I guess they didn't like being the butt of the joke. Point to me was, sure he hit the president, but he also hit the mainstream press just as hard. Just becuase he bombed with those who shall not be laughed at, doesn't mean he bombed with us peons watching.
Exactly. I thought Colbert was hilarious, but he had the misfortune of performing before an audience of professional bores.
He did not hit the MSM at all. He was in character as a conservative, accusing the media of destroying the country. His premise was that conservatives are paranoid. He -- again, in character as a conservative -- suggested to the media that they should stop with their liberal bias -- his punch line being that reality has a liberal bias. That was all aimed at conservatives, not the media.
What particularly made him unfunny was that his premises were all untrue. For instance that conservatives are paranoid about liberal bias in the media and that MSM reports "reality." How is that punch line funny when it's based on a faulty premise?