“I’m feeling pretty chipper tonight — I survived the White House shake-up,” President Bush joked during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday. The funny routine, in which Bush impersonator Steve Bridges (who appears regularly on NBC’s “Tonight Show”) stood at a lectern next to Bush and expressed the president’s thoughts, was Bush’s idea, The New York Times reported. In one of several bits poking fun at the president’s speaking abilities, Bridges rehearsed to himself: “We must enhance noncompliance protocols sanctioned not only at IAEA formal sessions but through intercessional contact.” But a moment later what came out of Bush’s mouth was: “We must enhance noncompliance protocols sanctioned not only at E-I-E-I-O formal sessions but through intersexual contact.”
Don’t know if it will still be there, but CNN.com has had a video excerpt of the routine that’s worth watching.
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Ok more on the bush “duo” fine, funny even. It was though bush’s idea.
Stephen Colbert was at the same event. His “schtick” is to play at being a bushie to lampoon bush and bushies. He did so with a wit so sharp that it offended the President and first lady and apparently the media at large so much that it is not at all reported. Why?
KFG thanks yesterdays link to Colberts’s remarks. Post it again would you?
Frank Caliendo from Mad TV does Bush the best.
Years have gone by pretty fast not hearing his speech’s at all. None of them, only clips from news.
Hope I can listen to the next President and Vice President. Next Congress. Kansas legislators, future Mayor, City Council members, Sedwick County leaders.
Today there is difficulty understanding our politico’s, only can have hopes in the future.
We have to laugh to keep from crying.
I will post it again JR, but I wish these threads werent always a day late and a dollar short.
This was news YESTERDAY! Rush was news FRIDAY or SATURDAY at the latest. The press dinner was news on SUNDAY AND MONDAY!
Thanks to Philip for mentioning the White House Correspondent’s Dinner.
Utterly predictable that he, like the rest of the pro-Bush media, conveniently averted their eyes from the real spectacle: Stephen Colbert’s takedown of the national media itself for its cowardice and collusion with the Bush Admininstrations lies and incompetence.
I wonder if Philip and his media compadres actually WATCHED Bush’s reaction as Colbert raked him over the coals, daring to say things that only the Revered Joseph Lowery has, so far, had the cajones to say to Bush in public? Bush’s legendarily brittle and self-serving sense of ‘humor’ wasn’t exactly on display then, now was it? In light of what we all saw, the MSM’s reporting of this event–and that includes your thread, Philip–amounts to a bit of real-time revisionist history. Go Pravda!
I can already hear the Wingnuts snivelling pre-emptively about Colbert’s lack of ‘decorum’ and ‘proper respect’ for President Bush. You want lack of ‘decorum’ and ‘proper respect’?
OK. Here’s a bit from President Bush you might remember from the 2004 Correspondents’ Dinner: “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere.” “Nope, no weapons over there.” “Maybe under here?”
Stephen Colbert’s routine was so devastating that our hackish media–sad to say, Philip, the crowd you apparently want to run with–simply has pulled the plug on any subsequent reporting of Colbert’s routine, which attacked them for colluding with an utterly dishonest and corrupt Administration.
Oh, and here’s a link. Watch the whole thing; it’s awesome. Considering that Presidential ‘elections’ no longer mean anything, this is as much enjoyment as any of us are going to get.
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/
ksfarmgrrl,
Good point about timeliness. The Eagle editorial staff needs to get with it and get off the pipe. “Guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!”
Here is the transcript of Colbert’s performance if you dont want to hassle with the video. But the video is well worth the hassle.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/ignoring-colbert-part-tw_b_20130.html
You nailed it CF. Colbert not only roasted the preznit, he roasted the MSM. He called out the media for “typing” the news after the white house gives it to ‘em. Oh so right on the money, that the MSM thought if they didnt report it, we just wouldnt know about it.
Gee, do ya suppose that is why they unsuccessfully tried to bury this story about Colbert’s “muchos huevos grande”. Viva la bloggers in the national blogosphere for not allowing the big boys to bury the story.
And thanks for repeating bush’s entirely inappropriate comments at this same dinner in a previous year. So much for his respect …for the troops and the dead. Kinda like the respect the neocons show by cutting military benefits while wearing yellow ribbons.
I watched the videos and the only person who Colbert roasted who was able to laugh at themselves was Scalia.
The justice was cracking up when Colbert was doing the “under the chin” gesture.
I can’t decide if this was a good or a scary thing.
At this dinner, you’re supposed to poke fun at others, but one is supposed to do it in a nice way. The big complaint against Colbert was that he wasn’t playing nice.
I firmly believe that given all the stunts this administration has pulled, they long ago lost the right to complain about others’ not playing nice. Too bad, little leader/decider of the free world . . . :-( (holding back my tears) – sob, sniffle…
Throughout his life time George W. Bush has thrilled at humiliating other people. Too bad he had to receive some of that treatment.
It was long, long overdue.
Colbert was also correct in saying that the media has not stood up to the little bully.
I don’t watch the Comedy Channel, but I did catch on 60 minutes about the Colbert Report. He’s pretty funny. Good stuff! :)
Colbert wasn’t as funny as he was acid. And acid’s ok, it’s definitely something the president needs, imo. It just isn’t funny, or ha-ha funny.
But the president’s schtick with his SNL sidekick *was* funny.
Many of Colbert’s comments were necessary for the president to hear, though. For example, I think the president could profit mightily from understanding that most of blue America doesn’t believe Tony Snow will be a magic bullet that somehow makes the administration appear more forthcoming. Tony Snow’s just a new band-aid on a very old festering wound, which is the president’s strong preference for Stalin-like secrecy in an ostensibly open government.
But did you think that Colbert’s “autition tape” was even approaching funny when it went into the Helen Thomas cum stalker routine? I mean, the first part had great editing, I thought the Gannon button was hilarious, but when he got sidetracked with Helen Thomas it might have made good satire but it was boring as hell. If you thought that was funny then don’t, it wasn’t.
That said, Colbert’s speech will probably be historically significant. (but not funny!)
This reminds me of a similar setting when Don Imus spoke at a Clinton thing. He did his act but everyone was upset about his bluntness. What were they expecting him to do?
I hope cspan shows this thing again. I’d love to see it. So far it is not on their re-broadcast schedule. (As of last night)
It has already been on JR, but then you’re always behind the times.
Or so says the retro-future fascist, BlowJoe.
Bush deserves a stand ovation from all his People in Hell.