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Foster Kamer
05/11/09

In reply to It Was Totally OK To Enjoy the Correspondents' Dinner This Year
Okay, can we talk for a second about Sklar's piece? (Sorry, Rachel: here we go). Her justification for the thing's existence is that it allows reporters to cozy up to and establish relationships with sources who wouldn't otherwise show up if not for the celebs. She also takes the Krucoff defense ("It's for charity!").

Can somebody help me understand the many different degrees of "wrong" I feel about this?
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Mediahohoho
05/11/09

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Colbert ended this event in 2006 because (sorry, Alex, I know this is the point you were trying to make more subtly) he basically told the media that they were a bunch of lazy assholes who were as responsible as anyone for the Iraq war because they basically phoned in the whole Bush presidency in the hope of getting favors from Karl, Ken, Dick and Andy. After that, there hasn't been much else to say. The media hate being told that they such at their jobs.
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Mediahohoho
05/11/09

@Mediahohoho: suck at their jobs.
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lrubemp
05/11/09

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Colbert "died at the dais" in 2006? Reality check. His speech was by the far the most popular and memorable speech ever given at that sorry confab of the discredited and corrupt. It's Youtube site is still smoking today. Yeah, the audience that year didn't like it. THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT! And it explains why, in a panic over being the butt of jokes instead of the dispenser, they tried painting up the old whore with some Hollywood flash. The Great Unwashed will love us now!!!! Wretch. The fact that there's a Dem in the White House changes nothing, however silly hypocrites like Chris Lehmann may bleat. It's over.
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Pareene
05/11/09

@lrubemp: i'm only responding to you because this is the craziest comment on the subject but why does no one understand that statements like "no one in the room thought it was funny" is the definition of DYING, even if everyone loved it on the YouTube the next day
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Richard Lawson
05/11/09

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Did anyone get as upset by Glenn Beck being there as I did? Shouldn't he have been making house cat jerky and Alcoa fedoras somewhere, all the while raging about government largess, instead of lashing that black and white bow time mumu around himself and swilling champale with his sworn enemies?

His presence sort of further proved the disingenuousness of the whole affair.
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ADismalScience
05/11/09

@Richard Lawson:

On a comforting note, his presence proved he did not spend the evening in a structure that could be referred to as a "complex" or "bunker."
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Dave J.
05/11/09

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I have to quibble with the use of "died" to describe Colbert's bit. I think dying is when truly nobody thinks the act was funny, whereas Colbert did a routine that brutalized the guy up on the dais in a so-true-it's-funny kind of way. It was awkward and uncomfortable, and only liberal people liked it, but "died"? Uh, no.
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nystar2000
05/11/09

@Dave J.: Seconded. His devastating Emperor Has No Clothes routine went so viral that it's unfair to say he "died." Also, according to at least one person I know who was there, there were pockets of the audience in tears from laughing so hard.
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Baroness
05/11/09

@nystar2000: Thirded. There was nervous silence because the whole incestous crowd was being implicated as enablers. His real audience was us, on the Internet, where he slew. People still speak of it three years later, its audacity put Colbert over the top, a new level of fame not just here but abroad.
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TheHonJudgeSmails
05/11/09

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Well, I mean, if I had to basically throw a party for someone I hated for years, and then one year got to throw it for a guy who was basically my idol, I'd probably admit to having a much better time than usual.

Why is this shocking? Not to belabor the obvious point that has been made for months, but: the media hated George W. Bush, and they love Obama. Of course this year's event was "fun" for them.
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Perhaps Not
05/11/09

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Ya know, I actually think that the Colbert thing was one of the bravest things a Washington correspondent has done in recent memory, certainly during the Bush administration.
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bytememehard
05/11/09

@Perhaps Not: A real stretch to call Colbert a "Washington correspondent," though I agree he was brave and hilarious.
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llkelly
05/11/09

@Perhaps Not: Brave, you have to be kidding. If Colbert had said something nice about Bush, that would have been brave.
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Perhaps Not
05/14/09

@llkelly: I would have chosen the phrase "poorly-informed," actually. Or "foolish." Or "sycophantic." Or "Fox-like."
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Gawkchalk
05/11/09

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Why in the hell was Wanda Sykes hosting. You would think they could get someone better.

Was Kathy Griffin not available?
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gawkimo
05/11/09

@Gawkchalk: They might have been concerned that Griffith would have told the conservative Republicans to slap those bathroom dicks out of their mouths. Too risky.
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Smitros
05/11/09

@Gawkchalk:

Imagine, in that setting, Kathy Griffin doing her usual shout-out of "Where's my gays?"
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City_Dater
04/28/09

In reply to Dakota Fanning Carefully Studies Teen Mating Habits
Poor Dakota... She's pretty, successful, doesn't seem like a brat. And she still got stuck going to the prom with a giant nerd dressed like the Good Humor Man.
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gooshwa
04/28/09

In reply to Dakota Fanning Carefully Studies Teen Mating Habits
is that one girl wearing a bedsheet? maybe it's my eyes but everyone be looking very white...
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Hydroceph
04/28/09

@gooshwa: It's the Expeditionary Force for the invasion fleet from Planet Honkey.
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BadUncle
04/28/09

In reply to Dakota Fanning Carefully Studies Teen Mating Habits
Wait - isn't Dakota Fanning like 12 or 13? How can she go to a prom??

Whatever. I wish her well. She's a great actor, and seems nice.
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LatestBy
04/28/09

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The kid in the knit cap at prom is always gonna be the wild card.
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TableNine
04/28/09

In reply to Dakota Fanning Carefully Studies Teen Mating Habits
Why was I not cc'd on the memo that went around America saying that we've made the collective decision to drop the article "the" from prom? Does that make me an old? If so, get off my damn lawn already.

Honestly, I don't know what hell is going on anymore.
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ShravantiBeetle
04/28/09

I'm pretty sure that doesnt make you old, I'm pretty sure it makes you from New England. I went from thinking it was "the prom" to college in the midwest where I was made fun of for it.
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BadUncle
04/28/09

@TableNine: It's our creeping globalization. Excuse me now, while I go to toilet.
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Richard Lawson
04/28/09

@ShravantiBeetle: I'm from New England and I called it 'the prom' too. But then that was eventually beaten out of me by time and history and TV, so now I call it "going to prom." And it's sad.
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Hydroceph
04/28/09

@BadUncle: speaking as the parent of a not-quite-toilet-trained 5 year old (don't even ask), 'toilet' has become a verb, too.
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Hydroceph
04/28/09

@TableNine: I suppose if we're going to drop the definite article, we should capitalize it to 'Prom.' But then, in grad school, i was the Grammar Grouch, so what do i know.
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City_Dater
04/28/09

@TableNine:

"What about prom, Blaine? WHAT ABOUT PROM?"

I need to whine that at least once a week, so thank you for providing an opportunity.

And no one from New England drops the "the" even now...
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Hydroceph
04/28/09

In reply to Dakota Fanning Carefully Studies Teen Mating Habits
I work on a college campus. I wouldn't mind studying teen mating habits. Wait...does that make me sound pervy?
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moochyshuckworth
04/28/09

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But did she drunkenly/awkwardly lose her v-card to her date at her friends house afterwards?
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Richard Lawson
04/28/09

@moochyshuckworth: See last tag.
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TableNine
04/28/09

@Richard Lawson: last tag = amazingtown
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