Yet More Colbert
In Salon, Sidney Blumenthal (sigh) weighs in with his deadly serious commentary on the Stephen Colbert brouhaha—apparently the blogosphere is on fire with debate about his performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner—and how the press has let us all down and President Bush is the greatest threat to freedom ever.
His piece is gently titled "
The Fool and the Knave."
Blumenthal writes:
Some in the press understand the peril posed to the First Amendment by an imperial president trying to smother the constitutional system of checks and balances. For those of the Washington press corps who reproved a court jester for his irreverence, the game of status is apparently more urgent than the danger to liberty. But it's no laughing matter.
lumenthal's argument is essentially, "Funny? Who cares whether he was funny? This country's going to hell in a handbasket."
Or, as Jesse Jackson once said in a hilarious Saturday Night Live skit, back when that wasn't an oxymoron, "The
point is
moot!"
