Now we know why they didn't laugh.
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U.S. News & World Report:
Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert's biting routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished.
"Colbert crossed the line," said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.
"I've been there before, and I can see that he is [angry]," said a former top aide. "He's got that look that he's ready to blow."
Sploid:
George W. Bush is furious over comic Stephen Colbert's brutal performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday.
Top aides to the president told U.S. News & World Report that Bush was so mad he was "ready to blow."
Performing the same flag-waving loudmouth idiot routine he does on the cable-news satire "The Colbert Report," the comedian savaged Bush and the White House. The dazed president looked like a retarded kid being stomped by street toughs.
"Colbert crossed the line," a top Bush aide told the magazine after fleeing the dinner and Bush's wrath.
A "former top aide" told U.S. News that Bush's anger was clearly visible, and that administration officials have learned to fear that look as a warning of another insane tantrum.
"He's got that look that he's ready to blow," the insider said after the Colbert spectacle. . .
The video -- broadcast on CSPAN and now available all over the Internet -- makes perfectly clear that Washington media people live in utter fear of angering Bush and his thugs. At times, Bush is even seen looking around the room, mentally noting who laughed at the cruelly accurate "comedy routine."
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