Reality has a well-known Liberal bias.
That is all.
Actually, no it isn't. The whole episode was like Jon Stewart dressing down the hosts of CNN's Crossfire. It's not that the man was six feet away from the chimp-in-chieff while he was saying things like:
"The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will."
That takes balls all on its own.
The bigger thing to me is that he essentially told the entire Washington Press Corps to get off their asses and, you know, report.
"But the rest of you, what are you thinking, reporting on NSA wiretapping or secret prisons in eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason: they're super-depressing. And if that's your goal, well, misery accomplished. Over the last five years you people were so good -- over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn't want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew.
But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!
Because really, what incentive do these people have to answer your questions, after all? I mean, nothing satisfies you. Everybody asks for personnel changes. So the White House has personnel changes. Then you write, "Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!"
That's pretty harsh stuff, and it wasn't just directed at Shrub. But Colbert, on his Comedy Network "news show" has the moral authority to say that, just like John Stewart did. The fact that the best mainstream news reporting ends up happening on cable comedy networks is a sad indictment of the current state of the news media, and someone needed to say that.
