{"id":987,"date":"2006-05-04T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=987"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:30:08","slug":"colbert-at-the-white-house-correspondants-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/colbert-at-the-white-house-correspondants-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert at the White House Correspondants dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen Colbert at White House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stephen Colbert roasted the president and his staff last week at the White House Correspondant’s Dinner.
\nHere’s what one blogger wrote about it:<\/p>\n

Bush glowered. Laura looked confused. Scott McClellan was like a dead deer caught in the headlights. Many of the journalists, celebs, ranking generals and other ‘notables’ at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner laughed openly, albeit uncomfortably, as Stephen Colbert of “The Colbert Report” just made himself about 500 times more of a national treasure and cemented himself as one of the most fearless satirists of this generation (instantly outpacing Jon Stewart, who, you get the feeling, wouldn’t have had the nerve to go as far as Colbert did) by way of a savage and hilarious roast\/takedown of President Bush, who was seated not eight feet away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s hillarious. If you haven’t seen it or hear it, do so.<\/p>\n

Watch on Google Video<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Colbert roasted the president and his staff last week at the White House Correspondant’s Dinner. Here’s what one blogger wrote about it: Bush glowered. Laura looked confused. Scott McClellan was like a dead deer caught in the headlights. Many of the journalists, celebs, ranking generals and other ‘notables’ at the annual White House Correspondents’ … Continue reading Colbert at the White House Correspondants dinner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[2098,390,3402,157,3403],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","tag-correspondents-dinner","tag-george-bush","tag-satire","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-fV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10692,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/10692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}