The AZ Republic (aka Repugnant) carried an editorial by Richard Cohen on May 8 ripping Steven Colberts White House Correspondent's Association dinner keynote speech.  Among other things he called Colbert's routine unfunny, lame and Colbert a bully.

I saw Colbert on C-span and for those of you who haven't seen it I suggest you find it on the "internets." He was GREAT.

Oh, maybe he wasn't funny in the "Everybody Loves Raymond" sense.  It was more like when the snooty-uppity-bitchy-cheerleader prom queen falls down the stairs with her dress around her waist and underwear in a bunch funny.  You don't necessarily laugh in her face, but boy-oh-boy, when you and your classmates get of her hearing range you are fall down laughing.

Others have opined that Colbert should have shown more respect to the President.  As an example, at last years dinner Laura Bush talked about how GB masturbated a horse;how she was "Desperate Housewife" and had resorted to going to strip clubs with Condi Rice and Lynne "Dollar Bill' Cheney.  Now, that is a class act!

And who can forget the 2003 dinner when Bush performed a skit looking for WMD in the White House. He looked under desks, behind curtains, nearly everywhere and it was clear there were no WMD's to be found.  I'll bet that the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughers of the American soldiers who died or were wounded were cracking up at that bit.

In the scheme of things, the Colbert routine may not mean much.  Except that it does.  Colbert ripped off a little more of the armor that Bush has surrounded himself with.  The President had to sit, listen and watch as a relatively unknown American embarrassed him, much as he has embarrassed our country. 

Slowly, bit by bit, the American people are becoming unafraid to say to Bush...."truthiness."