What dumbass picked Stephen Colbert?

[LynneSin]

Ok, mind you, I love the guy and I especially love what he did. But seriously, you're putting together a WH dinner and if you had a fricking clue you would have know that Colbert has been busting on the Bush administration.

I'm thinking whoever decided on Colbert is getting a one-way ticket to Gitmo

[madinmaryland]

1. They obviously had no clue as to what Steven Colbert

is all about. The man has only one schtick, and that's making fun of the rw media!

I guess that morans got what they deserved!

[GregD]

8. I forget his name but he is the incoming

president of CSPAN.

[acmejack]

16. Steve Scully

[herbbrown]

2. They didn't pick him

It's a coorespondents dinner WH has no say, the AP guy picked him. I don't think he could have done better, it's far and few between when you see an event and a performer come together like that.

[MindPilot]

3. The AP chief invited Cobert. (I think that's the correct title)

And he knew EXACTLY what he was doing. I say Bravo!!!

[Squeech]

4. CSPAN

I ran into the individual's name somewhere in blogtopia (y!sctp!) but I no longer remember it.

But the guy is CEO or COO or some such high muckety-muck of CSPAN.

And I don't know what the motivation was. There are wheels within wheels here. I suspect there's an idea emerging in the mass media that they haven't been sufficiently rewarded by the administration for their years of idiotically faithful service-- whether they don't think they're getting enough access, or whether they fear for their revenues in the face of declining viewership, or whether they're worried about BushCo's new tactic of criminalizing journalists who publish leaked secrets.

I think Colbert gave them exactly what they deserve. "You know, fiction!"

[Strawman]

5. Either

Some MSM hack trying to be "hip" that didn't know better, or some very subversive individual that I'd like to buy a drink.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. It's nice it wasn't bum-kissing love-ins like RW radio and TV does 24/7

Refreshing. Very refreshing.

[radwriter0555]

7. Someone who clearly dislikes bush?

Just a guess.

[LynneSin]

10. then maybe it wasn't a dumbass

hell they've done worse with Clinton for this event. Right-wing crybabies need to get over themselves

[Crankie Avalon]

9. Next year they'd better stick to Mark Russell and his piano "ditties"...

...Mark Russell's dead, you say? Well, all the better--he'll be even easier to work with! :think:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. the press did.just a guess .. it is billed as "WH correspondance dinner"

[robbedvoter]

12. "Face fit for the radio". Must've hurt. Be careful whom you offend

seems to be the moral of this story.

[furman]

13. It was Steve Scully, incoming president of the WHCA

It was Steve Scully, the new president of the White House Correspondents Association.

I found this in an article by Editor&Publisher at http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002382755

<snip>
Mark Smith, White House Correspondents Association president and an Associated Press reporter, declined to weigh in on what Plame's presence might bring. "That's not for me to comment," he told E&P, also declining to reveal who invited Plame. "It comes at a time when we are wrestling over a lot of different things, like access issues."

The annual event that has become a must for local news and political types is set for the Washington Hilton. While Smith declined to opine about Plame's presence, he talked up the guest host, Comedy Central "newsman" Stephen Colbert. "He lampoons us as much as the politicians," Smith said. "So it will be great."

Admitting he does not watch much television, Smith said asking Colbert was actually the suggestion of incoming WHCA president Steve Scully of C-SPAN. "It was suggested and he was agreeable," Smith said of the TV talker. "I just kind of happened in to it."
<snip>

[IndyJones]

15. It was dark comedy, which isn't always belly laughing funny.

But everything he said was spot on. Very satirical and dark, but very true.

[NYCGirl]

14. Steve Scully, the incoming president of C-Span, according to David

Bender from People for the American Way. He said that on Rachel Maddow's AAR show yesterday morning.

[reichstag911]

17. No surprise, really.

I saw John Irving last year, and he told a funny anecdote about having been invited to some White House dinner by VP Dan Quayle during the Poppy Bush administration. Being an ardent admirer of Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, which includes blistering indictments of the Reagan/Bush administration's patronage of the Iran-Contra scandal, I had to ask him if he thought any of those Repub idiots had ever read any of his stridently (subtextually) liberal books. That elicited a laugh and his supposition that no, none of them were probably at all familiar with his novels.

These Repub douchebags merely want to latch onto truly talented people, knowing virtually no one who subscribes to their political agenda has any talent whatsoever (Kid Rock, Britney Spears, Toby Keith, etc.) -- except perhaps for self-promotion, theft, dissembling and/or cowardice.

[Zorra]

18. A patriot? n/t

[ewagner]

19. Asked the same question....

and have a theory....

here:http://woodcodems.blogspot.com/

[cassiepriam]

20. And what repug invited the Plames and why?

Some of this doesn't make sense from a repug point of view.

[Ioo]

21. EASY - They wanted what happened. it was tatical and served a point..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1080641