You want truthiness? You can’t stand the truthiness.
Well, I’m a little late to be commenting on the Stephen Colbert performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner except to say I wish I’d been there to see him ram the rubber chicken up the press’s ass in person.
I was reminded of Mencken’s comment: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
The stunned silence both at the dinner and since in the MSM (that’s internet talk for Main Stream Media; the connotation is definitely derogatory) proves that when the media gets it good and hard, they can neither dish it out, nor take it. He won’t be back at the dinner next year because he had the guts to point out the press’s complicity in the mess we’re in now.
God bless the satirists.
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