based on bad intelligence, lied to the country and murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese CIVILIANS with the only nuclear weapons ever used in combat.

TRUMAN LIED AND INNOCENTS DIED! IMPEACH TRUMAN!

[AmericanChef]

-To non-insiders, this looked like another example of good old boys and gals slapping each other on the back.-

Well, DUH. It's a White House press dinner. It's all ABOUT insiders. Is he jealous because he didn't get an invite? Poor widdwle weftie.

[kcvl]

DOUG ELFMAN: "Dislike her if you insist, but Oprah really helps people."

[mcvey]

To me all the "Bush is an idiot" jokes have jumped the shark, but the cumulative effect is dreadful. Even my Republican students have that same general attitude.

[Doctor Raoul]

delfman@suntimes.com

[Chi-townChief]

Here's one Elfman I kind of dig but I would bet her politics blow as well:

[lawnguy]

(he is quite simply the worst communicator of all U.S. presidents)

Worse than Chester Arthur? Worse than Grover Cleveland? Is this idiot some presidential historian?

Dubya's not glib, but I'll wager the Taliban and Sadamm and his surviving murdering thugs understand him perfectly now.

[driftless]

"unfunny"

Even veteran WaPo Bush-hater/ultra-lib Richard Cohen thought Colbert's act was juvenile and insulting...and unfunny.

[Doctor Raoul]

Doug must have had his head up his bum during the Jummah Carter years...high inflation, gas lines and the laughingstock of the world because of Carter's impotenence with regard to Iran.

All it took to free the hostages was to kick Jimmah out. Betty Boop could have follwed Carter and the Iranians would have trembled.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The libs are truly a pathetic lot. They even take the fun out of political satire.

It's no longer fun because the liberals of this country have become political satire.

[Doctor Raoul]

. . . a president whose approval ratings stand at 32 percent, a whisker better than Nixon's before he resigned in disgrace.

You're right, Truman alipped to 22% in February 1952, yet he's regarded as a stand up guy who held to high principles when he had to.

The libs try and belittle Bush calling him "The Decider" but history will laugh at the when George W. "Te Decider" Bush and harry "The Buck Stops Here" Truman are evaluated as greater Presidents than Bill "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton.

[Doctor Raoul]

It's no longer fun because the liberals of this country have become political satire.

Very good. Great summary.