Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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The defining moment may have been when Colbert [put Der Fuhrer in his place]. Call it a cultural primary.
His performance was judged a bomb by the Washington press corps, which yukked it up instead for a
Bush impersonator who joined the president in a benign sketch commissioned by the White House.
But millions of Americans watching C-Span and the Web did get Mr. Colbert's routine. They recognized
that the Beltway establishment sitting stone-faced in his audience was the butt of his jokes, especially the
very news media that had parroted Bush administration fictions leading America into the quagmire of Iraq.
Five months later, a video of Mr. Colbert's dinner speech is still a runaway iTunes hit and his comic
contempt for Washington is more popular than ever. It's enough to give you hope that the voters may rally
for reality on this crucial Election Day even as desperate politicians and some of their media enablers try
one more time to stay their fictional course.