All Hail Stephen Colbert...

...He's got balls. Big'uns. Dude went up at the White House Correspondant's Dinner in front of the President and did his schtick, and eviscerated the administration. You might make of the President, but not to his face. And it wasn't gentle ribbing, it was biting sarcasm in the form of his smarmy "conservative" commentator character. Naturally, we can expect the backlash on Monday. Stephen Colbert is so getting auditted this year.
Video here.
It occurs to me that it was at this same event (traditionally a venue for making fun of the prez and official Washington) last year that President Bush showcased his partucular bit of comedic genius: a video where he walks from room to room in the Whitehouse looking for those darned missing WMDs. Oh, man I keeled over laughing! I mean, the subversive humor of a brilliant and concerned citizen is offensive in the extreme when it mocks the POTUS because he's above the law and the polity after all. But that same POTUS chuckling from his position of inscrutible political power at the fact that 2300 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis died brutal, bloody deaths because of the fact (admittedly farcical) that he just can't seem find those darn WMDs, well that's just good family fun!