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I'm starting to feel that HISTORY happened on Saturday night, with Stephen Colbert's address to the White House Correspondents Dinner. This guy is one of the single gutsiest Americans I've ever seen on TV.

Three minutes into Colbert's speech, Bush stopped laughing. Colbert was blatantly IN Bush's face throughout the thing. Bush limped out with Colbert's teeth-marks in his ass.

Here's the moment in Colbert's performance when Bush quit smiling:

The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will.

Talk about "truthiness," even the press corps squirmed throughout his talk. Lambasting the media, Colbert said:

Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!

Because really, what incentive do these people have to answer your questions, after all? I mean, nothing satisfies you. Everybody asks for personnel changes. So the White House has personnel changes. Then you write, "Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!

Suddenly, it's June 9, 1954, the moment when Army attorney general Joseph Welch says to McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

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