It's interesting that while the internet is positively abuzz over Colbert's stinging presentation at the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner (27Mb MP3 download), the "liberal" media for the most part isn't talking about it...

From DemocracyNow article Stephen Colbert's Blistering Performance Mocking Bush and the Press Goes Ignored by the Media:

On Saturday night, over 2,000 journalists, politicians and Washington insiders gathered for the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner. President Bush was there and took part in a skit with presidential impersonator Steve Bridges.

And then there was the featured entertainer, Stephen Colbert, the host of the Comedy Central fake news program, The Colbert Report.

If you followed how the corporate press covered the night you might not have even realized Colbert spoke but he gave a talk that repeatedly mocked the President and the press for its failings.

According to the media watchdog group Media Matters, subsequent press coverage focused only on Bush's light-hearted comedy, while omitting mention of Colbert's blistering performance.

On May 1, all three major networks played clips of Bush's routine on their morning shows, but ignored Colbert entirely. CNN's American Morning did the same. The New York Times initial coverage of the night omitted any reference to Colbert.

Several media critics have questioned why the press ignored Colbert's criticism of the president...

Hah!  I can answer that question.  The press is chickenshit to talk about it because they know whatever organization authorizes such an article will suddenly find its reporters uninvited to White House press conferences and other forms of access to the President.  In other words, they're a bunch of wusses and they fit the caricature Colbert accused them of:

...Over the last five years you people were so good, over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn't want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew.

But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works. The President makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration? You know, fiction!

Congratulations Stephen Colbert, you've achieved the hallmark of having said something relevant and important to the state of our nation, the press is ignoring you.  I wonder how long that will continue?

I suspect that by now (this story was reported Wednesday) the mainstream press may have begun to give it some attention.