Let's dance

Good times

What was Stephen Colbert thinking? This is more like it. Comedian Brad Sherwood pulls Karl Rove out of the audience at the White House Radio-TV Correspondents Dinner to join him for a "rap" song. He asks Rove a few innocuous questions ("Do you have any hobbies?") and then performs an improvised rap based on Rove's (mostly jokey) responses. Rove's job during the song is to occasionally shout "I'm M.C. Rove" in the hip-hop manner. He is also encouraged to dance. A few other attendees (including NBC's David Gregory) are also brought on stage to be "backup dancers." That's it. That's the routine. No satirical content whatsoever. Unless you consider encouraging middle-aged establishment types in suits to act like rappers to be satirical.

This is presumably a routine that Sherwood performs at conventions and corporate events across America. He brings up Ted Henderson, regional manager of Bank of America's Decatur branch, asks him a few questions and then improvises a rap that references Ted's hobbies, favorite movies, etc. The audience of fellow Bank of America employees goes nuts. Because Ted Henderson is up on stage! And he's saying "I'm MC Ted" in a funny rap voice! And he's busting rap moves! In his shirt and tie! And look! There's Market Risk Analyst Mary Lynn Dunlap, Human Resources Manager Phil Borelli and VP-Finance Richard J. Garner getting down behind him! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Why would a comedian at the White House Radio-TV Correspondents Dinner at the height of the Bush Administration's latest scandal bring Karl Rove on stage and not make the slightest reference to who the man actually is? Because that might make people uncomfortable! And we don't want that! Remember the awkward silences during Colbert's act last year? Mainstream journalists don't want to see Karl Rove in the hot seat! Take it away, Time Magazine Managing Editor Richard Stengel:

"I am so uninterested in the Democrats wanting Karl Rove because it is so bad for them."

Tell it, baby! Karl Rove exposed turning the Justice Department into his own personal dirty tricks operation is bad...for the Democrats! And Congressional oversight is sooooo uninteresting! YAAAAWWWN!

Look! Karl's dancing! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!