An Open Letter to Richard Cohen By William Rivers Pitt

"Why the anger? It can be summed up in one run-on sentence: We have lost two towers in New York, a part of the Pentagon, an important American city called New Orleans, our economic solvency, our global reputation, our moral authority, our children's future, we have lost tens of thousands of American soldiers to death and grievous injury, we must endure the Abramoffs and the Cunninghams and the Libbys and the whores and the bribes and the utter corruption, we must contemplate the staggering depth of the hole we have been hurled down into, and we expect little to no help from the mainstream DC press, whose lazy go-along-to-get-along cocktail-circuit mentality allowed so much of this to happen because they failed comprehensively to do their job. "

Stephen Colbert: New American Hero

"Let's review the rules. Here's how it works: The president makes the decisions; he's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people, the press, type those decisions down. Make, announce, check. 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 kickin' 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!"

Heather Mallick: 'Did you hear the one about the satirist and the president? Probably not'

"The mainstream media ignored the keynote speech by Stephen Colbert, which made Bush look like a smashed toadstool and the American press look like the compost a mushroom grows in."

Colbert loves Bush. Really. He told him so: "The greatest thing about this man is that 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."

Becky O'Malley: 'Telling the Emperor he's naked'

"We've all heard the story of the Emperor's New Clothes when we were growing up. It took a little boy to reveal that the "finely woven invisible suit" that the emperor thought he was wearing didn't exist. Shakespeare's plays are full of fools who use their position to tell powerful people what's going on with impunity. It's a time-honored technique, and the point is not the comedy but the truth-telling. Colbert's pose as an effete, foolish and powerless newsie was the perfect way to position himself to tell Bush, his lying entourage and his media syncophants, metaphorically of course, that they'd come to dinner in their birthday suits. And no, a big blast of rib-splitting Borscht Belt bathroom humor a la Bob Hope or even Al Franken wouldn't have had the same effect. What made Colbert's performance so effective was the high ratio of criticism to comedy, steely rapier thrusts greased by a thin veneer of irony.

Was he rude? Perhaps. Telling the truth is sometimes considered rude. And it's dangerous."


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