Waaah! No Sugar To Help The Medicine Go Down Crybabies’ Throats.

Brian Zick

David Corn reports about the entertainment at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and the crowd's collective reaction to Stephen Colbert's ridicule of them all, Bush and the press. "The audience was not appreciative of his close-to-the-bone laceration of Bush and the Washington press corps. His material was sharp, piercing. But too much for this crowd. (You can watch it here.) That said more about them than him. Practically everyone I later surveyed was sour on his performance." update: Michael Scherer in Salon: "The truthiness hurts" update2: There Could Be No Higher Compliment Think Progress reports :Fox News Slams Colbert ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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