If 100% government owned and operated health care is such "evil socialism" .....

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

36. In a Rolling Stone interveiw a few years ago, Colbert claimed he was not paritisan. He said he

attacks stupidity in both parities as he sees it. Well, if that's true, he sees about a thousand times more stupidity in the Republican party!

I knew that some RWers missed the sarcasm and were clueless enough to think he was one of them (seriously, how clueless would you have to be???!!!), but I never connected his awesome appearance at that WHCD with that. I just figured whoever hired him was not connected to the White House or just hired Colbert because he had a very successful career.

In fact, I just looked this up and Wikipedia says,

American comedian Stephen Colbert was the featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, held at the Hilton Washington hotel in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 2006. He was invited to speak by Mark Smith, the outgoing president of the White House Press Corps Association.[1] Smith later told reporters that he had not seen much of Colbert's work.

And the WHCA's site says this:

Since 1914, the White House Correspondents' Association℠ has operated independently of the White House and the White House credentialing process. We intend for the White House Correspondents' Association℠ to remain independent of that process.

At any rate, I already loved him before the WHCD skewering of the resident and of the press itself, but that appearance is what made him my hero. That took guts.