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Originally Posted by analog
I don't know what video you watched, but that's not at all what happened.
The second he was done, Bush was on his feet and immediately engaged him in a handshake. Bush and his wife didn't leave until after the host said the event was over, which came within about a minute AFTER that.
Also, he didn't give his speech from "the other end of the table", he was one seat over from the President- it was the President, the host of the event, and Colbert at the podium, in that order in a row- and he was 2 seats from Laura, 4 from Bush at his normal seat. That's hardly "ther other end of the table", either.
Table order, starting with Colbert from left to right- hardly far away, especially while giving the speech:
Colbert - guy - Laura - guy - Bush - host - podium
<b>Did you even watch the video?</b>
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Yeah...I did....and I wasn't the only one who saw what I saw.....
I guess Helen Thomas, seated in the center of the head table, with a large floral centerpiece, just to her right, exaggerated the distance between Colbert and Bush, from my perspective....
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1002425363
Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House
Correspondents Dinner -- President Not Amused?
By E&P Staff
Published: April 29, 2006 11:40 PM ET updated Sunday
WASHINGTON A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk-show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night <b>left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close......</b>
<b>.....As Colbert walked from the podium, when it was over, the president and First Lady gave him quick nods, unsmiling. The president shook his hand and tapped his elbow, and left immediately.</b>
Those seated near Bush told E&P's Joe Strupp, who was elsewhere in the room, that <b>Bush had quickly turned from an amused guest to an obviously offended target</b> as Colbert’s comments brought up his low approval ratings and problems in Iraq.
Several veterans of past dinners, who requested anonymity, said the presentation was more directed at attacking the president than in the past. Several said previous hosts, like Jay Leno, equally slammed both the White House and the press corps.
“This was anti-Bush,” said one attendee. “Usually they go back and forth between us and him.” Another noted that Bush quickly turned unhappy. “You could see he stopped smiling about halfway through Colbert,” he reported......
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<b>These folks get paid to write an account of what happened. My description doesn't seem lacking, compared to these:</b>
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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-349690c.html
<b>Politically strange bedfellows</b>
.....As for the after-dinner entertainment, the conventional wisdom was that Bush killed with his self-mocking routine — "The President was fantastic," gushed staunch Dem Patricia Duff — while the hired talent, Comedy Central star <b>Stephen Colbert, bombed badly</b>. "It was an insider crowd, as insider a crowd as you'll ever have, and he didn't do the insider jokes," said BET founder Bob Johnson....
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<b>Fox reported that Colbert was the one "diminished" by his performance</b>
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193775,00.html
White House Correspondents Dinner: Hobnobbing With the Stars
Monday, May 01, 2006
By Steve Doocy
<b>......Sadly for Stephen Colbert</b>, of the Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report," he'd been hired by the Correspondents Association to provide an amusing 15 minutes after the president's comedy routine. In the past the comic entertainers would take shots at both the president and the correspondents — <b>instead this year it was one unflattering jab at the president followed by another.</b> I was a few rows back, so I got a good look at Mr. Bush who was grinning a bit at the start, but when he realized he was nothing but a punching bag, he stopped smiling. Personally, I thought Mr. Colbert had gone over the line of what is appropriate when a sitting president is sitting four feet away. But keep in mind, I'm not an entertainment reviewer, I'm just a guy who put on a tuxedo and went to a dinner with his wife. That's all.........
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<b>This is the NY Times only "in-house" report on the Correspondents' Dinner: (No Mention of Colbert !)</b>
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/wa.../01letter.html
A New Set of Bush Twins Appear at Annual Correspondents' Dinner
It was love at first sight. When President Bush met Steve Bridges, a Bush impersonator, three years ago in the Oval Office, he immediately thought that he and his doppelganger could gang up at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner....
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Where is that "liberal" MSM reporting, that many are convinced exists? |