Colbert: Bush worked with Dems like Ike 'worked with' Tina David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Published: Thursday November 13, 2008





Print This Email This As final vote tallies continued to result in additional gains for Democrats a week after the election, even fake right-wing pundit Stephen Colbert was almost ready to give up hope for the Republican Party.



"I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that things are not going well for the Republicans," Colbert conceded on Wednesday. However, he added more cheerfully that "it's never too early to rewrite history."



"One thing being rewritten very clearly right now by the right," Colbert explained, "is that, for the past eight years, the party in power has been brutally victimized by the Democrats -- who had no say whatsoever."



"We all know the greatest victim was the president," Colbert added. "We are finally starting to hear just how oppressed the most powerful man in the world has been."



"I feel that in many ways, President Bush was misunderstood," Fox's Sean Hannity told Karl Rove on Monday. "He was diminished and demonized and insulted on a regular basis by the Democrats."



"I've learned," replied Rove, "a sobering lesson that a president needs to be careful in his language, but he cannot allow the kind of brittle and brutal attacks that were made on this president at certain times to go unanswered."



"Yes!" exclaimed Colbert. "You need to answer those attacks! An eye for an eye! A tooth for a tooth! An outing-a-CIA-agent for a critical editorial in the Times. A right-to-wiretap-you for a having-a-phone."



Colbert went on to suggest that Bush has been demonized "because he cared too much," citing a Wall Street Journal editorial -- titled "The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace" -- which claims "this is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans."



"See? He tried to work with Democrats," Colbert stated plaintively, as the sidebar commented, "The way Ike worked with Tina."



"But we know they refused," Colbert continued. "With the exception of reauthorizing the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, domestic wiretapping, approving his tax cuts, the financial bailout, immunity for telecom companies, and his two Supreme Court nominees, they fought him tooth and nail."



"And now, the greatest victimization of all," Colbert concluded in mock-anguish. "The Republicans, who have always criticized the Democrats' liberal culture of victimhood, have been forced by this stunning defeat to portray themselves as the victim."



"But they have no other choice," Colbert insisted. "Because at this crucial moment in our nation's history, the question we should be asking ourselves is not 'Why were the Republicans rejected by the voters?' but 'Who can we blame for it?'"





This video is from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, broadcast Nov. 12, 2008.









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