Matthews: Colbert's Comedy Was Never 'Mean'; Does He Forget the 2006 WHCA Dinner?

Read more at NewsBusters | "Not once can I remember him being truly mean" when doing his shtick, Hardball host Chris Matthews gushed of Stephen Colbert during the "Let Me Finish" closing commentary for his December 18 program. Matthews was effusive in praise as he noted Thursday night would see the final edition of The Colbert Report before the comedian takes over the reins at CBS's Late Show from David Letterman. "In a business where killing an audience is a way of saying you had a good night in comedy, he made us happy, always happy, always feeling just a tad elevated because the dunce he was playing was so hilariously out of it, stubbornly, hilariously out of it," Matthews added, diving headlong into leg-tingle territory by "thank[ing] Mr. Colbert for being so good, so good to us, so good, if I'm not being too pompous here, for our country." Does Matthews not recall the 2006 White House Correspondents Association dinner which Colbert emceed?