Friday, May 11, 2007

Stephen Colbert explains the proper etiquette for requesting disaster relief
Perhaps the scariest thing about the Bush administration (now that would be a debate) is that we've moved so far past the point of hoping for competence that normal, everyday, run-of-the-mill incompetence doesn't make us blink. After all, there is so much off-the-chart, no-freaking-way incompetence that anything that falls beneath, let's say lying to Pat Tillman's family, or political motivated firings at DoJ or the clusterconsumation that is Iraq gets virtually ignored. The result is that the Bush administration can get away unnoticed and unscathed with ridiculous negligence and incompetence under a cover of its even greater incompetence.

Take the recent tornadoes in Kansas. Especially in the wake of Katrina, you'd think the administration would want to be pro-active (or at least active) in terms of disaster relief. But no. Not only were they not proactive, they were pretty well nonresponsive. Turns out at least part of the reason was that some of the equipment needed to move rubble off people in the Sunflower State is moving rubble off people in Fallujah.

Fortunately, the crew at Comedy Central doesn't let stuff like this fall through the cracks. I'm a little disappointed in Jon Stewart right now for the complete softball job he did in his interview with George Tenet. But Stephen Colbert his the Kansas disaster relief story out of the park.

Thanks to Crooks and Liars, here's Stephen Colbert sharing what Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius wishes she had known when she was hoping her national government would actually show up to the party this week. |
Mike at 5/11/2007 11:03:00 AM