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The Bushes were not amused by Stephen Colbert's hilarious, barbed monologue at the White House correspondents' dinner. Neither was the audience. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank sniffed that Colbert was "not terribly funny," the standard statement when you politically disapprove of a joke. As Greg Mitchell points out in Editor & Publisher, at the 2004 radio and TV correspondents' bash, Bush showed photos of himself searching the Oval Office, commenting: "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere." Some of us thought the joke tasteless, but the DC press laughed it up.
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