This is why I posted the Colbert thing.

From The Washington Post:

The traditional media’s first reaction to satirist Stephen Colbert’s uncomfortably harsh mockery of President Bush and the press corps at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Association dinner was largely to ignore it.

Instead, the coverage primarily focused on the much safer, self-deprecatory routine in which Bush humorously paired up with an impersonator playing his inner self.

The result, however, was a wave of indignation from the liberal side of the blogosphere over what some considered a willful disregard of the bigger story: That a captive, peevish president (and his media lapdogs) actually had to sit and listen as someone explained to them what they had done wrong; that the Bush Bubble was forcibly violated, right there on national television.

Now the mainstream media is back with its second reaction: Colbert just wasn’t funny.

Yes, it turns out Colbert has brought the White House and its press corps together at long last, creating a sense of solidarity rooted in something they have in common: Neither of them like being criticized.

When was the last time a political event was so ignored by the mainstream press but caught fire on the internet to the degree we’ve seen with Colbert’s performance? Never. Because it shouldn’t have been ignored. Adding it here was my contribution to helping make sure the press couldn’t get away with sweeping it under the rug. The US is the last nation in the world where something like that should ever happen.

There’s a quote about evildoers and the people stand back and let them do evil. I can’t remember it right now, but the point of it is each person in the category of people who do nothing are less guilty individually, but as a whole carry much more guilt. Something like that.