IMHO, of course. 
[I]t was only after he was up on stage and hammering them that the folks in the crowd realized that he had been laughing at them and not with them all along. [dr. bloor at Hullabaloo]
Just watching some in the blogateria say, “He wasn’t that funny. Bush was funnier.” Heh. I do have one big criticism of Colbert, though. I dearly wish he would have reamed the Democrats inside the Beltway as well. I don’t think he was there to be funny, he’s a satirist after all.
[Later:] Peter Daou at The Huffington Post is pretty spot on as well…
The Emperor has no clothes and someone has the nerve to mention it. Bastard.
Time to pick up a copy of Lapdogs, Eric Boehlert’s new book.
Great Ghu, Stephen Colbert is a major deity with huge comedic cahoñes. Many –and especially the President– were obviously not amused when the camera panned the crowd at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Colbert is amazing, so far his schtick is to never break character. (I watch The Daily Show and Colbert Report when I should be sleeping, and it shows.)
Colbert Does the White House Correspondents’ dinner: [Crooks & Liars]
Was he snubbed?
Stephen Colbert spoke tonight at the dinner and lampooned pretty much everything he could think of and Helen Thomas. I used the second half of his performance because it included the Generals, Scalia, the Faux press briefing and as E&P [Editor & Publisher] reported:
As he walked from the podium the president and First Lady gave Colbert quick nods, unsmiling, and left. E&P’s Joe Strupp, in the crowd, observed that quite a few felt the material was, perhaps, uncomfortably biting.
Colbert complained that he was “surrounded by the liberal media who are destroying this country, except for Fox News. Fox believes in presenting both sides-the president’s side and the vice president’s side.
He noted former Ambassador Joseph Wilson in the crowd, as well as “Valerie Plame.” Then, pretending to be worried that he had named her, he corrected himself, as Bush aides might do, “Uh, I mean… Joseph Wilson’s wife.” He asserted that it might be okay, as prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was probably not there.
Colbert’s show on Comedy Central, is “Must See TV” at this point already and these types of performances are the toughest in the business to pull off when he’s tacking issues that obviously made most of the crowd nervous.
C-Span is running it again in it’s entirety.
This is like when Jon Stewart got interviewed on Crossfire and told them they were “ruining America,” Colbert won’t get invited back to sit at the big kid’s table anytime soon. This has only increased the street cred of The Daily Show and Colbert Report.
The Crooks & Liars comment thread is entertaining as well.
If you are interested in picking this up on your iPod, the Crooks & Liars feed is here.
We have had an emotional morning. We had to put our 13 14 year old cat Dodger to sleep. He had been off his feed and not very social for about 36 hours. When I woke up this morning he was on the bed gasping for breath.
Dodger was the Prince of the cul-de-sac and “the bestest kitty-cat ever.” He will be missed. Sigh.
Check out those bedroom eyes… 
Lay down and scratch my ears!
[It turns out I was slightly off on Dodger’s age.]
David Singer’s Mother has passed. Our thoughts are with you and your family, David.
David is a long time blogger, he was one of the first crop at EditThisPage.
“Hamakom y’nachem etchem b’toch sh’ar availai tziyon ee yerushalayim.”
Puhlease. The ‘bumbling’ management above FEMA must go. Six years ago FEMA’s responses were acceptable. There seems to be no lack of attempts to place the blame elsewhere.
Senators: ‘Bumbling’ FEMA Must Go [CNN]
(…) Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the ranking Democrat on the committee, blamed the government’s failure with Katrina on long-term neglect of duties by officials, lack of realization that Katrina was a catastrophe before it hit, poor decisions and absence of effective leadership.
“These failures of leadership and government cost lives and multiplied the anguish of the storm’s survivors,” Lieberman said. [CNN]
Leiberman…, what a disappointment.
I’m surprised they have not outright called for the privitization of the various functions associated with FEMA’s responses. I’m sure that…, Halliburton or Brown & Root might be able to step into the void. For a fee, of course.