the Colbert moment
Blogger awol called me and told me to read /watch last night's "moment" at the Washington Correspondent's dinner. (Thanks to Frederick of dkos for the transcript.) Whoa . That speech was more than a roast. It was more than humor. (And even in that regard, if you ask me, the last part with the video falls flat.) What Colbert just did wasn't even, in the electoral sense of "who wins or gains," all that political or partisan. What happened last night night was an epochal blow for the unvarnished truth. The "wall" of BS that runs through DC...the "wall" of lies and business-as-usual that keeps us citizens on the outside of the cozy fiefdom of the press, the parties, the establishment...just had the first big chunk taken out of it in years courtesy of an accidental hero, a jester, a clown. That speech was a visceral repudiation of politics in this country made all the more powerful because the vehicle for delivering that message was a co