I was surprised this weekend when Stephen Colbert was the main speaker at the White House Correspondents Dinner and I didn’t hear anything about his performance afterwards. I kept seeing a lot of pictures of the president and a lookalike doing some sort of hammy routine where the lookalike says what the president’s really thinking (the idea that the sputtering stream of consciousness that tumbles out of the president’s mouth is the cleaned-up, edited version of his thoughts is sort of a chilling premise, isn’t it? “After careful preparation, I have decided to use the word ‘keeped,’ because I am the decider”) but nothing about Colbert. Turns out that’s because apparently Colbert really stuck it to The Man, saying all kinds of really harsh, cutting things about the president and the press while looking the president dead in the eye like some kind of Sam Jackson bad motha*******. The press was apparently made too uncomfortable to acknowledge that this happened; what it means when a room is entirely full of reporters and no one reports what took place, I will leave to you. But the video is available for the watchin’, if you are so inclined. I’ll be reading the transcript shortly. I look forward to seeing how it ranks on the “Jon Stewart Crossfire” scale.