WHCAD: The Entertainment

> Update: 8:07am: An e-mailer adds: “That was one of the most uncomfortably quiet WHCDs I have been to – Colbert was ‘eh at best…'”

“Back in 1994, I squirmed as I watched Don Imus be inapropriate and unfunny. Tonight, it’s Steven Colbert‘s turn,” an e-mailer reviews. “The problem here is, comedians come here to take the president apart… the most powerful man in the world… a guy with a very serious job…and he’s sitting a few feet from you. I just don’t think it’s possible to do. I won’t go into a carnival’s dunk tank. This is the presidential equivalent. As Steve began to go through his speech, hitting what he expected to be laugh lines, there was silence. He went through a long dissertation, making fun of the president’s poll numbers and I winced. He talked about the president on an aircraft carrier and in a recently flooded city square to zero response. I feel bad for the president. Not because he isn’t responsible for what Colbert is talking about. It’s because in this venue, with the president unable to respond, it’s an unfair attack. It was true with Imus and Clinton and it is true with Colbert and Bush… Maybe it’s time for this long standing tradition to stop.”