Dan Froomkin reports on the latest reactions of the MainStream Media to Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House Press Association’s dinner. This is such a vivid example of just how it is that I have two such disparate views of WaPo.

The traditional media’s first reaction to satirist Stephen Colbert’s uncomfortably harsh mockery of President Bush and the press corps at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Association dinner was largely to ignore it.
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The result, however, was a wave of indignation from the liberal side of the blogosphere over what some considered a willful disregard of the bigger story: That a captive, peevish president (and his media lapdogs) actually had to sit and listen as someone explained to them what they had done wrong; that the Bush Bubble was forcibly violated, right there on national television.

Now the mainstream media is back with its second reaction: Colbert just wasn’t funny.

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