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May 01, 2006

"Unfiltered by Rational Argument"

After reading the text of Stephen Colbert's appearance at the White House Correspondence Dinner, I'm quite amused. But Lloyd Grove notes that the insider response to Colbert was rather chilly:

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 Stephen Colbert, bombed badly. "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.