Dear US Press Corps

The reason everyone in the blogosphere loves Stephen Colbert’s presentation at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is because we’re laughing, with him, at you. A comedian just took you to task for not doing your job. Might be something in that you should look into.

See it on YouTube

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Salon has a full-length but poorer quality video
up as well.

And, of course, a torrent of a high-quality video.

Seriously, if you don’t understand why this speech is so important, I’ll bet you have a “W ’04” sticker on your vehicle.

UPDATE: YouTube has removed the video’s at the request of C-SPAN.

UPDATE the second: It’s now up on Google Video, this time with C-SPAN’s permission.