{"id":591,"date":"2006-05-06T23:01:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/591"},"modified":"2006-05-06T23:01:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T23:01:34","slug":"bob-garfield-on-stephen-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/591","title":{"rendered":"Bob Garfield on Stephen Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/onthemedia.org\/\">On The Media<\/a>, Bob Garfield <a href=\"http:\/\/onthemedia.org\/stream\/ram.py?file=otm\/otm050506h.mp3\">has an interesting take<\/a> on Stephen Colbert&#8217;s somewhat chilly (or at least uneven) audience reaction at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medill.northwestern.edu\/whca\/whcadinner06.html\">White House Correspondent&#8217;s Association Dinner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The question shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;Why was Stephen Colbert so rude?&#8221; The question should be, &#8220;Why is the press gathering to toast a sitting politician in the first place, socializing with the government officials they&#8217;re supposed to be covering?&#8221; How cna you sit there in your formal wear over boeuf and cabernet and maintain an arms-length distance from the person less than an arms-length away from you? The problem with the White House Correspondent&#8217;s Dinner on Saturday was not the Master of Ceremonies it was the ceremony itself. Democracy requires a vigilant press. It doesn&#8217;t much need the Friar&#8217;s Club.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/onthemedia.org\/\">On The Media<\/a>, Bob Garfield <a href=\"http:\/\/onthemedia.org\/stream\/ram.py?file=otm\/otm050506h.mp3\">has an interesting take<\/a> on Stephen Colbert&#8217;s somewhat chilly (or at least uneven) audience reaction at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medill.northwestern.edu\/whca\/whcadinner06.html\">White House Correspondent&#8217;s Association Dinner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The question shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;Why was Stephen Colbert so rude?&#8221; The question should be, &#8220;Why is the press gathering to toast a sitting politician in the first place, socializing with the government officials they&#8217;re supposed to be covering?&#8221; How cna you sit there in your formal wear over boeuf and cabernet and maintain an arms-length distance from the person less than an arms-length away from you? The problem with the White House Correspondent&#8217;s Dinner on Saturday was not the Master of Ceremonies it was the ceremony itself. Democracy requires a vigilant press. It doesn&#8217;t much need the Friar&#8217;s Club.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}