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Chris Satullo on the WHCA dinner brouhaha: "Most ridiculous is the claim that
Stephen Colbert is the last true journalist, the one who did the others' job for them. The job Colbert had that night was the venerable,
safe one of court jester, who gets paid to say things that would get others beheaded." Re claims that the president has been exempt from journalistic criticism: "The man's approval rating is 32 percent. How do you think millions of Americans went from supportive to critical? Reading
Noam Chomsky?" || Related columns from
Doug Elfman,
Les Payne and
Steve Rhodes.