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The White House Correspondants’ Association got together last night to french kiss themselves and the fun-loving President. Bush brought Dubya impersonator Steve Bridges for yuks:

“All right. Maintain. Be cool. Let’s give this a try,” said Mr Bridges as Mr Bush.

“We must enhance non-compliance protocols sanctioned not only at IAEA formal sessions, but through intercessional contact.”

Mr Bush repeated: “We must enhance non-compliance protocols sanctioned not only at E-I-E-I-O sessions, but through intersexual conduct,” eliciting howls of laughter from the audience.

It’s so funny when he does it! But not when he does it. Crooks and Liars has the video from Stephen Colbert’s keynote speech, one in which he repeatedly and insightfully skewered the President. Unfortunately, he made the little lapdogs uncomfortable:

Several veterans of past dinners, who requested anonymity, said the presentation was more directed at attacking the president than in the past. Several said previous hosts, like Jay Leno, equally slammed both the White House and the press corps.

“This was anti-Bush,” said one attendee.

Strupp, in the crowd during the Colbert routine, had observed that quite a few sitting near him looked a little uncomfortable at times, perhaps feeling the material was a little too biting–or too much speaking “truthiness” to power.

To me, that’s the real story behind the dinner last night.

President Bush has lied to these people repeatedly. He swore to them there were WMDs, and they believed him. He promised he would fire whoever leaked classified information from his administration… until it became clear it was him. He lied to them about his sense of urgency on Katrina and how we’re doing in Iraq. He’s currently lying to them about the Iranian nuclear threat and more. The WHCA has been made to look a fool because of him.

And they keep coming back for more. Worse, they remain protective of him. If you watch the tape, you can practically hear the squirming from the parasites in the crowd as Colbert launched his clever, accurate verbal assaults, and the first-hand accounts back that up.

Nobody is asking them to stretch the truth, just report it.

Maybe they were just embarrassed to be reminded of that by one of the few people in the public eye brave enough to do their job for them.