Stephen Colbert roasts the President of the United States

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II

You can view the entire video in three segments from this link.








There is a conspiracy here. Why was this not reported, or shown, in the popular press? And, the biggest conspiracy of all, why didn't the audience laugh? Were they simply too shocked to sit in the same room with the President while he was being roasted more thoroughly than has happened in the history of the Presidency of the United States?

This is a work of genius. It is absolutely brilliant. It is hysterically funny. The saddest part of the video is that the audience is either too afraid, or too dull witted, to laugh at this brilliant skewering.

I have been a big fan of Jon Stewart and the Daily Show. In fact, I still watch it every evening. However, a big part of what made the 'Daily Show' so funny was the correspondents. Now that his best correspondents have all left and gone onto their own careers the show isn't as biting, on average, as it used to be. However, where the Daily Show may have slacked off the Colbert Report has regained ground many fold. Each evening the show gets funnier and funnier.

There is going to be a backlash. The bloggers of the world, the Google videos of the world, will spread this piece. They will see that the so called 'independent press' in the audience not only lacked the sense of humor to laugh at it, but lacked the balls to *report* on it the next day! The only way to even see the video is by linking to some puck-ass video website.

This will grow in time and people will remember it. Moderates of the world UNITE! Both extremes have completely lost it. The far right, the far left, they are so far gone they leave us here in the middle completely lost.

Finally, to make an even vauguely Freemason related comment to this post, I will add this. There are certain aspects of Freemasonry, including several specific degree ceremonies (neither part of the Blue Lodge directly) that teach an individual Mason not to take themselves too seriously.

There is one, in particular, that I won't explain in any detail, but it involves taking Masons who may be the most powerful men in the community, and reminding them, in the most direct manner not to take themselves too seriously. It is a reminder that we should each be humble, conduct ourselves as equals, and be able to laugh at ourselves in company of our fellow man.

I'm sure that lesson was lost on any number of members of that audience...