Chances are you’ve heard about this already if you watch the Daily Show, Jon Stewart was all about praising Stephen Colbert for his BALLS OUT speech at the White House Correspondents Association dinner over the weekend. For those of you who haven’t, go watch it NOW. Video.
Keep in mind, the President was TEN feet from him the entire time, and from from the videos, smiling, but not amused. The crowd was stuck between nervous laughter and dead silence. Not since John Stewart’s interview on CNN’s Crossfire have I been this elated. It’s BRILLIANT.

A few choice quotes from MTV.com.

Colbert said things like, “Most of all, I believe in this president. Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in ‘reality.’ And reality has a well-known liberal bias. … Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half-empty, because 32 percent means it’s two-thirds empty. There’s still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn’t drink it. The last third is usually backwash.”

There was also sarcastic praise for Bush’s tendency to stick to his guns. “The greatest thing about this man is he’s steady. You know where he stands,” Colbert said. “He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man’s beliefs never will.”

Colbert stayed in character during his entire monologue, calling Bush his “hero” and saying, just a minute into his talk, that being at the correspondents’ dinner made him feel like he was dreaming. “Somebody pinch me,” he said, setting up a sharp left jab to Vice President Dick Cheney. “You know what? I’m a pretty sound sleeper, that may not be enough. Somebody shoot me in the face.”

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You know he opened w/ the ’shoot me in the face’ line? Where do you go from there?! I watched the rest of the interview w/ my hands half covering my face, terrified and excited about what he’d say next. That man has NO fear. The MTV article goes on to say, the mainstream media has no comment about his speech this week. Of COURSE NOT. They are terrified of what he did! He and Jon Stewart are the future, and there are mountains of statistics to prove it. Call it fake news, but their viewers are intelligent and forward thinking. They don’t have to be a news story on the networks to generate buzz anymore.