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Colbert Skewers Bush and Media- Corporate News Tries to Bury Story but Fails

by Open-Publishing - Monday 1 May 2006
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Mainstream Media: Stephen? Stephen Who?
Reported by Marie Therese - April 30, 2006

Today, if you were an average American viewer of any one of the three major cable news stations and you had seen news reports about last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, the name "Stephen Colbert" is not one that would immediately leap into your mind. That’s because there is an ongoing, concerted, deliberate media blackout of any coverage of Colbert’s politically charged comedic appearance at that dinner. If Colbert is mentioned at all, it is merely to state that he was there. Colbert finds himself trapped inside the media "Cone of Silence."

The videos on CNN.com, FOXNews.com and other outlets feature only the Presidential skit, but no clips of Colbert’s scathingly funny expose of the current administration’s foibles and failures.

One wonders if the word has gone out from the White House: Stifle references to Colbert or suffer the consequences. Or is this deafening silence the result of the collective guilty conscience of the MSM media?

In the long run, one also wonders about Mr. Colbert’s future at Comedy Central, a channel owned by Viacom, which also owns CBS. Sumner Redstone, Chairman of Viacom, flip-flopped, changing his party affiliation to Republican immediately after the Memogate story broke. (cf. SourceWatch.)

For this reason, I think it’s vitally important to let Comedy Central know that you would be very upset were they to yank The Colbert Report show from their line-up.

Comedy Central online form

Stephen Colbert Speaks Truth to Power at the White House Correspondent’s dinner

Complete Clip Links: Free Video Blog
http://video.freevideoblog.com/video/AAC7FA18-2DDC-4D3E-B1BB-9D6CBD83E27F.htm
http://video.freevideoblog.com/video/C91DDBB4-28AD-4E6F-BD52-822BC77DF696.htm

Forum posts

  • thank you stephen colbert

    The Video

    • rico laws used against big oil the ones that have seen oil go from 20 a barrel before bush mouth, and will hit 125 at least if we start in iran, and their suchophants our diebold elected beauracrats , allow pretrial seizures of all assets. these war criminals fit the term racketeers to the core of the definition.BOOK EM DANO, NO TAXES THE REST OF THE CENTURY, if we seize these criminals offshore acounts, then sell lottery tickets for the chance to humiliate them on ppv tv for the next 25 years.we could solve every problem in the world by seizing these criminals assets , and then marketing their humiliation worldwide. they could be our biggest grossing export product.

    • Stephen Colbert shone; Bushco and the media’s simpering sychophants were forced to listen and be observed listening to the truth that countered their ongoing lies. Little wonder there was little laughter emanating from that group—how humiliating. I salute you, Mister Colbert. But I must caution you to watch your back. Evil doers, their supporters and enablers are loathe to suffer humiliation on such a grand scale. But you know this already—and that’s why I believe you showed remarkable courage—most remarkable, indeed!!

  • CSPAN now showing an edited version of the White House Correspondent’s dinner

    They edited out Stephen Colbert! They just removed him completely.

    The media might try and pretend it never happened, but the country is talking, the blogosphere is on fire with praise of Stephen Colbert, the new American hero and the corporate news blackout just proves that the media is afraid of the real news and cannot face the truth. Keep shilling for Bush and go down with the ship!

  • The American news media have about as much of a sense of humor as Bush. What Colbert was saying was not only funny but necessary—and ground-breaking. It is news.