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Homage l’Colbert

When the Huffington Post launched their “Contagious Festival,” soon after they partnered with AOL and Yahoo! months ago, it seemed as if it was a festival with an “end,” and a “winner.”

Now that I think back, some dude w/ a well-earned shit-eating grin did score something like a dinner with Arianna H. and JC.

But the stuff being published there recently has been phenomenal.

See this animated tribute to Stephen Colbert (an homage to his tiz-oasting of the prezididn’t)

and the ever-catchy — it’s a Top 40 hit in Japan — “I’m the Decider”

and its about time we get to see Judy Miller’s MySpace profile.

Go on and join the over 50,000 folks who have personally thanked Monsieur Colbert for setting things straight in his speech at the W.H. correspondents dinner last weekend. None of the newspaperpeople seemed to care much for it, save for Froomkin (2-time).

Beware the effet d’Colbert. (Here is a link to 15 mins of the famous speech)

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Stephen Colbert Smokes the Prez

Colbert headlined this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, attended by, among others, George Clooney, Ludacris, Karl Rove, the First Lady and the president.

Broken down at E&P:

WASHINGTON A blistering comedy ?tribute? to President Bush by Comedy Central?s faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.
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As he walked from the podium, the president and First Lady gave Colbert quick nods, unsmiling, and left immediately.

More coverage at Washington Post.

Watch it streaming via C-SPAN, or a generous chunk of Colbert below (grabbed from c&l).

I may not have cable, but I do have the internet. Gems from the Colbert report are regularly available here at Comedy Central.

Stephen Colbert - WH Correspondents Dinner Apr. 29 2006 [ 15:32 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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L.A. Times: Fire Cheney, Rumsfeld

This was a refreshing unsigned editorial:

The secretary should go not because he has been criticized by a group of retired generals but because he embodies the smugness and inability to acknowledge error that has characterized both the Iraq war and the wider war on terrorism. Rumsfeld has been the pinched public face of an administration that has cut legal and humanitarian corners in dealing with people ? including U.S. citizens ? suspected of involvement with terrorists.

more at technorati, Reuters, E&P.

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U.S. Plans ‘Second Liberation’ of Baghdad

a carbomb Sunday left at least 10 deadToo over-the-top to be true? In fact its the most hilarious and disturbingly not-parodied headline story in Sunday’s Times UK (tip via Blairwatch).

THE American military is planning a ?second liberation of Baghdad? to be carried out with the Iraqi army when a new government is installed. […] Strategic and tactical plans are being laid by US commanders in Iraq and at the US army base in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, under Lieutenant- General David Petraeus. […] The battle for Baghdad is expected to entail a ?carrot-and-stick? approach…

This must be an extension of Bush’s infamous “Fool me once… can’t get fooled again” doctrine (video).