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Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner— President Does Not Seem Amused — WASHINGTON A blistering comedy "tribute" to President Bush by Comedy Central's faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Colbert Does the White House Correspondence dinner — Was he snubbed? — Stephen Colbert spoke tonight at the dinner and lampooned pretty much everything he could think of and Helen Thomas. I used the second half of his performance because it included the Generals, Scalia, the Faux press briefing and as E&P reported:
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
W.H. Correspondents Dinner: Bush Kills, Colbert Bombs — Turns out comedy is best left to the amateurs. — Tough night for Colby, who must have regarded this gig as a chance to play the Super Bowl on his home field. Watch the clip and see for yourself whom the crowd ended up rooting for.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Colbert's White House Correspondent Dinner Performance Underscores Irony's Power And Delicacy — The scene: The White House Correspondent Dinner. The time: right after President George W. Bush put in a boffo performance next to a top-notch Bush impersonator. It was a hard act to follow.
Elizabeth White / Associated Press:
Bush Lampoons Self at Press Corp Dinner — WASHINGTON - It was twice the fun for members of the White House Correspondents' Association and guests Saturday night when President Bush and a look-alike, sound-alike sidekick poked fun at the president and fellow politicians.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Bush Plays It For Laughs While Colbert Bombs — George Bush attended the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight, an annual event that encourages all parties to engage in some self-deprecating humor and relax in each other's company for an evening. Fox News showed Bush's speech live …
Paul the Spud / Shakespeare's Sister:Stephen Colbert has Balls as Big as Church Bells
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Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Bush challenges hundreds of laws — President cites powers of his office — WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Media finally starting to report the President's systematic lawbreaking — (updated below) — On March 24, 2006, The Boston Globe published an article by Charlie Savage reporting that the President, after signing into law the bill which renewed the Patriot Act, issued a "signing statement" …
New York Times:
John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, Dies; Economist Held a Mirror to Society — John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat and an unapologetically liberal member of the political and academic establishment that he needled in prolific writings for more than half a century …
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Martin Weil / Washington Post:
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith Dies at 97 — John Kenneth Galbraith, the author, scholar, diplomat and presidential adviser, who was a preeminent symbol and source of liberal political thought, died last night in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97. — His son Alan said his father died …
Michael Smith / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda leader plans an Iraq army — THE leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is attempting to set up his own mini-army and move away from individual suicide attacks to a more organised resistance movement, according to US intelligence sources.
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Where's the dissent about source of quote? — John Kerry announced this week's John Kerry Iraq Policy of the Week the other day: "Iraqi politicians should be told that they have until May 15 to deal with these intransigent issues and at last put together an effective unity government or we will immediately withdraw our military."
New York Times:
As Gas Prices Go Up, Impact Trickles Down — It is hard to watch the numbers flutter ever upward on the gas pump these days. A look at the ripple effect of rising gas prices across the country: — The End of Fun and Games — Gas prices are not doing much for the love life of Fernanda Tapia.
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Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Father of the Bush Doctrine — George Shultz on pre-emption and the Revolt of the Generals. — SAN FRANCISCO—George P. Shultz was the secretary of state of the United States during the years that the Soviet Union was led, successively, by Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
'At Some Point, Reality Has Its Day' — Al Gore on why America-and even George Bush-is close to a tipping point on global warming. — April 28, 2006 - Al Gore has launched his new campaign-this one to battle the effects of global warming. At its center is a new film, "An Inconvenient Truth …
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Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:Gore Redux — The former veep is refusing to play overt campaign politics.
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