Who says CSPAN is boring?

Tim ("Freedomhater extraordinaire") sent around a link to Stephen Colbert's performance at last Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (here's a recap from the WaPo). What's usually a soft roast of the President was something completely different when Colbert took the stage. Staying in his Colbert Report persona he unleashed a load of acerbic satire on the press in attendance, but especially -- and mercilessly -- on the President:

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.

It's fascinating to watch. I actually fell uncomfortable at times watching, and you could see the tension in the room and the grim expression on Bush's face as Colbert goes from topic to topic. Colbert was saying things that probably many people in the room were thinking, but noone in their right mind would dare to express. And so the response was often quite chilly -- with the impressive exception of Judge Antonin Scalia (!) who was laughing his head off when Colbert was making fun of his "gesturing off" a reporter.

Here are some download links for the video. And here's Thank You Stephen Colbert, "A site for Stephen Colbert. A man with balls."