The Liberal Media

For some strange reason, the allegedly liberal media in the U.S. is failing to discuss Stephen Colbert's scathingly funny performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner in which he visibly discomforts the President, senior administration officials and pretty much the entire White House press corps. (Good for him! Its about time someone stood up against this President and his close cadre of sycophants.)

Why even the New York Times (you know the paper that conservatives heap scorn upon for its liberal bias) failed to mention Colbert's appearance, instead focusing only on the President's skit. But its not just the New York Times, but other supposedly liberal bastions such as CNN, that did little more than publish the AP article that only mentions that Colbert was one of the other entertainers. You would think that if there was a huge liberal bias in the news media that they would be focusing on Colbert's skewering of the Cheney admin..., execuse me, the Bush administration, and only mention the Bush skit in passing. So, I'm still searching for the liberal bias in the news media that everyone talks about. (For evidence of conservative bias in the news media, take a look at News Hounds. Their Motto: We watch Fox so you don't have to.)

Fortunately, the Bush administration hasn't shut down the Internet (yet), and Colbert's performance is readily available if you know where to look. And to make that task easier, here is a link to his performance on YouTube, Google Video:

Full Video

Political satire at its finest!

Ken

P.S. If you want to thank Colbert for what he did, you can visit the (very) recently created thankyoustephencolbert.org.

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Update: Okay, four days later, the New York Times has posted an article that discusses Colbert's performance. Rumors of the liberal bias in the main stream media can now resume! :-)

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2nd Update: Unfortunately, the YouTube links above no longer work. :-( C-SPAN asked YouTube to yank the three videos citing copyright infringement. That's too bad. Colbert's performance is still out there, you can apparently buy it from C-SPAN for 24 bucks, but now you'll have to get the video via BitTorrent (meaning that most people won't be able to do it.).



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3rd Update: C-SPAN decided to place the video on Google Video. I updated the text above to point to its location there.