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D.C. prayer rally to seek lower gas prices
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A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps.
Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. For those who can’t attend, a live Internet site and toll-free prayer line have been established.
In a release, the Pray Live group said many people are “overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis.”
Apart from sending a message to God, the rally had a message for humanity, said Wenda Royster, the group’s founder.
“It is our hope that seeing and hearing some of the nation’s most powerful preachers gathered around a gas station and the United States capital as a backdrop, will remind everyone who is really in charge of our world — God,” Royster said.
Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner — President Does Not Seem Amused
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A blistering comedy “tribute? to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.
Earlier, the president had delivered his talk to the 2700 attendees, including many celebrities and top officials, with the help of a Bush impersonator.
Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged the Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, “and reality has a well-known liberal bias.?
He attacked those in the press who claim that the shake-up at the White House was merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. “This administration is soaring, not sinking,? he said. “They are re-arranging the deck chairs–on the Hindenburg.?
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As Colbert walked from the podium, when it was over, the president and First Lady gave him quick nods, unsmiling, and left immediately.
E&P’s Joe Strupp, in the crowd, 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.
A short clip is here, the full video is here.
I’m a big fan of Colbert, but I just saw his speech on C-Span and I thought he completely bombed. Sure, he lampooned the President, but he wasn’t funny, so it wasn’t effective. Bush, earlier, was extremely funny and self-deprecating–his timing was perfect. To my distress, the Republicans came out on top last night in the battle of comedy. Colbert let me down.
Over here three downloadable clips of Steven Colbert Whitehouse correspondents:
http://files.ww.com/download.html?id=13906 (16 min / 65 Mb Quicktime: top quality!)
http://files.ww.com/download.html?id=13903 (16 min / 26 Mb Quicktime)
http://files.ww.com/download.html?id=13904 (15 min / 10 Mb WindowsMedia)
I disagree. I think Colbert did exactly what he meant to do. I don’t think he could have cared less that no one laughed. He wasn’t trying to make people laugh, he was trying to make people think. And it worked. Since the mainstream media pretty much fails at that nowadays, Colbert was simply taking advantage of a golden opportunity to speak the truth, directly to power. I think his critics have missed the point completely. I think the joke is on Bush and his gang, big time.
I agree completely with Nancy Wong. I couldn’t have cared less if people laughed myself, and cheers to Colbert for having the guts not to care either. It was a legendary performance, regardless of its comedic worth. The image is priceless of the President sitting a few seats away from Colbert having to listen to something that, to me, embodies many of the frustrations of an entire segment of the American populace that this new breed of neo-con Republicans seem to regard as irrelevant or to be gone around. Colbert had the guts not to play the monkey (CNN crossfire – Jon Stewart), but to speak truthiness in his satirical way at a venue where those who need to hear it had to listen.
http://www.thankyoustephencolbert.org