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...Salon's Michael Scherer went so far as to claim that it wasn't "just that Colbert's jokes were hitting their mark," but that he "uncovered the inner workings of the ever-cheapening discourse that passes for political debate. He reversed and flattened the meaning of the words he spoke." Colbert attacked both Bush and "the whole drama and language of American politics, the phony demonstration of strength, unity and vision." All during the dessert course, no less. The Salon piece also drafted Situationist writer Guy Debord as a character witness on Colbert's behalf, who cited the comedian...
...past day or so, perhaps realizing they had lost the battle to argue Colbert's stand-up into something that will be universally acknowledged as funny, the liberal commentariat has shifted tactics. Salon?s Joan Walsh, for instance, pretended to grant that humor was subjective: "Let's even give Colbert's critics that point. Clearly he didn't entertain most of the folks at the dinner Saturday night." But whose fault is that? Why, those who were not entertained, of course. The tepid response "tells us more about the audience than it does about Colbert." Not laughing, it turns...
...addition to Cold Stone and Little Caesar’s, the shopping center will house a Mexican restaurant, a hair salon, a Cingular Wireless Store, and a branch of a local bank...
...Democratic Party. In fact, I have spent much of the past week on a forced march to the G.O.P. And the bayonet at my back isn't in the hands of the Republicans; the Democrats are the bullyboys. Such lions of the left as Barbara Ehrenreich, the writers at Salon and much of the Upper West Side of Manhattan have made it abundantly clear to me that I ought to start packing my bags. I'm not leaving, but sometimes I wonder: When did I sign up to be the beaten wife of the Democratic Party...
...before joining President Bush at the briefing room podium, Tony Snow of Fox News got a fresh trim at a Georgetown salon - signaling the coming denouement of a very public courtship by the White House. Going on The O'Reilly Factor to talk about a job offer from the President might have meant the death penalty from this White House, but Snow has already shown he has an unusual degree of latitude...