I didn't really like it. For one thing, "you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." That's probably an appropriate saying to use considering that Palin got herself in the news with her "feud" with Letterman. If she was smart she'd go on the show. Sure Letterman would eat her alive, but as they say, all publicity is good. It would get a lot of viewers.

To me the cover of the Newsweek, plus the content, all serves to brand Colbert as just another "mainstream" media person. It says to me that the whole head shaving thing, with the Obama cameo was staged. That photo for the cover of Newsweek had to be taken long before he actually had his head shaved in Iraq. Shame Shame for such insincerity.

Personally, I don't care what kind of flowers you try to hang on Iraq, it's still a disaster. Don't try to suggest that it wasn't. Of course, Farheed Zakariah always tries to paint a rainbow where there isn't one, especially when it comes to the middle east. And he is loathe to really get down hard on the government.

I didn't really like the real editor's punting off to Colbert's not really that funny hand edits of the last page letter. Didn't work. Go back to old format, and start taking on the corporate world in an honest way if you want the cream to rise to the top.

Colbert, who I can't get on rabbit ears (hell, I can't get much of anything now), but who I've seen on occasion at other locations, is a good entertainer. But he's a comedian and not a serious political commentator. He certainly shouldn't have been put in charge of something as serious as the Iraq war.