Go Stephen Colbert

The Trouble With America is they don't know how to take a joke. Take for instance, Stephan Colbert's roast of President Bush at The White House Correspondents Association dinner (See Free Video Blog).
At it, Colbert jokingly nudged at Bush's poll numbers, and suggested that "reality" has a liberal bias -- an obvious poke at the right wingers who, for some reason, seem to think that just about every media outlet (outside of Fox News) has a liberal bias. The reason for the uproar is because Bush was no more than 10 feet away from Colbert while he had the floor at this high profile collection of rich celebrities and high status media members.

I suppose some people say that it is sacreligious to skewer the president while he is in the room, while others would suggest that it is simply unpatriotic to criticize the president at all.

My opinion is that Colbert should be commended for his satirical wit. The president represents over 290 million people in the world, and in the majority of Americans' opinions (see Polling Report), he is doing a bad job at it.

It is not only our right to criticize the president when we think he is fouling everything up, but it is also our patriotic duty.