Unfunny?

This is what Richard Cohen of the Washington Post had to say about Stephen Colbert's act of patriotism:

But in this country, anyone can insult the president of the United States. Colbert just did it, and he will not suffer any consequence at all. He knew that going in. He also knew that Bush would have to sit there and pretend to laugh at Colbert's lame and insulting jokes. Bush himself plays off his reputation as a dunce and his penchant for mangling English. Self-mockery can be funny. Mockery that is insulting is not. The sort of stuff that would get you punched in a bar can be said on a dais with impunity. This is why Colbert was more than rude. He was a bully.

Oh, fuck off, DICK. I know grandmothers who can take a punch better than you can.

Had fate placed him differently in history, Dick Cohen would have been standing on the docks of Boston Harbor, saying "Oh, those mean Indians. It's so mean of them to dump that tea."